Author: Tim BuckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
A Letter from Tim Buck
Author: Tim BuckA Letter to the Party from Tim Buck
Author: Tim BuckA Letter to Toronto Electors
Author: Tim BuckPhoenix
Author: Roderick StewartPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773538194
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
A biographical account of the life of Norman Bethune, detailing the story of his life including his career as a surgeon, his fight to eradicate tuberculosis, his commitment to establish a medicare system in Canada, and his communist ideologies, through considerable research and interviews with friends, family, former patients and colleagues.
A Message to You from Tim Buck
Author: Tim BuckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political crimes and offenses
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
The Politics of Passion
Author: Norman BethunePublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802009074
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Politics of Passion is the first comprehensive collection of the writing and art of Dr Norman Bethune. A Canadian medical pioneer and a communist, Bethune gained fame during the 1930s while serving in the Spanish Civil War and participating in China's struggle against Japanese invasion. This book sheds light on the man, the artist, and the revolutionary. It uncovers new historical material relating to several controversies surrounding Bethune. A remarkable document obtained from the Communist International Archives in Moscow, for instance, discusses why Bethune was sent home in disgrace from the Spanish Civil War. It refers to a mysterious Swedish woman, Kajsa von Rothman, who was Bethune's lover and who was believed by left-wing Spanish authorities to be politically suspect. This collection of Bethune's writings and art reveals that politics preoccupied him only during the last four years of his life. Earlier, his passionate nature found expression in medical and surgical innovation, as well as in painting, sketching, photography, writing - from poetry and short stories to letters, radio broadcasts, and plays - and public speaking. The Politics of Passion reveals the many sides of Bethune's identity, exploring not only the life of a revolutionary doctor, but of an intense and compassionate artist.
Eight Men Speak
Author: Oscar RyanPublisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776620746
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The first scholarly edition of the only play banned in Canada for political reasons.
Raising the Workers' Flag
Author: Stephen EndicottPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442696834
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
During the Great Depression, the conflicting interests of capital and labour became clearer than ever before. Radical Canadian workers, encouraged by the Red International of Labour Unions, responded by building the Workers' Unity League – an organization that greatly advanced the cause of unions in Canada, and boasted 40,000 members at its height. In Raising the Workers' Flag, the first full-length study of this robust group, Stephen L. Endicott brings its passionate efforts to light in memorable detail. Raising the Workers' Flag is based on newly available or previously untapped sources, including documents from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Security Service and the Communist Party's archives. Using these impressive finds, Endicott gives an intimate sense of the raging debates of the labour movement of the 1930s. A gripping account of the League's dreams and daring, Raising the Workers' Flag enlivens some of the most dramatic struggles of Canadian labour history.
A Select Bibliography of Tim Buck, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Canada, 1929-1962
Author: Peter WeinrichPublisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
An Exceptional Law
Author: Dennis G. MolinaroPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442629606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
During periods of intense conflict, either at home or abroad, governments enact emergency powers in order to exercise greater control over the society that they govern. The expectation though is that once the conflict is over, these emergency powers will be lifted. An Exceptional Law showcases how the emergency law used to repress labour activism during the First World War became normalized with the creation of Section 98 of the Criminal Code, following the Winnipeg General Strike. Dennis G. Molinaro argues that the institutionalization of emergency law became intricately tied to constructing a national identity. Following a mass deportation campaign in the 1930s, Section 98 was repealed in 1936 and contributed to the formation of Canada’s first civil rights movement. Portions of it were used during the October Crisis and recently in the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2015. Building on the theoretical framework of Agamben, Molinaro advances our understanding of security as ideology and reveals the intricate and codependent relationship between state-formation, the construction of liberal society, and exclusionary practices.