Author: Committee on Canadian Labour HistoryPublisher: St. John's, Nfld. : Canadian Committee on Labour History
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins: 1937
Author: Committee on Canadian Labour HistoryPublisher: St. John's, Nfld. : Canadian Committee on Labour History
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins
Author: Gregory S. KealeyPublisher: Canadian Committee
ISBN: 9780969583592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins
Author: Committee on Canadian Labour HistoryPublisher: St. John's, Nfld. : Canadian Committee on Labour History
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Hurrah Revolutionaries
Author: Patryk PolecPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773582088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Polish Canadians typically identify themselves as stringent anti-Communists, a label solidified by the legacies of the 1980s Solidarity movement, its founder Lech Walesa, and the widespread anti-Communist riots that helped topple the Communist regime in 1989. Hurrah Revolutionaries challenges this common perception by examining the Polish immigrant community in Canada and the development of radical and traditionally "deviant" ideologies during the interwar period until the end of the Second World War. Patryk Polec unveils a versatile, well-funded, and influential Polish pro-Communist movement with a talented leadership that worked tirelessly to persuade traditionally conservative and religious immigrants to adopt an ideology that was anti-nationalist and atheist. He traces the roots of socialist support in Poland, its transplantation to Canada where the movement enjoyed its greatest support, the challenges the movement faced within an ethnic community influenced by Catholicism, and the complications caused by its links to the Communist International. Polec offers a deeper understanding of the ways in which the Communist Party was able to appeal to certain ethnic groups through cultural outreach as well as its complicated and often counter-productive relationship with the Soviet Union. Grounded in recently declassified Polish consular documents and RCMP surveillance reports, Hurrah Revolutionaries is the first full-length study of Polish Communists in Canada, a group that constituted a substantial portion of the country’s socialist left in the twentieth century.
Not for King or Country
Author: Tyler WentzellPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487522886
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Not for King or Country tells the story of Edward Cecil-Smith, a dynamic propagandist for the Communist Party of Canada during the Great Depression. He is most well-known for commanding the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion during the Spanish Civil War.
Comrades and Critics
Author: Candida RifkindPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802092675
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Comrades and Critics is the first full-length study of Canada's 1930s literary left.
Towards a Godless Dominion
Author: Elliot HanowskiPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228019575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
In recent surveys, one in four Canadians say they have no religion. A century ago Canada was widely considered to be a Christian nation, and the vast majority of Canadians claimed they were devoutly religious. But some were determined to resist. In the 1920s and ’30s, groups of militant unbelievers formed across Canada to push back against the dominance of religion. Towards a Godless Dominion explores both anti-religious activism and the organized opposition unbelievers faced from Christian Canada during the interwar period. Despite Christianity’s prominence, anti-religious ideas were propagated by lectures in theatres, through newspapers, and out on the streets. Secularist groups in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver actively tried to win people away from religious belief. In the first two cities, they were met with stiff repression by the state, which convicted unbelievers of blasphemous libel, broke up their meetings, and banned atheistic literature from circulating. In the latter two cities unbelievers met social disapproval rather than official persecution. Looking at interwar controversies around religion, such as arguments about faith healing and fundamentalist campaigns against teaching evolution, Elliot Hanowski shows how unbelievers were able to use these conflicts to get their skeptical message across to the public. Challenging the stereotype of Canada as a tolerant, secular nation, Towards a Godless Dominion returns to a time when intolerant forms of Christianity ruled a country that was considered more religious than the United States.
A Communist for the RCMP
Author: Dennis GruendingPublisher: Between the Lines
ISBN: 1771136588
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
In 1941, the RCMP recruited Frank Hadesbeck, a Spanish Civil War veteran, as a paid informant to infiltrate the Communist Party. For decades, he informed not only upon communists, but also upon hundreds of other people who held progressive views. Hadesbeck’s “Watch Out” lists on behalf of the Security Service included labour activists, medical doctors, lawyers, university professors and students, journalists, Indigenous and progressive farm leaders, members of the clergy, and anyone involved in the peace and human rights movements. Defying every warning given to him by his handlers, Hadesbeck kept secret notes. Using these notes, author Dennis Gruending recounts how the RCMP spied upon thousands of Canadians. Hadesbeck’s life and career are in the past, but RCMP surveillance continues in new guises. As Canada’s petroleum industry doubles down on its extraction plans in the oil sands and elsewhere, the RCMP and other state agencies provide support, routinely branding Indigenous land defenders and their allies in the environmental movement as potential terrorists. They share information and tactics with petroleum industry “stakeholders” in what has been described as a “surveillance web” intended to suppress dissent. A Communist for the RCMP provides an inside account of Hadesbeck’s career and illustrates how the RCMP uses surveillance of activists to enforce the status quo.
R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins: 1939-1941
Author: Royal Canadian Mounted PolicePublisher: St. John's, Nfld. : Committee on Canadian Labour History, c1989-c1993.
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Renegades
Author: Michael PetrouPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774858281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Between 1936 and 1939, almost 1,700 Canadians defied their government and volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War. They left behind punishing lives in Canadian relief camps, mines, and urban flophouses to confront fascism in a country few knew much about. Michael Petrou has drawn on recently declassified archival material, interviewed surviving Canadian veterans, and visited the battlefields of Spain to write the definitive account of Canadians in the Spanish Civil War. Renegades is an intimate and unflinching story of idealism and courage, duplicity and defeat.