Author: Ian Angus
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412038081
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"Canadian communism did not spring out of the ground suddenly at the end of World War I, and it was not smuggled into the country by Russian agents. The men and women who built the new movement were long-time socialist and labour militants in Canada. Inspired by the Russian Revolution and by their own experiences as leaders of the post-war labour revolt in Canada, they set about to create a new kind of party, one that could lead the fight for workers' power. The new Communist Party, formed between 1919 and 1921, quickly became the largest party on the left, with strong roots and influence in the unions and basic industry. Its members led heroic strikes. They fought for labor unity, and engaged in united electoral activity with other currents in the workers movement. They were in the forefront of the struggle for democratic rights.
Canadian Bolsheviks
Author: Ian Angus
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412038081
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"Canadian communism did not spring out of the ground suddenly at the end of World War I, and it was not smuggled into the country by Russian agents. The men and women who built the new movement were long-time socialist and labour militants in Canada. Inspired by the Russian Revolution and by their own experiences as leaders of the post-war labour revolt in Canada, they set about to create a new kind of party, one that could lead the fight for workers' power. The new Communist Party, formed between 1919 and 1921, quickly became the largest party on the left, with strong roots and influence in the unions and basic industry. Its members led heroic strikes. They fought for labor unity, and engaged in united electoral activity with other currents in the workers movement. They were in the forefront of the struggle for democratic rights.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412038081
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"Canadian communism did not spring out of the ground suddenly at the end of World War I, and it was not smuggled into the country by Russian agents. The men and women who built the new movement were long-time socialist and labour militants in Canada. Inspired by the Russian Revolution and by their own experiences as leaders of the post-war labour revolt in Canada, they set about to create a new kind of party, one that could lead the fight for workers' power. The new Communist Party, formed between 1919 and 1921, quickly became the largest party on the left, with strong roots and influence in the unions and basic industry. Its members led heroic strikes. They fought for labor unity, and engaged in united electoral activity with other currents in the workers movement. They were in the forefront of the struggle for democratic rights.
Canadian Bolsheviks
Author: Ian Angus
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 9781412228152
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Canadian Bolsheviks is a book that cannot be overlooked by anyone interested in Canadian labour history and part played in its development by Canadian Communists. It is a story too little known, and Angus, to his credit, has done much to rectify that imbalance. -William Rodney, author of Soldiers of the International, in The Globe & Mail Canadian communism did not spring out of the ground suddenly at the end of World War I, and it was not smuggled into the country by Russian agents. The men and women who built the new movement were long-time socialist and labour militants in Canada. Inspired by the Russian Revolution and by their own experiences as leaders of the post-war labour revolt in Canada, they set about to create a new kind of party, one that could lead the fight for workers' power. The new Communist Party, formed between 1919 and 1921, quickly became the largest party on the left, with strong roots and influence in the unions and basic industry. Its members led heroic strikes. They fought for labor unity, and engaged in united electoral activity with other currents in the workers movement. They were in the forefront of the struggle for democratic rights. Ten years later, the party was destroyed. Most of its founding leaders were expelled, and three quarters of its membership dropped out. The Communist Party abandoned the program it had adopted in its early years, and turned its back on its principles. The organization still called itself Communist, but it was now Tim Buck's Party. It had been transformed from a revolutionary party into an agent of the new ruling caste in Moscow. In Canadian Bolsheviks, Ian Angus describes and explains the first attempt to build a Leninist party on Canadian soil, showing why it succeeded so well at first, and why it ultimately failed. The Second Edition of a book that has been widely hailed as a path breaking work, the best yet to appear on the origins of Canadian communism.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 9781412228152
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Canadian Bolsheviks is a book that cannot be overlooked by anyone interested in Canadian labour history and part played in its development by Canadian Communists. It is a story too little known, and Angus, to his credit, has done much to rectify that imbalance. -William Rodney, author of Soldiers of the International, in The Globe & Mail Canadian communism did not spring out of the ground suddenly at the end of World War I, and it was not smuggled into the country by Russian agents. The men and women who built the new movement were long-time socialist and labour militants in Canada. Inspired by the Russian Revolution and by their own experiences as leaders of the post-war labour revolt in Canada, they set about to create a new kind of party, one that could lead the fight for workers' power. The new Communist Party, formed between 1919 and 1921, quickly became the largest party on the left, with strong roots and influence in the unions and basic industry. Its members led heroic strikes. They fought for labor unity, and engaged in united electoral activity with other currents in the workers movement. They were in the forefront of the struggle for democratic rights. Ten years later, the party was destroyed. Most of its founding leaders were expelled, and three quarters of its membership dropped out. The Communist Party abandoned the program it had adopted in its early years, and turned its back on its principles. The organization still called itself Communist, but it was now Tim Buck's Party. It had been transformed from a revolutionary party into an agent of the new ruling caste in Moscow. In Canadian Bolsheviks, Ian Angus describes and explains the first attempt to build a Leninist party on Canadian soil, showing why it succeeded so well at first, and why it ultimately failed. The Second Edition of a book that has been widely hailed as a path breaking work, the best yet to appear on the origins of Canadian communism.
The Road to Socialism in Canada
Author: Communist Party of Canada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Soldiers of the International
Author: William Rodney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Questions and Answers on the Communist Party of Canada
Author: Communist Party of Canada. Toronto District
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Champagne and Meatballs
Author: Bert Whyte
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 1926836081
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Active for over 40 years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist Party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology get in the way of a great yarn. In Champagne and Meatballs--a memoir written not long before his death in Moscow in 1984--we meet a cigar-smoking rogue who was at least as happy at a pool hall as at a political meeting. His stories of bumming across Canada in the 1930s, of combat and comaraderie at the front lines in World War II, and of surviving as a dissident in troubled times make for compelling reading. The manuscript of Champagne and Meatballs was brought to light and edited by historian Larry Hannant, who has written a fascinating and thought-provoking introduction to the text. Brash, irreverent, informative, and entertaining, Whyte's tale is history and biography accompanied by a wink of his eye--the left one, of course.
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 1926836081
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Active for over 40 years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist Party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology get in the way of a great yarn. In Champagne and Meatballs--a memoir written not long before his death in Moscow in 1984--we meet a cigar-smoking rogue who was at least as happy at a pool hall as at a political meeting. His stories of bumming across Canada in the 1930s, of combat and comaraderie at the front lines in World War II, and of surviving as a dissident in troubled times make for compelling reading. The manuscript of Champagne and Meatballs was brought to light and edited by historian Larry Hannant, who has written a fascinating and thought-provoking introduction to the text. Brash, irreverent, informative, and entertaining, Whyte's tale is history and biography accompanied by a wink of his eye--the left one, of course.
The Story of the Communist Movement in Canada
Author: Tim Buck
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781460991954
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Karl Marx said that his theory "is a scandal and abomination to bourgeoisdom and its doctrinaire professors." The Canadian party of Marxism-Leninism for thirty years has abominated the capitalist system which is ravishing our country and selling it as a commodity to U.S. imperialism. That is its rightful claim to the respect of hundreds of thousands of Canadians, soon to be numbered in millions. When you read this book, ask yourself the question: "If it were not for the Communists, whence would have come the challenge to economic crisis, fascism, war, unemployment and cultural oppression?" To ask is to answer. Only the Party of Communists has consistently fought these abominations of the profit system.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781460991954
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Karl Marx said that his theory "is a scandal and abomination to bourgeoisdom and its doctrinaire professors." The Canadian party of Marxism-Leninism for thirty years has abominated the capitalist system which is ravishing our country and selling it as a commodity to U.S. imperialism. That is its rightful claim to the respect of hundreds of thousands of Canadians, soon to be numbered in millions. When you read this book, ask yourself the question: "If it were not for the Communists, whence would have come the challenge to economic crisis, fascism, war, unemployment and cultural oppression?" To ask is to answer. Only the Party of Communists has consistently fought these abominations of the profit system.
Not for King or Country
Author: Tyler Wentzell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487522886
Category : Communists
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.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487522886
Category : Communists
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.
Constitution of the Communist Party of Canada : as Amended at 20th Convention CPC, April 4-6, 1969
Author: Communist Party of Canada
Publisher: Canada : The Party
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher: Canada : The Party
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The Communist Party in Canada
Author: Ivan Avakumovic
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780771009808
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780771009808
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description