Suzanne Weiss Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/authors/suzanne-weiss-authors/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Fri, 12 Mar 2021 19:52:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.10 https://i0.wp.com/johnriddell.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-John-Riddell-Icon-Final-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Suzanne Weiss Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/authors/suzanne-weiss-authors/ 32 32 22825446 A Socialist Woman’s Experience with Sexism https://johnriddell.com/2021/03/12/a-socialist-womans-experience-with-sexism/ https://johnriddell.com/2021/03/12/a-socialist-womans-experience-with-sexism/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:08:54 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6769 By Suzanne Weiss: The following study was first published in ‘Against the Current,’ March-April 2021. It is reposted with permission from http://suzanneberlinerweiss.com. Contents: Barriers to Women’s Political Participation Women in Party Controversies A Transformative Feminist Radicalization My Party Loses Its Way 1. Barriers to Women’s Political Participation From its beginnings in the 1800s, modern socialism […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2021/03/12/a-socialist-womans-experience-with-sexism/feed/ 2 6769 ‘Holocaust to Resistance’ Tour Draws Wide Interest https://johnriddell.com/2020/03/23/holocaust-to-resistance-tour-draws-wide-interest/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/03/23/holocaust-to-resistance-tour-draws-wide-interest/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2020 15:42:40 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5575 ‘Resistance to Hitler Has Lessons for Today’ By John Riddell: The dangers posed by the Covid-19 virus forced suspenion on March 19 of Suzanne Weiss’s tour introducing her memoir, Holocaust to Resistance: My Journey. But the tour’s results so far indicate encouraging interest in her story and its message of global solidarity. Suzanne’s seventeen meetings […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/03/23/holocaust-to-resistance-tour-draws-wide-interest/feed/ 1 5575 The Red Scare and the Death of Stalin (1950-56) https://johnriddell.com/2019/10/14/the-red-scare-and-the-death-of-stalin-1950-56/ https://johnriddell.com/2019/10/14/the-red-scare-and-the-death-of-stalin-1950-56/#comments Mon, 14 Oct 2019 18:14:04 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5513 A brief excerpt from ‘Holocaust to Resistance’, by Suzanne Berliner Weiss Introduction by John Riddell: The experience of my partner Suzanne Weiss with the U.S. Communist Party in the early 1950s forms an interesting complement to my own account, in “My Search for Socialism,” of my experiences with the CP a couple of years later. […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2019/10/14/the-red-scare-and-the-death-of-stalin-1950-56/feed/ 1 5513 Suzanne Weiss memoir available October 1 https://johnriddell.com/2019/09/24/suzanne-weiss-memoir-available-october-1/ https://johnriddell.com/2019/09/24/suzanne-weiss-memoir-available-october-1/#comments Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:38:56 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5497 ‘Holocaust to Resistance’ tells of solidarity ‘then and now’ By John Riddell: Long a familiar figure in Toronto left rallies and action coalitions, Suzanne Weiss has now published a life story arching from her first years in France occupied by Hitler’s troops to present-day tasks of liberation and eco-revolution. Suzanne’s publisher, Fernwood, has organized a […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2019/09/24/suzanne-weiss-memoir-available-october-1/feed/ 2 5497 Fair Play! Building solidarity with revolutionary Cuba (1960-1970) https://johnriddell.com/2016/10/07/fair-play-building-solidarity-with-revolutionary-cuba-1960-1970/ https://johnriddell.com/2016/10/07/fair-play-building-solidarity-with-revolutionary-cuba-1960-1970/#respond Fri, 07 Oct 2016 17:22:20 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=2924 The triumph of the Cuban revolution in 1959 gave rise to widespread solidarity work in the U.S. and Canada, organized through Fair Play for Cuba committees. Two participants in this experience report here on its scope and lessons.   John Riddell and Suzanne Weiss gave the following joint talk on the work of Fair Play […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2016/10/07/fair-play-building-solidarity-with-revolutionary-cuba-1960-1970/feed/ 0 2924 Welcoming refugees then and now https://johnriddell.com/2015/10/09/welcoming-refugees-then-and-now/ https://johnriddell.com/2015/10/09/welcoming-refugees-then-and-now/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2015 20:42:13 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=2399 My personal historical research finds current resonance. By Suzanne Weiss.  In September I accompanied Suzanne Weiss on a research trip concerning the work of anti-Nazi resistance in France 1940-45 to save Jewish children. Suzanne’s work took an unexpected turn, becoming part of present debate on attitudes to refugees. Here is her report. For the French […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2015/10/09/welcoming-refugees-then-and-now/feed/ 5 2399 The Gaza slaughter: Not in my name https://johnriddell.com/2014/08/26/the-gaza-slaughter-not-in-my-name/ https://johnriddell.com/2014/08/26/the-gaza-slaughter-not-in-my-name/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:26:55 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=1979 Suzanne Weiss is a Holocaust survivor and Palestine solidarity activist based in Toronto. Here, she comments on the stand taken by anti-Zionist Jews against Israel’s massacres in Gaza – and on the real history of the Nazi Holocaust and the resistance to it. First published in Socialist Worker. By Suzanne Weiss. I am proud to […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2014/08/26/the-gaza-slaughter-not-in-my-name/feed/ 2 1979 ‘Canadian Charger’ must oppose Ottawa’s fake ‘anti-terrorism’ list https://johnriddell.com/2013/12/11/canadian-charger-must-oppose-ottawas-fake-anti-terrorism-list/ https://johnriddell.com/2013/12/11/canadian-charger-must-oppose-ottawas-fake-anti-terrorism-list/#comments Thu, 12 Dec 2013 02:43:27 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=1713 On December 11, 2013, the Canadian Charger, a web-based weekly with many readers in the Muslim community, formally retracted its editorial call for the Harper government to place Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood on its fake “anti-terrorism” list. The Charger thus responded to a wave of protests of its damaging editorial, published in its December 4 issue. Along […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2013/12/11/canadian-charger-must-oppose-ottawas-fake-anti-terrorism-list/feed/ 2 1713 Solidarity Saved Me from Hitler: Now It Must Save Palestine https://johnriddell.com/2013/12/08/solidarity-saved-me-from-hitler-now-it-must-save-palestine/ https://johnriddell.com/2013/12/08/solidarity-saved-me-from-hitler-now-it-must-save-palestine/#respond Sun, 08 Dec 2013 22:19:14 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=1706 In October 2013 I accompanied Suzanne Weiss in a trip back into the history of rural France under Nazi occupation. Suzanne’s interviews there provided a framework for the following talk given by her to Solidarity for Palestine Human Rights at the University of Western Ontario on November 20, 2013. A portion of her speech has […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2013/12/08/solidarity-saved-me-from-hitler-now-it-must-save-palestine/feed/ 0 1706 Resisting the tar sands: An ecosocialist approach https://johnriddell.com/2013/07/13/resisting-the-tar-sands-an-ecosocialist-approach/ https://johnriddell.com/2013/07/13/resisting-the-tar-sands-an-ecosocialist-approach/#respond Sun, 14 Jul 2013 01:34:19 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=1632 By Suzanne Weiss. Based on a talk given to the Socialism 2013 conference in Chicago, June 28, 2013. Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has a dream. If he has his way Canada will be the new world oil superpower – a rival to Saudi Arabia. It’s a wonderful dream for Harper and Canada’s profiteers, but […]

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