Canada Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/history/canada/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Mon, 14 Jun 2021 19:22:10 +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 Canada Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/history/canada/ 32 32 22825446 Centennial of the Communist Movement in Canada https://johnriddell.com/2021/06/14/centennial-of-the-communist-movement-in-canada/ https://johnriddell.com/2021/06/14/centennial-of-the-communist-movement-in-canada/#respond Mon, 14 Jun 2021 18:57:55 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6961 May 23, 1921 — May 23, 2021 The following talk was given at a webinar held on May 13, 2021, by Socialist Action (Canada). By John Riddell: Ten days from today we will celebrate the centennial of the Communist movement in Canada. It was born on May 23, 1921, at a one-day conference of 22 […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2021/06/14/centennial-of-the-communist-movement-in-canada/feed/ 0 6961 Larry Nozaki: Unionist, Socialist, Revolutionary https://johnriddell.com/2021/02/21/larry-nozaki-unionist-socialist-revolutionary/ https://johnriddell.com/2021/02/21/larry-nozaki-unionist-socialist-revolutionary/#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2021 18:15:45 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6709 The following three reminiscences was sent out by Georgina Cordoba to many of Larry Nozaki’s friends across the country. — JR By Georgina Cordoba: Sadly, Larry Nozaki (1940-2020) died in Surrey BC on December 5, 2020. Born in 1940, Larry was long a member of the League for Socialist Action (LSA) Vancouver Branch, and visited […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2021/02/21/larry-nozaki-unionist-socialist-revolutionary/feed/ 3 6709 In Memory of Ernie Tate (1934-2021) https://johnriddell.com/2021/02/13/in-memory-of-ernie-tate-1934-2021/ https://johnriddell.com/2021/02/13/in-memory-of-ernie-tate-1934-2021/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2021 16:58:53 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6683 A Life of Revolutionary Activism By John Riddell, February 13, 2021: The socialist movement lost an outstanding educator and organizer with the passing of Ernest (Ernie) Tate in Toronto on 5 February. An outstanding partisan of global anti-imperialist solidarity, Ernie also contributed, with his partner Jess MacKenzie, to building revolutionary Marxist groups and to promoting socialist […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2021/02/13/in-memory-of-ernie-tate-1934-2021/feed/ 1 6683 A Strategic Perspective for Uniting Ecosocialists in Quebec https://johnriddell.com/2020/12/14/a-strategic-perspective-for-uniting-ecosocialists-in-quebec/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/12/14/a-strategic-perspective-for-uniting-ecosocialists-in-quebec/#respond Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:41:45 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6433 ‘Révolution écosocialiste’: Basis of Unity Newly formed ‘Révolution écosocialiste’ organization proposes a green, ecosocialist and democratic program for building a mass movement in the 21st century. Introduction by Richard Fidler: Ecosocialist activists in Quebec have formed a new organization, Révolution écosocialiste (RE). The following English translation of the group’s Basis of Unity is taken from Climate & Capitalism. […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/12/14/a-strategic-perspective-for-uniting-ecosocialists-in-quebec/feed/ 0 6433 Quebec’s October Crisis, 1970 https://johnriddell.com/2020/10/18/quebecs-october-crisis-1970/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/10/18/quebecs-october-crisis-1970/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2020 14:24:12 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6247 What Today’s Left Learned from Ottawa’s Turn to Repression Reposted with permission from Life on the Left. By Richard Fidler: Fifty years ago this month the federal government, invoking the War Measures Act – its first use in peacetime – occupied Quebec with 12,000 troops, arrested without a warrant almost 500 citizens, and carried out […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/10/18/quebecs-october-crisis-1970/feed/ 2 6247 50 Years Ago: When Canada Suspended Civil Liberties https://johnriddell.com/2020/10/16/50-years-ago-when-canada-suspended-civil-liberties/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/10/16/50-years-ago-when-canada-suspended-civil-liberties/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:05:03 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6232 Recollections of Montreal Under the War Measures Act By John Riddell: It was October 16, 1970, fifty years ago today. Turning on CBC radio over breakfast that day, I was startled to learn that the War Measures Act had been decreed across the entire country. The Canadian equivalent of martial law, War Measures were invoked […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/10/16/50-years-ago-when-canada-suspended-civil-liberties/feed/ 2 6232 Settler Colonialism in Canada: A Brief Outline https://johnriddell.com/2020/08/18/settler-colonialism-in-canada-a-brief-outline/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/08/18/settler-colonialism-in-canada-a-brief-outline/#respond Wed, 19 Aug 2020 01:26:32 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5986 Genocidal Apartheid and Anti-Colonial Resistance Presentation to a Socialist Action (Canada) panel discussion, August 6, 2020. The other speakers were Peter Kulchyski, professor of Native studies, University of Manitoba and Maria Paez Victor of the Circulo bolivariano Louis Riel. By John Riddell: Half a century ago, I helped in publication of Richard Fidler’s pamphlet Red […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/08/18/settler-colonialism-in-canada-a-brief-outline/feed/ 0 5986 ‘Socialist Voice’ (2004-11) Now Available as a Searchable Archive https://johnriddell.com/2020/06/22/socialist-voice-2004-11-now-available-as-a-searchable-archive/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/06/22/socialist-voice-2004-11-now-available-as-a-searchable-archive/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2020 21:03:13 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5852 A complete set of Socialist Voice, a Marxist publication based in Canada, has been posted by Marxists Internet Archive. The following text on the MIA site introduces a fully linked Socialist Voice table of contents.–JR Introduction to ‘Socialist Voice’ Socialist Voice: Marxist Perspectives for the 21st Century was an online journal published in Canada from 2004 to 2011. […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/06/22/socialist-voice-2004-11-now-available-as-a-searchable-archive/feed/ 4 5852 1958: My Search for Socialism https://johnriddell.com/2019/08/15/1958-my-search-for-socialism/ https://johnriddell.com/2019/08/15/1958-my-search-for-socialism/#comments Thu, 15 Aug 2019 17:41:07 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=5471 A Memoir (Part One) By John Riddell: I hear many negative comments from socialist friends these days about “Stalinism” or “Trotskyism.” The terms are not easy to evaluate. They relate to history, to the Russian revolution and its contradictory legacy, to events now almost a century in the past. Well, I come from those long-ago times. […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2019/08/15/1958-my-search-for-socialism/feed/ 3 5471 RWL/LOR: Explaining a failed fusion https://johnriddell.com/2018/11/26/rwl-lor-explaining-a-failed-fusion/ https://johnriddell.com/2018/11/26/rwl-lor-explaining-a-failed-fusion/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:12:32 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=5182 The Revolutionary Workers League of Canada/Ligue Ouvrière Révolutionnaire (1977-1990): Part 2 For Part 1 of this article, see RWL/LOR: Inquest into a failed socialist fusion By John Riddell. During the 1980s and 1990s, as neoliberal reaction tightened its grip, left-socialist activists in Canada fell into disillusion and inactivity. The traditional Communist Party broke apart; the […]

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