West Ham and the River Lea explores the environmental and social history of London’s most populous independent suburb and its second largest river. Jim Clifford maps the migration of industry into West Ham’s marshlands and reveals the...
Socialism
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Author:Clifford, JimSummary: -
Author:Harmes, AdamSummary:What does federalism have to do with the political struggle between conservatives and progressives over economic policy? How do economic theories of fiscal federalism influence European, North American, and global forms of governance?...
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Author:Aivalis, ChristoSummary:Pierre Elliott Trudeau – radical progressive or unavowed socialist? His legacy remains divisive. The Constant Liberal traces the charismatic politician’s relationship with the left and labour movements throughout his career. Christo...
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Author:Marx, Karl, Engels, FriedrichSummary:Every feel like you’re not getting ahead at work? Does it seem like you can’t catch up on your bills? Well, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles have an answer for you: Communism! Read their self-help guide packed with practical financial...
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Author:Powell, Benjamin, Lawson, RobertSummary:The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free-market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to...
- Author:Wiseman, NelsonSummary:
In this volume, Nelson Wiseman skilfully describes the history of the New Democratic Party in Manitoba, tracing the roots of the social democratic movement to the years of mass immigration and social unrest that preceded the Winnipeg...
- Author:Clark, DennisSummary:
Satan a Socialist-Really?
Conspiracy Theory or Fundamental Truth of the AgesSatan Is a Socialist stirs up a lot of social, political, and spiritual questions such as:
• What are the real differences between free... - Author:Swift, RichardSummary:
Financial collapse and crisis; disgust at bankers' greed; the devastating effects of yawning inequality: all these and more have led to widespread dissatisfaction and disenchantment with capitalism. People are crying out for an...
- Author:Valiavicharska, ZhivkaSummary:
Post-Stalinism - the last three decades of socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe - gave birth to new political ideas and social struggles, which reshaped socialist societies and forged new global imaginaries. With a focus on...
- Author:McKay, IanSummary:
Reasoning Otherwise is the first volume of Ian McKay's three-part history of the left in Canada. Using the strategy of "reconnaissance" first outlined in Rebels, Reds, Radicals, McKay examines the people and events that...
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Author:TUCKER, RobertSummary:An analysis of, and commentary on, the socialist philosophy of Karl Marx and his stressing of the antagonism between labour and capital.
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Relatively little attention has been paid to the contributions of the CCF/NDP in Canadian politics. Surveying the field of political history in Canada, one might assume that the politics of the nation have been shaped solely by the...
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Best known as the author of On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains a canonical figure in liberalism today. Yet according to his autobiography, by the mid-1840s he placed himself "under the general designation of Socialist."...
- Author:Boyko, JohnSummary:
Into the Hurricane invites Canadians to consider how their political opinions and options are manipulated today by considering how they were manipulated yesterday. As Canadians fight for the future of health care, public education, and...
- Author:Bellamy, EdwardSummary:
Equality is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, and the sequel to Looking Backward: and was first published in 1897. The book contains a minimal amount of plot; Bellamy primarily used Equality to expand on the theories he first explored...
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The work of Bryan D. Palmer, one of North America's leading historians, has influenced the fields of labour history, social history, discourse analysis, communist history, and Canadian history, as well as the theoretical frameworks...
- Author:Kingsley, E. T.Summary:
In October 1890, Eugene T. Kingsley's life changed irrevocably when he was injured in a fall between two rail cars while working as a brakeman on the Northern Pacific Railway. Following the amputation of both his legs, Kingsley became...
- Author:Piketty, ThomasSummary:
Thomas Piketty exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system.
- Author:Red Braid Alliance for Decolonial SocialismSummary:
A Separate Star collects the decolonial socialist ambitions of Red Braid Alliance through reflections on struggle, popular philosophical inquiries, and revolutionary strategy. The roots of the collectively-authored book are in Red Braid...
