April 23, 2021
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Spring Following Ernie Tate’s death on February 5, 2021, numerous tributes have been published highlighting his lifelong commitment to socialism and remarkable contribution to the anti-war movement. (Links are provided below.) His two-volume memoir,
Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s, provides a detailed account of this work.
Ernie’s role as a union leader has received less attention. Working at Toronto Hydro from 1977 to 1995, he served as an Executive Board member and eventually as Vice-President of CUPE Local One, which represented roughly 500 blue collar and 450 clerical and technical workers at the utility.
Dan Burn-Forti
In 2012, Walter Riddell was running an investment management portfolio worth $35 billion for Morgan Stanley. Then, one day, he had enough.
“I was a very, very stroppy 30-year-old. I probably quit five times before, but my colleagues were indulgent enough to make life easy for me to stay. So they were quite used to me saying that I wanted to go and live in a bog.”
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But this time he was serious. He had long juggled working remotely with his office job – but was immensely frustrated. His true destination was an ancestral home in Hepple, which he inherited when his father, Sir John Riddell, died in 2010.
Green Left 30th anniversary event March 27 2021
Green Left is celebrating 30 years of people-powered media on February 18. We would like to encourage you to join us at our anniversary event on March 27 with Kavita Krishnan. (Please book now!) Below are some of the messages of support we ve received. Please share your own message of support on social media with the hashtag #GreenLeft30. And, if you like our work, become a supporter!
Adela Brent, Brisbane Reclaim the Night Collective: We are delighted to send a solidarity message to the
Green Left. 30 years! Congratulations! A socialist newspaper is an important means of communication, especially in a capitalist country where the press is monopolized by the rich. Newspapers must tell the truth and be at the service of the people. This is what
Steven Clay (S. Clay) Wilson
July 25, 1941 – February 7, 2021
cartoonist, artist S. Clay Wilson 7/25/1941 – 2/7/2021.
He’s gone. At 4pm yesterday. I sat next to him all day yesterday, telling him stories…one of arriving here in a crowd of topless woman on Pride Day…..astonished by the nudity on the streets…..laughing at the memory of Wilson – tall & gallant – tryna help a drunk topless woman in cowboy boots down off the hood of a gleaming cadillac,holding one hand, while she gripped a long, battered trombone with the other…..She stepped down to the pavement with pendulous breast swaying….for all the world like a newly crowned Queen….stumbling a bit..but royal in her carriage…strolling off proudly without so much as a nod or a thank you… Wilson gleaming with Pride for his city…his rebellious Barbary Coast…