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Winnipeg, 1919: How understanding the past is a product of the present

The essays comprising For a Better World contain a contradictory interpretive dynamic, in which a present-minded insistence that the Winnipeg General Strike unfolded within a white working class erasure of Indigenous peoples co-exists with a more traditional analytic accent on the politics of class struggle. ....

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Criminal Syndicalism Laws in Canada: Repression During WWI and Today's Echoes

Much has been said about the criminal syndicalism laws in the United States and the outlawing of syndicalist organizing under the first Red Scare in 1919. Yet it is often overlooked that similar laws targeting the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) were passed in Canada in the context of capitalist attacks on militant working class organizing, and ruling class xenophobia, and fear of transnational labor solidarity, during World War One. Indeed, this September marks the 105-year anniversary of the passing of the most far-reaching anti-syndicalist law in Canada one that explicitly targeted the IWW making membership a crime. Notably, the Canadian criminalization of syndicalism predated the criminal syndicalism laws in the US. More than a century later we should reacquaint ourselves with these acts of government, which are largely forgotten today. Not only for our understanding of the role of the state in advancing the interests of capital and quashing resistance. But also because of re ....

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