Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by FRAPPIER André, RIOUX Bernard
A leading Québécois activist and editor, Bernard Rioux was interviewed by André Frappier in a recent issue of Nouveaux Cahiers du Socialisme. My translation is followed by links to a key article by Bernard also available in English. Footnotes are by NCS unless initialled by me. – Richard Fidler (…)
, by RIDDELL John
The socialist movement lost a long-time organizer and master builder with the death on December 26, 2022, of George Bryant at the age of 91. George and his life partner Beatrice Bryant were influential figures in the Ontario socialist movement from the 1950s. Bea Bryant died in 2016 (see A Life (…)
, by BEAUDET Pierre, BOUDREAU Philippe, FIDLER Richard, POULIN Richard
Pierre Beaudet, who died a week ago, left a rich legacy of published works, both books and articles, that will remain a valuable resource for present and future generations of socialists in Quebec, Canada and internationally. I cannot inventory all of them, but I do wish to draw attention to (…)
, by FIDLER Richard
Although I was long acquainted with his work I did not meet Pierre Beaudet until the World Social Forum in Caracas in 2006. We soon became good friends. Soon afterwards, Pierre found employment at the University of Ottawa, where he was instrumental in establishing the School of International (…)
, by REBICK Judy
“Pierre was a great leader, an extraordinary thinker and had a big heart. The world will miss Pierre greatly.”
Just when we needed him most to explain how the global political reality will change with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Pierre Beaudet, one of Canada’s most brilliant progressive (…)
, by PALMER Bryan D.
Ernie Tate (1934-2021) was a long-standing supporter and leading member of Trotskyist groups in Canada and the United Kingdom and a founder of the International Marxist Group and Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in Britain.
Born poor on Belfast’s Shankill Road in the midst of the Great Depression (…)
, by RIDDELL John
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 (…)
, by HEARSE Phil
Ernest (‘Ernie’) Tate, one of the founders of the International Marxist Group and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign in the 1960s, has died from cancer at the age of 86 at his home in Toronto. He played a vital role in a campaign that would re-shape the British far left.
Ernie was born in 1934 (…)
The death of Leo Panitch has made the world a darker place. His writings have carried us through some of the most difficult periods in the history of the socialist left, as wave after wave of the neoliberal onslaught broke workers’ organizations, serving up one defeat after the next. Leo’s work (…)
, by McNALLY David
I am still processing the shocking news of Leo Panitch’s death. Like anyone else who spent years on the Left in Canada, I had an ongoing—sometimes friendly, sometimes fractious—relationship with Leo. For many years, we were members of the Department of Politics at York University, a progressive (…)
, by CHIBBER Vivek
The global left has suffered an irreparable loss with the passing of Leo Panitch this weekend. He was incredibly warm, inviting, and generous to others. And he remained committed to the end to the cause of socialism and human emancipation.
Leo Panitch was a pillar of the international left, an (…)
, by CANEPA Eric , Transform! Europe
We at transform! europe, along with many around the world, were shocked to hear of the death of Leo Panitch from COVID-19 in Toronto on 19 December 2020.
Leo had recently been diagnosed with multiple myeloma—a type of cancer that affects the plasma cells located in the bone marrow. (…)
, by JIANG Kevin
Professor Leo Panitch was an equal-parts brilliant and generous public thinker who worked toward the betterment of humanity, his friends and colleagues say.
“If you watched Leo, you were immediately struck by his confidence,” said lifelong friend Sam Gindin. “. . . He was committed to (…)
, by RIDDELL John
Marxist activist and community organizer
Half a century ago, the highpoint of my schedule as a socialist organizer in Toronto was the monthly hour-long drive up Bayview Avenue for an evening with Bea Bryant and her partner George in their Richmond Hill home. Their solidarity work in that (…)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & ’60s. A Memoir, Volume One, Canada 1955-1965. By Ernest Tate. London: Resistance Books, 2014, 268 pages, $15 paperback.
EUROPEAN TROTSKYISTS, IN recent writings about the movement, tend to give short shrift to Trotskyism in North America. (An example (…)
, by PALMER Bryan D.
Review: Ernest Tate, Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s and 60s: A Memoir – Volume 1, Canada 1955–1965 (London: Resistance Books, 2014)
Ernest Tate, Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s and 60s: A Memoir – Volume 2, Britain 1965–1970 (London: Resistance Books, 2014)
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, par BIRCHALL Ian
The following review, by Ian Birchall, a prominent Marxist scholar and long time leader of the International Socialists in Britain, but now of RS 21, will appear in the next issue of Revolutionary History [[http://revolutionaryhistory.co.uk] which will be devoted to writings of Clara Zetkin, (…)
, by FIDLER Richard
The two volumes reviewed below were launched at a meeting attended by about 70 persons in Toronto on June 11, sponsored by the Centre for Social Justice and Socialist Project. The meeting, introduced by Greg Albo, was chaired by Carolyn Egan of the United Steelworkers and the Toronto & York (…)
, par RIDDELL John
“A police cruiser with two uniformed officers pulled up alongside me,” recalls Ernest Tate in his newly published memoir, Revolutionary Activism. “They jumped out and asked me for identification. I gave it to them. ‘What’s in your suitcase ?’ Dirty underwear, I said. ‘Open it,” they ordered. I (…)
, by HEARSE Phil, TATE “Ernie” Ernest
March 5, 2014 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Resistance Books (Britain) has kindly given permission for Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal to publish excerpts from long-time Canadian revolutionary socialist Ernie Tate’s just-published two-volume memoirs, (…)
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