David Spaner is a long-time writer based in Vancouver and the author of Solidarity: Canada’s Unknown Revolution of 1983 (Ronsdale Press, 2021). Scott Neigh interviews him about the book and about the uprising against a right-wing government in British Columbia that it documents. Despite happening well within living memory, being one of the largest grassroots …
Thanks to David Spaner the interview just now about Solidarity, his book about the massive 1983 social uprising in British Columbia against a regressive right-wing government. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in September!
Craig Heron, Holly Kirkconnell, and David Kidd are active with the Toronto Workers’ History Project (TWHP), an initiative devoted to preserving and promoting the history of working people in Toronto. Scott Neigh interviews them about the enthusiasm they have found in the community for working-class history, the many facets of the project’s work, and the …
Thank-you to Craig, Holly, and David for the interview just now about the Toronto Workers’ History Project. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
Movement history. An interview-based and archival history of the emergence of the women’s liberation movement in the United States in the late 1960s. It particularly focuses on the ways in which women’s liberation came out of the experiences of women active in the civil rights movement and in the new left student movement earlier in …
Irina Ceric is a lawyer and a criminology instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, BC. Since the 1990s, she has mainly used her legal expertise in social movement contexts and in doing radical legal support organizing. In the last few years, she has also done important research into how such organizing has happened in …
History of six major social reform movements in the United States from the early 19th to mid 20th centuries – abolitionism, populism, progressivism, the so-called “first wave” of the women’s movement, the labour movement, and the socialist and communist movements. The focus is how the white-dominated core of each related to racism, and how Black …
Storytelling about a life spent at the heart of many of the major social movements in the US in the last 35 years combined with very practical lessons about how to organize. I had never heard of Lisa Fithian before, but as an organizer, a facilitator, a trainer, and an activist, she has done a …
Alvin Finkel is a history professor at Athabasca University and the author of thirteen books, most recently Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy (Red Globe Press, 2019). He is also the president of the Alberta Labour History Institute (ALHI), a grassroots organization devoted to preserving and sharing the stories of Alberta’s working people and …
Just finished talking with Alvin Finkel about the work of the Alberta Labour History Institute and its work to preserve and popularize histories of workers’ struggles in that province, and about his new book *Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy*. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in September! Originally posted to Scott’s author page on Facebook.