I’ve been thinking, this week, about how we, as Canadians, should be doing whatever we can to support grassroots struggles in the US. Contrary to what you might think based on the tide of popular sentiment at the moment, the bad things that ordinary people in so-called Canada are facing are, first and foremost, brought …
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 …