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“I Hate Feminists!”december 6, 1989 and its aftermath

Mélissa blais, translated by Phyllis aronoff & Howard scott

VisitorMy life in canada

anthony stewart

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On December 6, 1989, a man walked into the engineering school École Polytechnique de Montréal, armed with a semi-automatic rifle and, declaring “I hate feminists,” killed fourteen young women. “I Hate Feminists!”, originally published in French in 2009, examines the collective memory that emerged in the immediate aftermath and years following the massacre as Canadians struggled to make sense of this tragic event and understand the motivations of the killer. Exploring stories and editorials in Montreal and Toronto newspapers, texts distributed within anti-feminist “masculinist” networks, discourses about memorials in major Canadian cities and the film Polytechnique, which was released on the twentieth anniversary of the massacre, Mélissa Blais argues that feminist analyses and the killer’s own statements have been set aside in favour of interpretations that absolve the killer

of responsibility or even shift that blame onto women and feminists. In the end, Blais contends, the collective memory that has been constructed through various media has functioned not as a testament to violence against women but as a catalyst for anti-feminist discourse.

Mélissa Blais is a feminist activist, a lecturer in feminist studies and a Ph.D. student in sociology at Université du Québec à Montréal. She is the author of a number of texts on the feminist movement, including an article in Social Movement Studies.

ContentsIntroduction • Feminist Participation in the Collective Memory of December 6, 1989 • From Marginalization to Vilification of Feminist Discourse • Commemorations (1999–2005) • Negotiating Representations of the December 6 Massacre, or When Feminism and Anti-feminism Coexist • Conclusion

Canada’s next major challenge is not economic or political. It’s ethical. On the issue of racism, Canadians tend to compare themselves favourably to Americans and to rely on a concession that Canadian racism, if it exists at all, is more “subtle.” Is there a future time when newcomers and visible minorities will be enabled to feel like they belong in Canada? Or will they have to accept their experience as visitors to Canada no matter how long they have lived here? These are some of the questions Anthony Stewart tackles eloquently and with considerable wit.

“As a Black Canadian, the Canada that I have come to see is different from the idealized Canada of Tim Hortons commercials, Hockey Night in Canada and countless other imaginings. It’s a Canada that takes credit for a level of open-mindedness that far exceeds its reality. It’s a Canada that distinguishes

itself for its population of citizens who passively lay claim to welcoming difference while staying silent when those around them who are in fact different are disenfranchised, dehumanized, undervalued and left to feel that we do not belong in the country in which many of us were born, or about which we are told tales of tolerance.” — Anthony Stewart

Anthony Stewart is a professor of English at Bucknell University, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He is the author of George Orwell, Doubleness, and the Value of Decency and You Must Be a Basketball Player: Rethinking Integration in the University.

ContentsPreface: Home • Introduction: A Little Sunlight • Starting From Where We Are • Colour-Blindness vs. Tone-Deafness, Or, Not Being Seen vs. Not Being Heard • Conclusion: Some Things Worth Trying • Advice to Visitors • Advice to Members

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noble IllusionsYoung canada goes to war

stephen dale

One hundred years ago saw the declaration of a war that would forever change our understanding of war. With a staggering loss of life, World War One was, by all accounts, a brutal and devastating tragedy. And yet, on the eve of the hundredth anniversary, countries around the world are preparing to commemorate the Great War not with regret but with nationalist pride. Conservative forces, already well into a program to elevate the place of the military in society, are embracing the opportunity to replace today’s apparent cynicism with an unquestioning patriotism similar to that which existed a century ago. Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic are imploring their citizens — especially their youth — to revive the sense of duty embodied in the generation that served in the trenches.

But is the ennobling nature of patriotism the real lesson that people today should extract from that now-vanished generation’s experience? Through a dialogue with a pop-culture artifact from a lost world — a boys’ annual called Young Canada — Noble Illusions examines the use of propaganda to glorify racist colonial wars and, in the wake of those, the Great War. A juxtaposition of earnest instruction on the cultivation of everyday virtues and brutal tales of war masquerading as moral lessons on valour and righteousness, Young Canada helped to persuade a generation of young Canadians to head eagerly to the trenches of World War One. Concerned that the rise of militarism is leading today’s youth in a similar direction, Stephen Dale offers this examination as an inoculation against the blind patriotism politicians are working so hard to instill.

Stephen Dale is the author of Candy from Strangers: Kids and Consumer Culture, Lost in the Suburbs: A Political Travelogue and McLuhan’s Children: The Greenpeace Message and the Media.

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ContentsThe Past as a Part of the Present • A World of Duty, Discovery and Death • In the Thick of Things • Looking Forward


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Criminalizing womengender and (in)Justice in neoliberal times, 2nd edition

edited by Gillian balfour & elizabeth Comack

“An engaging and easily accessible edited anthology, Criminalizing Women maps out the connections between vulnerable, marginalized women and the ‘structured choices’ often imposed on them. This book has been the centerpiece of my ‘Women and Crime’ course for six years.”

— Kim Luton, Department of Sociology, Western University

“Criminalizing Women presents an important and relevant opportunity for students to unveil and challenge the ideologies that promote women’s conflicts with the law while they also learn about important ways that research, organizations and women in conflict with the law attempt to resist those ideologies.”

— Jenn Clamen, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University.

Criminalizing women has become all too frequent in these neoliberal times. Meanwhile, poverty, racism and misogyny continue to frame criminalized women’s lives. Criminalizing Women introduces the key issues addressed by feminists engaged in criminology research over the past four decades. The contributors explore how narratives that construct women as errant females, prostitutes, street gang associates and symbols of moral corruption mask the connections between women’s restricted choices and the conditions of their lives. The book shows how women have been surveilled, disciplined, managed, corrected and punished, and it considers the feminist strategies that have been used to address the impact of imprisonment and to draw attention to the systemic abuses against poor and racialized women.

In addition to updating material in the introductions and substantive chapters, this second edition includes new contributions that consider the media representations of missing and murdered women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, the gendered impact of video surveillance technologies (cctv), the role of therapeutic interventions in the death of Ashley Smith, the progressive potential of the Inside/Out Prison Exchange Program and the use of music and video as decolonizing strategies.

Gillian Balfour is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Trent University. Elizabeth Comack is a professor of sociology at the University of Manitoba. They both teach courses in feminist criminology and the sociology of law.

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ContentsIntroduction (Gillian Balfour & Elizabeth Comack) • Part 1: Women, Criminology, and Feminism • The Feminist Engagement with Criminology (Elizabeth Comack) • Part 2: making ConneCtions: Class/raCe/gender interseCtions • Introduction (Elizabeth Comack) • Sluts and Slags: The Censuring of the Erring Female (Joanne Minaker) • The In-Call Sex Industry: Gender, Class, and Racialized Labour in the Margins (Chris Bruckert & Colette Parent) • Surviving Colonization: Anishinaabe Ikwe Street Gang Participation (Nahanni Fontaine) • Dazed, Dangerous and Dissolute: Media Representations of Street-Level Sex Workers in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (David Hugill) • Scars (Jackie Traverse) • Part 3: regulating Women • Introduction (Gillian Balfour) • The Making of the Black Widow: The Criminal and Psychiatric Control of Women (Robert Menzies & Dorothy E. Chunn) • From Welfare Fraud to Welfare as Fraud: The Criminalization of Poverty (Dorothy E. Chunn & Shelley A.M. Gavigan) • The Paradox of Visibility: Women, CCTV, and Crime (Amanda Glasbeek & Emily van der Meulen) • Examining the “Psy-Carceral Complex” in the Death of Ashley Smith (Jennifer Kilty) • Part 4: making Change • Introduction (Gillian Balfour) • Making Change in Neoliberal Times (Laureen Snider) • Rattling Assumptions and Building Bridges: Community Engaged Education and Action in a Women’s Prison (Shoshana Pollack) • Experiencing the Inside-Out Program in a Maximum Security Prison (Monica Freitas, Bonnie McAuley & Nyki Kish) • Enhancing the Wellbeing of Criminalized Indigenous Women: A Contemporary Take on a Traditional Cultural Knowledge Form (Colleen Anne Dell, Jenny Gardipy, Nicki Kirlin, Violet Naytowhow & Jennifer J. Nicol) • References


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In Pursuit of JusticeJust us! coffee roasters co-op and the Fair trade Movement

stacey byrne & errol sharpe Preface by Gavin Fridell

“Wonderfully written and engaging, as well as thoughtful and persuasive. It is one of a very few detailed assessments of a Northern fair trade organization that I can think of and should be widely read by specialists.”

— Gavin Fridell, author of Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice

This is the story of Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op, Canada’s first fair trade coffee roaster. This book describes its successes and its failures and details how a small group of people — “just us” — worked against adversity and defied many of the norms associated with building a business. In this fascinating tale, general readers, business owners and community activists will find hope and the courage to forge new paths, build new organizations and shape a new society. This story is also about the fair trade movement, providing a snapshot of the struggle of the small coffee producers in the South to control their own production, find a fair market for their coffee and get a fair hearing for their concerns. Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op is an experiment in a radical business model — one rooted in cooperation, social justice and meaningful social change.

Errol Sharpe is a publisher at Fernwood Publishing. He holds an MA in Atlantic Canada Studies from Saint Mary’s University. Stacey Byrne works as office manager at Fernwood Publishing. She holds an MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies from Brock University.

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ContentsIntroduction • Just Us!: The Beginnings • From Coffee to Chocolate and Beyond • Understanding Fair Trade • Organizing for Self-Reliance • Building a Business, Building a Worker Co-Operative • Building the Fair Trade Movement • Pursuing Justice


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orchestrating austerityimpacts and resistance

edited by donna baines & stephen Mcbride

resources, empire and labourcrises, lessons and alternatives

edited by david leadbeater



Following the 2007–08 global financial crisis, Western nations engaged a variety of measures that departed quite dramatically from conventional neoliberal wisdom. However, these policies were quickly succeeded by what we now call “austerity” measures. This collection engages with the question: Is there something new in this era of austerity, or should this be understood as a continuation and intensification of earlier forms of neoliberalism? Finally, Jim Stanford’s afterword probes to the heart of the question of why austerity in the first place.

Donna Baines is a professor in the School of Labour Studies and the School of Social Work at McMaster University. Stephen McBride is a professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University.

ContentsIntroduction (Donna Baines & Stephen McBride) • Part 1: a Context oF austerity • “In Austerity We Trust” (Stephen McBride) • Structural Adjustment for the North (Robert O’Brien & Falin Zhang) • The Strategic Use of Budget Crisis in Canada (Ellen Russell) • Neoliberalism, Inequality and Austerity in Rich World Democracies (John Peters) • Part 2: ContradiCtions • Austerity, Equality and Canadian Unions (Linda Briskin with Sue Genge, Margaret McPhail & Marion Pollack) • Social Democracy in the New Age of Austerity (Bryan Evans) • Neoliberalism and Austerity as Class Struggle (Eric Pineault) • Part 3: inseCurities • Private and Community Support and the Social Wage (Wayne Lewchuk, Sam Vrankulj & Michelynn Laflèche) • Austerity Now, Poverty Later (Rachel Zhou) • Austerity, Job Training and Aboriginal People (Shauna MacKinnon) • Austerity and the Invisibility of National and Minority Struggles (Peter Graefe & Brent Toye) • Part 4: PubliC seCtor: targets and resistanCe • P3s and the Value for Money Illusion (Heather Whiteside) • What’s New About the New Austerity? (Donna Baines) • Afterword (Jim Stanford) • Bibliography

The interconnections of natural resources, empire and labour run through the most central and conflict-ridden crises of our times: war, environmental degradation, impoverishment and plutocracy. Crucial to understanding and to changing the conditions that give rise to these crises is the critical study of resource development and, more broadly, the resources question, which is the subject of this volume. Intended for researchers, students and activists, the chapters in Resources, Empire and Labour illuminate key aspects of the resources question from a variety of angles through concrete analyses and histories focused on the extractive industries (mining, oil, gas). The chapters examine such issues as resource-dependency at the international, country and regional levels; the neglected role of metropolitanization; environmental impacts and

limits; the colonial basis of and imperial patterns in today’s globalized resource exploitation system; lessons of Indigenous and working-class resistance to corporate resource extraction; the importance of democratic control and public ownership; and new avenues in shifting the debate on resources and hinterlands.

David Leadbeater is an associate professor of economics at Laurentian University.

ContentsIntroduction (David Leadbeater) • Part 1: the exPerienCe oF mining-DepenDent economic Development • part 2: environmental limits, technology anD environmental counter-revolution • part 3: inDigenous sovereignty, resources anD corporate power • part 4: patterns of empire • part 5: working class history lessons • part 6: public resource ownership, rents anD Distribution • part 7: shifting the Debate on resourCes and hinterlands • Bibliography


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about Canada: PovertyJim silver

For a country as wealthy as Canada, poverty is utterly unnecessary. In About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is complex and multifaceted and can profoundly damage the human spirit. At the centre of this analysis are Canada’s neoliberal economic policies, which have created conditions that make a growing number of people vulnerable to low income, vanishing public services and poor physical health. Silver also highlights the ways in which poverty is intimately connected to colonialism and racial and gender discrimination, and finds that the political and economic policies enacted by the Canadian government mainly serve a powerful minority, while producing a range of negative outcomes for the rest of us, especially the poor. Silver points out that the costs of poverty — relating to health care, crime, education and unemployment — are higher than the costs of solving poverty, and he lays out an achievable strategy for its dramatic reduction in Canada. When poverty is understood as resulting from political choices, its elimination requires putting pressure on governments to ensure that different choices are made.

Jim Silver is a professor in and chair of the Department of Urban and Inner-City Studies, University of Winnipeg. He is a long-time academic, researcher and activist in Manitoba and Canadian politics. He is the author, or co-author, of several books, including Building a Better World, In Their Own Voices and “Indians Wear Red.”

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ContentsForms of Poverty • Poverty by the Numbers • Neoliberalism and Its Effects • Complex Poverty • The Costs of Poverty • Solutions That Work


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the disappearance of Criminal law Police Powers and the supreme court

richard Jochelson & kirsten kramar, with Mark doerksen

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In The Disappearance of Criminal Law, Richard Jochelson and Kirsten Kramar examine the rationales underpinning Supreme Court of Canada cases that address the power of the police. These cases involve police power in relation to search, seizure and detention; an individual’s right to silence, counsel and privacy; and the exclusion of evidence. Together these decisions can be understood as the rules by which good governments should act, and they serve to legitimate the actions of the police. Because there is no singular definition of “police powers,” some argue that they do not exist, nor is there a specific theory about such powers, even though the term appears thousands of times in legal databases. Jochelson and Kramar

illustrate the ways in which the Supreme Court, by allowing for increased surveillance and control by the state, is using the Charter to impose limitations on the rights of Canadians.

Richard Jochelson teaches in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Winnipeg. Kirsten Kramar teaches in and is the head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Winnipeg. They are the authors of Sex and the Supreme Court.

ContentsIntroduction: The Disappearance of Criminal Law • The Right to Privacy • Ancillary Powers Test — The Expansion of Balancing Tests • Right to Silence and Counsel • (In)Exclusion of Evidence • References

Indivisible indigenous human rights

edited by Joyce Green

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“Have you ever looked back at a point in your life when, had good advice been taken, it would have meant a much better future? This book offers that advice, now. Canadians who want to live well because Indigenous peoples prosper need to read Indivisible.” — Robert Lovelace, Ardoch Algonquin First Nation

“Well written, fast moving, and well researched — this is book is a rich, smart resource for anyone wanting to break down and understand the human rights versus indigenous rights debate, and to move on to more productive conversations about real political and legal change for indigenous peoples.”

— Val Napoleon, University of Victoria

“The historic and contemporary challenges faced by Indigenous peoples — be it the tragedy of residential schools, high levels of violence against women, abusive policing , struggles around land and resources, or entrenched poverty — are reflective of the disgraceful failure of Canada and other states to uphold human

rights. Indivisible is a critical call to governments and Indigenous peoples to take up the indivisible framework of rights protection enshrined in the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.”

— Alex Neve, Amnesty International

ContentsIndigenous Human Rights Are Indivisible (Joyce Green) • Part 1: theoretiCal and PolitiCal Context For indigenous human rights • Denying Indigenous Human Rights: Colonialism and Rights Discourse in Canada (Joyce Green) • The Race Bind: Denying Aboriginal Rights in Australia (Maggie Walter) • Colonialism Past and Present: Indigenous Human Rights and Canadian Policing (Elizabeth Comack) • Indigenous Human Rights and Decolonization (Andrea Smith) • Part 2: aboriginal human rights, sPeCiFiC themes • McIvor v. Canada: Legislated Patriarchy Meets Aboriginal Women’s Equality Rights (Gwen Brodsky) • Confronting Violence: Indigenous Women, Self-Determination and International Human Rights (Rauna Kuokkanen) • Victoria’s Secret: How to Make a Population of Prey (Mary Eberts) • Part 3: international and domestiC Constitutional laW and indigenous human rights • Free, Prior and Informed Consent: Defending Indigenous Rights in the Global Rush for Resources (Craig Benjamin) • The Presumption of Conformity: International Indigenous Human Rights and the Canadian Constitution (Brenda Gunn) • Undermining Indigenous Peoples’ Security and Human Rights (Paul Joffe)

Joyce Green is a professor of political science at the University of Regina. She is the editor of Making Space for Indigenous Feminism.


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socialist Human developmentlessons from the cuban revolution

Henry Veltmeyer

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Capitalism is a system in crisis. In the context of an urgent need for an alternative system, Cuba provides valuable lessons. The Cuban Revolution’s unique features have allowed it to survive both the conditions that brought about the collapse of the Soviet model of socialism and the renewed assault of US imperialism. The Revolution also serves as an inspiration for developing countries seeking to escape the clutches of global capitalism. Henry Veltmeyer examines the Cuban Revolution from the perspective of socialist human development, critiquing the notion of human development used by the United Nations Development Programme to rescue capitalism from its fundamental contradictions and give a human face to an exploitative and destructive development process. Veltmeyer’s analysis shows the necessity to jettison

a process designed to benefit the rich and powerful at an enormous social and environmental cost, one disproportionately borne by the working classes and the impoverished masses of the developing world. Henry Veltmeyer is a professor in the Department of International Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University and at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas.

ContentsIntroduction • Socialism and Human Development • Revolution as Socialist Human Development • Socialism as Revolutionary Consciousness • Solidarity as a Pillar of Cuban Socialism • Equality as a Dimension of Socialist Development • The Politics of Socialist Humanism • Agricultural Change and Sustainable Development • Updating the Model • Conclusion • Bibliography

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Cantwells’ way a natural history of the cape spear lightstation

James e. Candow

“This is the most concise history of early lightstations in Newfoundland and Labrador, not just Cape Spear, that I have read.… Readers anywhere in Canada and beyond will find the story of the Cape Spear lightstation has relevance to the lightstations in their particular region, whether on the east coast, the Great Lakes or the west coast.”

— Don Johnson, author of Smoke and Mirrors: A Look at Reflectors in Lighthouses

Cantwells’ Way examines the relationship between people, place and technology at the Cape Spear Lightstation in Newfoundland and Labrador. Lightkeepers and their families were often the vanguards of technological change in their communities. Modern lighthouses and fog alarms, for example, were products of the new understandings of light and sound that emerged

from the Scientific Revolution. But lightkeepers and their families still engaged in, and relied on, traditional practices, such as gardening and berry picking, that were part of the informal economy of rural Newfoundland. Life at the Cape Spear Lightstation therefore reflected the underlying duality of Newfoundland society in the period.

James E. Candow worked as an historian in Parks Canada’s Atlantic Service Centre, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1977 to 2011. His most recent book, The Lookout: A History of Signal Hill, was short-listed for the 2012 Atlantic Book Award for historical writing.

ContentsPreface • Let There Be Light • Quite a Peculiar Branch of Business • A Man of Parts: Life and Labour to 1914 • The Dying of the Light • Of Lightstations and Flower Petals • Epilogue: They Lifted Up the Sun


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The radical imagination is that spark of difference, desire and discontent that can be fanned into the flames of social change. Yet what precisely is the imagination and what might make it “radical”? How can it be fostered and cultivated? How can it be studied, and what are the possibilities and risks of doing so?

Max Haiven is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Art and Public Policy at New York University and teaches at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Alex Khasnabish is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University.

Contents Introduction: The Importance of the Radical Imagination in Dark Times • Part 1: solidarity researCh • The Methods of Movements: Academic Crisis and Activ-ist Strategy • Convoking the Radical Imagination • Part 2: dWelling in the hiatus • The Crisis of Reproduction • Reimagining Success and Failure • Part 3: making sPaCe, making time • The Life and Times of Radical Movements • The Temporali-ties of Oppression • Part 4: the methods oF movements • Imagination, Strategy and Tactics • Towards a Prefigurative Methodology • References

The latest installment of this longstanding classic publication features works by many of today’s most progressive political theorists. Transforming Classes examines the ways in which class is being transformed in the Global South, the organization of workers in the workplace and community, and the myriad forces shaping and reshaping the lives of workers today.

Leo Panitch and Greg Albo are professors in the Department of Political Science at York University.

Contents Class and the Capitalist Corporation in the 21st Century (Greg Albo) • China’s Ruling Class (Lin Chun) • China’s Working Class (Lu Zhang) • The Working Classes in China and India (Jens Lerche) • India’s New Trade Union Initiative (Gautam Mody) • Class in the Slums (Supriya Roy Chowdhury) • The Egyptian Working Class (Joel Beinin) • NUMSA and the Class Struggle in South Africa (Nicolas Pons-Vignon & Sam Ashman) • The Transformation of Chile’s Class Structure (Tim Clark) • Class and Politics in Turkey (Sebnem Oguz) • The European Working Classes (Andreas Bieler) • Class Analysis and the British Working Class (Hugo Radice) • Labour’s New Morphology: From Informality to Infoproletariat (Ricardo Atunes) • What Happened to the New Middle Class? (Randy Martin) • Social Class and Its Global Reproduction in the Age of Auster-ity (Sue Ferguson & David McNally) • On Decent Work: A Global Perspective (Ben Selwyn) • The International Olympic Committee: Class and Neoliberal Globalization (George Wright) • Money in American Politics (Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgenson & Jie Chen)

Featuring a remarkable roster of internationally renowned critical thinkers, this book presents a feasible alternative for a more environmentally sustainable and equitable economic system. The time has never been better for cooperatives everywhere to recognize their own potential and ability to change the economic landscape.

Sonja Novkovic is a professor of economics at Saint Mary’s University. Tom Webb is an adjunct professor at the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University.

Contents Part 1: What is the neW eConomy and Why do We need it • The World on a Collision Course (Manfred Max Neef) • The New Economy (Neva Goodwin) • The World We Need (Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett) • Prosperity and Sustainability (William Rees) • Limits to Growth Revisited (Peter Victor) • Complexity: Shock, Innovation and Resilience (Thomas Homer-Dixon) • The Role of Financial Capital in a New Economy (John Fullerton) • Part 2: CooPera-tives and the neW eConomy • Cooperative Entrepreneurship (Stefano Zamagni) • Are Cooperatives a Viable Business Form? Lessons from Behavioural Economics (Morris Altman) • The Cooperative Enterprise: A Valid Alternative for a More Balanced Society (Vera Negri Zamagni) • Employee Ownership and Health: An Initial Study (David Erdal) • Cooperatives in a Global Economy: Key Economic Issues, Recent Trends and Potential for Development (Stephen C Smith & Jonathan Rothbaum) • A Role for Cooperatives in Managing and Governing Common Pool Resources and Common Property Systems (Barbara Allen) • Is the Debt Trap Avoidable? (Claudia Sanchez Bajo)

the radical Imaginationsocial Movement research in the age of austerity

Max Haiven & alex khasnabish

socialist register 2015

transforming Classesedited by leo Panitch & Greg albo

Co-operatives in a Post-Growth eracreating co-operative economics

edited by sonja novkovic & tom webb

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Holy warcowboys, indians, and 9/11s

Mark Cronlund anderson

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Following the events of September 11, 2001, then President George W. Bush began to doff his cowboy hat and scuff his cowboy boots in the dirt of his ranch as he addressed the citizens of the United States. This swagger was no accident. Bush was evoking in the public imagination the foundational, nation-building story known as the frontier myth — a story of war. The United States was born in war with the Indians and has never stopped waging war. This perpetual war is no coincidence, argues Mark Cronlund Anderson, but should instead be understood as a pattern established at birth — a pattern that the nation is compelled to symbolically reenact in the name of nation-building. Through an examination of the media narratives surrounding the Mexican War, Custer’s Last Stand, the Vietnam War and interventions in Nicaragua (with a few

aliens and zombies tossed in for good measure), Holy War demonstrates that the response to 9/11 — that God has decreed that we must wage a defensive war against the savages, who are trying to destroy all that is civilized — is as old as the United States itself.

Mark Cronlund Anderson is a professor of history at the University of Regina. He is the author of five books, including Cowboy Imperialism and Hollywood Film, which won the 2010 Cawelti Award for best book in American culture.

ContentsForever Young • “Blessings of Heaven,” Mexican War • “Satanic Fury,” Jesus Custer • “A Chaos of the Land,” Mexican Revolution • “Fly in the Ointment,” Augusto Sandino • “You Just Don’t Turn It Off,” Rambo’s Vietnam • “The Shining,” Reagan’s Nicaragua • “Wake Up Call from God”

Unfree labour?struggles of Migrant and immigrant workers in canada

edited by aziz Choudry & adrian a. smith

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Is unfree labour only an historical phenomenon, or does this concept accurately capture the conditions and experiences of many migrant and immigrant workers in Canada today? This unique collection foregrounds contemporary organizing strategies and models for labour and migration justice, alongside an in-depth examination of racialized neoliberal migration. This volume also discusses the wide range of initiatives undertaken by migrant and immigrant workers organizing for justice and dignity in Canada and finds that these struggles have not only had significant political, social and economic impacts but also offer important insights for the rethinking and rebuilding of a working-class movement in the twenty-first century.

Aziz Choudry is an assistant professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University. Adrian A. Smith is an assistant professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University.

ContentsIntroduction: Struggling Against Unfree Labour (Aziz Choudry & Adrian A. Smith) • “Systemic Discrimination” in Canadian Context: Employment Equity, Live-in Domestic Care and the Challenge of Unfree Labour Markets (Abigail B. Bakan) • Producing and Contesting ‘Unfree Labour’ Through the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (Mark Thomas) • Globalizing “Immobile” Worksites: Fast Food under Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (Geraldina Polanco) • Struggling against History: Migrant Farm Worker Organizing in British Columbia (Adriana Paz Ramirez & Jennifer Jihye Chun) • The Case for Unemployment Insurance Benefits for Migrant Agricultural Workers in Canada (Chris Ramsaroop) • Migrant Live-In Caregivers: Control, Consensus and Resistance in the Workplace and the Community (Jah-Hon Koo & Jill Hanley) • Critical Questions: Building Worker Power and a Vision of Organizing in Ontario (Deena Ladd & Sonia Singh) • A Jeepney Ride to Tunisia — From There to Here, Organizing TFW Workers (Joey Calugay, Loïc Malhaire & Eric Shragge) • Organizers in Dialogue (Joey Calugay, Jill Hanley, Mostafa Henaway, Deena Ladd, Marco Luciano, Adriana Paz Ramirez, Chris Ramsaroop, Eric Shragge, Sonia Singh, Christopher Sorio) • Unfree Labour, Social Reproduction and Political Community in Contemporary Capitalism (Sedef Arat-Koç)

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This groundbreaking work offers a much-needed corrective to “Fidel-centric” histories of the Cuban Revolution, focusing instead on a wider cast of characters. Besides the more obvious (albeit often misunderstood) contributions from Che Guevara and Raúl Castro, several other key players have been involved in the governing processes, often making a significant difference to the outcomes of debates, decisions and definitions. As well

as analyzing their influence, Kapcia interprets their various roles within the wider process of nation-building, demonstrating that Cuba has undergone an unusual, if not unique, process of revolutionary corporatism.

Antoni Kapcia is a professor of Latin American history at the University of Nottingham, where he also directs the Centre for Research on Cuba.

Contents Introduction: The Problem with “Fidel-Centrism” • The Core Leadership: The Familiar Triumvirate • The Formation of “The Vanguard”, 1953–58 • Taking Stock and Finding Direction, 1959–62 • The Years of “Revolutionary” Flux, 1963–75 • The Stable Years: Systems, Institutions and Bureaucrats, 1975–1986 • The Return of Fluidity: Rectification, Crisis, Disintegration and the Reformulation of the State, 1986–the present • Inclusion and Exclusion: “Within” and “Against” the Revolution • Inclusion and Collectivity in the Context of Nation-Building: A Revolutionary Corporatism? • Bibliography



Whether it be stories of “brazen flappers” staying out, and up, all night in the 1920s, inappropriate places for Mars bars in the 1960s or Courtney Love’s mere existence in the 1990s, bad girls have been a mass-media staple for more than a century. And yet, despite the

continued obsession with their perceived faults and blatant disobedience, girls are infinitely better off today than they were a century ago.

Carol Dyhouse is a social historian and a research professor of history at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Glamour: Women, History, Feminism.

Contents Introduction • White Slavery and the Seduction of Innocents • Unwomanly Types: New Women, Revolting Daughters and Rebel Girls • Brazen Flappers, Bright Young Things and “Miss Modern” • Good-Time Girls, Baby Dolls and Teenage Brides • Coming of Age in the 1960s: Beat Girls and Dolly Birds • Taking Liberties: Panic Over Permissiveness and Women’s Liberation • Body Anxieties, Depressives, Ladettes and Living Dolls: What Happened to Girl Power? • Looking Back


What is men’s position in the feminist story? Are men villains or victims? While the answer is both and neither, both genders are still seen in terms of these kinds of unhelpful categories, and while feminist waves have ensured that, in theory, at least, many women are now able to do the things that used to be done only by men, the reality of how men are seen and see themselves has changed very little across the globe. Though they still hold the power in the boardroom, in parliament and

often in the family too, their attitudes towards women — and towards themselves — have often changed very little over the decades. Has feminism itself left some men confused and others angry, with concerns that “men are losing out”?

Nikki van der Gaag is a writer and consultant based in the UK who has held senior editorial and communications posts in the non-profit sector, including Oxfam, New Internationalist and the Panos Institute. She specializes in writing about gender, refugees and poverty.

ContentsIntroduction • Men and Feminism • Cultural and Social Attitudes • Employment Fatherhood and Caring • Education and Health • Violence • Conclusion

Girl troublePanic and Progress in the history of Young women

Carol dyhouse

leadership in the Cuban revolutionthe unseen story

antoni kapcia

Feminism and Mennikki Van der Gaag

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Grey eyesa novel

Frank Christopher busch

In a world without time and steeped in ceremony and magic, walks a chosen few who hold an ancient power: the Grey Eyes. True stewards of the land, the Grey Eyes use their magic to maintain harmony and keep evil at bay. With only one elderly Grey-Eye left in the village of the Nehiyawak, the birth of a new Grey-Eyed boy promises a renewed line of defence against their only foe: the menacing Red-Eyes, whose name is rarely spoken but whose presence is ever felt. While the birth of the Grey-Eyed boy offers the clan much-needed protection, it also initiates a struggle for power that threatens to rip the clan apart, leaving them defenceless against the their sworn ememy. The responsibility of restoring balance and harmony, the only way to keep the Nehiyawak safe, is thrust upon a boy’s slender shoulders. What powers will he have, and can he protect the clan from the evil of the Red Eyes?

Frank Christopher Busch is a member of the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and grew up in northern Manitoba. He has spent his professional life working with First Nations businesses, non-profits and governments at the band, regional tribal council, provincial, national and international levels. He lives in Westbank First Nation, British Columbia.

Roseway PublishingAdult Fictionpb 9781552666777 / ebook 9781552666975 / $20.95272ppRights: World / September

r o s e w ay P U b l I s H I n GAn imprint of Fernwood, Roseway Publishing aims to publish literary work that is rooted in and relevant to struggles for social justice.

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socialist Cowboythe Politics of Peter kormos

larry savage

“A rich, entertaining and original take on the political life of Peter Kormos … a lone voice of progressive criticism who never wavered in his commitment to the labour movement.”

— Charles Smith, Department of Political Science, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan

Socialist Cowboy is a political biography detailing the life and activism of longtime New Democrat mpp Peter Kormos, one of the most colourful and controversial political personalities in the history of Ontario politics. Throughout his illustrious twenty-three-year career as a member of the Ontario Legislature, Kormos’s unapologetic commitment to democratic socialism and his shoot-from-the-hip brand of small-town populism won him strong accolades back in his blue-collar hometown of Welland, while raising eyebrows at Queen’s Park and within his own party. From his days as a student strike leader, to his short-lived time in Bob Rae’s cabinet, to his run for the Ontario ndp leadership and his epic battles with the province’s political establishment, the book chronicles Kormos’s political trajectory, through interviews and archival research, with a view to unpacking the ideas and traits that made him a New Democrat icon.

Larry Savage is director of the Centre for Labour Studies at Brock University.

Roseway PublishingBiographypb 9781552666791 / ebook 9781552666982 / $19.95128pp Rights: World / August

ContentsPreface • The Socialist Cowboy • Sixties Radical • Rebel with a Cause • Kormos Arrives at Queen’s Park • A Maverick in Cabinet • Kormos on the Backbench • Peter for Leader • The Common Sense Revolution • Keeping the Dream Alive • • References • Index

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live from the afrikan resistance!spoken word

el Jones

“El Jones is a griot of the first order. Her beautiful, brilliant and bold poems tell us that she is both wordmistress and swordmistress.”

— Afua Cooper, author of The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Slavery in Canada and the Burning of Old Montréal

Live from the Afrikan Resistance! is the first collection of spoken word poetry by Halifax’s fifth Poet Laureate, El Jones. These poems speak of community and struggle. They are grounded in the political culture of African Nova Scotia and inherit the styles and substances of hip-hop, dub and calypso’s political commentary. They engage historical themes and figures and analyze contemporary issues — racism, environmental racism, poverty and violence — as well as confront the realities of life as a Black woman. The voice is urgent, uncompromising and passionate in its advocacy and demands. One of Canada’s most controversial spoken word artists, El Jones writes to educate, to move communities to action and to demonstrate the possibilities of resistance and empowerment. Gathered from seven years of performances, these poems represent the tradition of the prophetic voice in Black Nova Scotia.

El Jones is Halifax’s fifth Poet Laureate, a two-time National Spoken Word Champion and the artistic director of Word Iz Bond Spoken Word Artist Collective. She teaches in the African Canadian Transition Program at the Nova Scotia Community College and in the women’s studies program at Acadia University.

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