What are elections for the Left?

A panel even held on October 15, 2015 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Shirley Tillotson (Department of History, Dalhousie University) Herb Gamberg (Author of “Marxism After Marx” (forthcoming)) Madelaine (Parti communiste révolutionnaire-Revolutionary Communist Party (supporter)) Description During the 19th century, suffrage rights were widened in the heart of capital, confronting political radicals with the question of whether and how elective offices could be used to achieve revolutionary aims. [Read More]

A Wind Blows from the East (Coast): The 1970s "New Communist Movement" in Halifax

A Public Interview with Herb Gamberg and Tony Thomson

A public interview on Thursday 1st March 2012, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society at Dalhousie co-sponsored by NSPIRG and the Halifax Media Co-op. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Description The 1970s are usually passed over as the decade in which the social and political upheavals of the 1960s New Left were overwhelmed by a conservative tide. What is forgotten is that the 1970s were also a time of tremendous growth on the Left, most notably in the New Communist Movement. [Read More]