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Canadian Dimension article by Peter Kulchyski

Read “Turning the Page on Colonial Oppression: Defenders of the Land Meets in Vancouver,” an article by Peter Kulchyski, author of The Red Indians in our Semaphore Series, from Canadian Dimension magazine here.

Interview with Deborah Schnitzer

Read an interview with author Deborah Schnitzer on CanLit’s website here.

Deborah Schnitzer Reading

Deborah Schnitzer reading her poem, “babylon,” at Prairie Fire magazine’s launch of their Home Place issue.

Greg Elmer + Weekend Pictures = Knowing 12 million Canadians

Dr. Greg Elmer, Bell Globemedia Research Chair in the School of Radio and Television Arts at Ryerson University, on the value of knowing 12 million Canadians.

One of over one hundred short documentary videos by Steven James May on the topic of user-generated content and its impact on privacy.

Gruesome Acts of Capitalism Video

A film by Mecca Normal guitarist David Lester from his book The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism.

Scott Horton Interviews Gabriel Kolko

Gabriel Kolko, author of the article “Israel: A Stalemated Action of History” at Counterpunch.org, discusses post WWII immigration restrictions that encouraged many European Jews to settle in Israel, the limited tolerance of Israeli citizens toward unrelenting state militarism, how Jews are more culturally defined by nationality than religion and the end of the U.S.-dominated unipolar world.

New review of In and Out of the Working Class in Labor Notes

Joshua DeVries reviews In and Out of the Working Class in Labor Notes.

Michael Yates On Labor, the Economy, Growing up Working Class, and Surviving the Motels of America

Steve Early reviews four titles by Michael Yates, including In and Out of the Working Class on State of Nature.

Elly Leary Reviews In and Out of the Working Class

Elly Leary reviews Michael D. Yates’ In and Out of the Working Class in the January 2010 issue of Monthly Review. “Okay. Let’s get the disclaimers out of the way right now. I am a longtime fan of Mike Yates. A big fan. I have used his materials with community and labor activists, made some contributions to a few of his works, and answered his call to write for Monthly Review on other occasions. So it will come as no surprise that In and Out of the Working Class did not disappoint. This personal reflection and journey through the world of Mike Yates from the early 1950s to the present has made me an even bigger fan.” Learn more here.

Ian Hussey reviews Let Them Eat Junk

Read Ian Hussey’s review of Robert Albritton’s Let Them Eat Junk in Socialist Studies: the Journal of the Society for Socialist Studies. “His brilliance is not just in his understanding of Marx’s magnum opus, but his ability to communicate an analysis of the global agriculture/food system in such a way that it is not unreasonable to think it of interest to engaged senior high school readers, but it is also substantive enough to work well in third and fourth year university and college classrooms of political science, sociology, labour studies, and environmental studies.” Read the full review.