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Dissenting Traditions: Selected Works of Bryan D. Palmer

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Selected Works of Bryan D. Palmer

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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I. Labour
    1. 1. Bryan D. Palmer, Labour Historian
    2. 2. Bryan D. Palmer, Social Historian
    3. 3. Labour History’s Present: An Account of Labour/Le Travail Under Bryan D. Palmer
  5. Part II. Experience, Discourse, Class
    1. 4. Bryan D. Palmer and E. P. Thompson
    2. 5. On Polemics and Provocations: Bryan D. Palmer vs. Liberal Anti-Marxists
    3. 6. Bryan Douglas Palmer, Edward Palmer Thompson, John le Carré (and Me): Workers, Spies, and Spying, Past and Present
  6. Part III. Politics
    1. 7. Palmer’s Politics: Discovering the Past and the Future of Class Struggle
    2. 8. The Hippopotamus and the Giraffe: Bolshevism, Stalinism, and American and British Communism in the 1920s
    3. 9. The June Days of 2013 in Brazil and the Persistence of Top-Down Histories
    4. 10. Old Positions/New Directions: Strategies for Rebuilding Canadian Working-Class History
  7. Afterword: Rude Awakenings
  8. Selected Works of Bryan D. Palmer
  9. List of Contributors

Selected Works of Bryan D. Palmer

1970s

  • “Class, Conception and Conflict: The Thrust for Efficiency, Managerial Views of Labour, and the Working Class Rebellion, 1903–1922.” Review of Radical Political Economics 7, no. 2 (July 1975): 31–49.
  • “‘Give Us the Road and We Will Run It’: The Social and Cultural Matrix of an Emerging Labour Movement.” In Essays in Canadian Working-Class History, edited by Gregory S. Kealey and Peter Warrian, 106–24. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976.
  • “Modernizing History.” Bulletin of the Committee on Canadian Labour History 2 (Autumn 1976): 16–25.
  • “Most Uncommon Common Men: Craft and Culture in Historical Perspective.” Labour/Le Travailleur 1 (1976): 5–31.
  • “Through the Prism of the Strike: Industrial Conflict in Southern Ontario, 1901–14,” with Craig Heron. Canadian Historical Review 58, no. 4 (December 1977): 423–58.
  • “Discordant Music: Charivaris and Whitecapping in Nineteenth-Century North America.” Labour/Le Travailleur 3 (1978): 5–62.
  • A Culture in Conflict: Skilled Workers and Industrial Capitalism in Hamilton, Ontario, 1860–1914. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1979.
  • “Working-Class Canada: Recent Historical Writing.” Queen’s Quarterly 86, no. 4 (Winter 1979): 594–616.

1980s

  • “Kingston Mechanics and the Rise of the Penitentiary, 1833–1836.” Histoire sociale/Social History 13, no. 25 (May 1980): 7–32.
  • “The Bonds of Unity: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880–1900,” with Gregory S. Kealey. Histoire sociale/Social History 14, no. 28 (November 1981): 369–411.
  • The Making of E. P. Thompson: Marxism, Humanism, and History. Toronto: New Hogtown Press, 1981.
  • “They Ride Horses Don’t They? Historical Musings on the Canadian State and its Agents.” Our Generation 14 (1981): 28–41.
  • “Classifying Culture.” Labour/Le Travailleur 8/9 (1981/1982): 153–83.
  • Dreaming of What Might Be: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880–1900, with Gregory S. Kealey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Reprint, Toronto: New Hogtown Press, 1987; reprint, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • “The Empire Strikes Back: Historical Reflections on the Arms Race.” Studies in Political Economy 12, no. 1 (Fall 1983): 103–19.
  • “Town, Port, and Country: Speculations on the Capitalist Transformation of Canada.” Acadiensis 12 (Spring 1983): 131–39.
  • Working-Class Experience: The Rise and Reconstitution of Canadian Labour, 1800–1980. 1st ed. Toronto: Butterworth, 1983. Reprint, Working-Class Experience: Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800–1991. 2nd ed. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1992.
  • “Emperor Katz’s New Clothes; or with the Wizard in Oz.” Labour/Le Travail 13 (Spring 1984): 190–97.
  • “Social Formation and Class Formation in Nineteenth-Century North America.” In Proletarianization and Family History, edited by David Levine, 229–308. New York: Academic Press, 1984.
  • “Labour in Nineteenth-Century Canada.” In Lectures in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History, edited by W. J. C. Cherwinski and Gregory S. Kealey, 51–57. St. John’s, NL: Committee on Canadian Labour History, 1985.
  • “‘Taking It’: Ontario Workers’ Struggles.” In Lectures in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History, edited by W. J. C. Cherwinski and Gregory S. Kealey, 183–98. St. John’s, NL: Committee on Canadian Labour History, 1985.
  • “Three Blind Professors.” Socialist Studies Bulletin 1 (Winter 1985): 16–28.
  • “Listening to History Rather Than Historians: Reflections on Working Class History.” Studies in Political Economy 20, no. 1 (1986): 47–84.
  • The Character of Class Struggle: Essays in Canadian Working-Class History, 1850–1985. Edited by Bryan D. Palmer. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1986.
  • “The Rise and Fall of British Columbia’s Solidarity.” In The Character of Class Struggle: Essays in Canadian Working-Class History, 1850–1985, edited by Bryan D. Palmer, 176–200. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1986.
  • “Labor History at the Crossroads: The Mid-Life Crisis of Working-Class Studies in America.” Canadian Review of American Studies 18, no. 2 (Summer 1987): 247–53.
  • Solidarity: The Rise and Fall of an Opposition in British Columbia. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1987.
  • A Communist Life: Jack Scott and the Canadian Workers Movement, 1927–1985. Edited by Bryan D. Palmer. St. John’s, NL: Canadian Committee on Labour History, 1988.
  • “Reformism and the Fight Against the Right: British Columbia’s Solidarity.” In Reshaping the US Left: Popular Struggles in the 1980s. Vol. 3 of The Year Left, edited by Mike Davis and Michael Sprinker, 229–54. London: Verso, 1988.
  • “‘What the Hell’: Or Some Comments on Class Formation and Cultural Reproduction.” In Popular Cultures and Political Practices, edited by Richard B. Gruneau, 33–42. Toronto: Garamond Press, 1988.
  • Work and Unions in Canada. About Canada. Ottawa: Canadian Studies Directorate, 1988.
  • “The American Way of Seeing Class.” Labour/Le Travail 24 (Fall 1989): 245–52.

1990s

  • Descent into Discourse: The Reification of Language and the Writing of Social History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.
  • “The Eclipse of Materialism: Marxism and the Writing of Social History in the 1980s.” Socialist Register 1990: The Retreat of the Intellectuals 26 (1990): 111–46.
  • “Great Upheavals: The 1880s and 1890s.” In Who Built America? A Social History of Working People in the United States, vol. 2, edited by Stephen Brier and Herbert G. Gutman, 61–157. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.
  • “Is There Now or Has There Ever Been a Working Class?” History Today 42 (March 1992): 51–54.
  • “The Emergence of Working-Class Collectivity.” In Who Built America? A Social History of Working People in the United States, vol. 2, edited by Stephen Brier and Herbert G. Gutman, 61–157. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992.
  • Working-Class Experience: Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800–1991. 2nd ed. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1992.
  • “Critical Theory, Historical Materialism, and the Ostensible End of Marxism: The Poverty of Theory Revisited.” International Review of Social History 38 (August 1993): 133–62.
  • “Homage to Edward Thompson, Part I.” Labour/Le Travail 32 (Fall 1993): 10–71.
  • “Poststructuralism/Postmodernism, Internationalism, and Socialism.” Socialist Alternatives 2 (Winter 1993): 48–62.
  • “The Changing Face of Labour Protest.” In The Land Transformed, 1800–1891. Vol. 2 of Historical Atlas of Canada, edited by R. Louis Gentilcore, Plate 57. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.
  • “The Condition of Postmodernity and the Poststructuralist Challenge to Political Meaning.” Maryland Historian 24 (Spring–Summer 1993): 55–71.
  • “The Poverty of Theory Revisited: Or, Critical Theory, Historical Materialism, and the Ostensible End of Marxism.” Left History 1, no. 1 (1993): 67–101.
  • “Canadian Controversies.” History Today 44 (November 1994): 44–49.
  • Capitalism Comes to the Backcountry: The Goodyear Invasion of Napanee. Toronto: Between the Lines, 1994. Published also as Goodyear Invades the Backcountry: The Corporate Takeover of a Rural Town. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1994.
  • E. P. Thompson: Objections and Oppositions. London: Verso, 1994.
  • “Homage to Edward Thompson, Part II.” Labour/Le Travail 33 (Spring 1994): 13–68.
  • “Thompson’s Tone.” Studies in Political Economy 43 (Spring 1994): 11–17.
  • “Upper Canada.” In Beginnings to Confederation. Vol. 1 of Canadian History: A Reader’s Guide, edited by M. Brook Taylor, 184–236. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.
  • “Bread and Roses: Sheila Rowbotham—The Political and the Accessible in the Writing of Gender History.” Radical History Review 63 (1995): 159–65.
  • “Les sociétés mutualistes au Canada (1850–1950).” In Mutualités de tous les pays: Un passé riche d’avenir, edited by Michel Dreyfus and Bernard Gibaud, 99–112. Paris: Mutualité Française, 1995.
  • “Small Unions and Dissidents in the History of Canadian Trade Unionism.” In Hard Lessons: The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement, edited by Mercedes Steedman, Peter Suschnigg, and Dieter K. Buse, 39–49. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1995.
  • “Learning to Love the Cops.” Literary Review of Canada 5, no. 6 (June 1996): 12–14.
  • “Mutuality and the Masking/Making of Difference: Mutual Benefit Societies in Canada, 1830–1950.” In Social Security Mutualism: The Comparative History of Mutual Benefit Societies, edited by Marcel van der Linden, 111–46. Bern: Peter Lang, 1996.
  • “Nineteenth-Century Canada and Australia: The Paradoxes of Class Formation.” Labour/Le Travail 38 (Fall 1996): 16–36. Published simultaneously in Australia in Labour History 71 (November 1996): 16–36.
  • “Night in the Capitalist, Cold War City: Noir and the Cultural Politics of Darkness.” Left History 5, no. 2 (Fall 1997): 57–76.
  • “Old Positions/New Necessities: History, Class, and Marxist Metanarrative.” In In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda, edited by Ellen Meiksins Wood and John Bellamy Foster, 65–73. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1997.
  • “Before Braverman: Harry Frankel and the American Workers’ Movement.” Monthly Review 50, no. 8 (January 1999): 33–46.
  • “Foucault and the Historians: The Case of ‘On the Case.’” Literary Review of Canada 7, no. 10 (Summer 1999): 11–17.
  • “In the Belly of the Bear: A Russian Diary [Part 1].” Literary Review of Canada 11 (1999): 19–23.
  • “In the Belly of the Bear: A Russian Diary [Part 2].” Literary Review of Canada 99 (2000): 24–27.
  • “Of Silences and Trenches: A Dissident View of Granatstein’s Meaning.” Canadian Historical Review 80, no. 4 (December 1999): 676–86.

2000–2010

  • Cultures of Darkness: Night Travels in the Histories of Transgression [From Medieval to Modern]. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000.
  • “Historiographic Hassles: Class and Gender, Evidence and Interpretation.” Histoire sociale/Social History 33, no. 65 (May 2000): 105–44.
  • Labouring the Canadian Millennium: Writings on Work and Workers, History and Historiography. Edited by Bryan D. Palmer. St. John’s, NL: Canadian Committee on Labour History, 2000.
  • “Pluralism Popped.” Literary Review of Canada 8, no. 4 (May 2000): 9–12.
  • “Class Dismissed.” Literary Review of Canada 9, no. 2 (March 2001): 18–21.
  • “How to be Difficult: Advice from an Unrepentant Radical.” Literary Review of Canada 10, no. 2 (March 2002): 13–15.
  • “Reasoning Rebellion: E. P. Thompson, British Marxist Historians, and the Making of Dissident Political Mobilization.” Labour/Le Travail 50 (Fall 2002): 187–216.
  • “Renegades: J. L. Cohen, Bill Walsh, and the Tragedies of the Canadian Left.” Journal of Canadian Studies 37, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 207–24.
  • “Communist History: Seeing It Whole. A Reply to Critics.” American Communist History 2, no. 2 (December 2003): 203–14.
  • “Hydra’s Materialist History.” Historical Materialism 11, no. 4 (2003): 373–94.
  • “Leon Trotsky: Planet Without a Visa.” Left History 9, no. 1 (2003): 79–96.
  • “Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism.” American Communist History 2, no. 2 (December 2003): 139–73.
  • “The Hands That Built America: A Class-Politics Appreciation of Martin Scorsese’s The Gangs of New York.” Historical Materialism 11, no. 4 (2003): 317–45.
  • “What’s Law Got to Do with It? Historical Considerations on Class Struggle, Boundaries of Constraint, and Capitalist Authority.” Osgoode Hall Law Journal 41, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 2003): 465–90.
  • “Whom Do You Trust?” New Labor Forum 12 (Spring 2003): 92–99.
  • “Race and Revolution.” Labour/Le Travail 54 (Fall 2004): 193–221.
  • “Rhyming Reds and Fractious Fictions: Canada’s Heritage of Literary Radicalism.” American Review of Canadian Studies 34, no. 1 (March 2004): 99–128.
  • “The Making of the English Working Class di Thompson, quarant’anni dopo.” Passato e presente 62 (2004): 85–110.
  • “Maurice Spector, James P. Cannon, and the Origins of Canadian Trotskyism.” Labour/Le Travail 56 (Fall 2005): 91–148.
  • “Movimentos noturnos: Um prólogo profano às histórias da noite.” Textos de História: Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História da UnB 13, no. 1–2 (2005): 205–30.
  • “CSI Labor History: Haymarket and the Forensics of Forgetting.” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 3, no. 1 (March 2006): 25–36.
  • “Fin-de-Siècle Labour History in Canada and the United States: A Case for Tradition.” In Global Labour History: A State of the Art, edited by Jan Lucassen, 195–226. Bern: Peter Lang, 2006.
  • “Historical Materialism and the Writing of Canadian History: A Dialectical View.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 17, no. 2 (2006): 33–60.
  • “Left History on the Middle Ground.” Left History 11, no. 1(2006): 47–57.
  • “American Communism in the 1920s: Striving for a Panoramic View.” American Communist History 6, no. 2 (December 2007): 139–49.
  • “Canada’s Workers Movement: Uneven Developments,” with Michael Goldfield. Labour/Le Travail 59 (Spring 2007): 149–77.
  • James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890–1928. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.
  • “Las políticas de Hobsbawm: se ha detenido la marcha hacia adelante del Frente Popular.” In Los historiadores y la historia para el siglo XXI: Homenaje a Eric J. Hobsbawm, edited by Gumersindo Vera Hernández et al., 93–104. Conaculta-INAH, Mexico, 2007.
  • “Marxismo metropolitano y amplitud analitca en la historia de Hobsbawm.” In Los historiadores y la historia para el siglo XXI: Homenaje a Eric J. Hobsbawm, edited by Gumersindo Vera Hernández et al., 145–58. Conaculta-INAH, Mexico, 2007.
  • Labouring Canada: Class, Gender, and Race in Canadian Working-Class History. Edited by Bryan D. Palmer and Joan Sangster. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • “La historia social y la coyuntura presente.” Historia Social 60 (2008): 185–92.
  • “Popular Radicalism and the Theatrics of Rebellion: The Hybrid Discourse of Dissent in Upper Canada.” In Transatlantic Subjects: Ideas, Institutions, and Social Experience in Post-Revolutionary British North America, edited by Nancy Christie, 403–39. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008.
  • “Wildcat Workers in the 1960s: The Unruly Face of Class Struggle.” In Labouring Canada: Class, Gender, and Race in Canadian Working-Class History, edited by Bryan D. Palmer and Joan Sangster, 373–94. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • Canada’s 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
  • “New Left Liberations: The Poetics, Praxis, and Politics of Youth Liberation.” In The Sixties in Canada: A Turbulent and Creative Decade, edited by M. Athena Palaeologu, 65–149. Montréal: Black Rose Books, 2009.
  • “Radical Reasoning.” Feature Review Essay. The Underhill Review: A Forum of History, Ideas, and Culture 3 (Fall 2009): 1–32. https://www3.carleton.ca/underhillreview/09/fall/reviews/palmer.htm.
  • “That Was Then, and This Is Now: Socialist Reflections on Responding to Capitalist Crises: Priority #9: Build a Socialist Left, Inside and Outside of the Unions.” Labour/Le Travail 64 (Fall 2009): 167–72.
  • “What Was Great About Theodore Draper and What Was Not.” American Communist History 8, no. 1 (June 2009): 15–21.
  • “Canada.” In Histories of Labour: National and International Perspectives, edited by Joan Allen, Alan Campbell, and John McIlroy, 196–230. Pontypool: Merlin Press, 2010.
  • “The Personal, the Political, and Permanent Revolution: Ernest Mandel and the Conflicted Legacies of Trotskyism.” International Review of Social History 55, no. 1 (April 2010): 117–32.
  • “The Democratic Revolutionary: Reviving Lenin.” Left History 15, no. 1 (2010): 169–74.

2011–2020

  • H-Diplo Roundtable Review of From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917–19, by Benjamin Isitt. H-Diplo 12, no. 15 (2011): 14–22. https://issforum.org/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-XII-15.pdf.
  • “Profits of Doom: Spectres of Capitalist Crisis.” Labour/Le Travail 67 (Spring 2011): 189–201.
  • “‘Cracking the Stone’: The Long History of Capitalist Crisis and Toronto’s Dispossessed, 1830–1930,” with Gaétan Héroux. Labour/Le Travail 69 (Spring 2012): 9–62.
  • “‘Indians of All Tribes’: The Birth of Red Power.” In Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties, edited by Lara Campbell, Dominique Clement, and Gregory S. Kealey, 193–210. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
  • “The Black and the Red.” New Left Review 77 (September–October 2012): 151–60.
  • “The Irrepressible Revolutionary: Marx for the Uninitiated, the Unconvinced and the Unrepentant.” Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory 40, no. 1 (2012): 119–35.
  • “A história enquanto debate: A análise contestadora de ‘A Formação da Classe Operária Inglesa.’” Mundos do Trabalho 5, no. 10 (July–December 2013): 13–35.
  • “La historia como polémica: El análisis de contrarios en ‘La formación de la clase obrera en Inglaterra.’” Sociología História 3 (December 2013): 59–92.
  • “Paradox and the Thompson ‘School of Awkwardness.’” In E. P. Thompson and English Radicalism, edited by Roger Fieldhouse and Richard Taylor, 205–27. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013.
  • Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers’ Strikes of 1934. Leiden: Brill, 2013.
  • “The Artist Formerly, and Again, Known as Rodriguez: A Life Beyond Imagination.” Against the Current 162 (January/February 2013): 31–35, 44.
  • “Marching under Flags Black and Red: Toronto’s Dispossessed in the Age of Industry,” with Gaétan Héroux. In Workers in Hard Times: A Long View of Economic Crises, edited by Leon Fink, Joseph A. McCartin, and Joan Sangster, 19–44. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014.
  • “Paradox and Polemic; Argument and Awkwardness: Reflections on E. P. Thompson.” Contemporary British History 28, no. 4 (December 2014): 382–403.
  • “Paradoxo e polêmica, argumentos e constrangimento: Reflexões sobre E. P. Thompson.” História e Perspectivas 1 (January–June 2014): 55–89.
  • “Reconsiderations of Class: Precariousness as Proletarianization.” Socialist Register 2014: Registering Class 50 (2014): 40–62.
  • “The Unbearable Precariousness of Working and Artistic Being: The Labours of Carole Condé + Karl Beveridge.” In Precarious: Carole Condé + Karl Beveridge, 17–22. Waterloo, ON: Robert Langen Art Gallery, Wilfrid Laurier University, 2014.
  • “A Tate Gallery for the New Left: Portraits, Landscapes, and Abstracts in the Revolutionary Activism of the 1950s and 1960s.” Labour/Le Travail 75 (Spring 2015): 231–62.
  • “Caminhoneiros vermelhos: O sindicalismo democrático nos Estados Unidos.” Outubro 23, no. 1 (2015): 15–32.
  • Interpretive Essays on Class Formation and Historical Practice. Vol. 1 of Marxism and Historical Practice. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Reprint, Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017.
  • Interventions and Appreciations. Vol. 2 of Marxism and Historical Practice. Leiden: Brill, 2015. Reprint, Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017.
  • “La lutte de classes et les dépossédés.” Actuel Marx 58 (2015): 28–45.
  • “History.” In Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle, edited by Kelly Fritsch, Clare O’Connor, and A. K. Thompson, 191–97. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2016.
  • “The Socialist Dimension.” In Canada Since 1960: A People’s History, edited by Cy Gonick, 462–98. Toronto: James Lorimer, 2016.
  • “‘They Shall Not Pass’: Evictions and the Toronto Unemployed Movement, 1932–1936.” In III International Conference: Strikes and Social Conflicts: Combined Historical Approaches to Conflict. Proceedings, edited by Martí Marín Corbera, Xavier Domènech Sampere, and Ricard Martínez i Muntada, 1052–66. Barcelona: CEFID-UAB, 2016.
  • Toronto’s Poor: A Rebellious History, with Gaétan Héroux. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2016.
  • “Canadian Studies at the Crossroads, Again!” Journal of Canadian Studies 51, no. 1 (Winter 2017): 10–36.
  • “Legacies of 1917: Revolution’s Longue Durée,” with Joan Sangster. American Communist History 16, nos. 1–2 (2017): 1–45.
  • “‘Mind Forg’d Manacles’ and Recent Pathways to ‘New’ Labor Histories.” International Review of Social History 62, no. 2 (August 2017): 279–303.
  • “The Distinctive Heritage of 1917: Resuscitating Revolution’s Longue Durée,” with Joan Sangster. Socialist Register 2017: Rethinking Revolution 53 (2017): 1–34.
  • US Trotskyism 1928–1965. Part I: Emergence – Left Opposition in the United States. Edited by Bryan D. Palmer, Paul Le Blanc, Thomas Bias, and Andrew Pollack. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
  • “Approaching Working-Class History as Class Struggle: A Canadian Contemplation; A Marxist Meditation.” Dialectical Anthropology 42 (2018): 443–56.
  • “Canada and the United States.” In Handbook Global History of Work, edited by Karin Hofmeester and Marcel van der Linden, 111–30. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2018.
  • “Canada’s ‘1968’ and Historical Sensibilities.” American Historical Review 123, no. 3 (June 2018): 773–78.
  • “Response to Commentaries.” Dialectical Anthropology 42 (2018): 489–94.
  • “The French Turn in the United States: James P. Cannon and the Trotskyist Entry into the Socialist Party, 1934–1937.” Labor History 59, no. 5 (2018): 610–38.
  • “The Ghost of Jack Munro.” Review of On the Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement, by Rod Mickleburgh. The Ormsby Review 348 (22 August 2018). https://bcbooklook.com/2018/08/22/bc-labour-movement-history/.
  • US Trotskyism 1928–1965. Part II: Endurance – The Coming American Revolution. Edited by Bryan D. Palmer, Paul Le Blanc, and Thomas Bias. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
  • US Trotskyism 1928–1965. Part III: Resurgence – Uneven and Combined Development. Edited by Bryan D. Palmer and Paul Le Blanc. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
  • “A Left History of Liquorice: What It Means to Write ‘Left’ History.” Left History 23, no. 1 (2019): 8–27.
  • “‘Gagging’ the Revolutionary Party’: The First Smith Act Trial and the Rule of Law.” In The Class Politics of Law: Essays Inspired by Harry Glasbeek, edited by Eric Tucker and Judy Fudge, 171–88. Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2019.
  • “How Can We Write Better Histories of Communism?” Labour/Le Travail 83 (Spring 2019): 199–232.
  • James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1929–1939. Leiden and Boston: Brill, forthcoming 2021.

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