Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Sean Carleton, Ted McCoy, and Julia Smith

PART I LABOUR

1. Bryan D. Palmer, Labour Historian

Alvin Finkel

2. Bryan D. Palmer, Social Historian

Ted McCoy

3. Labour History’s Present: An Account of Labour/Le Travail Under Bryan D. Palmer

Kirk Niergarth

PART II EXPERIENCE, DISCOURSE, CLASS

4. Bryan D. Palmer and E. P. Thompson

Nicholas Rogers

5. On Polemics and Provocations: Bryan D. Palmer vs. Liberal Anti-Marxists

Chad Pearson

6. Bryan Douglas Palmer, Edward Palmer Thompson, John le Carré (and Me): Workers, Spies, and Spying, Past and Present

Gregory S. Kealey

PART III POLITICS

7. Palmer’s Politics: Discovering the Past and the Future of Class Struggle

Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin

8. The Hippopotamus and the Giraffe: Bolshevism, Stalinism, and American and British Communism in the 1920s

John McIlroy and Alan Campbell

9. The June Days of 2013 in Brazil and the Persistence of Top-Down Histories

Sean Purdy

10. Old Positions/New Directions: Strategies for Rebuilding Canadian Working-Class History

Sean Carleton and Julia Smith

Afterword: Rude Awakenings

Bryan D. Palmer

Selected Works of Bryan D. Palmer

List of Contributors