The Society for Socialist Studies General Assembly Membership Meeting (GAMM) for 2023 will take place during Congress of the Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences at York University, Toronto. This is the Society’s annual general meeting, and for the first time in several years, we will hold it face-to-face. The executive salutes the Society’s […]
The Society for Socialist Studies 2023 Annual Conference May 27-30, 2023 York University, Toronto, Canada “Re-Imagining the Left” The programme committee is thrilled with the roundtables and panels already planned for the conference, including sessions on academic marxism, leftist social movements and party politics, resisting far-right populism and critical theory, book launches and author roundtables, […]
Dear Members of the Society for Socialist Studies: The Executive of SSS is issuing a call for nominations for the position of Journal Editor or Co-Editor. Individuals or collectives are encouraged to apply. The current editor, Sandra Rein, is open to a co-editorship or to her remaining in an advisory role in support of a […]
By Miglena S. Todorova Abstract This commentary addresses the marginal presence of authors, subjects, and issues focused on former socialist countries in Eastern and Central Europe, the Balkans and the former Soviet Union in “socialist studies” produced in Western English-language based academic journals, as well as the so-called “global political Left” these publications support. The […]
By Meg Holden Introduction Frank Cunningham’s new collection of essays, Ideas in Context, offers insights and anecdotes from a life of Canadian ideas that is lively and compelling, despite the author’s winningly sincere but unjustified emphasis on the modesty of his contributions. While Frank himself does not claim to be a pragmatist in his political […]
By Teppo Eskelinen and Keijo Lakkala Introduction The article discusses the recent treatment of Finland by the US Left, criticises this from a Finnish point of view, and engages in a discussion on treating existing countries in utopian terms and the need to analyse countries as evolving through power struggle rather than “models”.
By Himani Bannerji Introduction “When I agreed to write on Dorothy (Smith) I didn’t expect it to be a difficult task. She has been with me through much of my adult life, it would be a simple matter I thought, of sitting down with the intent of writing an account. It would begin at the […]
By William K. Carroll, with contributions from Debbie Dergousoff Daniel Grace Liza McCoy Eric Mykhalovskiy Gary Kinsman George J. Sefa Dei Abigail B. Bakan “The notion of making change from below offers openings to voices, needs, and interests that are not represented in contemporary regimes of power. It accords with new political realities, particularly when […]
By Luis LM Aguiar, Tina Il Marten and Yanick Noiseux Abstract Do Canadian federal prison-workers have a right to unionize? This key question is investigated in a case study approach to an attempt, by prison-workers, to organize a union in a Canadian federal penitentiary in British Columbia. The authors analyze prisoner-workers penal labour citizenship position […]
As a tribute to the robust scholarship undertaken by its members and to recognize their publication achievements, the Society for Socialist Studies awards an annual book prize for a significant contribution to socialist research in Canada. The award is named after the founder of Fernwood Books, Errol Sharpe, a leader in left scholarship since 1991. […]