The Rising Right, Farley Mowat, the CBC, Horwath & more -- October and November on The Left Chapter in review

October and November saw 71 posts of various kinds on The Left Chapter.

Included among these were a look at Liberal cynicism in Trudeau's "progressive" farcical climate change hypocrisy continues, new installments in our look at the USSR in the late 1980s like The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 1987: Photos, Culture, Economy, History & more -- Socialist Republics of the Soviet Union Series,  Natalie's recipe for a hearty fall classic Beef Barley Soup w. Kale, Parsley & Carrots, an Open Letter Re: The Closing of the Saskatoon Office of the Provincial Archives at the University of Saskatchewan, we posted 11 historic anti-war posters in honour of the 100th anniversary of the end of the great imperialist slaughter WWI including Peace - Poster by Tran Mai, Vietnam, 1985 and art posts such as Yuri Pimenov, People's Artist of the USSR (1903-1977) w. 50 Colour Plates.

Two of our most widely viewed and shared posts are from our ongoing series of posts of vintage leftist leaflets and vintage postcards.

Thanks very much to all our readers and contributors.

If you have an article, editorial, analysis, recipe or story you would like to contribute there are details on how to do so on our Submissions page as well as at the end of this post.

Without any further ado, here are the top six posts, in terms of hits, from October and November.

1) The rising of the hard right in Canada

What a difference four months can make.

Since June we have witnessed what is becoming a seismic shift in the political landscape.

Read more!

2) Farley Mowat Speaks Out on Canada's Role in Vietnam, 1966

Published in 1966 this leaflet flowed out of a conference that was held in Toronto in opposition to the war in Vietnam and looking at Canada's role in it. The conference was organized by several anti-war groups. 

Read more!

3) The CBC notes the victory of fascism in Brazil by how it could benefit Canadian business. Seriously.

The extraordinarily dangerous proven racist, misogynist and outright fascist Jair Bolsonaro has won the Presidency in Brazil.

Read more! 

4) Horwath and fellow ONDP caucus "resistance" fighters to attend event by a real estate lobby group that celebrated the end of rent control

Fresh off of her appearance at an Ontario Chamber of Commerce event mere days after that group had celebrated successfully lobbying the reactionary Ford government to rip up Bill 148, worker's rights and the $15 minimum wage, Andrea Horwath, leader of the opposition and alleged anti-Ford "resistance" is at it again.

Read more! 

(Related: NDP's Horwath appears at Ontario Chamber of Commerce event mere days after the gutting of rights of workers)

5) 20 Panoramic Views of Soviet Ulyanovsk 1969 -- Lenin's Birthplace

Today we are taking a look at a postcard folder with 20 panoramic views of the city of Ulyanovsk on the Volga. These date from 1969 during the Soviet era.

Read more! 

6) Ontario Conservative MPP Ross Romano's grotesque comments against cancer medication coverage

Sometimes no in-depth commentary is necessary to show just how odious and ugly a person's thinking and ideology are. A perfect exposition of the sick mindset of Ontario's new government. 

Read more!

(Related: Ford government disguises ugly attack on minimum wage workers as a tax cut to offset slide in polls)

Our top food related post was: Whole Turkey on the Spit - Vintage Recipe TBT

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See also: Christie Pits, Faith Goldy, Doug Ford, Ukraine Arms Sales & more -- August and September on The Left Chapter in review

Farley Mowat Speaks Out on Canada's Role in Vietnam, 1966

Vintage Leftist Leaflet Project

See the end of this post for details on the project.

Leaflet: Farley Mowat Speaks Out on Canada's Role in Vietnam

Published in 1966 this leaflet flowed out of a conference that was held in Toronto in opposition to the war in Vietnam and looking at Canada's role in it. The conference was organized by several anti-war groups. 

Written by famed Canadian writer and environmental activist Farley Mowat (1921- 2014), the leaflet denounces the cruel, brutal and illegal war of imperialist aggression being waged by the Americans against the Vietnamese, It characterizes the war as a racist one and rejects entirely the grounds on which the Americans tried to justify it. 

The leaflet's final paragraph, could, quite frankly, have been written last week:

The United States of America, and its flaccid, parasitic allies (which must include Canada) has become the major threat to world peace and, by extension, to the survival of mankind. I am afraid that if there is a third world war - the United States will start it. I, personally, am not prepared to give any further credence to the protestations of the Government of the United States that it seeks peace in the world. I believe it seeks power - world power - and that it will use all means at its disposal, including the greatest and most destructive military machine the world has ever known, to achieve its unstated ends. Those who choose to adhere to Washington, on the principle that it is better to be on the side of the winner than the loser, are deluding themselves. In the future which threatens us...there will be only losers. 

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When The Left Chapter began part of what I wanted to do on the blog was to show and highlight vintage public leftist election/political leaflets and booklets. While many of these have been offered with commentary to date, a very large collection of hundreds of them from several different sources remains and to preserve these often quite rare documents we will be posting them on a regular (almost daily) basis now often without or with minimal commentary so that people may have access to them as quickly as possible as an historical resource. 

While these will all be leaflets from a variety of different leftist viewpoints and countries, they are being posted as an historical/study resource and the views or opinions expressed in them do not necessarily reflect the views of this blog or blogger.

All of these posts (as well as posts made to date) will be listed on the page: Vintage Communist/Socialist Leaflets  (which is still being updated with past posts).


If you have any public, vintage leaflets or booklets you would like to contribute to this project please contact us via theleftchapter@outlook.com