ITEM OVERVIEW
The "impossiblist" Socialist Party of Canada grew straight out of the coal mining towns of Vancouver Island, the hard rock mines of the Kootenays, and the Similkameen. Rough and tumble, cantankerous and sardonic, theirs was a socialism that brooked no compromise. Truly a firebreathing brand of socialism, but one that sought freedom for working people and not the empowerment of the state. Ernest Winch, Ginger Goodwin, Bill Pritchard, Wallace Lefeaux, Parker Williams, Big Jim Hawthornthwaite, Bob Russell, and hundreds of other lesser-known figures cut their political teeth with the SPC/OBU. These were no simple minded ideologues. Well read, and basing their thinking on several generations of working class experience, in Canada and abroad, their writings still speak to us today.
A useful retrieval of revolutionary history, from the vaults of the syndicalist and revolutionary socialists of Canada.
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