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How do we organize for progressive social change in an era of unprecedented economic, social, and ecological crises?

Committing Theatre offers the first full-length historical study of political intervention theatre and theatrical spectatorship in English Canada.

Ten activists, scholars, and writers analyze contemporary development issues linking Canada and the Third World, and provide an in-depth critique of Canada’s role in perpetuating poverty

What is a Canadian critical race feminism?

In this concise, critical study of civil society, Jamie Swift sketches the history of the concept from its roots in the eighteenth century, to the present.

The world’s addiction to economic growth continues with barely any recognition that this is a problem.

In the first book to distill the entire history of the United Nations into one accessible volume, Maggie Black explains how this complex organization works.

Why are there so many people who are poor in a world that’s richer than ever before? Something must be wrong with conventional thinking about wealth and poverty.

One of the few up-to-date works on the whole of the arms trade, this No-Nonsense Guide explores not just the movement of weaponry across borders, but also the problematic activities that sustain th

Climate chaos and pollution, deforestation and consumerism: the crisis facing human civilization is clear enough.

May Day: A Graphic History of Protest traces the development of International Workers’ Day, May 1st, against the ever-changing economic and political backdrop in Canada.

Feminist, educator, Quaker, and physicist, Ursula Franklin has long been considered one of Canada’s foremost advocates and practitioners of pacifism.

Some Like It Cold plunges headlong into the political conundrum of Canada’s climatechange debate.

Eating Fire follows in the steps of Riordon’s popular 1996 book Out our way, on gay and lesbian life in the country (BTL, 1996).

Financial collapse and crisis; disgust at bankers’ greed; the devastating effects of yawning inequality: all these and more have led to widespread dissatisfaction and disenchantment with capitalism