Yours in the Struggle
Reminiscences of Tim Buck

Publisher:  NC Press, Canada
Year Published:  1997
Pages:  414pp   ISBN:  0-919600-71-9
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX7765

Tim Buck's reminiscences, taken from a series of interviews taped by John (Mac) Reynolds for the CBC.

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Table of Contents

Foreword by Tom McEwen

Acknowlegments

Preface and Editor's Note by William Beeching

PART ONE FROM CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM TO SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM

ONE The boy from Beccles
TWO An immigrant like the others
THREE Labour in Toronto politics
FOUR Working in the U.S.A.
FIVE "We've got to be where the workers are!"
SIX "Our illusions are sheltered"
SEVEN The Winnipeg General Strike, 1919

PART TWO WE FOUND THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA

EIGHT U.S. Parties: underground, very illegal, very romantic
NINE A very good barn in Geulph
TEN Party Organizer… riding the rails
ELEVEN The Trade Union Educational League
TWELVE Trotskyism
THIRTEEN American Exceptionalism

PART THREE THE GREAT DEPRESSION

FOURTEEN "Don't be sold out. Fight."
FIFTEEN Tear gas and cudgels
SIXTEEN Arrest under Section 98: a test of our Party
SEVENTEEN The Trial: an object lession in bourgeois justice
EIGHTEEN Rex vs Buck (1932) 3DLR97
NINETEEN A Guest of the King
TWENTY Prison Reform
TWENTY-ONE The Kingston Riot
TWENTY-TWO They try to shoot me
TWENTY- THREE "…. Guilty for you part in The disturbances in Kingston Penitentiary."
TWENTY-FOUR Freedom
TWENTY-FIVE The Repeal of Section
TWENTY-SIX The Oshawa General Strike

PART FOUR THE FIGHT AGAINST FASCISM

TWENTY-SEVEN The Spanish Civil War
TWENTY-EIGHT The Munich Pact: The German Soviet Pact
TWENTY-NINE The War in Europe
THIRTY Underground in New York
THIRTY-ONE A National Front for Victory
THIRTY-TWO Becoming legal again
THIRTY-THREE The founding of the Labor-Progressive Party
THIRTY-FOUR Post War Labour Strategy
THIRTY-FIVE 1945 Elections
THIRTY-SIX "Browderism"

PART FIVE THE COLD WAR YEARS

THIRTY-SEVEN The Spy Trials
THIRTY-EIGHT After the War, What?
THIRTY-NINE Canadian-U.S. Integration
FORTY The War in Korea

PART SIX FORESEEING THE FUTURE

FORTY-ONE Personal Impressions of Stalin and Trotsky
FORTY-TWO The Stalin Period
FORTY-THREE The Twentieth Congress of the C.P.S.U.
FORTY-FOUR The Socialist Future

Selected Writings

Index

Subject Headings

• Canadian Politics
• Communism
• Communist Movement & Parties
• History/Canadian