Books from the CCLH
A Communist Life: Jack Scott and the Canadian Workers Movement, 1927-1985Edited and introduced by Bryan D. Palmer
For the better part of fifty years Jack Scott has been involved in many of the major developments associated with the labour movement and the left in Canada. He joined the Communist Party of Canada in the 1930s and quickly found himself a part of the struggles of the unemployed and of industrial unionists in Ontario. After World War II Scott moved west, where he worked in Vancouver, Trail, and (as a business agent for the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Union) in Yellowknife. As a dissident communist, he often found himself at odds with the Party leadership, and eventually he was expelled in the early 1960s. A founding member of the Canada-China Friendship Association, he made four trips to China between 1968-1984, witnessing the Cultural Revolution firsthand and observing the many changes in the course of Chinese economic and political life over the last two decades. In this unusually frank oral biography, Scott recounts his experiences, providing a unique account of a twentieth-century Canadian communist life.
ISBN 0-9692060-4-6, 1988, paper, 276pp., $19.95
