Launch of Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left
Posted April 20th, 2025
By David Camfield Saturday, May 3 7:00 pm McNally Robinson Booksellers and Livestreamed on Youtube
David Camfield (who teaches Labour Studies and Sociology at the University of Manitoba, is on the editorial board of Midnight Sun and hosts the podcast Victor’s Children) will be discussing his new book Red Flags with Tami Gadir (a researcher from Australia who’s been involved in union, climate and anti-war activity) and Andrew Loewen (a former editor of Briarpatch Magazine and longtime activist on the radical left who now works for a public sector union). Red Flags is an anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian introduction to the history of the USSR, China, and Cuba that asks: Were they actually on the road to communism? Red Flags argues that they were not in fact moving towards communism because social relations remained fixed in class exploitation.
The event will be held in the Atrium of McNally Robinson and also livestreamed on YouTube. This is a mask-friendly event.
