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Listen In

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  • 1.4 Protest and Print

    Andrea Hasenbank joins us to talk about pamphlet culture radical movements throughout the 1930s, and traces a pretty compelling trajectory from Canadian leftist parties and organizations, through the Second World War and the building of the social welfare state and into our present (more dire) times. She reminds us how hard we have to fight for an equitable and democratic society, and how capitalism and austerity operate to undo and erase that work.

    1 hr 6 min
  • 1.3 Norman Bethune

    Kevin Levangie joins host Kaarina Mikalson to talk about Doctor Norman Bethune, a Canadian doctor who ran a blood transfusion service in Spain. Kevin tells us about Bethune's background, his radical politics, his art, and his work in Spain and China.

    58 min
  • 1.5 Update

    Just a quick announcement that Listen In is taking a break. We will be back in June with more episodes.

     

    0 min
  • 1.1 Introduction

    In this episode, Kaarina Mikalson introduces the podcast, the project behind it, and provides a brief historical overview of the Spanish Civil War. Stay tuned for the next episode, about the International Brigades and the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion.

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    11 min
  • 1.4 Protest and Print

    Andrea Hasenbank joins us to talk about pamphlet culture radical movements throughout the 1930s, and traces a pretty compelling trajectory from Canadian leftist parties and organizations, through the Second World War and the building of the social welfare state and into our present (more dire) times. She reminds us how hard we have to fight for an equitable and democratic society, and how capitalism and austerity operate to undo and erase that work.

    1 hr 6 min
  • 1.2 The Mac Paps

    Kevin Levangie joins Kaarina Mikalson to discuss the Canadians who fought in the Spanish Civil War and the organizations they fought with: the International Brigades and the Mackenzie Papineau Battalion.

    Subscribe in iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/listen-in/id1354987724?mt=2

    59 min
  • 2.2 The Technology of Camps
    Kaarina and Kevin talk about the kinds of camps that Canadian Spanish Civil War volunteers might have moved through: Canada's relief camps, International Brigades' disciplinary camps, Fascist Prisoner of War camps, and French refugee camps, and German concentration camps.
    1 hr 1 min
  • 2.3 Ed Cecil-Smith

    Part 1 of our interview with Tyler Wentzell, military historian and legal scholar. Wentzell talks about Ed Cecil-Smith, a Canadian volunteer, commanding officer in the International Brigades, and significant member of the Communist Party in Canada. He is also the subject of Wentzell's forthcoming book. 

    Photo from the Tamiment Library.

    54 min

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A podcast about the people, movements and events that made the Spanish Civil War a part of Canada's cultural and political history.