Fernwood Publishing

13/02/2025

Against the People: How Ford Nation is Dismantling Ontario edited by Bryan Evans and Carlo Fanelli is available now.

Pick up your copy today: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/against-the-people

To learn more about the book visit:
https://carlofanelli.org/against-the-people-how-ford-nation-is-dismantling-ontario/

13/02/2025

Against the People: How Ford Nation is Dismantling Ontario edited by Bryan Evans and Carlo Fanelli is now available.

To pick up a copy visit: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/against-the-people

To learn more about the book click here:
https://rabble.ca/books/against-the-people-and-the-truth-about-populist-doug-ford/

https://www.readthemaple.com/doug-fords-government-has-been-disastrous-for-workers/

https://breachmedia.ca/ontario-doug-ford-dismantled/

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ryan-kelpin-on-the-book-against-the-people-how/id1219383671?i=1000690389556

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTRML7KWVfQ

10/02/2025

This Wednesday join authors Bill Carroll and Peyman Vahabzadeh in conversation about their new books Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Livable World and For Land and Culture: The Grassroots Council Movements of the Turkmens in Iran, 1979 to 1980.

For more information visist:

06/02/2025

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/what-do-canadian-conservatives-really-stand-for-theyre-showing-us-right-now/article_4fdbe512-d426-11ef-b3fd-97e92fd9bf95.html

Ontario’s and the federal Conservative parties are riding high in the polls. But do you know what you’re voting for and if they’re on your side?

05/02/2025

From the article:
"...it’s not enough to simply say that a healthy democracy requires a strong liberal culture of free speech — though it does — because how one conceptualizes free speech will depend on what kind of liberalism one has in mind.

Free speech means debating free speech, in a democratic spirit, and not taking for granted all its meanings and applications.

Ives’ carefully argued, respectfully partisan book is a vital contribution to that debate in Canada."

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/arts/2025/02/01/speaking-their-minds-2

04/02/2025

Hey Calgary folks make sure to check out the launch of Got Blood to Give by OmiSoore H. Dryden tomorrow at Shelf Life Books. For more information visit: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/events/view/got-blood-to-give-anti-black-homophobia-in-blood-donation-w-malinda-s.-smit

04/02/2025

Ahead of the Ontario election Against the People is making a big splash. Here is a recent review of it from Rabble.ca.

from the article:
"The only records Ford is breaking is former premier Mike Harris’ records of transferring wealth to the wealthy. From childcare, to home care, to long-term care, to healthcare, to education. From schools to universities, public lands and assets, and the arts, Ford is deliberately underfunding and trying to privatize them all. Health and safety legislation under Ford has been greatly diminished."

https://rabble.ca/books/against-the-people-and-the-truth-about-populist-doug-ford/

As Doug Ford launches his bid to gain another term in office, it is important to take stock of the true damage he's done to our public systems.

04/02/2025

https://atlanticbooks.ca/stories/exploring-the-rich-literary-tradition-of-atlantic-canada

Fernwood's own Errol Sharpe has been featured in Atlantic Books Today 100th edition.

Inspiring stories behind the region’s many successes By Katie Ingram For many Atlantic Canadian authors and publishers, longevity is about finding a niche. For Donna Morrissey, that niche is showing […]

31/01/2025

Thinking Systematics: Critical-Dialectical Reasoning for a Perilous Age and a Case for Socialism by Murray Smith and Tim Hayslip is now available from Fernwood Publishing.

Smith and Hayslip combine social theory and Marxist dialectics to develop a new philosophical framework that can help us better understand the world.

Pick up a copy here:
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/thinking-systematics

30/01/2025

The 2025 Socialist Register Openings and Closures: Socialist strategy at a crossroads edited by Greg Albo and Stephen Maher is now available at Fernwood Publishing.

Purchase your copy here: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/openings-and-closures-socialist-strategy-at-a-crossroads

29/01/2025

Call for Papers: Crises, Contradictions, and Collective Life - The Society for Socialist Studies Annual Conference

27/01/2025

Congratulations, Jamie!

25/01/2025

The revised second edition of Settler: Identity and Colonialism by Adam J Baker and Emma Battell Lowman is now available for pre-order at Fernwood Publishing.

Revised from the successful 2015 edition, Settler is the clearest guide for settlers who want to confront the settler-colonial problem and support resurgent indigenous sovereignty work.

All pre-orders are 15% off using code SP15 at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/books/forthcoming

23/01/2025

Red Flags: A Reckoning with the Communism for the Future of the Left by David Camfield is now available for pre-order from Fernwood Publishing.

Crafting a historically informed and careful argument, Camfield rejects anti-communism while critiquing the "actually existing socialism" countries the former Eastern bloc. He does this to uplift the alternative tradition of radical worker democracy that lies at the core of communist theory and practice.

All pre-orders are 15% using code SP15 at https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/books/forthcoming