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John Boyko, Into the Hurricane: Attacking Socialism and the CCF (Winnipeg: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 2006)
THERE ARE MANY reasons to view the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation as a benign group of "liberals in a hurry," to use Louis St. Laurent's famous quip. Yet such a judgment would be very much at odds with the assessments made by its enemies who viewed the CCF as a serious threat in the 1930s and particularly the 1940s. The nature of the threat varied according to the fears of the authors but, by any measure, the language of attack was unrestrained. John Boyko has examined the "hurricane" of abuse directed at the CCF from a phalanx of conservative propagandists, business people, newspaper editors, clergy, and even Communists. He suggests that the cumulative effect of this unrelenting barrage was to erode the CCF's base of support and eventually relegate it, and socialism generally, to the margins of Canadian society.
The strength of this volume lies in Boyko's documentation of the extraordinary campaign undertaken by several sectors of Canadian capital to discredit the CCF. The insurance industry is a prime example. Speaking to a popular distrust of the growing wealth and power of finance capital, the insurance industry had been singled out by the CCF... |
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