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Tim Buck

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Timothy "Tim" Buck (January 6, 1891 – March 11, 1973) was a long-time general secretary of the Communist Party of Canada (known from the 1940s until the late 1950s as the Labor-Progressive Party) from 1929 until 1962. [1]

61 relations: Abraham Albert Heaps, Allies of World War II, Archambault report, Australia, Axis powers, Beccles, Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian conscription plebiscite, 1942, Canadian federal election, 1935, Canadian federal election, 1945, Canadian federal election, 1949, Canadian federal election, 1953, Canadian federal election, 1958, Central Committee, Civil liberties, Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, Communist International, Communist Party of Canada, Conscription Crisis of 1944, Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942), Defence of Canada Regulations, Democratic centralism, Dominion Communist–Labor Total War Committee, Earl Browder, Eight Men Speak, England, Ernst Thälmann, Great Depression, Harry Pollitt, House of Commons of Canada, Hugh Guthrie, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Joseph Stalin, Kingston Penitentiary, Labor-Progressive Party, Leon Trotsky, Machinist, Maoism, Marxists Internet Archive, Maurice Thorez, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Nikita Khrushchev, Nikolai Bukharin, Operation Barbarossa, Palmiro Togliatti, Penal labour, R. B. Bennett, Secretary (title), ..., Sedition, Sino-Soviet split, Soviet Union, Toronto, Toronto Board of Control, Toronto municipal election, 1937, Trinity (electoral district), United States, War Measures Act, Winnipeg North, World War II. Expand index (11 more) »

Abraham Albert Heaps

Abraham Albert Heaps (December 24, 1885 – April 4, 1954), also known as A. A. Heaps, was a Canadian politician and labour leader.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945).

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Archambault report

The Archambault Report was an influential study of the penitentiary system in Canada, published in 1938.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Axis powers

The Axis powers (Achsenmächte; Potenze dell'Asse; 枢軸国 Sūjikukoku), also known as the Axis and the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied forces.

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Beccles

Beccles is a market town and civil parish in the Waveney District of the English county of Suffolk.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster for both radio and television.

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Canadian conscription plebiscite, 1942

A plebiscite on conscription was held in Canada on 27 April 1942.

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Canadian federal election, 1935

The Canadian federal election of 1935 was held on October 14, 1935 to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 18th Parliament of Canada.

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Canadian federal election, 1945

The Canadian federal election of 1945 was the 20th general election in Canadian history.

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Canadian federal election, 1949

The Canadian federal election of 1949 was held on June 27 to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 21st Parliament of Canada.

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Canadian federal election, 1953

The Canadian federal election of 1953 was held on August 10 to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 22nd Parliament of Canada.

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Canadian federal election, 1958

The Canadian federal election of 1958 was the 24th general election in Canada's history.

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Central Committee

Central Committee was the common designation of a standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, whether ruling or non-ruling in the 20th century and of the surviving communist states in the 21st century.

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Civil liberties

Civil liberties or personal freedoms are personal guarantees and freedoms that the government cannot abridge, either by law or by judicial interpretation, without due process.

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Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) (Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif, from 1955 the Parti social démocratique du Canada) was a social-democraticThese sources describe the CCF as a social-democratic political party.

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Communist International

The Communist International (Comintern), known also as the Third International (1919–1943), was an international communist organization that advocated world communism.

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Communist Party of Canada

The Communist Party of Canada (Parti communiste du Canada, CPC/PCC) is a communist political party in Canada founded in 1921 under conditions of illegality.

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Conscription Crisis of 1944

The Conscription Crisis of 1944 was a political and military crisis following the introduction of forced military service for men in Canada during World War II.

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Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942)

The Conservative Party of Canada has gone by a variety of names over the years since Canadian Confederation.

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Defence of Canada Regulations

The Defence of Canada Regulations were a set of emergency measures implemented under the War Measures Act on 3 September 1939, a week before Canada's entry into World War II.

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Democratic centralism

Democratic centralism is a method of leadership in which political decisions reached by the party through its democratically elected bodies are binding upon all members of the party.

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Dominion Communist–Labor Total War Committee

The Dominion Communist–Labor Total War Committee was a front organization of the then-banned Communist Party of Canada.

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Earl Browder

Earl Russell Browder (May 20, 1891 – June 27, 1973) was an American political activist and leader of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).

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Eight Men Speak

Eight Men Speak is a Canadian play written in 1933 by a committee of Oscar Ryan, E. Cecil-Smith, Frank Love and Mildred Goldberg.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Ernst Thälmann

Ernst Thälmann (16 April 1886 – 18 August 1944) was the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much of the Weimar Republic.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Harry Pollitt

Harry Pollitt (22 November 1890 – 27 June 1960) was a British politician who served as the head of the trade union department of the Communist Party of Great Britain and the General Secretary of the party.

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House of Commons of Canada

The House of Commons of Canada (Chambre des communes du Canada) is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor General) and the Senate.

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Hugh Guthrie

Hugh Guthrie, (13 August 1866 – 3 November 1939) was a Canadian politician and Cabinet minister in the governments of Sir Robert Borden, Arthur Meighen and R. B. Bennett.

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International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) is an AFL-CIO/CLC trade union representing approx.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality.

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Kingston Penitentiary

Kingston Penitentiary (known locally as KP and Kingston Pen) is a former maximum security prison located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, between King Street West and Lake Ontario.

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Labor-Progressive Party

The Labor-Progressive Party (French: Parti ouvrier-progressiste) was a legal political organization in Canada between 1943 and 1959.

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Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein; – 21 August 1940) was a Russian revolutionary, theorist, and Soviet politician.

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Machinist

A machinist is a person who machines using hand tools and machine tools to prototype, fabricate or make modifications to a part that is made of metal, plastics, or wood.

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Maoism

Maoism, known in China as Mao Zedong Thought, is a political theory derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong, whose followers are known as Maoists.

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Marxists Internet Archive

Marxists Internet Archive (also known as MIA or Marxists.org) is a non-profit website that hosts a multilingual library (created in 1990) of the works of Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist writers, such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Che Guevara, Mikhail Bakunin, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, as well as that of writers of related ideologies, and even unrelated ones (for instance, Sun Tzu and Adam Smith).

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Maurice Thorez

A Soviet stamp depicting Maurice Thorez. Maurice Thorez (28 April 1900 – 11 July 1964) was a French politician and longtime leader of the French Communist Party (PCF) from 1930 until his death.

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Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada

The Minister of Justice is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for the Department of Justice, chief federal legal adviser and is also Attorney General of Canada.

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Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, also known as the Nazi–Soviet Pact,Charles Peters (2005), Five Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World, New York: PublicAffairs, Ch.

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Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April 1894 – 11 September 1971) was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964.

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Nikolai Bukharin

Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (– 15 March 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician and prolific author on revolutionary theory.

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Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

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Palmiro Togliatti

Palmiro Togliatti (26 March 1893 – 21 August 1964) was an Italian politician and leader of the Italian Communist Party from 1927 until his death.

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Penal labour

Penal labour is a generic term for various kinds of unfree labour which prisoners are required to perform, typically manual labour.

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R. B. Bennett

Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett, (3 July 1870 – 26 June 1947), was a Canadian politician who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Canada, in office from 1930 to 1935.

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Secretary (title)

Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, power, or importance in the organization.

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Sedition

Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that tends toward insurrection against the established order.

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Sino-Soviet split

The Sino-Soviet split (1956–1966) was the breaking of political relations between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), caused by doctrinal divergences arising from each of the two powers' different interpretation of Marxism–Leninism as influenced by the national interests of each country during the Cold War.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Toronto Board of Control

The Board of Control of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was a part of its municipal government until it was abolished in 1969.

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Toronto municipal election, 1937

Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on December 6, 1937.

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Trinity (electoral district)

Trinity was an electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada, 1935 to 1988.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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War Measures Act

The War Measures Act (Loi sur les mesures de guerre) (5 George V, Chap. 2) was a statute of the Parliament of Canada that provided for the declaration of war, invasion, or insurrection, and the types of emergency measures that could thereby be taken.

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Winnipeg North

Winnipeg North (Winnipeg-Nord) is a federal electoral district in Canada that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1917.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Buck

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