Left History (E-Journal - York University)
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Sarah Ehlers, Left of Poetry: Depression America and the Formation of Modern Poetics (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019).
Full text linkTyler Wentzell, Not for King or Country: Edward Cecil-Smith, the Communist Party of Canada, and the Spanish Civil War (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020).
Full text linkJohn Tully, Silvertown: The Lost Story of a Strike that Shook London and Helped Launch the Modern Labor Movement (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2014).
Full text linkPatrick J. Charles, Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2018).
Full text linkTowards an Empathic Human Rights: Applications and Evaluations in Re-Asserting the Human
Full text linkThis article conceives of human rights as a tool for promoting the values of its users. It links human rights to a continuous pursuit of a dynamic equality, which is rooted in empathy. Highlighting issues including the problematic association of human rights with the judiciary and the tool’s co-optation by sources of power, the article calls for a re-evaluation of our institutions. States are pre-eminent agents in providing human rights protections, but this must be challenged as the constitution of the state’s organs are reconsidered, specifically regarding how the colonial experience has shaped the modern state. This leads to a reconfiguration of understandings of responsibility for human rights protections and violations. The piece calls for a reconsideration of whom the “humans” are that human rights are designed to protect. The article concludes by condemning the extension of property rights, and their abuse by corporate entities through intellectual, moral and practical lenses
