Bryan D. Palmer is Professor Emeritus and former Canada Research Chair, Canadian Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, former editor of Labour/Le Travail, and has published extensively on the history of labour and the revolutionary left, including the two-volume, Marxism and Historical Practice (Haymarket, 2016) and the co-authored, Toronto's Poor: A Rebellious History (Between the Lines, 2016).