In this episode, we discuss Toronto's crackdown on communist activity in the city in the late 1920s! This episode gets into the interrelated histories of policing, the issue of free expression, access to public space, journalism, leftist politics, and more.

For those interested in learning more about the topics covered in this episode and/or want to read some of the sources we quote from in the episode, check out the following:

• Lita-Rose Betcherman, The Little Band: The Clashes between the Communists and the Political and Legal Establishment in Canada, 1928–32 (Ottawa: Deneau, 1982)
• J. Petryshyn, “Class Conflict and Civil Liberties: The Origins and Activities of the Canadian Labour Defense League, 1925 - 1940" Labour/Le Travailleur 10 (Autumn 1982), 39–63
• Bryan D. Palmer and Gaétan Héroux, Toronto’s Poor: A Rebellious History (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2016)
• Dennis G. Molinaro, An Exceptional Law: Section 98 and the Emergency State, 1919–1936 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017)
• Manifesto of the Workers’ Party of Canada, December 1921, accessible at https://www.marxists.org/history//canada/socialisthistory/Docs/Leninist/WP_Manifesto_21.htm
• “Toronto Police Use Fists, Feet and Batons to Clear Queen’s Park,” Toronto Daily Star, 14 August 1929, 1–2
• “Toronto's 'Red Demonstration' Proves to be Immediate Fiasco As Watchful Police Arrest Six” [Page 2 Title: "Toronto's 'Red Demonstration' Fails"], Globe, 14 August 1929, 1–2
• Editorial, “No Compromise with the Reds,” Globe, 30 July 1929, 4
• Editorial, “The Right of Public Assembly,” Toronto Daily Star, 30 April 1929, 6
• The Observer, “The Law and the Courts Sufficient Protection,” Toronto Daily Star, 30 April 1929, 6
• "Evidence Lacking against Woman Garrow Finds” Toronto Daily Star, 19 November 1929, 1–2

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