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[Bullock, Reg - Interview]

Item number (ISN):

374217

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1979-05-03

Item number (ISN):

374217

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN TROTSKYIST MOVEMENT

Accession:

2006-0147

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1979-05-03

Production credit:

interviewer, Elaine Bernard

Description:

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Interview of Reg Bullock about: leaving the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in the 1940s; the Trotskyist movement in the 1950s; the Communist Party; the impact of McCarthyism on the Canadian Labour Congress and the Canadian trade union movement; pressure during the 1950s to stop Communists from holding office in trade unions; the New Democratic Party; efforts to reorient the CCF more toward the goals of the Trotskyist movement; the difficulty of recruiting in Canada; more successful recruiting in the U.S. among young people opposed to the Vietnam war; recruiting in France; the holding action being fought through recruiting by the Fourth International; the difficulties faced by the movement in the 1950s and into the 1960s; the aging membership; the petit bourgeois values of the education system; his annoyance at the squalor of communes he has seen in Canada, where inhabitants reject all responsibility for their children and their animals; a disturbed woman in Calgary; the situation in the international movement; disputes, chicanery and manoeuvres related to the Socialist Workers Party; the Revolutionary Workers Party; Ross Dowson; the Second World War; Stalinists; the view held by some members of the movement that World War Three was imminent and that the workers’ revolution had to wait until the outcome; the role of the Communist Party in the trade unions; the difficulties faced by the Trotskyist movement in maintaining independence while working within social democratic organizations; disputes over whether to rejoin the CCF; the publication Labor Forum and its cessation; the launch of the Revolutionary Workers League; strategies such as deep entry, which means keeping a low profile; Bill Whitney; the Pabloists; the situation among the Vancouver Trotskyists; Paddy Ferguson; the writings of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Leon Trotsky; democratic socialism, its benefits and dangers; the relationship to the international secretariat; the decision to launch the Socialist Information in Centre in Vancouver and a similar centre in Toronto; the Socialist Educational League; his blaming Ross Dowson for tension between the Vancouver and Toronto branches over the organizational structure and problems with the Vancouver facilities. <1h>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Low audio level and intermittent background noise.
~2. The date May 3, 1979 spoken at start by the interviewer.
~3. Interviewer’s questions and the responses not always audible.~4. Reg Bullock died on 20 November 1979.~5. Tape ends while the interviewee is still talking.~6. There are other interviews of Reg Bullock in this accession, but it appears that they were recorded on different dates.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

433862

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

2006-0147/3

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Technical description:

POLY

Duration:

60:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

433953

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2006-12-0027

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

73:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

539213

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

374217-2006-0147-3-S1.wav
374217-2006-0147-3-S2.wav

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

WAV

Duration:

64:39

Made from:

2006-0147/3

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

547289

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

374217-2006-0147-3-S1.mp3
374217-2006-0147-3-S2.mp3

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

MP3

Duration:

64:39

Made from:

2006-0147/3

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1003552

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2006-12-0027

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

2006-0147/1
2006-0147/2
2006-0147/3

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2006-12-0027

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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