Mel Watkins is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. McGill-Queen’s University Press recently published Staples and Beyond: Selected Writings of Mel Watkins, edited by Hugh Grant and David Wolfe. He remains a political activist, most recently as a member of the Maher Arar Support Committee.
Growing Up Communist
A political thinker recalls his unsettling Toronto upbringing in a Stalinist home.
Mel WatkinsRed Diaper Baby: A Boyhood in the Age of McCarthyism
James Laxer
Douglas and McIntyre
184 pages, hardcover
ISBN: 1553650735