Class Warrior
The Selected Works of E. T. Kingsley
Athabasca University Press
In October 1890, Eugene T. Kingsley’s life changed irrevocably while working as a brakeman on the Northern Pacific Railway when he was injured in a fall between two rail cars. While recuperating in hospital after the amputation of both legs, he began reading the works of Karl Marx. Joining a popular socialist movement, his activism eventually brought him to Vancouver, B.C. where he founded the Socialist Party of Canada (SPC). Kingsley, known as a passionate orator, went on to become one of the most prominent socialist intellectuals of his day. Class Warrior is a collection of Kingsley’s writing and speeches that underscores his tremendous impact on Canadian political discourse.
E. T. (Eugene Thornton) Kingsley was founder and leader of the Socialist Party of Canada (SLP) from 1904 to 1925. Benjamin Isitt is an historian, author, and legal scholar. Ravi Malhotra is a professor in the faculty of law at the University of Ottawa.
