Interview with Craig Heron
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Craig Heron, Professor Emeritus of working-class history at York University, talks about the link between activism and history. Heron discusses how the New Left in the 1960s influenced his political involvement in protests for the democratization of the university as a UofT student and later involvements in strikes as a faculty member at York University. He shares that, growing up in a working class family, he held a healthy skepticism of universities and university education but eventually found meaning in the study of working-class history. Heron became committed to sharing that history with a larger audience. Heron touches upon his initiatives as the President of Toronto Workers’ History Project, especially in regards to the production of community plays that he wrote surrounding historical events such as the Russian Revolution and the Winnipeg General Strike.