The Third Force in Canada: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, 1932-1948

The Third Force in Canada: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, 1932–1948 by Dean E. McHenry offers a detailed political history of one of Canada’s most significant yet often misunderstood movements. Formed during the crisis of the Great Depression and modeled in part on the British Labour Party, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) positioned itself as a democratic socialist alternative to both laissez-faire liberalism and revolutionary communism. McHenry situates the CCF as a...