Bryan Palmer is Emeritus Professor at Trent University. He is the author of numerous books, including James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States (Haymarket, 2023), E. P. Thompson: Objections and Oppositions (Verso, 1994), Revolutionary Teamsters The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934 (Haymarket, 2014), Descent Into Discourse: The Reification of Language and the Writing of Social History (Temple UP, 1990).