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Article: Mel Watkins: a personal Dimension.
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- Canadian Dimension
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- November 1, 2006
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In the delirious decade of the 1960s, some appeared to have the inside track, to have been to the revolution born. Their parents had been in the Communist Party, probably until the great exodus of 1956, and they were known as the "red diaper babies." They were raised in the cities--Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg--and many of them were Jewish. My political ally in the Waffle Movement in the NDP, Jim Laxer, was such a person; indeed, he recently published a memoir of his childhood in Toronto under the very title Red Diaper Baby--and if you haven't read it, I urge you to do so.
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