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Dimitrios Roussopoulos
Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos (born 1936) is a Canadian political activist and publisher.
Roussopoulos studied philosophy, politics, and economics at several Montreal and London universities, including McGill University and the London School of Economics. He turned down a $10,000 scholarship offer to pursue a PhD from the University of Chicago to instead pursue his political activism. He has remained institutionally independent apart from teaching two years in the late 1960s at a progressive college.
Roussopoulos’s political and peace activism began in London, England. He founded in 1959 the Combined Universities Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and organized the first post-war student demonstration in Ottawa. He founded and edited Canada's first quarterly peace research journal, Our Generation, in 1961. Its first issue gained a circulation of three thousand and carried a preface by Bertrand Russell.
In 1969, Roussopoulos founded Black Rose Books, an international publishing house known for publishing works of left-wing politics by Noam Chomsky and Murray Bookchin, among others.
The first book he published was The New Left in Canada, 1969, which chronicled his experience as a major activist of the New Left in Canada in the 1960's.
In a 2021 interview, Roussopoulos stated that the mission of the publishing house was threefold: to disseminate ideas of participatory democracy and community organizing, to publish the best radical analysis of Canadian society, to revive libertarian socialist literature long suppressed on the left.
Since the 1970s, Roussopoulos has been active in radical municipalist community organizing in Montreal. He helped found the Milton-Park Citizens' Committee and contributed to a decade-long effort to prevent the destruction of a heritage six-city-block neighbourhood. The area was transformed into the largest non-profit cooperative housing project in North America, with some 1200 residents federated into 22 co-ops and non-profit housing associations on the first land trust in Canada, preventing all land speculation. Roussopoulos was a president of the University Settlement of Montreal, which sought to democratize and localize the neighbourhood economy and successfully launched a credit union, a public library, and a rooftop garden.
Roussopoulos was also an active member of the Montreal Citizens Movement from 1975 to 1978, in which he advocated for the democratic decentralization of City Hall's political power into decision-making Montreal neighbourhood councils, and social housing through non-profit cooperatives.
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Dimitrios Roussopoulos
Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos (born 1936) is a Canadian political activist and publisher.
Roussopoulos studied philosophy, politics, and economics at several Montreal and London universities, including McGill University and the London School of Economics. He turned down a $10,000 scholarship offer to pursue a PhD from the University of Chicago to instead pursue his political activism. He has remained institutionally independent apart from teaching two years in the late 1960s at a progressive college.
Roussopoulos’s political and peace activism began in London, England. He founded in 1959 the Combined Universities Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and organized the first post-war student demonstration in Ottawa. He founded and edited Canada's first quarterly peace research journal, Our Generation, in 1961. Its first issue gained a circulation of three thousand and carried a preface by Bertrand Russell.
In 1969, Roussopoulos founded Black Rose Books, an international publishing house known for publishing works of left-wing politics by Noam Chomsky and Murray Bookchin, among others.
The first book he published was The New Left in Canada, 1969, which chronicled his experience as a major activist of the New Left in Canada in the 1960's.
In a 2021 interview, Roussopoulos stated that the mission of the publishing house was threefold: to disseminate ideas of participatory democracy and community organizing, to publish the best radical analysis of Canadian society, to revive libertarian socialist literature long suppressed on the left.
Since the 1970s, Roussopoulos has been active in radical municipalist community organizing in Montreal. He helped found the Milton-Park Citizens' Committee and contributed to a decade-long effort to prevent the destruction of a heritage six-city-block neighbourhood. The area was transformed into the largest non-profit cooperative housing project in North America, with some 1200 residents federated into 22 co-ops and non-profit housing associations on the first land trust in Canada, preventing all land speculation. Roussopoulos was a president of the University Settlement of Montreal, which sought to democratize and localize the neighbourhood economy and successfully launched a credit union, a public library, and a rooftop garden.
Roussopoulos was also an active member of the Montreal Citizens Movement from 1975 to 1978, in which he advocated for the democratic decentralization of City Hall's political power into decision-making Montreal neighbourhood councils, and social housing through non-profit cooperatives.
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