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Alternate Society: Volume 2, Number 3 - July 1970
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1970
Anarchism's Mid-Century Turn : A Review & Response: Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century,
Williams, Kristian
Article
2016
No matter how one feels about it, the current state of anarchism has represented something of a mystery: What was once a mass movement based mainly in working class immigrant communities is now an ar...
A Call to Community
Article
1969
A proposed community.
Can Free Schools Work?
Moffatt, Gary
Article
1985
Before starting on another round of alternative education projects, it might be helpful to try to understand why few of the last round's projects achieved long term success.
Canada's 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era
Palmer, Bryan D.
Book
2008
A history of social movements of the 1960s, including Canada’s student and anti-war movements, the rise of women’s liberation, labour agitation, and Quebec’s independence movement.
Carnival: Resistance Is the Secret of Joy
Notes from Nowhere Collective
Article
2003
Reinventing tactics of resistance has become a central preoccupation for the movement of movements. How do we make rebellion enjoyable, effective, and irresistible? Who wants the tedium of traditional...
Counterculture: Connexipedia Article
Article
Sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day.
Counterculture of the 1960s: Connexipedia Article
Article
A cultural movement that mainly developed in the North America and England and spread throughout much of the western world between 1960 and the mid-1970s as a reaction against the political conservati...
Dream Tower: The Life and Legacy of Rochdale College
Mietkiewicz, Henry; Mackowycz, Bob
Book
1988
Dream Tower
Mann, Ron
Film
1994
Follows the history Rochdale College, a famous experiment in co-operative living and self-directed education in 1960's Toronto.
Fantasy and the Counter-Culture
Moffatt, Gary
Article
1972
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the usefulness of speculative fiction in our search for an alternative way of life.
Film as a Subversive Art
Vogel, Amos
Book
1974
Analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use film to change and demystify.
Hippies: Connexipedia Article
Article
A subculture which was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world.
A History of Underground Comics
Estren, Mark James
Book
1986
Examples of the work of the underground cartoonists of the 1960s, with accompanying text that sets the historical context and analyzes the works and their times.
Inside Rochdale
Article
1971
What Rochdale has done is to provide a meeting ground on which those disenchanted with the running of modern society can attempt to work out an alternative environment.
Learning for the Revolution: A review of 'Schooling for "Good Rebels": Socialist Education for Children in the United States, 1900-1920'
James, Michael D.
Article
1997
Socialist sunday schools were part of a thriving radical culture which included daily newspapers, clubs, lectures, festivals and parades.
Long Way From Home: The story of the Sixties generation in Canada
Kostash, Myrna
Book
1980
An account of the upheavals and transformations experienced by those who came of age in the 1960s, a time when international currents of change intersected with specifically Canadian events and circum...
The Making of a Counter Culture
Roszak, Theodore
Book
1969
Roszak examines some of the leading influences on the youthful counter culture of the late 1960s - Herbert Marcuse and Norman Brown, Allen Ginsberg and Alan Watts, Timothy Leary and Paul Goodman -- an...
Our Generation: Volume 7 Number 2
Roussopoulos, Dimitrios
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1970
The Party of Eros: Radical Social Thought and the Realm of Freedom
King, Richard
Book
1972
King looks at radical theorists -- Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Paul Goodman, Herbert Marcuse, and Norman O. Brown -- who have attempted to deal with the intersections of eros and power.
Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't be Jammed
Heath, Joseph; Potter, Adnrew
Book
2004
Released in the U.S. under the title Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, the book is a critique of the underlying theory of counterculture Heath and Potter note that the cap...
Revolution for the Hell of It
Free (Hoffman, Abbie)
Book
1968
...
Schooling for "Good Rebels": Socialist Education for Children in the United States, 1900-1920
Teitelbaum, Kenneth
Book
1993
Teitelbaum captures in detail the spirited devotion and revolutionary fervor of the Socialist Sunday School movement whose themes of solidarity, cooperation, and concern for others are badly needed to...
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Gitlin, Todd
Book
1987
One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical c...
'68: The Year of the Barricades
Caute, David
Book
1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening aro...
Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America
McMillian, John
Book
2011
Describes the emergence of an underground press in the 1960s. Writers and participants reflected the spirit of cultural and political protest and encouraged the development of the New Left's highly de...
Steal This Book
Hoffman, Abbie
Book
1971
A guide to fighting government and corporations. The book is divided into three sections, "Survive!", "Fight!" and "Liberate!"
Uncovering the Sixties: Life and Times of the Undergound Press
Peck, Abe
Book
1985
A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered t...
We Are Everywhere
Rubin, Jerry
Book
Woodstock: The Oral History
Makower, Joel
Book
1989
...
The Youth Communes
Ald, Roy
Book
1970
A short survey of American youth communes of the late 1960s.

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Bureau of Public Secrets
Articles from a Situationist perspective.
Connexions Archive & Library
The Connexions Archive & Library is Toronto-based project dedicated to keeping alive the rich history of grassroots movements for social justice. Connexions preserves 'alternative' histories that r...
Toronto Video Activist Collective
The Video Activist Collective is a new movement designed to harness the treacherous tube to our struggles for justice.

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Bureau of Public Secrets
Website
Articles from a Situationist perspective.
The Uncomfortable Pew: Christianity, the New Left, and the Hip counterculture in Toronto, 1965-1975
PhD Thesis, York University, 2011
Douvill, Bruce Michael
Article
2011