The Connexions website has tens of thousands of pages and images related to many different issues and topics. To help you navigate the site and find what you are looking for (or perhaps what you didn’t even know you were looking for) Connexions offers a variety of overview pages designed to provide introductions and pathways to exploring different topics and issues. A number of those pages are listed below. They also all provide links to the Subject Index as well as to individual articles and books. The Subject Index and the Search engine are tools designed to help you explore Connexions as well as to do in-depth research.

• Alternative media list
  Getting the news – and getting behind the news.


• Spotlight
  Top & recommended resources in Connexions Library.


• Manifestos – Programs – Visions
  Selected political programs, vision statements and manifestos.


• Connexipedia
  an alternative encyclopedia covering the history of movements for social justice and the people in them.


• Quotations
  A selection of quotations about social change, resistance, politics, and a wide range of other topics.


• Seeds of Fire
  Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.


• Organizing for Social Change
  Selected resources for organizers and activists.


• Getting Publicity & Media Coverage
  Resources to help your organization get more and better media coverage and raise awareness of your issues.


• Grassroots media relations
  Media relations strategies for activist groups


• Community & Urban
• Culture, Arts, Media
• Economy
• Education
• Environment
• Farming & Agriculture
• Food
• First Nations/Native Peoples
• Gay & Lesbian history
• Health
• History
• Human Rights & Civil Liberties
• Imperialism & Colonialism
• International
• Labour
• Marxism
• Men
• Nature
• Oral History & Memoirs
• Peace
• Quotations
• Race, Ethnicity, Racism, & Identity Politics
• Radical & Left History
• Religion
• The Right
• Rural
• Science
• Seeds of Fire
• Sexuality
• Socialism
• Transportation
• Water
• Women
• Work


• Africa
• Canada
• Central America & Caribbean
• Central & South Asia
• China
• Europe
• Middle East
• Pacific
• Palestine/Israel
• Russia
• South America
• Southeast Asia
• United States

• Anarchism
• Anarchism/Critiques
• Capitalism
• Censorship
• Democracy
• Free Speech
• Libertarian Socialism
• Marxism Overviews
• Post-modernism
• Radical Political Theory
• Revolutionary Politics
• Socialism
• Solidarity
• Strategies for Social Change

• Languages Index
• French home page
• Resources in French
• French Subject Index
• Resources in German
• German Subject Index
• Resources in Spanish
• Spanish Subject Index
• Dutch home page

• History/General
• Oral History & Memoirs
• Radical & Left History
• People’s History, Memory & Archives
• Seeds of Fire
• Persons listed in Wikipedia
• Persons – born 1900-present
• Persons – 1800 - 1899
• Persons – 1700 - 1799
• Persons – 1600 - 1699
• Persons – 1500 - 1599
• Persons – born before 1500
• Events listed in Wikipedia
• Events – 2000 - present
• Events – 1950 - 1999
• Events – 1900 - 1949
• Events – 1800 - 1899
• Events – 1700 - 1799
• Events – 1600 - 1699
• Events – 1500 - 1599
• Events – before 1500
• Organizations & Movements listed in Wikipedia
• Movements & Organizations – founded 2000 - present
• Movements & Organizations – founded 1980 - 1999
• Movements & Organizations – founded 1950 - 1979
• Movements & Organizations – founded 1900 - 1949
• Movements & Organizations – founded 1800 - 1899
• Movements & Organizations – founded before 1800

Connexions features multiple tools to help you find what you’re looking for:

• Connexions Search
  Searches names, titles, and topics related to your query.



Connexions Search simultaneously performs two kinds of searches.

1) It searches the Connexions Library, Connexions Directory, Sources Directory, and Sources Library for records whose key elements – titles, subtitles, authors, organization names, descriptions, or assigned subject headings – contain your search term(s).

2) It searches the Connexions Subject Index to find subject headings which contain, or are related to, your search term. The intelligent search feature brings up topics related to your term even though they may not actually contain the term. For example, a search for "global warming" will also suggest topics such as "climate change", "climate & carbon dioxide", "greenhouse effect", "industrial emissions", "Kyoto Protocol", etc.

Results are presented in two columns.

The right-hand column contains topics related to your search terms. Click on a topic to see resources related to it.

The left-hand column presents titles or names of actual resources, e.g. articles, books, groups. Click on a title to view the bibliographic record for the resource, or organization profile for a group or website. If the actual resource is available online, clicking the link in the bibliographic record takes you there. However, many of the records in the Connexions Library are for books and other materials which are not available in electronic form: you'll need to find them in a bricks-and-mortar library.

Search results for the different parts of the library and directory are currently presented separately, below each other. Resources (books, articles, films, etc) are first; followed by groups; followed by experts and resources found in www.sources.com, the resource portal for journalists.

NOTE that the Connexions Search in NOT a full-text search. We use a system of pre-coordinated subject headings because this makes for more relevant results than a full-text Google-style search.
If you would like to do a full-text search on the Connexions site, we recommend using a search engine such as Ixquick and restricting your search to the domain www.connexions.org (Advanced Settings: “at this domain name”).



• Subject Indexes
  Controlled-vocabulary index of more than 12,000 cross-referenced topics to help you find resources in the Connexions Library, Connexions Directory, and Connexipedia.


• Title Indexes
  Titles + brief descriptions of resources in the Connexions Library and Connexipedia.


• Organization Name Index
  Names of organizations and websites in alphabetical order in the Connexions Directory.


• Author Index
  All Authors with titles & brief descriptions of their articles & books. Plus a Recommended Authors page.


• Chronological Index
  Publications grouped by decade they were published in.


• Format Indexes
  Resources listed by format: Books, Articles, Periodicals, Websites, Film & Videos, Audio, etc.


• Organizations
  Alphabetical by Name & by Issues.


• Dewey Index
  Books ordered by Dewey Decimal classification.


• Library of Congress
  Books ordered by Library of Congress classification.


• French, Spanish and German Subject Indexes
  Some (but not all) of the Connexions Library subject index has been translated. (Translators always needed!)


• Sources
  Media profiles of organizations and spokespersons. A resource for the media and for groups that want to reach the media with their message.

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