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    2023

    1. Archives donation paints picture of local union's rich community history
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2023
      A donation of historical materials from Unifor Local 199 to Brock’s Archives and Special Collections is now available for students and researchers to explore in the James A. Gibson Library. The fonds of Unifor Local 199, which was previously the Canadian Auto Workers Local 199 and, before that, the United Auto Workers Local 199, includes records and ephemera dating back to 1937.
    2. War, Peace and the Media: Propping up the U.S. Empire and Risking the Planet 
      Fourth Edition, Expanded and Updated
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2023
      This fourth and greatly expanded edition of a work first published in 1983 questions the dominant narratives about militarism and war, and their relationship to global heating, as well as the role of the media in distorting and suppressing truths about their relationship. Contributors to this new edition of War, Peace and the Media challenge the U.S./NATO version of the Russia-Ukraine war and its historical causes, and highlight the role of mainstream and social media in sidelining or silencing dissenting information and opinions.

    2022

    1. The Threat to Privacy in the Post-Roe Era
      How Your Cellphone Could Be Used Against You
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2022
      Using a maps app to plan a route, sending terms to a search engine and chatting online are ways that people actively share their personal data. But mobile devices share far more data than just what their users say or type. They share information with the network about whom people contacted, when they did so, how long the communication lasted and what type of device was used.
    2. A future for the past?
      Diemer, Ulli
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2022
    3. Russia and the West: between sanctions and war
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2022
      On sanctions as economic war.
    4. How are the Germans keeping warm?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2022
    5. PBI-Canada remembers peace activist Frank Showler
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2022
      Frank Showler passed away on February 10, 2022 at the age of 102.
    6. Rest in Power, Frank
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2022
      Short biography of Frank Showler, an anti-capitalist and pacifist who died at the age of 102.
    7. Di-Bayn-Di-Zi-Win: To Own Ourselves
      Embodying Ojibway-Anishinabe Ways
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2022
      A collaboration exploring the importance of the Ojibway-Anishinabe worldview, use of ceremony, and language in living a good life, attaining true reconciliation, and resisting the notion of indigenization and colonialization inherent in Western institutions.
    8. Für eine populäire Linke
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2022
      Wir wollen eine LINKE, die für die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung, die Arbeitenden, die Familien, die Rentnerinnen und Rentner und die sozial Benachteiligten aktiv ist.

    2021

    1. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 13, 2021
      Light and darkness
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2021
      The more we learn, the more we realize how little we know. Each question we answer opens the door to more questions, because there are always more questions than answers. We are called upon to attempt to answer at least a few of the questions that seem important to us, but we do well to keep in mind that our answers are tentative and incomplete, always subject to revision in the light of further investigation. It can be difficult to remain critical, and self-critical, but self-righteousness and absolute certainty, no matter how emotionally satisfying they may be, only do harm, to ourselves, and to those we interact with. This issue of Other Voices offers some fragments of knowledge and insight, and it also raises questions.
    2. Don't expect tech giants to build back better
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      Tech giants need to quantify human behaviour to make money from it. The pandemic, by forcing much of our lives online, has shown just how much money they can make.
    3. Watching The News
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      Watching "The National" on CBC, as well as some local news programs, is proving to be an interesting experience. I haven't lived in a house with TV for more than 15 years, and hadn't watched TV news for many more years before that, so I come to this experience as a more-or-less naive outsider.
    4. Afghanistan and the "experts"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      Tthe "experts" are never wrong. When each intervention turns into yet another predictable disaster -- predicted by others, of course, not by the "experts" -- the "experts" never acknowledge their mistakes, and the media never holds them to account.
    5. Open Letter to the Council of the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian public
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      Historians express grave disappointment with the Canadian Historical Association's2021 Canada Day Statement.
    6. The Canadian Historical Association's Fake 'Consensus' on Canadian Genocide
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      Last month, the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) issued a public 'Canada Day Statement" -- described as having been "unanimously approved" by the group's governing council -- declaring that "existing historical scholarship" makes it "abundantly clear" that Canada's treatment of Indigenous peoples amounts to “genocide." The authors also claimed that there is a "broad consensus" among historians on the existence of Canadian "genocidal intent" (also described elsewhere in the statement as "genocidal policies" and "genocidal systems").
    7. Mighty Moe book review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      Mighty Moe tells the story of Maureen Wilton, a youthful long-distance runner from Toronto who set a women’s world record in the marathon in 1967, when she was 13.
    8. Private ownership of long-term care homes means overcrowding and more deaths
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      The bottom linecknowledge, is that private ownership is associated with overcrowding, failure to invest in modernization, and more deaths. This certainly seems like an argument in favour of ending private ownership of long-term care facilities.
    9. The Left Will Never Achieve Its Goals Until It Prioritizes Countering Establishment Propaganda
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      The idea that China or Russia pose a threat to you is so self-evidently ridiculous, so transparently absurd, that the only way to make you believe it would be to propagandize you. And if you do believe it, that’s exactly what has happened. You can expand this principle to include the entirety of US foreign policy on the global stage today. No ordinary American benefits from the US having troops in Syria, sanctioning Venezuelans to death, supporting Saudi Arabia while it rapes Yemen, circling the planet with military bases and working to destroy any nation which refuses to bow to its dictates. The only way to get Americans to consent to any of these agendas is to propagandize them into doing so.
    10. Collecting the evidence
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      Publisher and activist Lokman Slim, assassinated last month in Lebanon, spent 30 years trying to make sure that the memories of civil conflict were not forgotten.
    11. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 14, 2021
      Beyond the Walls
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2021
      From Gaza to Kashmir, people continue to meet life's challenges, and to love, laugh, and live.
    12. In Memory of Ernie Tate (1934-2021)
      A Life of Revolutionary Activism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      The socialist movement lost an outstanding educator and organizer with the passing of Ernest (Ernie) Tate in Toronto on 5 February, 2021. An outstanding partisan of global anti-imperialist solidarity, Ernie also contributed, with his partner Jess MacKenzie, to building revolutionary Marxist groups and to promoting socialist unity in Canada and Britain.
    13. Forgotten 20th-Century Photography Studio Found in New York Attic
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
    14. A Museum Dedicated to Stalin: An Example of How to Deal With Historical Memory
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      I think that the Stalin Museum is an example of how to deal with historical memory.
    15. Dreams of Harmony
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      Article in the April-May 2021 issue of Canada's History magazine on the Soinula utopian community founded on Malcolm Island in British Columbia around 1900.
    16. Jobs, Homes, and the Right to Exist
      Neighbourhood Activism in Deindustrializing Toronto and Montreal, 1963 - 1989
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2021
    17. A Runner's Journey
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2021
    18. Through Pluripolarity to Socialism
      A Manifesto
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      Our Manifesto appears in this moment of danger from deep and wide discussions
      among activists of all continents representing many socialist traditions. Its historical
      and theoretical assessment of the present conjuncture seeks to advance class and
      national struggles for socialism.
    19. The Use and Misuse of Antisemitism Statistics in Canada
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2021
      Sheryl Nestel of IJV-Toronto has published a detailed analysis B’nai Brith’s audit, and found that their interpretation of the state of antisemitism in Canada is misleading at best, perhaps deliberately so.

    2020

    1. The biosecurity myth
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      Favouring industrialised poultry rearing and stock raising, including pigs, through internationally prescribed rules doesn't prevent epidemics. It just puts small, local organic producers out of business, and it helps big agribiz.
    2. China's outlaw fishermen
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      China subsidises a huge fishing fleet, umatched in size and reach. its vessels help feed the nation, but also serve as pawns on the geopolitical chessboard, intimidating other nation's fishermen and coastguards.
    3. Nonconforming
      AGainst the erosion of academic freedom by identity politics
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
    4. How Israel wages its war on Palestinian history
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      Israel’s archives are being hurriedly sealed up precisely to prevent any danger that records might confirm long-sidelined and discounted Palestinian history. Last month Israel’s state comptroller, a watchdog body, revealed that more than one million archived documents were still inaccessible, even though they had passed their declassification date. Nonetheless, some have slipped through the net.
    5. Rosa Luxemburg's Birds
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
    6. From the Grassroots: The Company of Young Canadians, Local Activism, and Sustainable Development in Canada, 1965-1975
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      This study draws upon and extends recent work that examines grassroots environmental activism as well as government support for such ventures in the Canadian context. In doing so it examines how the CYC became midwife to initiatives that began to grapple with the meaning of sustainable development, from projects concerned directly with the environmental effects of air and water pollution, to urban countercultural communes and cooperatives experimenting with recycling programs and organic food. Though most of these CYC-sponsored projects and their affiliated community organizations were concerned primarily with economic and social development, it is argued here that members of the Company, like others in the nascent environmental movement of the period, were inevitably being drawn towards assessing issues and using strategies that linked people, land, and community in more broadly sustainable ways.
    7. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 14, 2020
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2020
      The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our world. Many of us feel some degree of disorientation and uncertainty about when and how we will return to some kind of ‘normal’ and what that new normal will look like. Important choices lie ahead, so it is vital that we think clearly, ask questions, discuss with others, and make our voices heard.
    8. Morality in an Amoral World
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      A crisis is a mirror. It shows us - if we have the courage to see - who we are as individuals and as a society. The self-congratulatory poses of governments, politicians, and state institutions are confronted with the harsh test of reality. Each of us - as individuals, friends, families, neighbours, communities - face new and sometimes difficult challenges. The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is such a crisis.
    9. Johl Whiteduck Ringuette interviewed by Ulli Diemer
      Resource Type: Audio
      First Published: 2020
    10. Miriam Garfinkle Lane
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      Miriam Garfinkle Lane is a laneway in the city of Toronto. The name honours Dr. Miriam Garfinkle (1954-2018), a Canadian physician and social justice activist.
    11. Alternative Schools in Toronto in the 1960s & early 1970s
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      In the 1960s, there was increasing criticism of the education system in Ontario, as in many other parts of the world, and a corresponding search for changes or alternatives.
    12. Assam's excluded non-citizens
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
    13. Bain Co-op
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      Built as a low-income housing project in 1913, Bain became a co-operative in 1977.
    14. Black Power in Toronto
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      History of the Black Power Movement in Toronto, in the context of the Black Power movement in North America.
    15. Brickworks
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      Beginning in the 1840s brick works operations began to locate near the Don River to take advantage of the large clay deposits and water power, as well as easy access to the growing city.
    16. Cherry Beach
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      Cherry Beach, originally called Clarke Beach Park, was established as a recreational beach in the 1930s. Established close to the mouth of the Don River, Cherry Beach was very close to what was then a heavily industrial area.
    17. Circle in the Darkness
      Memoir of a World Watcher
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2020
      Veteran journalist Diana Johnstone's memoir covers half a century of contemporary history. Johnstone recounts in detail how the Western Left betrayed its historical principles of socila justice and peace and let itself be lured into approval of aggressive U.S.-NATO wars on the fallacious grouns of "human rightss". Subjects range from caustic analysis of the pretentious confusion of French philosophers to the stories of many courageous individuals whose struggle for peace and justice ended in deep personal tragedy, with a great deal in between.
    18. Company of Young Canadians
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      The Company of Young Canadians (CYC) was a federal program established in 1966 to encourage social, economic and community development in Canada.
    19. Copenhagen, cycle city
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
    20. Don Mount (Napier Place)
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      Located just east of the Don River in Riverdale, the area bordered by Queen, Broadview and Dundas Street as well as the Don Valley Parkway.
    21. Don Vale ("Old Cabbagetown")
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      Don Vale, or "Old Cabbagetown" as it now usually called, is a small neighbourhood on the west bank of the Don Valley. Roughly bordered by Parliament and Gerrard Streets as well as St. James Cemetery, the Toronto Necropolis Cemetery, and Riverdale Park.
    22. Don Valley Parkway & Gardiner Expressway
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      The first chair of the Metropolitan Toronto council, established in 1953, was Frederick Gardiner, who quickly drew up plans for a system of expressway and parkway arterials that expanded outward from the city centre. Gardiner's plan, which was considered progressive and reasonable at the time, included five total arterials including the Gardiner Expressway, the Don Valley Parkway and the Spadina Expressway.
    23. In the name of rose
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
    24. Local Initiatives Program (LIP)
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      The Local Initiatives Program or LIP was a federal program established by the Liberal government in 1971 to provide grants to a variety of community and cultural projects. The program was billed as part of the Pierre Trudeau's effort to create a "Just Society." LIP grants were intended to create jobs, especially in areas where de-industrialization had left many people unemployed.
    25. M is for Miriam
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2020
      An illustrated children's book about the Canadian physician and activist Miriam Garfinkle. Each page is devoted to some page of her life: C is for Community, D is for Doctor, G is for Garden, L is for Laughter, N is for Nature, P is for Piano, Q is for Questions, S is for Solidarity, W is for Waffles....

      Identifiers: Canadiana 20190236663 - ISBN: 9781927470077
      Subjects: LCSH: English language - Alphabet - Juvenile literature - LCSH Alphabet books. - LCSH: Garfinkle, Miriam, 1954-2018.
      Classification: LCC PE1155.D54 2020 - DDC j421--dc23
    26. Naomi Binder Wall Interview
      Resource Type: Audio
      First Published: 2020
      Three interviews with Naomi Binder Wall conducted by Ulli Diemer in May 2020.
    27. 1960s CounterCulture in Toronto
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      Amidst the overt political developments of the late 1950s and early 1960s, a small but significant portion of youth became attracted to Beat or bohemian culture.
    28. Opportunities for Youth
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      Opportunities For Youth was a federal Liberal program of the early 1970s that provided funding for a variety of community projects.
    29. Le quartier de Yorkville dans les années 60
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      Yorkville était un quartier dans la ville de Toronto qui était le centre de la contreculture des années 60s. Son nom vient de l’avenue Yorkville, mais en tant que district, ses limites était aux alentours de la rue Bloor vers le sud, la rue Davenport vers le nord, la rue Yonge vers l’est et la rue avenue vers l’ouest. L’avenue Hazelton et les rues Cumberland, Scollard, et Bellair faisaient partie du quartier de Yorkville.
    30. Regent Park
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      One of the oldest public housing projects in Canada. Approved in the mid-1940s and finally completed by 1960, Regent Park consisted of high- and low-rise, subsidized apartment buildings in the area of Toronto bordered by Gerrard, River, Shuter and Parliament Streets. The area is now being rebuilt with mixed-income housing.
    31. Riverdale
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      Consisting of a the area east of the Don Valley and bordered by the Danforth, Greenwood Avenue and Lake Ontario, Riverdale was annexed into Toronto in 1884.
    32. Riverdale Community Organization
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      The RCO emerged out of discontent at the city,’s handling of the housing expropriation in the Don Mount renewal zone. In 1969, several religious figures from the area formed the East Don Urban Coalition to represent local interests and hired organizer Don Keating. After six months several smaller organizations that had formed around specific local issues united to form the Riverdale Community Organization.
    33. Riverdale Zoo/Riverdale Farm
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      A zoo which existed on the west bank of the Don River, at the east end of Winchester Street, from 1899 to 1975. the site subsequently became the location of Riverdale Farm.
    34. St. James Town
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      Bounded by Wellesley, Howard, Sherbourne and Parliament Streets. Originally comprised of houses, the area was demolished in the 1960s and filled with highrise apartment buildings.
    35. South of St. James Town
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      The area just to the South of the St. James Town apartments, roughly bordered by Wellesley, Sherbourne, Carlton and Parliament Streets.
    36. Todmorden Mills
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      Todmorden Mills were a series of mills built in the Don Valley, north of Bloor Street.
    37. Toronto Necropolis Cemetery
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      A historic cemetery, located between Sumach Street and the Don River, opened in 1850, and the final resting place of people who were originally buried in Potter's Field.
    38. Toronto's Historic Cemeteries
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      A overview of Toronto's early cemeteries.
    39. Trefann Court
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      A thin strip of land just south of Regent Park and bounded by Queen, Parliament, Shuter, and River Streets, Trefann Court was slated for “urban renewal” by the City of Toronto in 1966. Residents fought back and eventually managed to stop the redevelopment plan.
    40. Walmart's planned economy
      Resource Type: Unclassified
      First Published: 2020
    41. Yorkville in the 1960s
      Connexipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2020
      A section of urban Toronto that was the centre of the counterculture in the mid-1960s.

    2019

    1. Faith, Hope and Persistence - Vietnamese text
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2019
    2. Wiara, Nadzieja i Wytrwalosc
      Faith, Hope and Persistence - Polish translation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2019
    3. Faith, Hope and Persistence
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2019
      When we look at what is happening in our world, it can be difficult to believe that there are grounds for hope, let alone faith. And yet we – we humans – continue to live and act in ways that testify to our hopes, and to our faith in the possibility of a better future.
    4. Fé, Esperança e Persistência
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2019
    5. The Toronto Reference Library's rich collection of Communist newspapers
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2019
    6. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 27, 2019
      What Next?
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2019
      Millions of us, in many different countries, came out in late September to demand action on the climate crisis. Around the world, in diverse ways, we are working to keep up the pressure. Time is short, and the tasks are huge. In the midst of our activism and organizing, we need to keep asking ourselves some important questions: What are our goals? And what should we do to reach our goals?
    7. Ulli Diemer interviewed by Simon Vickers
      Resource Type: Audio
      First Published: 2019
    8. Rolf Knight Obituary
      March 4, 1936 - June 22, 2019
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2019
      Born on March 4, 1936, the son of an itinerant cook, Rolf Knight grew up in B.C. logging camps, gained his M.A. in anthropology at UBC in 1962, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1968. For decades Knight was a brave and under-heralded historian and a steadfast enemy of the notion that there exists such a phenomenon as the common man.
    9. ICL Breaks with Leninism on the National Question
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2019
      On the radical change of direction of the Trotskyist International Communist League.
    10. In Defense of (Seymour’s) Marxism
      Exposing the 'Theoretical Framework' of ICL's Neo-Pabloist Turn
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2019
      The abrupt abandonment of the longstanding approach to the national question by the Seventh International Conference of the International Communist League (ICL - formerly the international Spartacist tendency [iSt]) has major (many as yet unelaborated) programmatic implications. It is difficult to overstate the political importance for the ICL of the dramatic turn represented by the main conference document, "The Struggle Against the Chauvinist Hydra" which repudiates the iSt/ICL's previous refusal to capitulate to "Third World" nationalism - a stance that distinguished the group from its pseudo-revolutionary competitors for decades. The former policy is now simply dismissed as "chauvinism."
    11. Factional provocation, middle-class hysteria, and the collapse of the International Socialist Organization
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2019
      The International Socialist Organization is collapsing just over a month after its national convention, amidst factionally instigated denunciations of sexual assault and cover-up.
    12. Black Liberation Struggle: The Key to American Socialist Revolution
      Part Two
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2019
      Everybody is familiar with Marx's famous saying, in Capital, Vol. 1 (1867), that "labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded." This was more than a moral appeal against slavery. It was a statement of fact: Marx recognized that so long as half the country was dominated by slavery, workers would never be able to fight for even basic trade-union rights. The Civil War paved the way for the growth of American capitalism and the labor movement.
    13. Bolivia's coup
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2019
    14. Catch a Fire
      Life Tales
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2019
    15. The economic Anschluss of the GDR
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2019
    16. Father Greg: A Life
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2019
      A biography of Fr. Greg MacLeod, noted for his work on community economic development on Cape Breton Island.
    17. The Forest for the Trees
      Reducing Drug and Mental Health Harms in the Inner City of Winnipeg
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2019
      15 Annual State of the Inner City report.
    18. Global business of bytes
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2019
    19. Holocaust to Resistance
      My journey
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2019
      A memoir by Suzanne Berliner Weiss, a holocaust survivor born in France, who came to North America and was active in radical causes in the United States and Canada.
    20. Law's disorder in Nigeria
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2019
    21. Lebanon: the right to know
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2019
    22. Life After Life
      Why parole in America is just another prison
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2019
      On the ineffectiveness of the US criminal-justice system's parole arm for paroled people who have been sentenced to life in prison.
    23. My Gang is Jesus
      Brazil's evangelicals face the temptations of the drug trade
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2019
    24. Permanent Record
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2019
    25. Radical Ambition
      The New Left in Toronto
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2019
      The story of Toronto's New Left from its initial stirrings in the late 1950s to its 'long, ambiguous goodbye in the early 1980s.
    26. Resistance Matters
      The Radical Vision of an Antipsychiatry Activist
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2019
      Don Weitz writes "Antipsychiatry organizing saved my life once, and has always given it meaning. This book is an invitation to join me and other psychiatric survivors (and our allies) in exposing psychiatry’s coercive, life-destroying practices and utter lack of scientific validity; and creating and promoting life-affirming alternatives."
    27. Russia and the patriarchal code
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2019

    2018

    1. Miriam Garfinkle 1954 - 2018
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      Obituary for Miriam Garfinkle, who died on September 15, 2018.
    2. Labor's Last Stand
      Unions must either demand a place at the table or be part of the meal
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      The slow degradation of workers' rights through the use of the courts has led to a weakening of negotiated power of unions and the retreat of organized labour.
    3. A Template for Hate
      Polarized politics and mainstream intolerance
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      The rise of Hindu nationalist politics has led to communal violence, particularly around the status of cows, as they are considered sacred by Hindus. Inter-communal violence has increased with killings perpetuated by vigilantes and the mainstreaming of intolerance.
    4. Wellness Cures
      Can hospitals learn to better treat Deaf patients?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      The Deaf regularly move through the medical system without agency or dignity -- not because they cannot hear but because they are not given the opportunity to communicate. The onus for change is put on the Deaf themselves, often in terms of changing their own bodies to accommodate the hearing majority. What if, instead, the Deaf were consulted about what changes they would like, or how they would like for them to happen? What if they were invited to take part in shaping the next generation of doctors?
    5. Massacres and Morality
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      What can one say about the morality of Israeli soldiers who shoot unarmed protestors, and then are caught on camera cheering their kills? And how do we judge the civilian population of Israel, many of whom openly support and cheer their soldiers as they go about their work of killing Palestinians? And what can we say about the political leaders of other countries, Canada say, who sit down and smile and make deals with officials of the Israeli government at the very moment that the killing is going on?
    6. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 10, 2018
      Massacres and Morality
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2018
      In the wake of Israel's brutal massacres of Palestinian protestors in Gaza in May and June 2018, Other Voices looks at the ways in which state terrorism is used to keep subjugated populations in line, at home or abroad. The issue also questions the morality of those who either support, or keep silent about, the violence of the oppressor.
    7. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
      Their Interent or Ours?
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2018
      The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
    8. Government Mass Murder
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      "This is not an assault." Twenty-five years ago, that was the lie blaring over government loudspeakers as the FBI and the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) carried out its plan to obliterate the Branch Davidians, an integrated group that formed as a breakaway from the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Orchestrated and overseen at the highest levels of the Clinton administration, the 19 April 1993 assault outside Waco, Texas, engulfed the Branch Davidians’ Mount Carmel commune in an inferno that killed over 80 people, including some two dozen children.
    9. Liberation of Dalits: Key to Indian Workers Revolution
      Review of Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      Ants Among Elephants is both a family memoir and a political history.
    10. Misleading figures on greenhouse gas emissions
      Letter to the editor
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      A letter to the editor from an oil industry apologist (April 12) tries to excuse the Alberta oilsands’ growing carbon emissions with the argument that Canada accounts for “just” 1.6 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Even if that figure were accurate, it would mean that Canada is producing emissions which are more than three times as large as its proportion of the world’s population.
    11. Guidelines for police in dealing with mentally ill people
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      An investigative report report by the CBC shows that more than 460 people in Canada have "died in encounters with police" since the year 2000.
    12. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
      Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2018
      This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
    13. Reproductive Justice in an Age of Austerity
      Book review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      Reviews of two books about reproductive rights.
    14. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018
      Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2018
      How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?
    15. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
      What are we eating?
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2018
      What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
      For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
      How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
      A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
    16. What are we eating? - Arabic text
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
    17. As the World Burns
      Combustion Engines; There Will Always Be Fires
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      A two essay report that examines the causes and costs of large wildfires. The first essay titled "Combustion Engines" takes a look at a 'mega-fire' that raged across Montana in 2017, placing blame on global warmimg, mismanagement by authorities, and the building of houses in high rish areas. The second essay, "There Will Always Be Fires", describes the conditions that led to huge blazes in Portugal which are largely attributed to the introduction of of the highly flammable eucalyptus.
    18. Before the Deluge
      How Washington sealed Puerto Rico's fate
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      A look at the problems facing Puerto Rico prior to Hurricane Maria, which was already a plundered and mis-managed society with crumbling infrastructure long before the hurricane struck.
    19. Black History and the Class Struggle
      #26
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
    20. The Bodies in The Forest
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      An excerpt from Gessen's book "Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia", published by Columbia Global Reports. The book examines Stalin's extensive network of labour camps that held and killed millions of prisoners in 1930s to the 1950s.
    21. Bypassing Dystopia
      Hope-Filled Challenges to Corporate Rule
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      Joyce Nelson explores global examples of active and creative resistance to the iron grip of corporatism on our economies and imaginations.
    22. Capitalism: A Crime Story
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2018
      Harry Glasbeek explains how liberal law strives to reconcile capitalism with liberalism, while giving corporate capitalism privileged treatment under the law.
    23. Cold as Ice
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      An excerpt from a letter written in 1897 to the editor of the British newspaper the 'Daily Chronicle'. The letter is included in "The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde", published by Harvard University Press. The letter is an appeal and commentary on the harsh and cruel treatment of children being held in English prisons.
    24. Cursed Fields
      What the tundra has in store for Russia's reindeer herders
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      Noah Sneider visits the Yamal Peninsula in Russia where an outbreak of anthrax is killing herds of reindeer and engdangering the lives of the local people. Rising temperatures and a particularly hot summer have led scientists to conclude that climate change is the most credible explanation for its deadly return.
    25. The Death of a Once Great City
      The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      Kevin Baker takes a close look at the changes to his home city of New York over the past forty years. He notes that while some of the more undesirable aspects of New York in the 1970's have improved, such as crime, dirt, garbage- the new and more gentrified city masks significant problems, the most notable being a growing housing crisis.
    26. Drinking Poblems
      A Kansas town confronts a tap-water crisis
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      A look at the health crisis in Pretty Prairie, Kansas, where Nitrate from farms has polluted the water supply for three decades. Elizabeth Royte takes a look at the town's history and social climate in order to understand why the problem was left for so long.
    27. Empty Suits
      Defamation law and the price of dissent
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      A look at lawsuits filed by companies that are intended to censor, intimidate, and silence dissenters by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense- known as SLAPP or strategic lawsuits against public participation.
    28. The End of Eden
      Climate change comes to the end of civilization
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      A look at the devastating environmental outlook in Iraq, where climate change has led to rising temperatures and a dramatic drop in precipitation. Further exacerbating the environmental problems are decades of mismanagement, war, and regional politics.
    29. A Flag for Trump's America
      The power of strength
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      A look at the Blue Lives Matter slogan and flag, which became a symbol for the U.S. police counter-movement advocating that those who are prosecuted and convicted of killing law enforcement officers should be sentenced under hate crime statutes. It was started in response to Black Lives Matter.
    30. For Independence and Socialism!
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
    31. How to Start a Nuclear War
      The increasingly direct road to ruin
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      A chilling look at the security measures and processes behind the U.S. nuclear weapons system. The article examines how safeguards and procedures have evolved, including more recent efforts to curb the President's absolute authority to push the button.
    32. If These Walls Could Talk
      The strange history of our futile border fortifications
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      From ancient times to the present day, the article takes a look at the reasoning behind physical barriers that society's construct to divide nations, and the historical fact that they usually fail.
    33. Illiberal Values
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      Walter Kirn reflects on the Liberalism of his youth and how the principles that attracted him in the 1970's have changed, and are particularly eroded in the era of Trump.
    34. Indigenous Sovereignty & Socialism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2018
    35. Looking for Calley
      How a young journalist untangled the riddle of My Lai
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      Seymour M. Hersh looks back at the 1969 My Lai Massacre where hundreds of unarmed civilians were massacred by U.S. Army soldiers. As a young freelance journalist in Vietnam Hersh gained recognition for exposing the atrocity and its cover-up, and ultimately helped turn public opinion against the war.
    36. The Minds of Others
      The art of persuasion in the age of Trump
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      In a divided America, seven writers explore the ways that persuasion operates in our lives- from the intimate to the far-reaching, and ultimately how we can pursuade others to see things the way we do.
    37. Mobbed Up
      How America boosts the Afghan opium trade
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      Touted by the US as fueling terrosism, the author takes a closer look at the opium trade in Afghanistan and reveals a situation far more complex; notably drug lords manipulating US commanders and Western involvement ironically creating explosive opium growth.
    38. No Exit
      The ongoing abuses of Australia's refugee policy
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      A first person account of the refugee crisis in Australian detention centres. At great expense the Australian government holds detainees offshore in crowded camps, many of whom are stranded and living under deplorable conditions.
    39. Obstruction of Justice
      Why the criminal justice system is ill-equipped to prosecute rape charges
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      Author Charlotte Shane examines why the U.S. justice sytem is incapable of effectively adjudicating rape, moreover the profound psychological and societal issues inborn in our culture that produces rapists. Shane takes a look at the film "I Am Evidence", directed by Trish Adlesic and Geeta Gandbhir, as a starting point for discussion.
    40. The Other Whisper Network
      How Twitter feminism is bad for women
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      Katie Roiphe takes a closer look at the #MeToo movement, particularly the use of Twitter and social media which can dangerously be used to rouse extremes in a similar way that Trump has energized his supporters.
    41. A People's History of the German Revolution 
      1918-19
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2018
      The story of the revolutionary moment which overthrew the German monarchy in 1918, but was then defeated by the forces of reaction.
    42. The Pictures
      Securing Peter Hujar's place among the greats
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      In his will American photographer Peter Hujar left his entire photographic archive to his friend Stephen Koch. In this article Koch explains why he embarked on a journey to usher Hujar's work into posthumous notoriety, and ultimately how the photographs changed his life.
    43. Punching the Clock
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      An excerpt from David Graeber's book "Bullshit Jobs" published by Simon and Schuster. Graeber, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, looks at the existence of meaningless work and the psychological and societal harm that results.
    44. Some History Ex-Trotskyists Would Like to Keep Hidden
      As 'Chauvinist Hydra' Devours SL/ICL
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
    45. Swap Meet
      Wall Street's war on the Volcker Rule
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2018
      A look at the opposition to the Volcker Rule, originally proposed by former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, which restricts US banks from making certain speculative investments that do not benefit customers.
    46. Transgender Children and Young People
      Born in Your Own Body
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2018
      A collection of essays about the current theory and practice of transgendering children.

    2017

    1. Multiple distinct groups historically populated Newfoundland, DNA study suggests
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Study suggests implies that the island of Newfoundland was populated multiple times by distinct groups.
    2. Vintage Photos of Traveling Libraries
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Photo essay.
    3. Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
      Introduction to the December 17, 2017 issue of Other Voices
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memories and the past. That's the nature of capitalism, especially the speeded-up hypercapitalism of today. The past is useless: profits are made by getting rid of the old and replacing it with something new.
    4. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
      Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2017
      Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
    5. Protecting individual privacy -- with a large dose of hypocrisy
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      In a prominent half-page article in Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, the Toronto Star, columnist Emma Teitel criticizes "the media" for invading the privacy of the daughter of a prominent politician.
    6. Left parties
      Introduction to the November 11, 2017 issue of Other Voices
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      "There is no alternative." That is capitalism's message in the neo-liberal era. The rich keep getting richer and richer, millions of people are unemployed, millions more are trying to survive on precarious, marginal, and part-time work, hundreds of millions are without health care, housing, education, or clean water. Environmental collapse is increasingly likely, masses of people are fleeing wars and economic disasters, nuclear war is a real danger. And all that the corporate elite, the corporate media, and the mainstream political parties have to offer is their insistence that there is nothing we can do about it: there is no alternative.
    7. Title IX Witchhunts, Anti-Sex Frenzy and Bourgeois Feminism
      Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus - A Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Is the specter of sex haunting the campus? Under the pretense of targeting sexual harassment and assault, university administrations have been whipping up a climate of fear and imposing neo-Victorian values. As the recent book Unwanted Advances - Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus (HarperCollins Publishers, April 2017) argues, "The new campus codes aren't preventing nonconsensual sex; they're producing it.” Written by Northwestern University professor and self-described left-wing feminist Laura Kipnis, the book exposes the vastly expanded definitions of sexual assault, which criminalize anything from drunken hook-ups to student-professor romance and even allow for consent to be withdrawn retroactively.
    8. Meeting the Challenge of the Right
      Introduction to the October 9, 2017 issue of Other Voices
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      When we talk about the Right, it is well to keep in mind that "the Right" is by no means a unified political force or organization, but rather a label used to describe a disparate collection of ideologies, parties, groups, and individuals.
    9. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 9, 2017
      Meeting the Challenge of the Right
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2017
      Challenging the Right requires not only anti-fascist actions in the street, but organizing to reach those who may be attracted the the appeal of the Right and offering an alternative social vision. This issue of Other Voices offers a number of articles, books, and films offering different perspectives on meeting the challenge of the right.
    10. People's History, Memory & Archives 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      A gateway to resources on people's history and grassroots archives.
    11. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
      Official Enemies
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2017
      Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?
    12. 150 years of Karl Marx's Capital
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      On the 150th anniversary of the publication of Marx's Capital, Tom O'Lincoln explains why "the Bible of the working class" is about much more than economics.
    13. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017
      Secrecy and Power
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2017
      Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
    14. Secrecy and Power
      Introduction to the July 22, 2017 issue of Other Voices
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      It is one of the essential attributes of power that it insists on secrecy. Or, more precisely, those who wield power over others routinely claim that the details of what they do, and why they do it, are far too sensitive to be revealed to the public.
    15. From Scotland to Canada: the origin of genocide and of a genocidaire (I) - Cornwallis
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
    16. The Left needs to "find common ground" with Evangelical Christians 
      "There's no point arguing that it can't be done because the cultural differences are too great," says Chomsky
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      A discussion between Noam Chomsky and Charles Derber excerpted from the novel by Derber entitled, "Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Democracy for Social Justice in Perilous Times."
    17. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017
      Public Safety
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2017
      The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety.
    18. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
      Resisting Injustice
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2017
      In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.
    19. Learn from Malcolm X
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      It's time to re-learn lessons from Malcolm in the Black community - nationalism and pride, solidarity and militancy, and a worldview that African Americans are part of a global community in struggle against the injustices of capitalism.
    20. What Is Reproductive Justice?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Reproductive justice means having full control over all aspects of our sexual and reproductive lives, which means an end to all sexual violence.
    21. What Kind of Opposition?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      To address the millions of Trump supporters whose lives are devastated by his government... requires building an independent - and yes, socialist - left with uncompromising loyalty to the working class and oppressed people of the United States and the world, not to the liberal wing of capital or the Democratic Party.
    22. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017
      Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2017
      What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.
    23. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017
      April 1 issue
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2017
      Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critically - and enjoy.
    24. Al Qaeda Is Attacking Major Syrian Cities with US Weapons -- but You Wouldn't Know That from the Media
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Norton analyzes media coverages of attacks linked to Al-Qaeda in the West to highlight how this emphasis on Muslim extremism is used to justify Islamophobia.
    25. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017
      Public Transit
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2017
      Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many of these struggles is the idea that transit should be free, that is, paid for not by fares, but out of general revenues. This is how roads are normally funded: their construction and maintenance are paid for by taxes, rarely by user fees. Free public transit by itself would not be enough, however. We also need good transit, transit that runs frequently and goes where people want to go.
    26. Public Transit
      Introduction to the March 18, 2017 issue of Other Voices
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Public transit -- good affordable public transit -- is key to a liveable city.
    27. Public Transit - Arabic text
      Introduction to the March 18, 2017 issue of Other Voices - Arabic translation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
    28. Joy Kogawa in conversation with Ulli Diemer
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Ulli Diemer spoke with Joy Kogawa in Toronto on March 14, 2017. Joy Kogawa is the author of Obasan, Gently to Nagasaki, and a number other works of fiction and poetry.
    29. Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Vials reexamines Adorno's Authoritarian Personality, F-scale, and their implications for a Trump America.
    30. Arab Spring: Against Shallow Optimism and Pessimism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Book review of Gilbert Achcar's Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising, and Joel Beinin's Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.
    31. Attica: The Revolt and Afterwards
      Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Book review of Heather Ann Thompson's Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.
    32. Erwin Baur (1915-2016)
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Erwin Baur, radical trade unionist and founding member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), died on November 30, 2016, in Alameda, California at the age of 101. Unlike many veteran unionists of the 1930s generation, Baur made a youthful contract with revolutionary socialism that he never broke.
    33. Birth of a New Movement
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      I came back from the Women's March in D.C. exhausted but thrilled, convinced that we are seeing the birth of a new women's movement. Hearing about all the other Women's Marches around the world only confirmed that impression.
    34. Demythifying Native Americans
      "All the Real Indians Died Off" And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Book review of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's and Dina Gilio-Whitaker's "All the Real Indians Died Off" And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans.
    35. Florynce Kennedy & Black Feminism
      Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Book review of Sherie M. Randolph's Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical.
    36. A Global Matrix of Control
      War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Book review of Jeff Halper's War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification.
    37. The Journeys of Julia de Burgos
      Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Book review of Vanessa Perez Rosario's Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon.
    38. Lessons from New Orleans 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Interview with author Kristen Buras.
    39. Making Trump's America Ungovernable
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      The goal of opponents, including those of the far left, should be to make the Trump presidency ungovernable. In that struggle revolutionary change is possible.
    40. Marxist and Feminist Interventions
      Marxism and Feminism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Book review of Shahrzad Mojab's edited volume Marxism and Feminism.
    41. The Ohio Vote in November
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Donald Trump won Ohio because the total Democratic vote declined more than the drop in the total two-party vote, and significantly more than the Republican increase.
    42. A Partial Peace in Colombia
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Colombia's peace accord serves capitalist interests, but may also open new space for the grassroots left.
    43. The Politics of Some Bodies
      The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Book review of Holly Lewis' The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection.
    44. Lillian Pollak
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Activist, revolutionary socialist and writer Lillian Pollak died in New York City at the age of 101.
    45. Sanders' Campaign & the Democratic Party
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Despite his many flaws, the Sanders campaign had a working-class, implicitly anti-capitalist flavor that garnered considerable support among those who might otherwise have voted for Trump, as many perhaps did.
    46. Trump's Road to Ruin
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      The editors address Trump's early assaults on democratic principles and institutions, from the snarling menace of his "America First" inaugural address, to his cabinet of multi-millionaire and billionaire reactionaries, to the pending removal of millions of people from health insurance, to assaulting women's reproductive rights and attempting to bar Muslim travelers, to attacking Black youth and every vulnerable population.
    47. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2017
      Race and Class
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2017
      Class conflict - first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race. The relationship between race and class, in particular, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
    48. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 22, 2017
      Disobedience
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2017
      Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey. Disobedience is the theme of this issue.
    49. Ontario health-care reform and Community Health Centres
      Re: Too Many Left Behind in Health Care Reforms
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      We already have a working model of primary care that targets these populations and that is very good at dealing with complex needs and providing holistic care. Community Health Centres (CHCs) have been in existence for decades all over Canada, providing care to communities that are not well served by other models of primary care.
    50. Actually, I Am Anti-Police
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      The I'm not anti-police stance would work if, and only if, police brutality could be separated from the nature of policing. But it can't. That's because the major purpose of policing is to maintain the supremacy of the ruling class.
    51. Anti-Québécois Chauvinism in the NHL
      Honor Maurice 'Rocket' Richard
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
    52. A Better World in Birth
      The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Book review of Michael A. Lebowitz' The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now.
    53. Birth of the Abolitionist Nation
      The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Book review of Manisha Sinha's The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition.
    54. The Black Lives Matter Response to Trump
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Our mandate has not changed: organize and end all state-sanctioned violence until all Black Lives Matter.
    55. Bounty Hunters
      A clandestine war on wolves
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      The centuries old killing of wolves has extirpated the species throughout most of the United States, yet there remains a strong anti-wolf lobby which continues to threaten even a modest recovery.
    56. Bumpy ride
      Why America's roads are in tatters
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      A look at America's negleced infrastructure of roads and bridges. Despite declining conditions, particularly on secondary roads, Republicans continued to press for less State funding- which they termed "devolution".
    57. Canada's State of Reconciliation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      The brutal suppression of water protectors at Standing Rock, North Dakota and their ongoing resistance has also galvanized Canadian conversations about Indigenous land rights and environmental welfare.
    58. Chicago Teachers Settle Contract
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      While an almost 3-1 vote in favor is decisive, the vote against is significant in showing both dissatisfaction and anger among teachers. Who voted against the contract?
    59. Class Dismissed
      When a state divests from public education
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      A look at education in the state of Arizona where Empowerment Education Accounts (ESA's), money otherwise used to fund public education, are upheld by conservatives as a successful means of advancing private alternatives to traditional schooling.
    60. Creating a Socialism that Meets Needs
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      There is widespread and growing understanding that the current social order cannot continue without catastrophe occurring - yet we lack a vision of what might replace it.
    61. Eyewitness at Standing Rock
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Interview with Rebecca Kemble.
    62. Fighting Back for Survival
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      The editors reflect on the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
    63. Forty Questions
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      An excerpt from Valeria Luiselli's book "Tell me How it Ends", a damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children in the United States.
    64. Framing The Shadows
      The luminary vision of W. Eugene Smith
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      A look at the life and work of American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith, who is particularly noted for his brilliant photo essays that chronicled suffering and injustice.
    65. Ghost Nation
      An ethnic-cleansing campaign by the government threatens to empty South Sudan
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Reporter Nick Turse provides a first hand acount of his time spent covering a refugee crisis in Southern Sudan, where the government's Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) is committing atrocities that include mass rape, mutilation, torture, and the burning down of villages.
    66. The Green Party After the Election
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Until the Green Party has built a real power base of well-organized, dues-paying members and elected Green caucuses in city councils, state legislatures and the U.S. House, it will not be taken seriously in a presidential run by most media and most voters
    67. Hope in Dark Times
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      The most dynamic and emergent forces in U.S. politics today are on our side, and possibilities for a radical transformation of the system have not yet been foreclosed. Whether we make good on them is up to us.
    68. House Hunters Transnational
      Israel's economic settlers in the West Bank
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Settlement developers in Israel are seizing upon the country's economic woes and high cost of living as an opportunity to expand housing on the disputed West Bank, putting further into question a two state solution.
    69. How "Race Neutral" Policy Failed
      Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Book review ofKaren R. Miller's Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit.
    70. "I am Here Only for Working"
      Conversations with the petroleum brotherhood in the UAE
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      A look at the petroleum industry in the United Arab Emirates through conversations with workers and foreign labourers. Many of the labourers come from abroad, work for very low wages, and live in crowded worker's camps designed to service the oil industry.
    71. Jane Does
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Conversations between journalist Madeleine Schwartz and members of the Abortion Counseling Service of Women's Liberation, later known as Jane, an underground reproductive care service that was started in 1969.
    72. Jewish Currents goes to heaven, Jewish Currents goes to hell
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2017
      A collection of writings, poems and images reflecting the traditions of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left.
    73. Killing Bill O'Reilly
      The disgraced broadcaster's distortions of history
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      A look at the biased, idealized and error-riddled historical accounts espoused by American broadcaster Bill O'Reilly. Despite the former broadcaster's distortions of history and recent public disgrace his books still remain popular among Americans.
    74. Labor's Schoolhouse
      Lessons from the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      The author recounts the Paterson Silk Strike, a 1913 labour dispute organized by mill workers and noted for its large size, duration, and non-violence. Central to the dispute was the requirement by overworked weavers to start running four large looms instead of two, an appropriation of technolgy for the bottom line which has particular relevance for us today.
    75. Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2017
      Explores the important, too often neglected left-libertarian currents that have thrived in revolutionary socialist movements. By turns, the collection interrogates the theoretical boundaries between Marxism and anarchism and the process of their formation, the overlaps and creative tensions that shaped left-libertarian theory and practice, and the stumbling blocks to movement cooperation.
    76. MA Stops Charter School Expansion
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Despite their $24 million, the charter forces - which in March had more than a 20-point lead in the polls - lost by an amazing 24 points, 62% to 38%.
    77. Macaroni & Cheese and Revolution
      The Anarchist Cookbook
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Book review of Keith McHenry's and Chaz Bufe's The Anarchist Cookbook.
    78. The March on Everywhere
      The ragged glory of female activism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Leslie Jamison recounts her experience as part of the Women's March on Washington in protest of the new Trump Administration, which became the largest single day protest in U.S. history.
    79. A Matter of Life
      The death penalty as a conservative conundrum
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      A look at the Death Penalty in the United States and a Republican's campaign to have the practice abolished in the more Conservative areas of the country.
    80. Momentum Activist Handbook
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      An activist training guide for members of People's Momentum, the campaigning group in the British Labour Party.
    81. Monumental Error
      Will New York City finally tear down a statue?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      An examination of the Sims controversy in New York City, where authorities have long debated the removal of a statue in Central Park celebrtating 19th-century doctor J. Marion Sims, the 'father of gynecology' who experimented on black women.
    82. The Number That No Man Could Number
      Black America's civil war over gay rights
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      A look at the complex relationship between the Church and homosexuality among African-Americans. While many church leaders become the public face of resistance to homosexuality and same-sex marriage, behind closed doors the reality is very different.
    83. Obama's Legacy and the Rise of Trump
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      So much has been written about why Donald Trump won the presidency and the anger of the white working class. White supremacists are overjoyed by his victory. Much less is written or discussed about the failures of liberalism and the Obama presidency for Blacks and other minorities who voted for Hillary Clinton as a lesser evil.
    84. On Movement and Freedom
      Tales of Enduring Transience
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Canada-based artist Gita Hashemi embarks on a ground journey from Germany to Greece along the so-called "Balkan route." In this written account Hashemi meets with others who are also on the move, as well as artists and activists who support freedom of movement and refugee rights. It is part of an art project called "On the Move" about freedom of movement.
    85. Ontario's health workers call for improved sick leave policies
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
    86. Over the River
      Returning home to Flint
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Author Richard Manning returns to his childhood home of Flint, Michigan and recounts the city's decline from thriving industry into an economic depression, from which the city has never recovered. Flint is left with an eroded infrastructure, neighbourhoods rife with crime and public health emergencies, and the decades old question of how will it ever recover.
    87. Public Transit - Introduction to March 18, 2017 issue of Other Voices - Chinese text
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
    88. Putting the Racist Flyers at University of Michigan in Context
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      On Monday morning, September 26, 2017, students arrived to the U-M campus to find racist flyers plastered in Haven Hall, Mason Hall, and several other buildings
    89. Radical Digressions 8
      Resource Type: Website
      First Published: 2017
    90. The Reichstag Fire Next Time
      The coming crackdown
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      The article draws comparisons between the current climate in the Trump era with that of pre-Nazi Germany, in particular the Reichstag Fire of 1933, an event which Adolph Hitler exploited and launched a militant stance that eventually lead to a facist state.
    91. The Rise of the Valkyries
      In the alt-right, women are the future, and the problem
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      A look at strategies and recruiting practices of the extremist alt-right, particularly outreach efforts towards recruiting women into their ranks.
    92. Science and its enemies - Vietnamese text
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
    93. "The Slave-Holding Republic"
      Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Book review of Gerald Horne's Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic.
    94. Snowden's Box
      The human network behind the biggest leak of all
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Edward Snowden's disclosure of NSA secrets to the press as reported by the two journalists who literally had Snowden material mailed to them in a cardboard box. The article describes their experiences with encryption, codewords, government surveillance and extreme paranoia. The journalists also reveal that they were not the only people to have received Snowden's files.
    95. Sons and Daughters
      The village where girls turn into boys
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      An account of an isolated village in the southwestern Dominican Republic where children who are seemingly born female become male later in their childood; such cases are so prevalent in the village that it is no longer considered abnormal.
    96. The Struggle Against the Chauvinist Hydra
      Document of the Seventh International Conference of the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist)
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Political statement announcing a sharp change of direction in the Trotskyist International Communist League.
    97. Survival is the Question
      Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Book review of Ian Angus' Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System.
    98. That Precious Strand of Jewishness that Challenges Authority
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2017
      Like so many of those others in Britain of Jewish lineage, songwriter and award-winning folk singer Leon Rosselson is descended from antecedents who fled pogroms in eastern Europe. Pertinently, he questions what being a Jew means -- is it adherence to Judaism as a religion, an ethnicity, a citizen of Israel, or someone who eats "chicken soup with knedlach"? He describes clearly and with historical insight how any concept of "Jewishness" can involve all of those things and more. In his own life, he has decided to pick and choose from this tradition and history and build on what he deems to be the progressive, humane, and universalist values of that Jewish background.
    99. The Trouble with Defectors
      What informants taught an intelligence officer
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Author and former U.S. Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter writes about his experiences working with informants and defectors. Recounting first hand experiences he discusses the problems and issues working with informants, notably their motivation, quality of information, and its reliabitlity and currency. While quality control is a recurring problem with informants Ritter further discusses why intelligence professionals still keep using them.
    100. Trump not "Exceptional"
      Trump: A Graphic Biography
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Book review of Ted Rall's Trump: A Graphic Biography.
    101. The Weekly Package
      How Cubans deliver culture without internet
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      With limited resources and government restrictions on internet access in Cuba, a thriving underground industry selling digital information has developed.
    102. When the Alt-Right Hits Campus
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      Under the auspices of the "Alt Right" and its wannabe hipster version of white nationalism, the University of Michigan community was subjected to a bombardment of racist hate that many of us thought relegated to the pre-Obama past.
    103. Where Health Care Won't Go
      A tuberculosis crisis in the Black Belt
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      A look at the outbreak of tubercolosis in Alabama, where a significant proportion of the population lacks proper health care. While State reaction was swift the lack of attention to some communities persists, as do the conditions for outbreaks to reoccur.
    104. Who Put Trump in the White House?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      The media story in the days following the 2016 election was that a huge defection of angry, white, blue-collar workers in the Rust Belt from their traditional Democratic voting patterns put Donald J. Trump in the White House in a grand slap at the nation's "liberal" elite. But is that the real story?
    105. W.W.E. the People
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017
      An excerpt from Naomi Klein's book "No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need", published by Haymarket Books.
    106. Rage Against the G7
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2017

    2016

    1. Toronto's Poor
      A Rebellious History
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2016   Published: 2916
      Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
    2. Academic mobbing, or how to become campus tormentors
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      If you’re a university professor, chances are fairly good that you have initiated or participated in mobbing. Why? First, because mobbers are not sadists or sociopaths, but ordinary people; second, because universities are a type of organization that encourages mobbing; and third, as a result, mobbing is endemic at universities. Unlike bullying, an individual form of harassment in which a typical scenario consists of a boss victimizing an assistant, mobbing is a serious organizational deficiency.
    3. Science and its enemies
      Introduction to the April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
    4. "Fake News"
      Introduction to the December 20, 2016 issue of Other Voices
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      "Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentaries about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news."
    5. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
      Fake News
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2016
      "Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news." Since we don't like to be left out when a new fad comes on the scene, Other Voices is jumping on the bandwagon too, with this, our last issue of 2016, devoted to "fake news." Our focus, however, is not so much on the crackpots and trolls making mischief on the fringes, but on the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
    6. Don Weitz in conversation with Ulli Diemer
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      Activist Don Weitz interviewed by Ulli Diemer, December 8, 2016.
    7. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2016
      Alternative Media
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2016
      A special issue on alternative media.
    8. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016
      Depression and Joy
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2016
      It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence that this is a social problem, and not merely an individual misfortune, the solutions and escapes on offer are almost all individual: pharmaceuticals and therapy, on the one hand; self-medication with alcohol, streets drugs, television, etc., on the other. Certainly there are individual circumstances and individual causes, but when millions of people are experiencing the same thing, we need to be looking not only at the individual, but also at the society.
    9. Allen Ginsberg and the '60s Movement
      The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      Book review of Eliot Katz' The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg.
    10. Early U.S. Communism Revisited
      The Communist International and US Communism 1919-1929
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      Book review of Jacob A. Zumoff's The Communist International and US Communism 1919-1929.
    11. A Legless Veteran's Struggle
      Discrediting the Red Scare: The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, "The Legless Veteran"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      Book review of Robert Goldstein's Discrediting the Red Scare: The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, "The Legless Veteran".
    12. Michael Ratner
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      Michael Ratner was President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Chair of the Board of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights. He practiced law for 45 years, dying on May 11, 2016 at age 72.
    13. Requiem for a Black Trotskyist
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      News of the death of former United Auto Workers staff member Ernie Dillard came by way of a phone call on Bastille Day 2016. The subsequent silence about his passing in the radical and mainstream press is an accusatory reminder of the extent to which the memory of the Left has been confiscated from those who require it most.
    14. The Revolutionary Art of Failure
      Vivas to Those Who Have Failed
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      Book review of Martin Espada's Vivas to Those Who Have Failed.
    15. Glenn Shelton
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      Glenn Shelton, a retired president of Michigan Mailhandlers Local 307 who never stopped fighting for the rights of working people, and a member of Solidarity, died March 24, 2016, after a battle with cancer.
    16. When Chinese Labor Strikes
      China on Strike
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      Book review of Hao Ren's edited volume China on Strike.
    17. Legal case deserves support
      Re: Chippewas of the Thames protest pipeline
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      The case that the Chippewas of the Thames is taking to the Supreme Court of Canada strikes at the heart and soul of this country's relationship with the indigenous people and their rights and the government of Canada's duty to consult.
    18. Wolfe Erlichman in conversation with Ulli Diemer
      October 26, 2016
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      An interview with Wolfe Erlichman, who worked as a community worker/organizer in Trefann Court in Toronto in the late 1960s. An audio recording of the interview, and a transcript, are held in the Connexions Archive.
    19. Lurching to War
      Introduction to the October 15, 2016 issue of Other Voices
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      Capitalism hates competition, and the U.S., the world's dominant capitalist power, has never tolerated competitors, rivals, or leaders who dare to put their own country ahead of U.S. interests.
    20. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 15, 2016
      Lurching to War
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2016
      The risk of nuclear war is as great now as it was at the height of the Cold War. From the time the Warsaw Pact dissolved itself and the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States has single-mindedly pursued a hyper-aggressive strategy of surrounding Russia with hostile military forces and missiles aimed at the Russian heartland.
    21. The Memory Code: how oral cultures memorise so much information
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      Long before the ancient Celts, Aboriginal Australians were recording vast scores of knowledge to memory and passing it to successive generations. Aboriginal people demonstrate that their oral traditions are not only highly detailed and complex, but they can survive -- accurately -- for thousands, even tens of thousands, of years.
    22. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016
      Back to School
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which education and educational institutions are changing. We also look at ways in which education is used to bring about change.
    23. An open letter to the Peel Catholic School Board from Jewish Canadians in support of Nadia Shoufani
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      Jewish Canadians writing in support of Nadia Shoufani, a teacher in the Peel Catholic School Board who was suspended pending an investigation by the Ontario College of Teachers.
    24. The doctor who is besting big tobacco
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      When Dr Bronwyn King discovered her pension fund was investing in the cigarette companies that were killing her cancer patients, she was staggered. And she knew she had to act
    25. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 23, 2016
      Workers and Climate Change
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2016
      Working people -- and most of us are workers -- are affected by climate change in every aspect of our lives. As climate change worsens, our lives will worsen. If we are successful in bringing about the needed rapid change away from a fossil fuel based economy, working people are the ones who stand to bear most of the costs, including the cost, for millions of workers and their families, of losing their jobs.
      Many elements of the environmental movement have been guilty of ignoring working people, while others actually blame ordinary working people for climate change and the injustices associated with it. Yet it is working people who are dying, in many places, even now, from excessive heat in factories, fields, construction sites, and homes. And million of working people stand to lose their jobs, homes, and communities in the transition to a low-carbon or no-carbon economy.
    26. Open Letter To Minister Goodale
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      We are doctors, nurses, and healthcare providers working in Canada. It has come to our attention that over 50 men on immigration hold are once again engaging in a hunger strike. They are determined to remain without food until they are granted a meeting with you, Minister Goodale. They have been calling for an end to indefinite immigration detention and inhumane conditions and are now asking to bring their concerns to you in person.
    27. Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
      Introduction to the July 2, 2016 issue of Other Voices
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      A constant theme in elite reaction to the Brexit referendum, expressed especially through the mainstream media, has been a visceral contempt for democracy. Ordinary working people are portrayed as stupid and reactionary, incapable of understanding how wonderful the European Union project is. Again and again, one hears the comment that the great unwashed should not be allowed to vote on issues which they are incapable of understanding. This reaction is not new: ruling classes for centuries have loathed democracy, which is seen as an existential threat to the wealth and privileges of the elite.
    28. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2016
      This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in every part of the world.
      We are always concerned, not only with what is wrong with the world, but what to do about it.
      This issue carries an excerpt from Umair Mohammed's book 'Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism' in which he warns against the pitfalls of individualist and consumer-oriented approaches and argues in favour of collective action to build an effective movement.
      Derrick Jensen considers some of the arguments in favour of pacifism and finds them wanting. He agrees that creative approaches to social change can oftentimes make violence unnecessary, but that sometimes violence is a necessary response to violence.
      Another article looks at the decline of liberation theology, targeted as a threat by both the Vatican and secular power structures.
      Kenan Malik considers the issue of "cultural appropriation" and asks why so many on theso-called left are more interested in criticizing Justin Bieber's hairstyle than in fighting capitalism.
    29. Tax Evasion
      Introduction to the May 21, 2016 issue of Other Voices
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      The essence of the capitalist economic system is the drive to accumulate as much as possible, by any means possible. It is almost inevitable, therefore, that those – individuals or corporations – whose existence revolves around accumulating capital will seek to avoid paying taxes.
    30. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
      Destabilization and Regime Change
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2016
      When governments get too far out of line -- the most outrageous offence, from the point of view of imperial power, is pursuing policies that help ordinary people at the expense of transnational corporations and local elites -- then they have to be overthrown. The preferred method is a destabilization campaign followed by a coup. This issue of Other Voices focuses destabilization and regime change.
    31. Ciência e seus inimigos
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
    32. Nauka i jej wrogowie
      Polish translation of Science and its Enemies
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
    33. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2016
      Science and its enemies
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2016
      Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
    34. Science and its enemies - Farsi text
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
    35. La science et ses ennemis
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
    36. Science and its enemies - Chinese text
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
    37. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2016
      Forests and trees
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2016
      For countless centuries, forests, and the trees in them, have been seen as sources of life, livelihood, and spiritual meaning. For capitalism, however, forests are sites of extraction and profit-making, or obstacles in the way of 'development.' In this issue, we look at some of the threats to forests worldwide, and the ways in which people are resisting and defending the forests.
    38. Two justice systems?
      Letter to the editor
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      It seems that we have two justice systems: one for the police, and one for the rest of us.
    39. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 5, 2016
      International Women's Day
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2016
      In this issue of Other Voices, we mark International Women's Day. An article written by Alexandra Kollontai in 1920 talks about the early history of this event, which grew out of a proposal put forward by Clara Zetkin at the 1910 International Conference of Working Women. A key focus at that time was winning the vote for women, with the slogan "The vote for women will unite our strength in the struggle for socialism". The link between women's rights and socialism became even clearer a few years later, in 1917, when a Women's Day march in St. Petersburg turned into a revolutionary uprising which led to the overthrow of the Czar and the Russian Revolution.
    40. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 20, 2016
      Connexions Enters Its Fifth Decade
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2016
      This issue of Connexions Other Voices falls on the 40th anniversary of the publication of the very first Connexions newsletter, which was published in February 1976. That first issue carried the title "Canadian Information Sharing Service", which was also the name of the collective which compiled it, from submissions from across Canada. Within a couple of years, the name of the publication became "Connexions" and then, a little later, "The Connexions Digest".
      In addition to our own history, in this issue we spotlight black history as our topic of the week. We look at the Haitian revolution, when slaves confronted the French empire and won; black resistance against the Ku Klux Klan in the American South, and the meaning and limits of anti-racism. We also look at the Kurdish liberation movement in Rojava, the dangers posed by geoengineering, and we mark the publication of the Communist Manifesto on February 21, 1848.
    41. Line 9 pipeline needs review
      Re: Pipelines face new environmental rules
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      Line 9 is a disaster waiting to happen and the climate crisis disaster is already unfolding. Indeed no tar sands pipeline can pass a serious climate test if Canada is to keep its commitment to a limited warming to 1.5 degrees C.
    42. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 30, 2016
      Conflict of interest
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2016
      This issue of Other Voices shines a light on the murky world of conflict of interest, the hidden reality that often underlies appearances of neutrality, objectivity, and due process. Conflicts of interest are inherent in capitalism, a system founded on the premise that the state and society should be subordinated to economic self-interest and the accumulation of private wealth. Scientists who are supposed to be studying the effects of GMOs are funded by agribusiness corporations. Doctors who receive money from pharmaceutical companies write articles promoting the drugs produced by those companies. Decisions about pipelines are made by regulators who have spent years working in the oil industry, and who will be heading back to jobs in the industry after their stint 'regulating' it. Politicians receive campaign funds from corporate lobbyists.
    43. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016
      Working class organizing
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2016
      Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. In this issue, we pay special attention to working class organizing. There can be no meaningful change without the active participation of the majority of the population: working people. Yet much activism ignores this obvious reality, while the organized labour union movement has put much of its reliance on 'professionals' who see organizing as a top-down technique rather than a grassroots movement. Several articles in this issue look at aspects of these issues. We also delve into the relationship between feminism and socialism, and look at the so-called 'sharing economy,' which produces increasingly exploited and precarious work, and immense profits for super-rich corporate owners.
    44. The Postmodern Left and the success of neoliberalism 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      The international Left promotes its own image rather than engaging in the bitter reality of resistance against neoliberalism. It does not need to believe in postmodernism because it is postmodernism.
    45. Beyond Banksters
      Resisting the New Feudalism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2016
      Beyond Banksters explores how the powers of the Bank of Canada were appropriated in the 1970s, resulting in billions of dollars in public debt. From Milton Friedman to Justin Trudeau's Canada Infrastructure Bank, from BlackRock to crappy trade deals to Bilderberg, Nelson exposes the major players privatizing the world and creating a new state of feudalism. Icelanders resisted. Nelson says Canada must too.
    46. Black History and the Class Struggle
      #25
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
    47. Canada Since 1960: A People's History
      A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2016
      An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
    48. Dufferin Grove Park as a neighbourhood commons, stories from 1993-2015
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2016
    49. Everyday Exposure
      Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada's Chemical Valley
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2016
      Surrounded by Canada's densest concentration of chemical manufacturing plants, members of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation have expressed concern about a declining male birth rate and high incidences of miscarriage, asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular illness. Everyday Exposure uncovers the systemic injustices they face as they fight for environmental justice.
    50. 40 Years 40 Faces
      Portraits and Stories from South Riverdale Community Health Centre - 1976 - 2016
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
    51. A Future Without Hate or Need
      The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2016
      Driven from their homes in Russia, Poland, and Romania by pogroms and poverty, many Jews who came to Canada in the wave of immigration after the 1905 Russian revolution were committed radicals. A Future Without Hate or Need brings to life the rich and multi-layered lives of a dissident political community, their shared experiences and community-building cultural projects, as they attempted to weave together their ethnic particularity -- their identity as Jews -- with their internationalist class politics.
    52. Gently to Nagasaki
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2016
      An exploration both communal and intensely personal, Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage. Set against the backdrops of Vancouver, Toronto, the Slocan and Caoldate Valleys, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan, this book from Joy Kogawa is also an account of a remarkable life.
    53. Life Sentence
      Stories from four decades of court reporting - or, how I fell out of love with the Canadian justice system (especially judges)
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2016
      Through an examination of notable trials she has covered, Chrisitie Blatchford makes the case that Canada's judicial system is out of control and often inept. Judges, she says, are the new senators, unelected, unaccountable and overly entitled, while lawyers are often self-satisfied and contemptuous of anyone who is not a member of the club.
    54. The Other Slavery
      The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2016
      Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of Natives who were kidnapped and enslaved by the conquistadors.
    55. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 54 No. 1 - Winter 2016
      Winter issue (Election and aftermath, climate talks, book and film reviews, and much more)
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2016
    56. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 54 No. 2 - Spring 2016
      Farewell Issue
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2016
      This is the final issue of Outlook Magazine.
    57. Queer Progress
      From Homophobia to Homonationalism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2016
      A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
    58. A statement against the immigration detention of children
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016
      As organizations and individuals that care about children, we believe that Canada should immediately cease the practice of placing children in immigration detention. These detainees include asylum seekers, refugees, Canadian citizens and non-citizens. Children range in age from newborns and toddlers to pre-teens and teenagers, some of whom are unaccompanied.
    59. Stop Line 9
      Respect the Treaties. Protect the Land, Air and Water We All Share
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2016

    2015

    1. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume 2
      Economic Writings 2
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2015   Published: 2016
      Rosa Luxemburg’s theoretical masterpiece
    2. An Exchange on History From the Bottom Up
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
    3. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 19, 2015
      Utopia
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
      Utopian visions, be they practical or not, free our imaginations, if only for a little while, from the daily grind of struggle and worry, and allow us to dream about the kind of world we would hope to live in. Such dreams can inspire us and guide us, even if they are not always quite practical. This issue of Other Voices peers into the world of utopian visions, practical or otherwise.
    4. Six Questions About Your Class Location that EverydayFeminism.com Isn't Asking You to Think About
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Solidarity doesn’t exist, like a material object, the way tables and chairs do. Solidarity is the confidence we can sometimes have that others, sharing with us a common enemy and a core of overlapping aspirations, will have our back when we find ourselves under attack, or when we need their support to win a crucial struggle. We don't stumble upon solidarity when poring over statistics; we won't find it by comparing our pay stubs with that of the worker down the street. We forge it in common struggle
    5. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 5, 2015
      Ecosocialism, environment, and urban gardening
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
      This issue of Other Voices covers a wide range of issues, from the climate crisis and the ecosocialist response, to terrorism and the struggle against religious fundamentalism, as well as items on urban gardening, the destruction of olive trees, and how the police are able to use Google's timeline feature to track you every move, now and years into the past.
    6. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015
      Climate Change and Social Change
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
      This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a product of an economic system whose driving force is the need to grow and accumulate. Nor does it affect everyone equally: those with wealth and power can buy themselves what they need to continue living comfortably for years to come - everything from air conditioning to food to police and soldiers to protect their secure bubbles - while those who are poor and powerless find their lives increasingly impossible. A serious effort to address climate change therefore means social change and economic change.
    7. Down With U.S. Imperialism's Anti-China Trade Pact!
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      If it is ratified, the TPP will be the largest trade agreement in history, encompassing at least 40 percent of the world’s gross domestic product and one-third of all global trade. Japan and the more minor imperialist countries Canada and Australia have been cut in on the deal -- and competing European powers cut out -- but it is the U.S. rulers who hold the whip hand. Under the banner of "free trade," the TPP aims to drive up the exploitation of labour across the board while increasing imperialist domination of dependent countries. Above all, this agreement targets China, escalating the U.S. bourgeoisie's drive to promote capitalist counterrevolution there through economic pressure and military encirclement.
    8. Connexions Postcard
      Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
      First Published: 2015
      A two-sided Connexions postcard. One side features the Connexions website; the other side features the Connexions Archive.
    9. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2015
      Corporate rights treaties
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
      Our focus is on the corporate rights treaties that are misleadingly sold as trade agreements. In particular, the spotlight is on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, negotiated in secret, and now scheduled to be rubber-stamped by national governments on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. The TPP is best understood as a major milestone in the long-term war waged by the corporate elite against any form of democracy.
    10. Trade agreements and the corporate war on democracy
      Introduction to the November 7, 2015 issue of Other Voices
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      The Trans-Pacific Partnership, negotiated in secret, and now scheduled to be rubber-stamped by national governments on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, is best understood as a major milestone in the long-term war waged by the corporate elite against any form of democracy. It gives corporations the power to block any environmental protections or health and safety legislation that could be interpreted as interfering with a corporation's 'right' to make a profit by doing whatever it wants.
    11. How to Promote a Just Transition and Break out of the jobs vs. environment trap 
      A Superfund for Workers
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      A strategy has been emerging to protect workers and communities whose livelihoods may be threatened by climate protection policies. Protecting those who lose their jobs due to necessary environmental policies has often been referred to as a "just transition."
    12. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 24, 2015
      Whistleblowers and national security
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      This issue sheds light whistleblowers and the murky world of national security. Governments may often pay lip service to the importance of protecting whistleblowers, but in reality they are almost always persecuted. Repercussions can range from being fired to being imprisoned.
    13. The Black Panthers: Movie Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      With its powerful archival footage and interviews with former Black Panther Party members, Stanley Nelson’s documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution reopens a chapter of black history that has long been distorted, hated and feared by the racist rulers of America.
    14. Leninism vs. Debs's Socialist Party
      The Communist Fight Against Black Oppression
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Articles by Eugene Debs, written as polemics against racists within the Socialist Party, are eloquent in defending black people against racism, in calling for working-class unity across racial lines and in emphasizing that the Socialist Party should open its ranks to black people. In "The Negro in the Class Struggle," Debs stressed, "The history of the Negro in the United States is a history of crime without a parallel." Debs stands out favorably against most of his contemporaries in the labor movement -- including within the SP. Debs's writing remains a powerful denunciation of white workers' racism. Debs recognized that black oppression, rather than making white workers privileged, degrades them, thus providing a refutation of the later concept of "white skin privilege."
    15. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015
      Elections
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
      Elections are the topic of the week, with items related to the October 19 Canadian federal election, and also to broader issues of parliamentary democracy, voting and whether voting can bring about change, and the neo-liberal attack on democracy. Articles look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the financial takeovers of Ukraine and Greece, and debt bondage. Also: a discussion of James Hansen's fossil fuel exit strategy, and a critique of Alinsky-style organizing.
    16. Class-Struggle Road to Black Freedom: Part Two
      Marxism vs. the Myth of "White Skin Privilege"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      The victory of the socialist revolution in this country will be achieved through the united struggle of black and white workers.
    17. A comment on John Holloway's 'Read Capital: The First Sentence, Or, Capital starts with Wealth, not with the Commodity'
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      John Holloway has written an article entirely devoted to the first sentence of Marx's Capital, a sentence which he claims is key to the whole book. Ulli Diemer thinks Holloway is misguided.
    18. Thoughts about the "college-educated left"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Today, in the neo-liberal phase of capitalism, neo-liberal ideology is dominant in the universities. Neo-liberalism denies the idea of class, denies that there are any alternatives to capitalism, and rejects so-called ‘grand theories’ which view capitalism as a historical period with a beginning and an eventual end.
    19. What is Stephen Harper doing to Canada? How can we stop him?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      The Harper regime has had a toxic effect on Canada. The wealthy are better off, but most Canadians are worse off, and rights and freedoms, democracy, access to information, and science have suffered. How can we stop him? Here is a factsheet which can be downloaded, printed, and distributed as a two-sided flyer.
    20. Contest: Guess the date of Harper's next 'terrorist plot'
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      What are the odds that a 'terrorist plot' will be 'uncovered' in the late stages of the election campaign, so that Harper can spend the final days of the campaign talking about terrorism, terrorism, and more terrorism?
    21. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2015
      Labour Day issue
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
      Labour Day issue, with articles examining the relentless pressure put on workers to work ever longer hours, at the cost of their health and family life; anti-worker legislation, Zapatista popular education, and the Greek crisis.
    22. How We Changed Toronto
      The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2015
      By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.
    23. Memory as paying business
      Getting a battlefield, the site of tragedy or a memorial museum onto Unesco's World Heritage List is now a shrewd way to increase tourist
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      A look at how memorials and sites of great tragedy are now being exploited for financial gain as tourist destinations.
    24. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
      Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
      Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
    25. Canada After Harper
      His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2015
      Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
    26. The real reason American public transportation is such a disaster
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Stromberg dissects socials attitude regarding public transit in the United States, where infrastructure in most cities was designed with automobile dependency in mind, thereby causing transit to be been viewed and designed, as a form of social welfare rather than a public utility.
    27. Bangladesh volunteers learn to make a life-or-death difference in a disaster
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      In the wake of the Rana Plaza collapse, civilians - often first on the scene of disasters in poorer countries - are being trained to support emergency teams.
    28. This dome in the Pacific houses tons of radioactive waste - and it's leaking
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands is a hulking legacy of years of US nuclear testing. Now locals and scientists are warning that rising sea levels caused by climate change could cause 111,000 cubic yards of debris to spill into the ocean.
    29. Mass Incarceration for Profit
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      In the face of growing public criticism and improved technologies, companies like Securus search for new ways to remain competitive while marketing themselves as providers of a quality service that keeps the public safe. Yet with the involvement of global financial houses in the prison industrial complex, the pressure mounts to produce value for shareholders. Ultimately, this systematically incentivizes mass incarceration. While we often hear about the activities of private prison providers like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, corporate interests are immersed in every aspect of criminal justice.
    30. South Africa's short memory
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      The migrants so recently attacked in South Africa almost all came from neighbouring countries that paid a high price in death and ruin for supporting anti-apartheid struggles.
    31. Spirit of Truth and Reconciliation already broken
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      It is clear that the outcome of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has at best, no consequence for the present lives of the First Nations peoples of Canada.
    32. Tory right-to-buy plan threatens mass selloff of council homes
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Speculators circle as London councils could be forced to sell every new house they build, warns housing expert.
    33. In more innocent days, you could write about cocks and not be misunderstood
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      The BBC has changed Titty for Tatty in a remake of Swallows and Amazons. Much children's literature is a hazard for double entendres.
    34. The Jewish Voice for Peace Attack on Alison Weir: JVP Loses Its Balance
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
    35. The Parliament Streetcar (Deceased)
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      A history of the Parliament streetcar route in Toronto, including the eventual closure of the route.
    36. Cape Town's death industry: 'If you’re buried here, it's as if they threw you away'
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      The Xhosa people make up the vast majority of Cape Town's black population, spending most or all of their lives in the South African city. Saverin narrates why the people living there don't want to be buried there.
    37. A novel oasis: why Argentina is the bookshop capital of the world
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Buenos Aires alone has more bookstores per person than any other city in the world - just enough for inquisitive Argentinians to indulge their literary cravings.
    38. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2015
      Corruption
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
      Corruption - or at least some types of corruption - are much in the news, with the ongoing scandals in the Canadian Senate and the recent U.S. targeting of the Swiss-based football federation FIFA for alleged bribery. In this issue, we look at these and other forms of corruption. Diana Johnstone writes about the double standards displayed by U.S. institutions, which happily target enemies and rivals, while ignoring the much greater corruption that underlies the power structures in Washington. We feature an article detailing how much money U.S. Senators received from corporations prior to their vote on the TPP negotiations, as well as materials on criminal conduct by some of the world's biggest banks, and an article on the work of investigative journalists in exposing corruption.
    39. Pakistan: 'Son, you brought electricity to the village and added 15 years to my life'
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      A micro-hydro programme bringing sustainable energy to a region of Pakistan ravaged by conflict and floods has won an Ashden award for lighting the future.
    40. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015
      Residential schools
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
      This issue of Other Voices focuses on residential schools. As documented by the just-released report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, residential schools were set up to forcibly 'assimilate' Native children by taking them away from their parents and communities, and depriving them of their language, culture, history, and emotional supports. Based as they were on a system of arbitrary power and cruelty, it is not surprising that they also fostered physical and sexual abuse of the children forced into the schools. We spotlight the report and the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as films, books, and survivor stories. Also in this issue: the Orwellian language and tactics being used to sell 'anti-terrorist' legislation, mind-boggling subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, and, on the other side of the ledger, stories of courage and resistance.
    41. A quick note on neoliberalism and state capitalism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      The key to understanding neo-liberalism, in my opinion, is power, not ideology.
    42. California turns to fake grass in response to drought
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Despite objections from environmentalists, artificial turf is growing in Calinfornia.
    43. Communism and the Family (Part Two)
      The Marxist Approach to Women's Liberation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      The family is the primary institution through which bourgeois ideology in its various forms is transmitted from one generation to the next.
    44. BBC defends reality show involving poor, dubbed 'Hunger Games'
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Britain's Hardest Grafter will pit 25 of Britain's lowest-paid workers against each other for cash prize in series it claims is a 'serious social experiment'.
    45. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
      A Healthier Planet
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
      With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
    46. Marikana massacre: the untold story of the strike leader who died for workers’ rights
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      In 2012 a strike at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa ended when police opened fire, killing 34 miners. Investigations have revealed one rebel leader died trying to broker a peaceful solution.
    47. Communism and the Family (Part One)
      The Marxist Approach to Women's Liberation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Replacing the family with collective institutions is the most radical aspect of the communist program and will bring about the deepest, most sweeping changes in daily life, not least for children.
    48. Time to break silence on Gaza assault
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Previous reports from such groups as Physicians for Human Rights Israel have indicated clearly that civilians were indiscriminately targeted, including in hospitals and ambulances. Testimonies from soldiers given to Breaking the Silence give further evidence to the extreme criminal actions of the Israeli army last summer. The silence in North America media on this report is deafening. Even Israeli media has reported it. The suppression of the truth does not serve us well. It’s time for the North American media to break its silence.
    49. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
      Urban agriculture and local food production
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
      This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
    50. America's trailer parks: the residents may be poor but the owners are getting rich
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      It's an unusual but potentially lucrative investment: Warren Buffett is prompting people to attend Mobile Home University, a 'boot camp' in trailer park ownership.
    51. France’s libraries discovering a new lease of life beyond just books
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Seminars, events and cafes are helping some formerly staid institutions reinvent themselves as social 'third spaces' beyond work and the home.
    52. Canada's Creeping Police State
      Capitalist Repression and War
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      The Conservative Harper government’s Bill C-51, the "Anti-Terrorism Act 2015," is a sweeping attack on free speech and other civil liberties. The bill targets publications, web postings and even private conversations sympathetic to causes that the capitalist rulers deem to be "terrorism." It authorizes the CSIS secret police to go after any activity that "undermines the sovereignty, security or territorial integrity of Canada" or interferes with the country's "economic or financial stability." And you don't have to actually do anything; the bill provides for "preventive detention" of individuals who the police claim "may commit" an offense.
    53. The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929: A Review
      Upholding the Revolutionary Legacy
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929 examines the founding, development and degeneration of the Communist Party (CP) in the United States in the broader framework of the struggle for international proletarian revolution. Available in both paperback and hardcover, this fully indexed book, with extensive footnotes and references, will be of enduring value as a reference work for avowed socialists as well as scholars of communism. It is also a fun and interesting read and belongs in the toolkits of everyone seeking a coherent revolutionary program and lessons on building an organization.
    54. May Day: workers of the world unite and take over -- their factories
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      The co-operative movement is giving employees the chance to rebuild shuttered livelihoods.
    55. Zionists Seek to Silence the Lancet and Secure the Dismissal of its Editor, Richard Horton
      Response to the Complaint to Reed Elsevier, Publishers of the Lancet, by Professor Sir Mark Pepys and 395 Colleagues
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      The involvement of 396 senior researchers in a mass effort to force Reed Elsevier to withdraw the letter is the latest in a series of heavy-handed interventions to stifle media coverage of the Israel-Palestine issue and should be resisted.
    56. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2015
      Eduardo Galeano, Latin America, the Vietnam War
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
      In this issue of Other Voices, we mark the death of Eduardo Galeano by featuring two of his books, as well as an article about his life and work. Galeano once wrote that he was "obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." In his writing, especially Open Veins of Latin America and the mesmerizing Memory of Fire trilogy, Galeano contributed enormously to bringing alive, and keeping alive, the memories of Latin America, and especially of those whom he called the "nobodies" -- the people "who do not appear in the history of the world." Next week also marks the 40th anniversary of the final victory of the Vietnamese war of resistance against the American invasion and occupation.
    57. The right way to end terrorism
      From armed resistance to jihadist networks
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Gresh discusses a way to end terrorism, by placing an emphasis on the term itself and the repercussions of its meaning and use.
    58. Can you really make a living by selling used books on Amazon for a penny?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Secondhand book sales online not only make millions but also offer demanding customers rare – or simply cheap – titles that might otherwise rot in landfill.
    59. Israeli occupation damages Palestinian health, human rights group shows
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Israeli group Physicians for Human Rights has released two reports documenting the deterioration of Palestinian health under occupation. Divide and Conquer documents the deterioration of Palestinian health in the West Bank and Gaza as the direct consequence of ongoing Israeli military occupation.
    60. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 9, 2015
      Resisting Neoliberalism
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
      Resisting neoliberalism: "free markets" and "free trade" are an ideological cover for what is actually a form of state capitalism in which working people subsidize and bail out corporations and the rich. In this edition of Other Voices, and more extensively on the Connexions website, we look at both neoliberalism and the resistance to it. The version of capitalism which became dominant by the 1980s has been given the name neoliberalism. The term refers to the global economic restructuring which has taken place, and to the accompanying shifts in the structures of power under which local and national governments have seen their ability to act independently curtailed by international treaties and by institutions which owe their ultimate allegiance to corporate capital. The essence of neoliberalism has been an unending campaign of class struggle by the rich against the rest. Yet resistance continues, and indeed continues to grow.
    61. Preservation or plunder? The battle over the British Museum's Indigenous Australian show
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Indigenous Australians are calling for the objects on show at the British Museum's new exhibition to be returned.
    62. Resisting Neoliberalism
      Introduction to the April 9, 2015 issue of Other Voices
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Neoliberalism is a fraud. The so-called free markets and free trade which it pretends to promote are in fact controlled by giant corporations, and massively subsidized by workers and ordinary citizens.
    63. Attica: The Nightmare That Never Ends
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Today, the incarcerated population in the U.S. has mushroomed to some 2.4 million, seven times the number in 1971, not least as a result of the racist "war on drugs." The prison population grew massively in the 1970s and 1980s in direct proportion to the sharp decline in unionized manufacturing jobs, a measure of how the bourgeoisie has deemed whole layers of the ghetto and barrio masses "surplus." Prisons and jails represent, in concentrated form, the brutality of this racist capitalist society, with severe dehumanization and oppressive conditions directed against an already marginalized and demoralized population.
    64. Libya's second civil war
      From armed resistance to jihadist networks
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      With the events that led to Gaddafi's fall, a civil war between local groups and rival militias started in Libya. Four years later IS has appeared, and the country seems on the brink of collapse.
    65. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015
      Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
      This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issues, "Blue Betrayal," the film "The Future of Food," the Independent Science News website, which focuses on the science of food and agriculture, and the memoir "Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist" by Brewster Kneen, a former farmer and long-time critic of corporate agriculture.
    66. Bangkok's Big Brother is watching you
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Abigail Haworth charts the rise of General Prayuth Chan-ocha and his despotic regime.
    67. Cops Charge Black Activist with "Lynching"
      Defend Maile Hampton!
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      On January 18, 2015, Maile Hampton, a young black woman and member of the ANSWER Coalition, was leading chants at a Sacramento, California, protest against a pro-cop rally. An online video shows the cops violently attacking several protesters, slamming a woman against a cop car and repeatedly throwing a man to the ground. While both were being handcuffed, the crowd chanted to let them go. Five weeks later, Hampton was arrested at her home. She now faces up to four years in jail on charges of felony "lynching"! A law supposedly intended to criminalize the extra-legal murder of black people, Mexicans and others by the racist terrorists of the KKK and their ilk, is now wielded by the police against those who actively protest the modern-day legal lynchings carried out by the cops.
    68. Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement (Part Two)
      Police Terror and Black Oppression
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Formal, legal inequality in the South was susceptible to reform. But getting rid of the economic and social reality that is black oppression in America -- from de facto segregation and poverty to police brutality -- is not subject to reform because it is integral to the capitalist system.
    69. Conservationist murders threaten Costa Rica's eco-friendly reputation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      The murder of Jairo Mora, who was trying to protect endangered turtle eggs, was the latest in a string of crimes against environmentalists in the country. Many worry activists will stay away if poachers continue to go unpunished.
    70. Rail disaster strategy lacking
      Re: Rail disaster plan falls short, critics warn
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      A rail disaster strategy should include an actual plan to save lives and the environment. It is impossible to compensate lost lives and damaged environment from highly toxic damaging crude oil and radioactive substances that are being transported.
    71. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
      Organizing
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
      The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work toward common goals, collectively. That requires organizing. Power gives way only when it is challenged by powerful movements for change, and movements grow out of organizing. In this newsletter, we feature a number of articles, books, and other organizing resources.
    72. The biggest threat to a free society is freedom of speech, says Canada’s Public Safety Minister
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Canada's "Public Safety" Minister Steven Blaney says that the Holocaust could have been prevented if only Germany hadn't suffered from an excess of freedom of speech.
    73. Bigotry in the Guise of Secularism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      The murder at Charlie Hebdo and the Paris kosher supermarket have unleashed a wave of attacks on French Muslim communities, their culture and religion.The analysis by Carmen Teeple Hopkins helps explain the background of the present dangers and tragedies.
    74. A Case of Police Violence Against Women
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      The police torture of a woman at Kalamadanga village, in the Bardhaman district of West Bengal, is a grim reminder that "normalization" of state violence, particularly violence on women, has continued unabated regardless of which party is in power.
    75. Defend Reverend Pinkney
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      An appeal hearing is scheduled for February 24, 2015 regarding the imprisonment of Reverend Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor, MI. The American Civil Leaders Union has filed an "Amicus Curiae Brief" in support of Pinkney.
    76. Eslanda Robeson's Journey
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      A book review of Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson, by Barbara Ransby.
    77. Feminism, Marxism: Marriage or Divorce?
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      A book review of Dangerous Liaisons: The marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism
      By Cinzia Arruzza.
    78. Hillary Clinton and Corporate Feminism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Feminist enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton is reflective of a profound crisis of U.S. liberal feminism, which has long embraced or accepted corporate capitalism, racism, empire, and even heterosexism and transphobia.
    79. Honoring the Socialist Mary Marcy
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Withe the centenary of World War I underway, it does us well to recall the remarkable socialist militant, Mary Marcy (1877-1922).
    80. Jobs, Ecology, and Survival
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Lars Henriksson presents some thoughts about solving the old contradiction between jobs and the environment, ilooking specifically at the auto industry.
    81. Marx and the Family Revisited
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      A book review: Marxism and the Oppression of Women Toward a Unitary Theory, by Lise Vogel.
    82. The Murder of Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh, 32 years old, a mother, poet and member of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party, was gunned down January, 2015 24 by black-clad snipers who were seen on video pointing rifles in her direction
    83. The Two-Party System, Part III
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      This perceived marriage of "progressive" change and the Democratic Party grew from conditions that prevailed from the 1930s through the 1960s. The next half century sustained this faith less through positive policies than by comforting images. Integral to this has been the rise of a warfare state with its own logic. The implications of both have made a two-party political order unchanged by the end of either World War II or the Cold War.
    84. Workplace Violence: Silent Epidemic
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Workplace violence ranges from threats and curses to murder. Spitting on bus drivers is so common in New York City that their union won them DNA kits last year, to collect saliva.
    85. "Gestapo" tactics at US police 'black site' ring alarm from Chicago to Washington
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Politicians and rights groups call for inquiries into interrogations at Homan Square. Mayor Rahm Emanuel faces questions as top supporters examine abuse.
    86. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
      Ukraine
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
      Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India.
    87. Airport expansion
      Re: Billy Bishop expansion plan needs real scrutiny
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      The Toronto Island airport in its present configuration is already harmful to public health. Any expansion would contribute to climate change by increasing emissions and air pollution and decreasing green and recreational space.
    88. Montreal: Campus Feminists Fail to Gag Marxists
      For Women's Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      The logic of feminism is class collaboration. It also means relying on the bourgeois state to "defend women." The role of the capitalist state is to defend the interests of the capitalists. It has nothing to do with ending the misery of the oppressed.
    89. SYC Defends Marxism at Finkelstein Talk
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
    90. Welcome to Ukraine, the most corrupt nation in Europe
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      While the conflict with Russia heats up in the east, life for most Ukrainians is marred by corruption so endemic that even hospitals appear to be infected.
    91. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015
      Land seizures and land take-overs
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
      This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a Syrizia government. From the archives, there are interviews about the 1974 occupation of Anicinabe Park, an article about anti-dicrimination fighter Viola Desmond, and the publication, in 1929, of All Quiet on the Western Front.
    92. The Police and the 1918-19 German Revolution
      A Correction to Our Militant Labour Pamphlet
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      After the SPD took the helm of the government, Emil Eichhorn, a member of the left wing of the USPD, became the Berlin chief of police, acting on the false view that this arm of the bourgeois state could be transformed into a revolutionary instrument. On 4 January 1919, the Prussian Ministry of the Interior dismissed Eichhorn in a deliberate provocation.
    93. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 15, 2015
      Workers' Health and Safety
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
      The topic of the week is Workers' Health and Safety. Articles on why environmentalists should support working class struggles; whistleblowers; the appalling death rate from U.S. drone strikes; the murderous attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris; and what humanity could learn from Bonobos. The feature from the archives is Traces of Magma. The International Labor Rights Forum is the group of the week, and Silkwood is the film of the week.
    94. NYC Cop Backlash
      Amid Protests Against Racist Police Terror
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Weeks of mass protests that erupted after the policemen who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner got off have left cops across the country seething. These hired guns of the capitalist rulers are howling over any criticism of how they do their job, which in racist capitalist America does include terrorizing and killing unarmed black people. Leading the pack in New York City are the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) and its ilk, which have seized on the December 20, 2014 killing of two Brooklyn cops to further push their agenda of bonapartism: that is, to stand above the law as judge, jury and executioner.
    95. Who's the true enemy of internet freedom - China, Russia, or the US?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Beijing and Moscow are rightly chastised for restricting their citizens' online access – but it's the US that is now even more aggressive in asserting its digital sovereignty.
    96. Altered Genes, Twisted Truth 
      How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2015
      Drucker elucidates the scientific facts about genetically engineered foods that the PR myths have been obscuring.
    97. Debunking Barrick
      2015 Update
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      A updated annual report of the 2013 publication titled Debunking Barrick. The report outlines the abuses by the mining company Barrick Gold and the many communities around the globe that are affected by its operations.
    98. Dr. Mike Carr passes at 73
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Dr. Mike Carr, community activist, academic and teacher, passed away amongst his Cuban family in Havana Cuba.
    99. Esraa's Stories
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2015
      The illustrated children's book Esraa's Stories tells the tale of a girl who loves to write stories, and one day chooses to write about what everyone misses most from the camp in Syria. Through book distribution Kitabna seeks to develop reading, writing, and teaching skills with young people in refugee camps.
    100. The German War
      A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945. Citizens and Soldiers
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2015
    101. Mining: Extracting the Future
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
      A publication on the negative impact of the mining industry on local communities and the environment. Articles include a look at the opening of Canada's North to industry, mining exploitation in Peru and targeted assassinations in Mesoamerica, Indigenous Water Defence, and the efforts of mining companies to excerpt influence and undermine accountability.
    102. Of Newsletters and Pamphlets
      Autonomist Communication and Organizing in 1970s 'Canada.'
      Resource Type: Slide Show
      First Published: 2015
    103. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 53 No. 1 - Winter 2015
      Winter Issue (poetry, book and film reviews, and much more)
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
    104. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 53 No. 2 - Spring 2015
      Spring Issue (Canadian and world scene, poetry, book and films reviews, and more)
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
    105. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 53 No. 3 - Summer 2015
      Literary/cultural issue (poetry, book and film reviews, and much more)
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2015
    106. Planned Parenthood under siege
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Women, especially poor women, have already been severely impacted by an avalanche of laws that effectively strip them of being able to obtain what is a legal medical procedure. The Republican vow to defund Planned Parenthood would mean $500 million cut from two programs aimed at helping poor people: 75% from Medicaid; and the rest from Title X—the federal family planning program that serves poor Americans.
    107. Read Capital: The First Sentence, Or, Capital starts with Wealth, not with the Commodity
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      John Holloway claims that Marx, in Capital, does not start with the commodify.
    108. Slick Water
      Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Mot Powerful Industry
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2015
      A story of abuses by the fossil fuel industry and governments, telling the story of fracking rhough the lens of a legal battle to expose the truth. Nikiforuk raises stark questions about the role of Big Oil in government, society's obsession with mining low-grade oil and gas formations, and the future of democracy.
    109. A Tate Gallery for the New Left
      Portraits, Landscapes, and Abstracts in the Revolutionary Activism of the 1950s and 1960s
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      A review essay on Ernie Tate's two-volume memoir on Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s and 60s.
    110. What Does Science Tell Us About Race?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2015
      Six points about the complex relation between scientific research and the reality of human group differences.

    2014

    1. Other Voices Introductions
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014   Published: 2021
      Introductions to the Other Voices newsletters from July 2014 through to the end of 2021.
    2. Regent Park story not so simple
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Individuals and families already marginalized by poverty, poor health and barriers to accessing services, are being further marginalized by displacement.
    3. Radical Digressions 7
      Resource Type: Website
      First Published: 2014   Published: 2017
    4. Like a Dull Knife: The People's Climate "Farce"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Even in a top-down format, one hopes the upcoming march could draw much-needed attention to the climate movement.
    5. Marxism and the Fight Against Native Oppression in Canada
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014   Published: 2015
      Our political tendency has always emphasized the need to combat the special oppression of Natives, blacks, women and others. Such oppression is intimately connected with the “normal” capitalist exploitation of the workers and must be fought by means of the class struggle. Most of our opponents on the left these days reject historical materialism, just as they reject the perspective of working-class revolution and instead push variants of Native cultural nationalism and "ecosocialism."
    6. The Rise of British Imperialism
      Part I: The Protestant Reformation to the English Revolution
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014   Published: 2015
      Russell Stroker of the Trotskyist League goes back to the origins of the world capitalist system in the 16th century to explain how imperialism emerged out of the political and economic logic of capitalism.
    7. Polish farmers threaten uprising over opencast coalmine
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Heinz unites with farmers in rebellion against plan to build a vast lignite mine and power plant on farming land in western Poland.
    8. The bird that travels 29,000km a year
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The Rufa red knot's epic annual migration from Tierra del Fuego to the Canadian Arctic risks being grounded by climate change.
    9. Diaries reveal Jewish suffering during Holocaust in Hungary
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Diary reveals how doctor hid Jewish boy and his aunt from Nazis in her Budapest home during the late stages of the Second World War.
    10. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 18, 2014
      The Commons
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2014
      From its beginnings, one of capitalism's prime imperatives has been an all-out and never-ceasing assault on the Commons in all its manifestations. Common land, common water, public ownership -- anything rooted in the ancient human traditions of sharing and cooperation is anathema to an economic system that seeks to turn everything that exists into private property that can be exploited for profit. This issue of the Connexions Newsletter focuses on the Commons.
    11. American drought: California's crisis
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      California is undergoing its worst drought in a generation. Chris McGreal explains how it is affecting the state.
    12. Shut down the tarsands
      Re: Pipeline projects need a rigorous review process,
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Present emissions are already too much and carbon released from extreme extraction such as the tarsands, experts say, will tip the planet over to become uninhabitable. The health impacts from such extraction is also unacceptable, suffered by indigenous people and workers, and the local environmental costs are huge. We need to find a better way for our world and we need to do it now.
    13. Tsunami, 10 years on: the sea nomads who survived the devastation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Thailand's indigenous sea gypsies predicted the waves that swept their villages away in 2004, and most of them escaped unharmed. Now they are facing a new threat to their centuries-old way of life: tourism and the encroaching modern world.
    14. Level up: how PlayStation infiltrated youth culture
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Twenty years ago, new games consoles began appearing in nightclub chillout rooms, subversive TV ads and cutting-edge style magazines. Keith Stuart and Steve Boxer describe how Sony created the PlayStation generation based on the underground culture.
    15. A Chinese alternative
      Social democracy by the union route
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Dongfang discusses how changing undemocratic Chinese business enterprises, through active labour unions, would also change the social structure of the country.
    16. Inventing the future
      A tradable commodity in the huge, globalised ideas market
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Experts and writers are competing publicly to offer their visions of what is to come in the future.
    17. Not Worth The Risk
      A Community Report on the Line 9 International Energy Board Hearings
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline – a 38 year old pipeline that is almost identical in build and age to the Line 6B pipeline that ruptured into the Kalamazoo river – seeks to gain approval to reverse its flow, increase its capacity, and carry a dangerous heavy crude known as dilbit, or diluted bitumen. Line 9 runs through sensitive ecosystems and important farmlands throughout Southern Ontario and Quebec, and passes within 50 km of over 9 million people, including 18 First Nations communities.
    18. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2014
      Climate Change
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2014
      The theme for this issue, and the topic of the week, is Climate Change. Groups and websites engaged in the fight for action on global warming and climate justice are featured. Book of the week is Magdoff and Foster's "What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism." In addition to articles on climate change, there are articles on Ebola, corporate tax evasion, and state terrorism, as well as a 1971 interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
    19. The Song of the Shirt: Cheap Clothes Across Continents and Centuries by Jeremy Seabrook – review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A review of the book "The Song of the Shirt: Cheap Clothes Across Continents and Centuries", an account of the clothing industry and the exploitative conditions that workers undergo as they work for international firms.
    20. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2014
      Libertarian Socialism
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2014
      The topic of the week is Libertarian Socialism. Articles on no-state solutions in Kurdistan; right-wing dirty tricks used to attack labour and environmental groups; scientists unravelling the risks of new pesticides; the terrors faced by fishermen in Gaza; and bringing books and seeking peace in Colombia. Film of the week is Even the Rain, and book of the week is Adolph Reed's Class Notes.
    21. Whale songs: shanties drag mysteries of whaling life back from the deep
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A new album of songs chronicling the lost culture of whaling reminds new audiences a forgotten way of life.
    22. Look back in joy: the power of nostalgia
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Long considered a disorder, nostalgia is now recognised as a powerful tool in the battle against anxiety and depression. Researchers prove that looking back can improve the outlook for today and tomorrow.
    23. The rise and rise of sexology
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Christopher Turner examines some of the objects found in the Institute of Sexology and finds that the pioneers of the study of sex were not just campaigners but political activists and collectors.
    24. Beat off the vulture's swoop
      The judge who took an economy hostage
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Emerging economies need to issue their state bonds in financial centres where the law blocks vulture funds from profiting from financial woes. New York is off the list.
    25. Democracy rezoned
      Republicans fix polls in US elections
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      By employing techniques that take advantage of the extreme polarisation of the US electorate, the Republican Party is able to fix polls.
    26. Mass Incarceration and the Left
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Thompson opens up a discussion regarding the American criminal justice system and why incarceration does not lead to rehabilitation back into society.
    27. The Middle East's "World War"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The editors compare the reasons driving the United States' involvement in Iraq and Syria with those behind the decision to invade Afghanistan.
    28. Off the Land
      What subsistence really looks like
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Short essay on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation and their subsistence activities.
    29. Russia's other October revolution
      How did we get from perestroika to Putin?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Explaining contemporary Russia as the product of Boris Yeltsin's insistence to enforce a neoliberal economy.
    30. Two Years After the CTU Strike
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      In light of the Chicago Teachers Union's strike that changed the discourse on education in the United States, Bartlett analyzes the persisting problems with public education systems, such as school closings, privitization, and poor allocation of funding.
    31. We've got our eye on you
      US wants to control, and own, the world online
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Edward Snowden not only told the world about US state surveillance of national and personal secrets, he reminded us that almost all the companies surveying us for commercial gain are American.
    32. Why a Killer Cop is Not Arrested
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Miah analyzes the grand jury system and police conduct in the United States to explain why the large number of African Americans killed by police are considered justifiable homicides in court.
    33. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 30, 2014
      Refugees
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2014
      Topic of the week is Refugees. Featured articles look at migration, counter-surveillance resources, farmers in Ghana fighting to retain the freedom to save their own seeds, and rebuilding communities faced with mining companies in Ecuador. The website of the week is Mediamatters. From the archives we've got Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement.
    34. Prisoners' Pictures review -- exploring science and propaganda amid conflict
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A photography exhibition in Frankfurt examines first world war propaganda attempts to stir revolt among Muslim soldiers.
    35. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 16, 2014
      Arms Trade
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2014
      Topic of the week is the Arms Trade. Featured resources include The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade, an article on Israel's War Business, and the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. A new feature in Other Voices is the Film of the Week: to start off, we spotlight The Corporation, an exploration of the dominant institution of our time. Plus: Lying to ourselves about the air war, Karl Marx's critique of modern agriculture, and a challenge to Montreal's anti-protest bylaw.
    36. Illegal loggers remain hidden in Peru's forest but timber finds global buyers
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      State exercises little control over remote Amazon region blighted by poverty and illiteracy, and organised crime fills the vacuum.
    37. Cuba leads fight against Ebola in Africa as west frets about border security
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The island nation has sent hundreds of health workers to help control the deadly infection while richer countries worry about their security – instead of heeding UN warnings that vastly increased resources are urgently needed.
    38. Headscarf ban turns France's Muslim women towards homeworking
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Headscarf ban in French public service jobs turns many Muslim women towards self-employed e-trading.
    39. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 2, 2014
      Climate Change
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2014
      This issue of Other Voices looks at why so many people deny or ignore the very real and very near threat of climate change. We also look into the ways on how NGOs tame and undermine grassroots movements. Other Voices also shares an article detailing how a $182 billion bail-out of tax-payer money was not enough for one bank. Finally, in this issue, we look into the horrors of American slavery and how it shaped the United States into the economic power it is today.
    40. Devil and the deep blue sea: how Mediterranean migrant disaster unfolded
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Desperate migrants from Gaza and Syria tell how they put themselves at the mercy of people smugglers in their voyage to cross the Mediterranean.
    41. You Are Not Alone Across Time
      Using Sophocles to treat PTSD
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Article on "Outside the Company," a theatre company that performed in a project called Theatre of War, where actors played the Greek drama "Ajax" by Sophocles.
    42. China hopes to revive the Silk Road with bullet trains to Xinjiang
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      China hopes high-speed rail link will help pacify Xinjiang province.
    43. Everyone on the Bus: Rider-Driver Alliances
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Kann sheds light on the increasingly desperate state of transit in Detroit as number and frequency of buses and entire routes are experiencing increasing cuts and riders join in a union with drivers to protest these affairs.
    44. The weird afterlife of the world's subterranean 'ghost stations'
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      With plans afoot to transform disused London tube stations into tourist attractions, Drew Reed digs into how they get abandoned in the first place and what could become of them in the future.
    45. Life in Timbuktu: how the ancient city of gold is slowly turning to dust
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Mali's ancient city is disempowered, suffering the effects of desertification and slowly disappearing. Despite this, little is being done to ensure the city has a future.
    46. The journalists who never sleep
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Automated 'robot writers' could soon be personalising daily data feed.
    47. The hunt for Spinosaurus
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A chance meeting in Morocco and a trip to Milan joined pieces of the Spinosaurus, the world's first semi-aquatic dinosaur.
    48. 'Poison pill' privatisation contracts could cost £300m-£400m to cancel
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Taxpayer stands to lose millions if probation contracts are cancelled.
    49. Medical programs for homeless
      Re: Too stigmatized to find a doctor
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Community health centres provide services for homeless.
    50. Allan Sekula, Against the Grain
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A tribute to the photographer, film-maker, cultural theorist, political activist, and Marxist intellectual, Allan Sekula.
    51. August 1914 and World War I
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Smaldone analyzes the political circumstances during WWI to explain why socialism as an international movement failed to take hold and ultimately collapsed.
    52. Death in the Eagle's Shadow
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Loewenstein details the circumstances surrounding her friend Anwar Za'aneen's death by an Israeli drone in Gaza, to highlight the severity of the dangers that Palestinians must live with in everyday life.
    53. De-colonizing North America
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A book review of King's "The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America," and Dunbar-Ortiz's "An Indigenous People's History of the United States."
    54. Detroit: Your Pension and Your Life!
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Amidst the ongoing bankruptcy of Detroit, workers are faced with having their pensions involuntarily reduced.
    55. Ferguson on Center Stage
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Miah examines race relations in Ferguson, Missouri after the recent police murder of Michael Brown as a result of racial profiling and police brutality.
    56. Fred Ho, Presente!
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A tribute to saxophonist, composer, and revolutionary Marxist activist Fred Ho, who was an active member of the Jazz and radical left-movements.
    57. A Green New Deal for New York
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The Green Party outlines its revised goals for their campaign plan in the election for governor and lieutenant governor of New York.
    58. Is Water a Human Right in Detroit?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Feeley examines the questionable actions of the Detroit Water and Sewage Department's recent decision to shut-off the water of residents with outstanding bills, a process that penalizes the large portion of the population that is low-income in a city that is undergoing bankruptcy.
    59. Making the Rulers Obey
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A book review of "Until the Rulers Obey: Voices from Latin American Social Movements" edited by Clinton Ross and Marcy Rein.
    60. Military Emancipation
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A book review of Levine's "The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution that Transformed the South," and Oakes's "Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865."
    61. One Historian's Journey
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A book review of "A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics, and Labor" by Nelson Lichenstein.
    62. One Step Up, Three Steps Down
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      In an interview with author Barbara Garson, Against the Current examines the economic meltdown surrounding the Occupy movement and the effect it has had on working-class Americans.
    63. Our Planet, Our Movement
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      In response to recent activist activity regarding climate change in New York City, the editors examine the dimensions of the global environmental crisis and how to confront it.
    64. Palestine's Unfolding Horror
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Weissman interviews Dr. Hisham Ahmed regarding the Israeli bombing of Gaza in 2014, its underlying causes, and possible impact on the political prospects for the future of Hamas and Israel.
    65. Piketty on Capital and Inequality
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A book review of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" by Thomas Piketty.
    66. A place in the sun
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      An extract from Laurent Cordonnier's futuristic novel 'La Liquidation.'
    67. Resisting the New McCarthyism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Against the Current interviews Professor Abdulhadi regarding recent accusations by the rightwing McCarthyist AMCHA Initiative that she secured university funding on a false pretext of attending a conference in Beirut. It is believed that this accusation is part of a greater objective targetting pro-Palestinian activities.
    68. Spotlighting Inequality and Injustice
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Swerdlow reviews Naison's "Badass Teachers Unite!", Heckman's "Giving Kids a Fair Chance", and Marsh's "Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality" in order to discuss whether more education is the solution to income inquality in the United States.
    69. Tailbacks in Panama
      China sponsors rival east-west canal routes
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Despite the expansion works in the Panama Canal, the number and size of ships are getting too large for it. Other Latin American countries, backed by China, want some of the action.
    70. Toward Energy Democracy
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      As energy systems are beginning to transition towards greener alternatives to fossil fuels, a debate surrounding its production emerges.
    71. In Scotland or Catalonia, the pitch is for difference without much difference
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      In the referendums in Scotland and Catalonia, the idea is for bracing, defining change that won't be greatly noticed.
    72. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2014
      Killings by Police
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2014
      Topic of the week is Killings by Police. Articles on the way the Ebola crisis illuminates the moral bankruptcy of capitalism; Responding the capitalist crisis, in 1914 and 2014; Globaling Gaza: Israel's leading role in undemining international law; and Marinaleda, a town in Spain attempting to create alternatives based on democracy, co-operation, and mutual aid. Group of the Week is Librarians and Archivists with Palestine.
    73. Black market boom lays bare a social divide in Colorado's marijuana market
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Inside Colorado's black market for pot, segregation and resentment flourish.
    74. After the massacre: life in South Africa's platinum mining belt
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Two years ago 34 striking miners in South Africa were shot dead by security forces. The ensuing cover-up was a national scandal. Will the wage protests herald a major force for change and loosen the African National Congress' grip on power?
    75. Police want right to see medical records without consent
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Police want new and expanded rights to access medical records and other confidential data without an individual's consent.
    76. Cotton trade: where does your T-shirt grow?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Growers of the world's most important non-food crops are learning how to raise it without harmful chemicals.
    77. 40 people stage 'die-in' in front of Israeli consulate in Toronto - Friday August 8, 8:30 am
      Sources News Release
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Canadians call on government to end weapons sales to Israel. At least 40 people are disrupting rush hour traffic on one of Toronto's busiest roads this morning in protest against Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
    78. Terrorists hide weapons in holy places, schools and civilian
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      English summary of a Hebrew-language document listing a number of cases in which, during the time of the British Palestine Mandate, Jewish underground organizations stored weapons and made similar non-civilian use of civilian locations. While only one of these groups, the LEHI (aka Stern Gang) described itself as 'terrorist', the other two groups - ETZEL (aka the Irgun), and the Haganah - were regarded as terroristic by theBritish authorities.
    79. Costa del Cam Ranh
      250,000 Russian budget tourists hit Vietnam's beaches
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Expat Russian entrepreneurs, budget Russian tourists, and a government hoping the post-Vietnam war exiles will come back home rich to retire: Vietnam is a demonstration model for change.
    80. How much for your data?
      What you whistle in the shower
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Rapacious financialisation risks turning everything we are and have into a productive asset. And the foremost asset is our personal data, mined by digitalised technology.
    81. Latin American coups upgraded
      These days the military go back to their barracks
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The classic Latin American coup used to put the military in direct command and control of a country. That doesn’t work well on the world stage, and is being replaced by more clever manipulation, however the same people end up in power.
    82. Bug spotting: Germans hold 'nature walks' to observe rare NSA spy
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      'Nature' walks leading protests against digital surveillance.
    83. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 31, 2014
      Truth, justice and reconciliation
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2014
      Articles on truth, justice and reconciliation efforts in countries affected by civil war or internal conflict; Bone Collectors: the fate of the remains of Australian aboriginal people stolen from their burial grounds and dispersed to museums; the Galway children's mass grave; and Which came first: Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence? The topic of the week is the Israeli military.
    84. Dijon adapts its urban thinking to the needs of an ageing population
      The French city is at the forefront of an urban network aiming to actively improve the lives of its older residents
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Dijon, a city in France is taking an innovative approach adressing the needs of it's ageing population. Research has suggested that movement, and minimizing isolation are the leading methods in the slowing of ageing, and are the forefront of thought while implementing novel changes to the city center.
    85. Radio programme a beacon of hope for Afghans searching for lost relatives
      In Search of the Missing tries to track down some of the 1 million people who have disappeared during three decades of war
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      An Afghani radio station has started a semi-weekly segment entitled "In Search of the Missing", aimed at reuniting missing loved ones. Citizens are invited to call the 10-year-old radio programme and leave a 20 second message reaching out to their loved ones.
    86. Questions about Israel's attack on Gaza
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Why do these terrible outbreaks of violence keep happening? Written during the Israeli attack on Gaza in July 2014.
    87. The rise of data and the death of politics
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Why is it that the infomation collected from our ever-smarter devices can only measure effects, and not deal with causes?
    88. Gaza headline absurdly inaccurate
      Re: Palestinians flee Gaza as ceasefire pleas fail
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Targeting civilians is always wrong. We speak out against Hamas when it does so, but our Canadian government applauds the Israeli government when it does so on a much greater scale. As human beings, as Canadians, as a Palestinian and Jew, we condemn this horrific collective punishment.
    89. I, spy: Edward Snowden in exile
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The Guardian interviews Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked thousands of classified documents to media outlets. Snowden shares his views on the events that have occured since his exile, and describes his life in Moscow.
    90. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 17, 2014
      Gaza
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2014
      Topic of the week is Gaza, which was under attack by Israel as this issue appeared. Articles on surveillance capitalism, the tactics and successes of the movement for same-sex marriage in the United States, and profiles of alternative archives. Website of the week is Democracy Now!
    91. Election and Revolution
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A review of two volumes by August H. Nimtz: "Lenin's Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels Through the Revolution of 1905" and "Lenin's Electoral Strategy from 1907 to the October Revolution of 1917".
    92. Foreclosure Is Blight!
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Using her experience working with the Detroit Eviction Defense group, Feeley examines the current housing crisis in Detroit and offers insight into how to combat evictions, foreclosures and underwater mortgages by combining legal defense with direct action.
    93. Galileo's Revolution
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      In celebration of the 450th anniversary of Galileo's birth, this article examines the famous scientist's life, contributions, and relevance today.
    94. Imagining Socialism in Our Lives
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A book review of "Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA" edited by Francis Goldin, Debby Smith and Michael Steven Smith.
    95. Inside Venezuela's "Proceso"
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A book review of "Who Can Stop the Drums?: Urban Social Movements in Chávez's Venezuela" by Sujatha Fernandes.
    96. John Handcox, "Sharecropper's Troubadour"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Robin Lindley interviews University of Washington labour history professor Michael Honey regarding his biography about singer and labour activist John Handcox.
    97. Minneapolis 1934 Strike Revisited
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A book review of "Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934" by Bryan D. Palmer.
    98. Racism Refusing to Go Away
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Miah analyzes the position of race and racism within American culture, history, and politics and how it has been continuously central in society from the beginning of Europe's colonial agenda to the present day, though it has taken on different manifestations.
    99. Richmond: Company Town or People's Town?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Feeley delves into the problematic dynamics surrounding the election campaign in Richmond, CA whereby the city's dominant corporation, the Chevron oil refinery which carries a long history of environmental concerns with it, could potentially have a greater hand in municipal decisions if one of its candidates are elected.
    100. The Ruins of War, Then and Now
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The editors provide an overview of the United States' involvement in WWI and how the country's imperialist dynamics have grown since then despite anti-war, labour, and socialist efforts.
    101. Solidarity and Contradiction
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A book review of "Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa" by Yuichiro Onishi.
    102. Tribune of the People
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A book review of "Jean Paul Marat: Tribune of the French Revolution" by Clifford D. Conner.
    103. 21st Century Limited
      The lost glory of America's railroads
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014   Published: 201
      An essay on Armtrak's railroads gradual decline due to the Republican politicization of train travel.
    104. Utopia and Anti-Utopia
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      In response to the recent popularity of dystopian series "The Hunger Games," by Suzanne Collins, Hubler examines the genre of dystopian and utopian fiction.
    105. VA Care is for Data
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Data production takes priority over concrete patient care itself in the new healthcare assembly line, as evidenced in the Veteran's Administration scandal.
    106. World War I and Its Century
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Ruff anaylzes the effect that WWI had on the world's imperial powers, shifting the hold on dominance between countries and transforming economies into different forms of war state capitalism.
    107. Diminishing residential schools abuse?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
    108. Champion of Chinese Farmers' Rights Jailed for Forging Official Documents
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Villagers pack the court to applaud woman given two years in prison for trying to prevent land grabs and illegal demolition.
    109. Special Report: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      An examination of how countries around the world affected by civil war or internal conflict have approached justice.
    110. Argentina is Right to Stand up to Greedy US Vultures
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Although in a precarious position after a US court ruling on debt repayments, Argentina must put its economy and people first.
    111. Britain took more out of India than it put in -- Could China do the same to Britain?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Large parts of India's economy were destroyed by British technology in the 1800s, and by deals that favoured British shareholders. Today, it's China that holds that kind of power.
    112. The Bone Collectors
      A Brutal Chapter in Australia's Past
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The remains of hundreds of Aboriginal people, dug up from sacred ground and once displayed in museums all over the world, are now stored in a Canberra warehouse. When will they be given a national resting place?
    113. The Mother Behind the Galway Children's Mass Grave Story
      'I Want to Know Who's Down There'
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      It was amateur historian Catherine Corless's painstaking research that brought news of the children's mass grave in Tuam to the world's attention. She tells how her search for the truth turned her life upside-down.
    114. Forgotten Graffiti Sheds New Light on Long, Hot Journeys to Vietnam
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Inside a rusting former US army ship, historians found vivid details of the hopes and fears of soldiers bound for war.
    115. Vodafone Reveals Existence of Secret Wires that Allow State Surveillance
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Wires allow agencies to listen to or record live conversations, in what privacy campaigners are calling a 'nightmare scenario'.
    116. Uzbekistan Rediscovers Lost Culture in the Craft of Silk Road Paper Makers
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A Samarkand craftsman revives thousand-year-old paper production methods in Central Asian workshop.
    117. The injustice industry
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      There is a major legal business in corporate lawsuits against governments, seeking either a change in proposed legislation to suit corporate demands, or compensation. Under TTIP, European governments could face the same claims.
    118. Keeping us in the dark
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The TIPP negotiations are being conducted almost in secret, with governments and the European Parliament deliberately denied essential information. However, business lobbyists can access all areas, and do.
    119. Ten threats to Americans
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Ten contemporary social, economic and political issues posing threats to American citizens.
    120. Ten threats to Europeans
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Ten contemporary social, economic and political issues posing threats to European citizens.
    121. Marx and Engels Belong to the Workers of the World
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Lawrence & Wishart, the British publisher of the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (MECW), has compelled the Marxists Internet Archive to remove free digital versions of this 50-volume treasure from its Web site. This step is meant to further the publisher’s pursuit of private, profitable licenses with paying customers.
    122. 1,000 Days of Syria – Turning War Journalism into a Game
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      How an American journalist is attempting to tell the story of Syria’s conflict through an online adventure game.
    123. Privatise Child Protection Services, Department for Education Proposes
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Experts sound alarm over UK proposal to outsource children's services to private firms.
    124. The Education Deform Fraud
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Book Review of "Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools" By Diane Ravitch.
    125. A Fossil Fuel Exit Program
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Ekeland analyzes climate activist Hansen's climate change exit strategy and why it has not been supported or pursued by political and environmental groups.
    126. Freedom Schools: The Curriculum
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Oppenheimer analyzes the curriculum taught in the 1964 Freedom Schools, which were designed to help Black students understand oppressive American social structures in and to think about them critically.
    127. Freedom Summer, 1964: An Overview
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Oppenheimer provides a historical overview of the events leading up to and surrounding the 1964 Freedom Summer, when organizers worked to register Black voters in segregationist Deep South in the United States.
    128. Freedom Summer Remembered
      Interview with Walter Kaufmann
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Finkel interviews retired community college teacher Walter Kaufmann about his experiences in the Freedom Summer project and teaching in the Freedom Schools.
    129. "Greater Israel" in Real Life
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Book Review of "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel" by Max Blumenthal.
    130. In the Wake of Carnage
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Book review of "Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru" by Kimberly Theidon.
    131. Lean & Mean Health Care
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Chern examines the Affordable Care Act from the perspective of being an industry and how this will regulate, standardize, and consolidate the healthcare system.
    132. The Minimum Wage Debate
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      In a discussion of the debate over the minimum wage increase in the United States, Miah advocates for a socialist mentality and a focus on individual rights in order to provide an economic solution to the decline of the middle class caused by capitalisim.
    133. Notes on the Current Crisis
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The editors debate the subjectivity of international law as the United States publically denounces Russia's seizure of Crimea yet condones Israel's occupation of Palestine and treatment of its people.
    134. Nothing Left
      The long, slow surrender of American liberals
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      On the gradual decline of the U.S. liberal-left party and its principles.
    135. Reinterpreting the Cotton Kingdom
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Book review of Walter Johnson's "River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom."
    136. Reintroducing Sarah Wright
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Karageorgos places Wright's novel "This Child's Gonna Live" about the experience of Black women's triple oppression within a historical context to analyze her critique of Black nationalism.
    137. Remembering Mississippi, 1964-65
      Interview with Claudia Morcom
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Feeley and Finkel interview Morcom about her work in Mississippi during Freedom Summer 1964 and subsequently from September 1964 through October 1965, as Southern Regional Director for the National Lawyers Guild's program of legal assistance for civil rights workers.
    138. Revolutionaries in the a Time of Retreat
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Book review of "Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922" edited and translated by John Riddell.
    139. Steady Hands for Freedom
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Book Review of "Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC" by Faith S. Holsaert, et. al
    140. The University & the Security State
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Gasser examines the implicit political agendas behind the offers of funding given to American universities by the Department of Homeland Security to research the "cognitive science of terrorisim."
    141. Update on Detroit
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Feeley provides an update on the economic situation in Detroit as the city declares bankruptcy and is suffering from foreclosures, evictions, pension and funding cuts.
    142. A Witness to Destroying Schools
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Book Review of "Schoolhouse Shams: Myths and Misinformation in School Reform" by Peter Downs.
    143. Brazil Puts the Arts in the Pockets of the Poor with New Cultural Coupon Scheme
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The government hopes $20 Vale Cultura voucher will encourage poorest Brazilians to sample wider range of cultural pursuits.
    144. Deforestation of Central America Rises as Mexico's War on Drugs Moves South
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Swaths of Central American rainforest are affected by 'narco-deforestation', caused by landing strips and roads built by and for drug traffickers.
    145. What the Tamiflu Saga tells us about Drug Trials and Big Pharma
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      We now know the government's Tamiflu stockpile wouldn't have done us much good in the event of a flu epidemic. But the secrecy surrounding clinical trials means there's a lot we don't know about other medicines we take, says Ben Goldacre.
    146. CIA used Doctor Zhivago as a Literary Weapon during the Cold War
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Newly declassified documents reveal the CIA published Boris Pasternak's Nobel-winning novel to sow unrest among Soviets.
    147. Largest Urban Cable Car Soars Over 'Desperate' Commuters of La Paz
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The La Paz region's new cable car system will transform the lives of commuters between La Paz, Bolivia and the mountaintop of El Alto, who currently have to zigzag up the slope in horrible traffic. But will everyone be able to afford it?
    148. CIA Torture Architect Breaks Silence to Defend 'Enhanced Interrogation'
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The psychologist regarded as the architect of the CIA's “enhanced interrogation” program has broken a seven-year silence to defend the use of torture techniques against al-Qaida terror suspects in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
    149. Fill the gap: Ontario should insure injured migrant workers
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      We want to sound the alarm over the unjust federal and provincial immigration and health policies that are based on the exploitation of human labour and xenophobia. Migrants increasingly enter Canada to work under temporary foreign worker programs through which they are denied equitable access to services while still being required to pay taxes.
    150. France Remains Faithful to Food as Meals Continue to be a Collective Affair
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      In France, life is dominated by three shared meals, and it's taboo to break the ritual, writes Anne Chemin.
    151. SOS Alternatives to Capitalism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2014
      An investigation of the alternatives to capitalism, including socialism, anarchism and deep ecology.
    152. The Fleets That Throw Away More Fish Than They Land
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Fishing vessels operating off the coasts of Florida and California and in the Gulf of Mexico routinely dump more fish overboard than they bring to shore, a report says.
    153. The Dependent Generation
      Half Young European Adults Live with their Parents
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Almost half of Europe's young adults are living with their parents, new data suggests – a record level of dependency that has sobering social and demographic implications for the continent.
    154. War is Over - Now Serbs and Bosniaks Fight to Win Control of a Brutal History
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Serb nationalists are striving to suppress reminders of atrocities committed in the name of separatism, mostly against the country's Muslims (known as Bosniaks) and to construct an alternative history in which Serbs were the principal victims. Many Bosniaks and outside observers fear that this refusal to come to terms with the past means there are few guarantees that such acts will not be repeated.
    155. Women and the Pakistani Left: Can the Awami Workers' Party imagine a new basis for struggle in the cause of women's liberation?
      Can the Awami Workers' Party imagine a new and more concrete basis for struggle in the cause of women's liberation?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      We condemn the co-option of the question of women’s emancipation by neo-liberal forces through the de-contextualized celebration of Women’s Day as another opportunity to further the neo-liberal development agenda.
    156. Women's Oppression and the Struggle for Liberation
      A Marxist Analysis
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Society's mores and culture-on questions of marriage, the family, the roles of men, women and children-are not preordained, but must be studied in their man-made historical context. Emancipation means putting an end to the economic system of capitalism. Thus, for Marxists, the liberation of women cannot be separated from the liberation of all the exploited and oppressed.
    157. India's Rice Warrior Battles to Build Living Seed Bank as Climate Chaos Looms
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Rice conservationist Debal Deb grapples with 'mindless Indian elite' to reintroduce genetically diverse, drought-tolerant varieties
    158. Hungary Law Requires Photographers to Ask Permission to Take Pictures
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Civil code that outlaws taking pictures without permission of everyone in the photograph is 'vague and obstructive' say critics.
    159. WikiLeaks, Ukraine and NATO
      A Relentless March to Russia's Doorstep
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Is the Russian occupation of the Crimea a case of aggressive expansionism by Moscow or aimed at at blocking a scheme by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to roll right up to the Russia’s western border?
    160. No compassion on immigration
      Re: Protesters seek accountability on immigration
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The compassionless attitude of our Canadian immigration authorities is becoming the increasingly default position. I commend the protesters who continue to articulate their rage against this.
    161. Universities Being Used as Proxy Border Police, Say Academics
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      More than 160 academics have written to the Guardian to protest at being used as an extension of the UK border police, after universities have come under more pressure to check the immigration details of students.
    162. Defying Fundamentalism
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A review of "Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism" By Karima Bennoune.
    163. Dirty Water, Dirtier Practices
      Ecuador's Battle with Texaco's Legacy Pollution
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Texaco (now owned by Chevron) left polluted soil and ground water after 20 years of oil extraction in the Amazon in Ecuador. The legal claims and counter-claims over responsibility and reparation continue.
    164. Egyptian Women and the Revolution
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Radwan focuses on the role women are playing in the Egyptian Revolution, their reasons for being active in the movement, and the repercussions they experience as a result of their involvement.
    165. Egypt's Revolution at Three
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Radwan examines the Egyptian Revolution and the rise of General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi after the ousting of President Morsi.
    166. Fish, Phosphates and Tomatoes
      Morocco Exploits Western Sahara's Natural Resources
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Morocco is making considerable profits from the land and waters of the annexed Western Sahara, and no external power, including the UN, has challenged this.
    167. Honoring Marta Russell (1951-2013)
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A tribute to the life and work of the late disability rights advocate Marta Russell.
    168. Inside Komen's NGOized Culture
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The authors analyze the monopoly that the Komen Foundation has over breast cancer research and how the process of "NGOization" has cultivated a consumer culture in how participants engage with the movement.
    169. It's War on the Poor
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Miah analyzes the increase in numbers within the working poor class and the economic structures that keep them poor.
    170. Lineages of the Arab Revolt
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A review of "Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East" by Adam Hanieh.
    171. The Lives of Amiri Baraka
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A tribute to the life of author and poet Amiri Baraka who was active in the American Black Arts movement.
    172. Mainspring of the Arab Revolt
      A review of Lineages of Revolt by Adam Hanieh
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      This book ought to be read — or better, studied — by every socialist interested in the Middle East.
    173. Not Your Father's Far Right
      Populist Radical Versus Traditional Extremism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      All over Europe, the new, populist far-right parties have become part of the political scene. They're not defined, as the old far-righters used to be, by what they want, but by what they don't want.
    174. A Political Witch-Hunt in the Name of "Academic Freedom": In Defense of the American Studies Association
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Wald provides insight into the American Studies Association's decision to boycott Israeli universities and defends the group's decision against the backlash given by the media and academia.
    175. Reproductive Rights Assaulted
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Feeley examines the lack of rights American women have in regards to reproduction, abortion, and access to contraceptives as legislations currently in place bar women from having full coverage or information regarding their options.
    176. Review: Defying Fundamentalism
      A review of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Concerned with the rising Jihadist fundamentalism on one hand, and increasing discrimination against Muslims following 9/11 on the other, and having in mind the question repeated by many commentators — “Why don’t Muslims speak out?” — Bennoune documents the voices of Muslims in various ways victimized by Islamic fundamentalists.
    177. Searching for Sustainability
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Review of "State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?" by the WorldWatch Institute.
    178. Socialist Feminism in the 21st Century
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Brenner analyzes socialism in the 21st century, with a new discourse of gender equality that focuses on transnational feminism, community alliances, the mobilization of members, and overcome the divisions between social classes.
    179. State of the "Recovery"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The editors provide an overview of current issues in American politics, such as the debate over minimum wage, Wall Street, immigration reform, the Trans Pacific Partnership and the need for economic recovery.
    180. Studies About Workplace Violence
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A few published studies about workplace violence.
    181. Superheroes for the Empire
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Estébanez examines the parallels between pop culture superhero fiction and contemporary politics as writers are inspired to make implicit statements about current ideologies.
    182. Yes, There is an Alternative! 
      Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Review of "Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism" by Peter Hudis.
    183. Yes, There is an Alternative!
      A review of Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism, by Peter Hudis
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Peter Hudis has written a valuable analysis of what Marx said on a critical issue. In this sense it reminds me of Hal Draper’s volumes on Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution. Hudis’s subject matter differs from Draper’s in that it deals with what comes after the revolution, rather than with how we get there. It also differs in method: While Draper was centrally concerned with Marx’s politics, Hudis, writing in what’s called the Marxist-Humanist tradition, sees engagement with Hegel’s dialectic as an essential part of creating a Marxism adequate to ever-changing times.
    184. Let's Point a Satellite at GCHQ and the NSA, and See How They Feel
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Turning the tables on the spy agencies would be a fitting form of radical retaliation for their webcam prurience.
    185. Optic Nerve
      Millions of Yahoo Webcam Images Intercepted by GCHQ
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal.
    186. Maidan, Ukraine ... Tahrir, Egypt ... The Square Symbolises Failure, Not Hope
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The lesson of Egypt for Ukraine is that defiant crowds may destroy an old regime – but they seldom build a new one.
    187. Central American Women Put their Lives on the Line for Human Rights
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Solidarity is at the heart of an initiative that seeks to protect women activists facing harassment, death threats and violence.
    188. Scandal of Europe's 11M Empty Homes
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      More than 11 million homes lie empty across Europe – enough to house all of the continent's homeless twice over – according to figures collated by the Guardian from across the EU. Housing campaigners denounce the 'shocking waste' of vacant homes.
    189. Defeat of Reconstruction and the Betrayal of Black Freedom Part Two
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      During Reconstruction, black people fought to assert their American-ness. Throughout the South, it was blacks and their allies who would march, parade and celebrate the Fourth of July, but not out of gross and vulgar American patriotism. Rather, it was part of a struggle to uphold the ideals of freedom and liberty that came with the Civil War and the promise of equality that came with Reconstruction.
    190. Reproductive Rights Assaulted in the US
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      This article focuses on the continuing assault on reproductive justice in 2013 in the United States, particularly at the hands of state legislators. Twenty-two states passed 70 new restrictions in 2013, adding to the more than 135 passed in 2011 and 2012. Dominant were restrictions on providers, bans on abortion after 20-22 weeks of pregnancy, and outlawing contraception or abortion coverage in various insurance plans.
    191. Campaign to Halt Female Genital Mutilation tops 150,000 Signatures
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Guardian-backed campaign calls on Education Secretary Michael Gove to launch initiative to protect girls from being mutilated.
    192. Defeat of Reconstruction and the Betrayal of Black Freedom Part One
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Reconstruction was a tumultuous, brief and extraordinary period of American history defined by an unprecedented experiment in interracial democracy. It was an era of exceptional developments, all taking place simultaneously and impacting one another.
    193. Pete Seeger was the best of us
      Re: Folk music legend's spirit lives on at Brampton camp
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Pete Seeger was the best of the human spirit exemplifying hope and love and passion for social justice.
    194. Back to the Land in Romania
      A Pig, Milk and Cheap Veg Against EU Agribusiness
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The EU sends Europeanisation agents across Romania to end subsistence farming and encourage agricultural competition. But those who have turned to self-sufficient farming because of austerity resist the world of the CAP.
    195. The Real Cost of a Cheap Burger
      Fastfood Workers Go Hungry: Is that the American Dream?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      America’s fastfood outlets are not restaurants but food systems serviced by cheap labour in de-skilled jobs — employees so badly paid that they need state aid and charity. They went on strike in North Carolina last summer.
    196. Tunnel Vision
      Will the Air Force kill its most effective weapon?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Should the U.S. Air Force A-10 attack planes should be eliminated?
    197. Australia's Asylum Policy
      Teenage Detainees' Plight Shines Light on Regime
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Human rights groups say Coalition's hardline approach to immigration flies in the face of international law.
    198. From Maoism to Trotskyism
      Recollections of a Participant
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      In 1968, a massive movement of radical students in the U.S. was attracted to Maoism. By 1972, the movement had already ruptured and was rapidly dissipating. What happened?
    199. Ukraine Turmoil
      Capitalist Powers in Tug of War
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The ongoing aim of the Western imperialists is to establish a client state on the border of Russia, which under the rule of capitalist strongman Vladimir Putin has increasingly become a thorn in their sides. And Ukraine would be a big prize. Its industrial base supplies the Russian market, and its Black Sea and Crimean peninsula territories are of strategic importance to the Russian military.
    200. Clara Zetkin
      Oppression, Class, and Socialism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Lindsey German responds to John Riddell's article, 'Clara Zetkin in the Lion’s Den'.
    201. NHS Patient Data to be Made Available for Sale to Drug and Insurance Firms
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Drug and insurance companies will from later this year be able to buy information on patients once a single English database of medical data has been created. Privacy experts warn there will be no way for public to work out who has their medical records or how they are using it.
    202. The Nigerians Who Dare to Speak of Love as a Tide of Anti-gay Hatred Rises
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A new crackdown on gender minorities has led to arrests and fears of mob violence. But a brave few are still fighting for sexual freedom.
    203. The Saints Go Marching Out as the Face of Islam Hardens in Pakistan
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The Sufi-influenced tradition of Barelvism, with its shrines, music and meditation, is reeling under an ideological assault from severe, Saudi-funded Wahhabism, religious leaders warn.
    204. Museum and Gallery Curators Reopen the Cabinet of Curiosities Concept
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Stuffed pelicans, bell-jarred oddities and unicorn horns: the wunderkammer – or 'cabinet of curiosities' – is a macabre, colonial throwback. So why is it back in vogue?
    205. Eric Marshall laments closure of namesake Fisheries library
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The government seems to be saying 'We want to exploit our natural resources, whether it's natural gas or oil sands, and basically to heck with environmental impacts.'
    206. Against Our Better Judgement
      How the U.S. was used to create Israel
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2014
      An account of how U.S. support enabled the creation of modern Israel, and of how U.S. politicians pushed this policy over the forceful objections of top diplomatic and military experts.
    207. Articles and Reviews
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
    208. Austerity Against Democracy
      An Authoritarian Phase of Neoliberalism?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
    209. Beautiful Trouble - Pocket Edition
      A Toolbox for Revolution
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2014
      Ideas for organizers.
    210. Black History and the Class Struggle
      #24
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
    211. Black Workers, Fordism and the UAW
      Book Review of Bates's "The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A book review of Beth Tompkins Bates's analysis of how the automotive industry provided an opportunity for African Americans to fight for equal working rights, unionize, and forge an alliance with white workers.
    212. Breadking the Grid, Making Our Class
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Yang provides a reading of E.P. Thompson's "The Making of the English Working Class" through the lens of contemporary and historical working-class revolutions and struggles.
    213. Capitalism: A Ghost Story
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2014
    214. The Cat at the Wall
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2014
    215. Civil Rights, Poverty and Capitalism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Oppenheimer examines poverty in the United Stated during the 20th century and analyses the power structures that have prevented improvements to the basic living standards in American society.
    216. Down With Tory Crackdown on Prostitution!
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The Tories, who have slashed billions from social programs and caused immeasurable harm to poor and working-class women, have fraudulently promoted Bill C-36 as a way of protecting victims of "exploitation." In this they are backed by an unholy alliance of right-wing outfits like REAL Women of Canada and the feminist groups that make up the Women’s Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution.
    217. Ecuador's Bitter Choice
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Becker analyzes the politics behind the decision to extract petroleum from Ecuador's ecologically fragile Yasuní National Park.
    218. Free and Accessible Transit Now
      Toward a Red-Green Vision for Toronto
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The free transit model makes public transit a right of all people, which would dramatically increase its use. While serving he vast majority of Torontonians and strengthening the public sector's role in meeting their needs, it would also address the special mobility requirements of the last mobile and most public-transit-dependent.
    219. Freedom Now Vision Unfinished
      Book Review of LeBlanc and Yates's "A Freedom Budget for All Americans"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Miah critiques LeBlanc and Yates' analysis of the Civil Rights Revolution, in light of the fact that the Freedom Budget issued during this time remains unfulfilled.
    220. A German Lenin?
      Book Review of "In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings of Paul Levi" edited by David Fernbach
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A review of the compiled writings of Paul Levi, a leading figure in the German Communist movement.
    221. Harvey Murphy
      Reminiscences 1918 - 1943
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Harvey Murphy interviewed by Rolf Knight 1976-1977. Foreword by daughter Mary Murphy.
    222. The Invisibility of Fascism in the Postwar United States
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Vials examines the use of the term "fascism" in post-war United States politics since the Tea Party have twisted its meaning to denote a left-wing phenomenon.
    223. Is the Swiss Health Care System a Model for the United States?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
    224. A Line in the Tar Sands
      Struggles for Environmental Justice
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2014
      The fight over the tar sands in North America is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time, and one of the first that has managed to quite explicitly marry concern for frontline communities and immediate local hazards with fear for the future of the entire planet.
    225. Making Their Own Freedom
      Book Review of Rediker's "The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A review of Rediker's re-centering of The Amistad Revellion toward a bottom-up perspective from that of the African slaves involved.
    226. Manufacturing Bankruptcy
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      The authors analyze the politics behind Detroit's manufactured bankruptcy through an analysis of capitalism's expropriation of assets in order to produce wealth -- a process that is at the expense of the working-class majority.
    227. Much Has Been Said...
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      In the wake of Nelson Mandela, Finkel brings attention to contemporary political activists being imprisoned by their governments.
    228. Nelson Mandela's Long Walk
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A look at Nelson Mandela's book, "Long Walk to Freedom" in the context of the apartheid regime in South Africa in the 1980s.
    229. On E.P. Thompson's Legacy 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      In a tribute to E.P. Thompson, Cohen gives insights into his work "The Making of the English Working Class" regarding its valuable focus on the self-activity and self-organization of the people.
    230. Organizing Immigrant Labour
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Barriers to unionizing the smelter workers of Trail, British Columbia, during the Second World War.
    231. Organizing that Changed Mississippi
      Book Review of Salter Jr.'s "Jackson Mississippi" and Moody's "Coming of Age in Mississippi"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A review of two books about the Mississippi's civil rights movement in 1965 from the perspectives of an African-American female student and a Native American male professor.
    232. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 52 No. 1 - Jan./Feb. 2014
      Pete Seeger 1919 - 2014
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2014
    233. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 52 No. 2 - Spring 2014
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2014
    234. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 52 No. 3 - Summer 2014
      Summer literary/cultural issue (Poetry, book and film reviews, and much more)
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2014
    235. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 52 No. 4 - Fall 2014
      5775 Happy New Year 2014
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2014
    236. Petition in Support of Letter: Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of Nazi genocide unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
    237. Police Terror in the Big Apple
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Scott exposes the realities of police brutality and the character of organized opposition in New York City.
    238. Postcolonial Thought's Blind Alley 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Throughout the 20th century, the anchor for anti-colonial movements was, at least for the left, a belief that oppression was wrong wherever it was practised, because it was an affront to basic human needs for dignity, liberty, wellbeing. But now, in the name of anti-Eurocentrism, postcolonial theory has resurrected the cultural essentialism that progressives rightly viewed as the ideological justification for imperial domination. What better excuse to deny peoples their rights than to impugn the idea of rights, and universal interests, as culturally biased? No revival of an international and democratic left is possible unless we clear away these ideas, affirming the universalism of our common humanity, and of the threat to it from a universalising capitalism.
    239. Resisting the Occupation with Olive Oil
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      About Zatoun, which brings Plaestinian olive oil to Canada.
    240. Resisting the Occupation with Olive Oil - Arabic text
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
    241. Resisting the Occupation with Olive Oil - Korean text
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
    242. Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir
      Volume 1, Canada 1955-1965
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2014
      The first volume of long-time Canadian revolutionary socialist Ernie Tate's memoir.
    243. Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir
      Volume 2, Britain 1965-1970
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2014
      The second volume of long-time Canadian revolutionary socialist Ernie Tate's memoir.
    244. Revolutionary Medicine - A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital
      Resource Type: Film/Video
      First Published: 2014
      The story of the building of a hospital in Ciriboya, Honduras -- an authentic, grass-roots, community development project, from the initial community meetings, the organized planning, the community defense committees, to the actual bricks, mortar and staffing. The viewer of Revolutionary Medicine is guided through the process in a series of compelling interviews with doctors, patients and community protagonists.
    245. The Rise of British Imperialism
      Part II: Capitalism and Slavery
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      On the ascent of Britain as the first modern imperialist power.
    246. Rosa Luxemburg: Economics for a New Socialist Project
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Reading Marx’ Capital today leaves the same impression as reading Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital. One wonders whether Marx and Luxemburg really wrote their books more than one hundred years ago. If not for their historical references to English industrialization and nineteenth-century imperialism, one might think they were written as analyses of neoliberal globalization from the late twentieth century until today.
    247. A Saga of Revolution
      Book Review of Reiss' "The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A review of Tom Reiss' biography of Alexandre Dumas, a largely underemphasized figure in the French Revolution and the slave trade during the 18th century.
    248. Shock and Awe in Gaza
      How the Media and Human Rights Groups Cover for Israeli War Crimes
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      This assualt on Gaza, like the earlier ones, will leave hundres of Palestinians dead, a majority of them civilians. It will end neither the siege nor the resistance to it. It will outrage public opinion around the globe. But our elities will carry on giving Israel financial, military and diplomatic cover, as they have now done for more than six decades.
    249. Slavery's Harrowing Reality
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A review of the film "12 Years as a Slave" in the context of the literary genre of slave narratives.
    250. John Smith
      Life History Fragment
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Recorded on South Pender Island, August 1975 and early 1980. Interviewer Rolf Knight.
    251. System Change Not Climate Change
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Stopping climate catastrophe and winning a world of climate justice is a critical task of our generation -- and it will require a radical transformation of society and of our relationship with nature. This pamphlet examines the climate crisis, Canada's contributio, and the development of colonialism and capitalism that led us here.
    252. Why We Reject the "Constituent Assembly" Demand
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Our rejection of the call for a constituent assembly reflects both the historical experience of the proletariat and the extension of the Marxist program over the years.
    253. Will the Iran Deal Hold?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      Finkel explores the underlying reasons behind Israel and Saudi Arabia's disapproval over the United States' nuclear weapon deal with Iran.
    254. "You Can't Kill a Revolution"
      Book Review of Bloom and Martin's "Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2014
      A book review of Bloom and Martin's "Black Against Empire" and a look at the interpersonal relationships between the members of the Black Panther Party that allowed the group to gain support.
    255. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2014
      A newsletter with news and articles about current issues, as well as news from the realm of grassroots archives and people's history. Also featuring selected items from the Connexions Calendar, Seeds of Fire, book, film and website of the week, and news about the Connexions project.

    2013

    1. Pakistan: Bloody Origins of the Z.A. Bhutto Regime
      Part Two: The Bangladesh War
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013   Published: 2014
      The Pakistani military expected to put a quick end to the nationalist aspirations of the Bengalis. Just before midnight on 25 March 1971, Pakistani troops led by General Tikka Khan launched "Operation Searchlight," an orgy of killing directed against the civilian population of Dhaka and other cities and towns. Working-class and Hindu neighbourhoods in Dhaka were attacked with tanks, mortars and machine guns. Using prepared lists, soldiers went door-to-door gunning down Awami League activists. U.S.-supplied tanks led a military assault on student residences at the University of Dhaka. The students and teachers who were killed were dumped into a mass grave in the football ground.
    2. Pakistan: Bloody Origins of the Z.A. Bhutto Regime
      Part One: Hidden History of the 1968-69 Workers Upsurge
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013   Published: 2014
      Pakistan’s 1965 war with India over Kashmir -- a reactionary war in which the working class had no side -- was a key turning point in Bhutto’s career. The Pakistani military's poor showing provoked a bitter backlash against the regime among much of the population. Following the signing of a January 1966 armistice agreement in Tashkent, student demonstrations erupted in cities throughout the country. Despite being a principal architect of the war, Bhutto emerged as a national hero, denouncing the Tashkent accords (which he had helped negotiate) and accusing the regime of having given away at the peace table what the generals claimed they had won on the battlefield. In November 1967, Bhutto launched his Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) based on a combination of virulent anti-Indian chauvinism, "socialist" demagogy and paeans to Islam.
    3. Deputation Opposing Island Airport Expansion
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      It is absurd to have a major airport on a city's waterfront. The negative impacts -- air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, massively increased traffic, the risk of planes taking off and landing with a few hundred meters of homes and schools -- are clear and unacceptable.
    4. Ontario's Announcement to Fill the Refugee Health Gap a Win for Migrant Communities
      Sources News Release
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Health for All welcomes yesterday's announcement that Ontario will join Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, and Quebec in filling the gap left by federal cuts to refugee health care and send the federal government the bill.
    5. Deputation to the Toronto Board of Health regarding proposed expansion of Island Airport
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      The waterfront is a highly utilized collective space that we have highly invested in to be used for recreational activities that promote health and fit into the city's vision of increasing green space. Why would we destroy it with an expanding airport?
    6. The Exchange - Issue #3
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2013
      The third issue of The Exchange focuses on ongoing struggles to build effective resistance to austerity, and the attempts to build unity across the left. The exchanges here try to look to the problems of the left and wider social movements – to ask how we might go forward, how we might contribute to the enrichment and revival of communist ideas, and how our work, in the here and now, can help to develop the left as a strong and serious force.
    7. Porter's corporate interests can't be allowed to trump public health
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      We are concerned that it will be the children who live, study and play less than 300 metres from the current airport in the high-rises, the Waterfront school, Little Norway Park, the daycare and community centre who will be most affected by the addition of jets. Consider that landings and takeoffs generate the highest emissions and that peak airport periods coincide with times children walk to and from school.
    8. The Budget/Deficit Deal
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Some serious ruling class intervention finally presented John Boehner an instruction he couldn't refuse: Get the Harry Reid-Mitch McConnell Senate deal to the House floor for a straight vote to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling.
    9. Canary Islands vs. Big Oil
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Thousands of Canary Islands residents and activists have begun campaigning against Spanish oil company Repsol, and the potential oil spill that could devastate the wildlife and tourist and fishing industries.
    10. Dirty South
      The Foul Legacy of Louisiana Oil
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      On the workings and effects of the oil industry in Louisiana, including a particular focus on legacy lawsuits, through which landowners have sued companies for contamination of properties leased to produce oil and gas.
    11. Dream Worlds Here and There
      Book Review of "2312" by Kim Stanley Robinson
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Short reviews Robinson's "2312," which concerns the state of a world three hundred years from now in which a twisted version of the dream "another world is possible" has come to pass, where nothing stops the daily grind of class oppression and ecological devastation but the sheer ruin of the Earth itself.
    12. E.P. Thompson: Feminism, Gender, Women and History
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Winslow reflects upon her experiences working with E.P. Thompson at the University of Warwick in 1969, especially in relation to his support for the women's liberation movement.
    13. Forging the Capital Security State
      Book Review of Panitch and Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      "The Making of Global Capitalism" recounts how the United States came to rule and continues as the primary architect, coordinator and essential guarantor of the present empire of capital.
    14. Job makes us sick
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Corporations blame individual workers for their own state of health, which in reality is adversely impacted by unsafe work conditions individual workers have little or no control over. When management puts austerity and cost-cutting ahead of well-being, individual human beings pay the price.
    15. The Man Who Saves You from Yourself
      Going Undercover with a Cult Infiltrator
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      An account of the life and work of David Sullivan, a San Francisco-based private investigator who specializes in cults.
    16. Mexico in Labor's Crucible
      Book Review of Roman and Arregui's "Continental Crucible" and Gomez's "The Collapse of Dignity"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      These two books deal in important and interesting ways with the question of building a real labour movement throughout North America.
    17. A Militant, "Minority" Union?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      At the AFL-CI0 convention in Los Angeles in September 2013, a small group of rank-and-file workers managed to alter the convention agenda -- by threatening to protest the presence of Kaiser Permanente, which happens to be their employer.
    18. Museum of the World and Image
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Challenges the "official narrative" that re-writes the Civil War as a struggle of "national security" against an "internal communist threat," manifested in the form of unions, student groups, human rights and refugee organizations, progressive Christian base communities, and the peasant insurgency of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).
    19. The New "Politics from Below"
      Book review of Raul Zibechi's "Territories in Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Zibechi's "Territories in Resistance" centres on the practices in Latin American movements, such as the Zapatistas and the Landless Workers Movement, analysing their strengths and weaknesses over time vis-à-vis the central governments that they helped bring to power.
    20. No Easy Victories
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      In today's "new Middle East" with its cauldron of Arab upheavals and the likelihood of longterm revolutionary processes, the United States cannot dictate terms unilaterally.
    21. Obama, African Americans and War on the Working Poor
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Malcom X's speech given nearly 50 years ago still remains valid today even in the age of the first African-American president and a sizable Congressional Black Caucus. While much has changed legally and socially -- upper-class African Americans can work and live almost anywhere if qualified -- much hasn’t changed for the working poor who are Black.
    22. On Syria Crisis and Prospects
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      This article speculates and considers the probable outcomes and consequences that could result if a U.S. bombing campaign against Syria takes place.
    23. On the Perils of Imperialism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Barak Obama's September 10, 2013 address, originally meant to mobilize Congress in support of an authorization for using military force against Syria, turned into a "life-saving" speech for Obama avoiding embarrassment and political defeat.
    24. The Passion of Richard Seymour
      Book Reviews of "The Liberal Defence of Murder" and "UnHitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchen" by Richard Seymour
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      The books of Richard Seymour skewer the predictable platitudes and puncture the sanctimonious pretensions of the "Pro-War Left," what was a transatlantic confederacy of journalists, public intellectuals, and bloggers that championed the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq as a "humanitarian intervention."
    25. A Poet for Our Planet
      Book Review of Friedman's "A Turnpike Utopia"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Azure provides a review of Friedman's poems within the collection "A Turnpike Utopia" dealing with issues of AIDS, workers' rights, racism, and the mistreatment of immigrants.
    26. The Politics of Extractivism
      Book Review of "Geopolítica de la Amazonía: Poder hacendal-patrimonial y acumulación capitalista" by Alvaro García Linera
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      García Linera's work is most certainly an expression of the dramatic changes in Bolivia and the "cultural and democratic revolution" Morales and his MAS party claim to have inaugurated.
    27. Roads to the Arab Uprisings
      Book review of "The Journey to Tahrir" eds. Sowers and Toensing and "The Arab Revolts" eds. McMurray and Ufheil-Somers
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      The strength of all the essays in these two collections is that the principal trends the authors analyzed have become critical background to recent events in Egypt and Syria during the summer of 2013, even as the nature of these events continue to shift.
    28. Thompson, William Morris and Ecosocialist Tasks
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Bernabe highlights E.P. Thompson's biography of William Morris and his theories regarding ecosocialism.
    29. Which Way Out for Detroit?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Feeley discusses the prevention of further home foreclosures in Detroit through a consideration of two of the most urgent issues: unemployment and evictions. These indicators reflect the poverty of the city -- where 35% live below the poverty line according to the 2009 U.S. Census.
    30. Louisiana prisoner released after 41 years in solitary
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Herman Wallace, who is dying of cancer, endured long legal battles after his 1972 murder conviction.
    31. Content and Its Discontents
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      On the negatively changing nature of journalism and the press in the digital age, including four potential pillars of a reformed press that will restore the exchange value between news publications and their readers.
    32. A Kangaroo in Obama's Court
      Will the Guantánamo Tribunal Execute a Man We Tortured?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Can a tribunal born of an impatient contempt for due process prove itself a legitimate institution of American law? On trial by military commission at Guantánamo's courtroom.
    33. Denying health coverage to injured migrant workers is shameful
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Imagine getting injured at work, and instead of going to a hospital or seeing your health-care provider, you are deported from Canada.
    34. How not to grow a new town
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      For years the governments of Peru, and the municipality of Lima, had a working deal with rural migrants who flocked to the city: we'll plan the place, you build it, amenities will arrive. Then came the cheap neoliberal substitute of granting land titles -- and the speculation began.
    35. Online initiatives abound at the Library of Congress
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Card catalogues vanish from sight at the Library of Congress.
    36. Leave Yemen, US tells citizens
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      The United States and Britain on Tuesday told their citizens to leave Yemen in the light of intelligence apparently gathered from overseas communications intercepts showing a serious but unspecified threat against western and US interests. The US was reported to have begun evacuating citizens immediately on military flights.
    37. Plan already disastrous
      Re: City shocked by proposal to extend runway
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Having jet airports close to communities is dangerous and unhealthy.
    38. The women of Greenham Common taught a generation how to protest
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      The women of Greenham Common taught a generation how to protest. Thirty years on, the lessons of their occupation are as relevant as ever.
    39. Life as a Terrorist
      Uncovering my FBI file
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      An essay about William Vollmann's uncovering of his FBI file.
    40. Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2013
      In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism – and that he consciously avoided any detailed conception of its alternative – this work shows that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society which informed the whole of his approach to political economy.
    41. Mexico's war on drugs is one big lie
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Anabel Hernández, journalist and author, accuses the Mexican state of complicity with the cartels, and says the 'war on drugs' is a sham. She's had headless animals left at her door and her family have been threatened by gunmen.
    42. A Very Perfect Instrument
      The ferocity and failure of America's sanctions apparatus
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Essay on the U.S. system of sanctions and its international negative repercussions.
    43. We can't go on like this
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      The legitimacy of capitalism as a way of organising society has been undermined; its promises of prosperity, social mobility and democracy have lost credibility. But there has been no radical change. The system has repeatedly come under fire, but it has survived. What has happened? What can be done about it?
    44. Wrong Answer
      The case against Algebra II
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Why force all students to take algebra, which most of them will never use in their future lives? Why not let those students who like math, take math?
    45. India is taking acid attacks more seriously
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Women campaign for courts and public to take notice of impact of devastating assaults.
    46. NSA files: why the Guardian in London destroyed hard drives of leaked files
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      A threat of legal action by the government that could have stopped reporting on the files leaked by Edward Snowden led to a symbolic act at the Guardian's offices in London.
    47. So the innocent have nothing to fear? After David Miranda we now know where this leads
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      The destructive power of state snooping is on display for all to see. The press must not yield to this intimidation.
    48. Google: don't expect privacy when sending to Gmail
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      People sending email to any of Google's 425 million Gmail users have no "reasonable expectation" that their communications are confidential, the internet giant has said in a court filing.
    49. China and India 'water grab' dams put ecology of Himalayas in danger
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      More than 400 hydroelectric schemes are planned in the mountain region, which could be a disaster for the environment.
    50. Altruism Can Be Contagious
      Contagious Altruism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Altruism inspires more altruism, according to many studies.
    51. Unregulated oil fracking boom does permanent damage
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      We know about the dangers of pollution from fracking. But its lethal, long-term byproducts and the ease with which they leak or are dumped may be causing worse problems in a state that can’t even question them.
    52. Privacy tapped out
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      For over a century, Americans and their judiciary fiercely fought any attempt by security agencies and law enforcement to listen in on private electronic communications. Now they’ve stopped fighting, and the surveillance is out of control.
    53. Zero-hours contracts cover more than 1m UK workers
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Poll of more than 1,000 employers reveals controversial contract used far more widely in the UK than government data suggests.
    54. Letter to Toronto City Council regarding jets at Toronto Island airport
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      We are writing to express grave concerns regarding the proposal to expand the Billy Bishop Airport to jets. We are community health physicians and are extremely alarmed by the potential health harm of jets which will particularly impact the community that lives in such close proximity to the airport.
    55. Emptying the World's Aquarium
      The dismal future of the global fishery
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Essay on the fishery at the Sea of Cortez, Mexico and the implications of environmental conservation policies on the local fishermen's economy.
    56. The Homeless Herd
      An Indian village battles an elephant invasion
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      The struggle of villagers against elephants raiding theIR crops at Nohotia, India.
    57. The soundcloud city
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Cities are increasingly saturated with visual information -- advertising, instructions, prohibitions -- so smart marketing is shifting its attention to a new battleground in its quest for your attention -- your ears. Sounds are used to attract and repel, to inform and sell. Private companies and public services try to seduce customers through their ears, or to discourage non-target groups.
    58. Archbishop of Canterbury embarrassed about church's financial link to Wonga
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Justin Welby 'irritated' to discover Church of England holds indirect £75,000 stake in payday lender he singled out for criticism.
    59. US drone strikes in Yemen cast a long shadow over life on the ground
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Unmanned aircraft create refugees and resentment among civilians as remote provinces become a battleground.
    60. Healthcare in China: GSK claims prompt crackdown on corruption
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Fallout of bribery allegations against British company shows the state wants to be seen to act to clean up murky system.
    61. You selling to me?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Individually targeted online marketing, based on unwittingly supplied consumer information and monitoring of online activities, is replacing conventional advertising media.
    62. Ancient Greece, the Middle East and an ancient cultural internet
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      The ancient Greek world is being recast from an isolated entity to one of many hybrid cultures in Africa and in the East.
    63. Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.
    64. The man behind the great Dickens and Dostoevsky hoax
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      When writer AD Harvey invented an 1862 meeting between Dickens and Dostoevsky, it was for years accepted as fact. So why did he do it – and why did he also create a series of fake academic identities?
    65. Croatia's entry fee
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      The country has a long coastline and history of sailors, fishermen and shipbuilders, but EU membership will probably put an end to one of its oldest industries. The yards had to be completely privatised before Croatia officially joined the EU on 1 July, 2013.
    66. Where Syriza stands
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Syriza leads the leftwing coalition in Greece, and the opposition to the external financial occupation of the country by the states and organisations that are at present keeping it from bankruptcy.
    67. Kuwait's citizens without rights
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Kuwait depends on the labour of foreign nationals, and of its underclass who do not have formal proof of nationality.
    68. Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia offer asylum to Edward Snowden
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      President Maduro offers to protect NSA whistleblower 'from persecution by the empire' and rejects US extradition request.
    69. The boss is spying
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      The data mining by large U.S. corporations gets less attention than U.S. government surveillance. It goes beyond the tracking of every mouse-click, purchase and "like" registered by every consumer on the internet, and relies not only on sophisticated electronic devices, but on the currency of fear and sheer intimidation which would make a Big Brother tyrant proud, the kind depicted in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984.
    70. Forget One Direction - We Need a New Direction
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      If people think equality and social justice are unrealistic, then we really are lacking in imagination. When they try to tell you that our better-world ideals are unrealistic, tell them it's unrealistic to allow elite bankers to send tens of millions of people into starvation.
    71. In the Valley of Conflict
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      The story of the Kashmiri Pandits, a minority group driven from their home in the beautiful but strife-torn Kashmir Valley, is rarely told by progressive media. Their suffering is part of Kashmir's continuing troubles.
    72. Let us prey
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Cheaply buying up 'bad' debt owed by countries in distress and aggressively suing for full payment plus compound interest -- that's the modus operandi of the secretive companies known as vulture funds.
    73. Marxism and "Subaltern Studies" 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      A review of Vivek Chibber's book Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital.
    74. Fighting the poachers on Africa's thin green line
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Underpaid, ill-equipped and outnumbered, park rangers fight a one-sided war against vicious gangs of poachers. Hundreds have been murdered in the defence of endangered wildlife, and their deaths leave their own families in jeopardy. David Smith reports from Zambia.
    75. Obama defiant over NSA revelations ahead of summit with Chinese premier
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      President says oversight of NSA surveillance programme should be left to Congress in comments criticising media 'hype.'
    76. Bangladesh's exploitation economy
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Before the collapse of Rana Plaza, which killed over a thousand people, most of them textile workers, there was the fire that killed a hundred at the Tazreen factory. A major cause is western companies' greed for profits.
    77. Boracay islanders fear for their lives in battle with Philippine tourist trade
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Hotel security guard is charged with murder after shooting of spokesman for Ati people, who claim ancestral land rights.
    78. Promised Land
      Will Brazil's rural poor ever inherit the earth?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Article on the historical rural poverty of the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
    79. Mes Aynak: Afghanistan's Buddhist buried treasure faces destruction
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Mes Aynak, a magnificent Buddhist city, is the most important archaeological discovery in a generation. But it is sitting on a vast copper deposit and is about to be destroyed.
    80. Mali: Timbuktu's literary gems face Islamists and decay in fight for survival
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Daring by a dedicated few saved many manuscripts in Mali from Islamists.
    81. Police retain DNA from thousands of children
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Some 120,000 gene samples have been taken in two years, as police forces argue they are acting within the law.
    82. Ukip: the battle for Britain
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      A exposé on Ukip, which wonders: is it a lunatic fringe or a sign of things to come?
    83. Under siege: North Dakota's last abortion clinic fights on
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      North Dakota's largest city, Fargo, is home to the last facility offering terminations. And as laws tighten across America, the pro-life movement is starting to scent victory.
    84. Guadeloupe and Martinique threatened as pesticide contaminates food chain
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Chemical once used on banana crops threatening livelihoods and public health by polluting soil and sea.
    85. May 5, 1818: Birth of Karl Marx 
      Seeds of Fire
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Marx breathes dialectics and revolution. For Marx, radicalism means going to the root, and Marx's radicalism seeks to go to the root of capitalism, to comprehend its essence dialectically, to understand its inherent contradictions - and the seeds of revolution it contains.
    86. Why parents should leave their kids alone
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      What if the best thing we could do for our children is to set them free? Jay Griffiths explains why moden parenting often makes children miserable.
    87. Capitalism's violence, masses' revolt show need for total view
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      News and Letters' Draft Perspectives Thesis. Our age is in such total crisis, facing a choice between absolute terror or absolute freedom, that a revolutionary organization can no longer allow any separation between theory and practice, philosophy and revolution, workers and intellectuals, “inside” and “outside.”
    88. Judging workers for control and profit
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      The computer with its air of objectivity has come to dominate human beings. The usurping of human judgment pervades all of society, from healthcare and education to manufacturing and the judicial sphere. Human empathy and understanding have been replaced by automated thinking that mimics the computer. Reclaiming our own minds is a step towards human freedom.
    89. China commits billions in aid to Africa as part of charm offensive
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      China has committed $75bn (£48bn) on aid and development projects in Africa in the past decade, according to research which reveals the scale of what some have called Beijing's escalating soft power "charm offensive" to secure political and economic clout on the continent.
    90. In Spain they are all indignados nowadays
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      The indignado protests that flared up two years ago have become a Spanish state of mind.
    91. Files that may shed light on colonial crimes still kept secret by UK
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Secret government files from the final years of the British empire are still being concealed despite a pledge by William Hague, the foreign secretary, that they would be declassified and opened to the public.
    92. Gene wars: the last-ditch battle over who owns the rights to our DNA
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      A US biotech company is fighting to protect the patents it took out on a test for a cancer-causing gene. Scientists say a win for the firm would set back a growing ability to detect diseases.
    93. The high price of cheap meat
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      A tiny percentage of the wrong animal passed off as beef in industrially processed food in western Europe? It’s a small misdemeanour set against the misuse of the world’s agricultural land to produce the luxury of meat.
    94. Climate change: how a warming world is a threat to our food supplies
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Global warming is exacerbating political instability as tensions brought on by food insecurity rise. With research suggesting the issue can only get worse we examine the risks around the world.
    95. 150 Years Since the Emancipation Proclamation
      Finish the Civil War!
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      The Emancipation Proclamation was a pledge, a promise. It only freed slaves in areas that were not yet controlled by Union armies, true enough. But in that sense it was like the Declaration of Independence in 1776, which didn’t make any of the colonies free—it took a victorious war to free the colonies from British rule. The Emancipation Proclamation bound the defense of the Union to the destruction of slavery.
    96. The extraordinary range of people using offshore hideaways
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Secret records obtained by ICIJ represent the biggest stockpile of inside information about the offshore system ever obtained by a media organisation, and lay bare an extraordinary range of people using offshore hideaways. The leaks illustrate how offshore financial secrecy has aggressively spread around the globe.
    97. The Awakening
      Ron Paul's generational movement
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Article on the upsurge of THE movement that Ron Paul (from the Republican Party) initiated. This 'Awakening' is characterized for its emphasis on peace and liberty.
    98. The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2013   Published: 2014
      This No-Nonsense Guide looks deeper into the idea of economic growth – to trace its history and understand why it has become so unchallengeable and powerful.
    99. Noam Chomsky: 'No individual changes anything alone'
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Noam Chomsky is one of the world's most controversial thinkers. Now 84, he reflects on his life's work, on current events in Syria and Israel, and on the love of his life – his wife.
    100. How Brown Moses exposed Syrian arms trafficking from his front room
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      A Leicester-based blogger's monitoring of weapons used in conflict has been taken up by media and human rights groups. Never having been near a warzone has not stopped him from breaking some of the most important stories on the Syrian conflict in the last year.
    101. Rise of the naked female warriors
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Known for its topless protesters, Femen is a worldwide movement against patriarchy. But are the activists' breasts obscuring the message?
    102. The airport malls
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      An airport is a zombie zone between two worlds. The retail spaces are seductive, yet you didn't choose to shop here. You didn't choose to be here. They are controlling you, guiding you, harassing you: will you be able to resist a purchase?
    103. Hugo Chávez and me
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Tariq Ali's thoughts on how Hugo Chavez, the late president of Venezuela, will be remembered by his supporters as a lover of literature, a fiery speaker and a man who fought for his people and won.
    104. Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents.
    105. The oil war
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Declassified documents now reveal what everybody, especially the Iraqis, always knew: the US invaded Iraq to secure its oil supplies for US and allied companies. It hasn't quite worked out as planned.
    106. Connexions: Perserving and Sharing People's History
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      A short overview of the Connexions project, including a statement of The Case for Grassroots Archives and the Connexions statement of values.
    107. Are our household appliances getting too complicated?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Tom Meltzer explains why function inflation is such a turn-off.
    108. Literary lists: Proof of our existence
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Katie Kitamura on why novelists are compulsive list-makers.
    109. Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Anonymous billionaires donated $120m to more than 100 anti-climate groups working to discredit climate change science.
    110. Filipino women take lead in resolving Mindanao conflict
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Teresita Quintos Deles and Miriam Coronel Ferrer won over Islamic leaders who initially balked at dealing with women.
    111. Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Raytheon's Riot program mines social network data like a 'Google for spies', drawing ire from civil rights groups.
    112. War on the seabed: the shellfishing battle
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      In the fertile inshore waters of the west coast of Scotland, a battle is brewing between small-boat fisherman and industrial trawlers.
    113. A user's guide to artspeak
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      There is now a name for the pompous prose used by art galleries: International Art Speak. You need to speak it to be a part of art culture.
    114. Lincoln: A Review
      Civil War, Not Compromise, Smashed Slavery
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Lincoln—Steven Spielberg’s new movie reduces the abolition of slavery to so many parliamentary maneuvers.
    115. Black History and the Class Struggle
      #23
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
    116. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I 
      Economic Writings 1
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2013
      This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
    117. Fight the Power! 
      A Visual History of Protest Among the English-Speaking Peoples
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2013
      Throughout history, ordinary people have risen up against oppression and injustice. Fight the Power visualizes 14 key moments in the last 200 years when people across the English-speaking world stood up and fought for a better life for all.
    118. The History of Democracy 
      A Marxist Interpretation
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2013
      Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
    119. Media Names & Numbers 13th Edition
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2013
      A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats.
    120. The 'Missing Heritability' of Common Disorders: Should Health Researchers Care?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
    121. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 51 No. 1 - Jan./Feb. 2013
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2013
    122. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 51 No. 2 - Mar./Apr. 2013
      International Women's day - March 8, 2013
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2013
    123. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 51 No. 3 - May/June 2013
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2013
    124. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 51 No. 4 - July/Aug. 2013
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2013
    125. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 51 No. 5 - Nov./Dec. 2013
      50 years Anniversary Issue
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2013
    126. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 51 No. 5 - Sept./Oct. 2013
      Happy New Year 2013~5774
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2013
    127. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2013
      Against the thesis that Western subalterns are made of different stuff, Chibber argues that human beings are, at their core, not that different across contexts. The winds of history and culture may change many things, but not human constitutions. His defense of this argument sets the stage for a deliberate, careful explication of the key tenets of historical materialism. This argument is that humans, everywhere, take an interest in defending their well-being and their dignity.
    128. Privatising the Oceans
      Fished out in our Lifetimes
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Long-range fishing with the backing of the EU deprives countries elsewhere in the world of employment and a crucial food source. And it is depleting the seas to the point of ecological collapse.
    129. Students, Austerity & Resistance
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Students have been part of an international wave of occupations, from Tahrir Square in central Cairo, to the Wisconsin State Capitol building in Madison, to the encampments of the Occupy movement all around the world. But students movements can falter, or fail to connect to the broader public. Activists need to look at the relationship of students to the system, and figure out the best way to build resistance to it.
    130. Toolkit for a New Canada - 2013 Edition
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimensionmagazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the second decade of the 21st century. The articles are short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
    131. Understanding Idle No More
      Special Topics in Aboriginal Community Learning
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      A selection of readings related to the Idle No More movement, and to aboriginal struggles in Canada generally.
    132. Yes, But What Are You For?
      Occupy Wall Street and its Evil Twin, the Tea Party
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2013
      Reading all the accounts of Occupy Wall Street’s theorising in Zuccotti Park can send you to sleep: all academic prose and no real world action or demands. They also make explicit Occupy’s resemblance to its enemy, the Tea Party.

    2012

    1. Notebooks 1936-1947
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2012   Published: 2019
      Victor Serge - writer, novelist, revolutionary -- left the Soviet Union in 1936 and spent the rest of his life in exile, first in France, then in Mexico. His notebooks, written in the years of fascist and Stalinist ascendency, combine grief at the state of the world with resilience, curiosity, steadfast adherence to his principles, and a love of life and culture.
    2. Health care is for everyone
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      The proposed cuts to health coverage for refugees by the Harper government are misinformed and mean-spirited. They will most certainly have a devastating impact on refugees who are already in a vulnerable state of physical and mental health.
    3. Presentation on grassroots archives at Beit Zatoun
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      A copy of the text of this talk, as well as an audio recording, are available in the Connexions Archive.
    4. Seeds of Fire 
      A People's Chronology
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012   Published: 2022
      Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
    5. Sources 70
      The Directory of Experts and Spokespersons
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2012
      A directory of contacts for journalists, editors, and researchers who need to reach experts and spokespersons to provide background information and comment on a wide range of topics.
    6. The Red and the Black 
      Profit is the motor of capitalism. What would it be under socialism?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      In this essay, I start from the common socialist assumption that capitalism’s central defects arise from the conflict between the pursuit of private profit and the satisfaction of human needs. Then I sketch some of the considerations that would have to be taken into account in any attempt to remedy those defects.
    7. Grassroots archive information sheet
      About your archive - collection - resource centre - library
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Connexions is working on a project to help network grassroots archives and collections of materials about activist and radical history. If you have a collection of social justice materials in your basement/locker, etc., and would like to participate in an exploration of co-operative archiving and/or searching for shared space, please fill out this form and email it to Connexions.
    8. African odysseys turn to the south
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Fewer than 5% of African migrants now want to reach Europe or America. They’re looking instead to neighbouring countries, or the continent’s dreamland, South Africa. It’s a long, hard way there, and they may be no better off if they reach it.
    9. Gypsies who went nowhere
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      The EU misclassification of Roma as inherently itinerant has done considerable, and continuing, damage to groups of often deeply rooted people.
    10. Call it as it is 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Now is the time to see that most of our problems are the result of the insatiable greed of the very few. And to say so, clearly and repeatedly. It’s the only way to start changing towards reality.
    11. How to Rig an Election
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Election fraud in the United States in the era of computerized voting machines controlled and programmed by far-right corporate executives.
    12. Resistance in China Today
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Cases of Resistance in China continue to grow. Protests both large and small are extremely frequent. These range from workers’ protests against unpaid wages and demands for labor rights to protests against corrupt officials and environmental abuses. While these struggles have often been brought to a swift end through repression, they have also frequently led to protestors being granted concessions.
    13. After the Arab spring, the struggle continues on a university campus
      A dispute between a secular academic and conservative Islamists threatens the peace at a Tunisian university
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      A university administrator takes a stand against religious extremism.
    14. MoD staff and thousands of military officers join arms firms
      Guardian research in the aftermath of the 'jobs for generals' scandal shows extent of links between MoD and private sector
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Conflicts of interests are brought to light as senior military personnel depart the military and transition into the private sector side of the military industrial complex.
    15. Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
      Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
    16. Collective Memory, Archives, and the Connexions project
      Michael Riordon interviews Ulli Diemer
      Resource Type: Audio
      First Published: 2012
      An interview with Ulli Diemer about the Connexions project, collective memory, and the importance of archives and the challenges faced by those who work to preserve them.
    17. Landmines still exacting a heavy toll on Vietnamese civilians
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      37 years on, unexploded bombs continue to ruin lives in the former wartime frontline regions of Vietnam.
    18. Little regard for poor countries
      Re: Factory fires fill 314 in Pakistan
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      The lack of regard for the poorer countries in our world and their citizens, including workers, continues.
    19. Mass Incarceration and Black Oppression in America
      The New Jim Crow and Liberal Reformism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      The singular focus on mass incarceration as the embodiment of racial oppression has a purpose: it poses the fight for black freedom as a matter of "dismantling" that system, much as the civil rights movement dismantled Jim Crow. But mass black incarceration is both a symptom and a means of enforcing the special oppression of black people that is fundamental to American capitalism
    20. False positives: fraud and misconduct are threatening scientific research
      High-profile cases and modern technology are putting scientific deceit under the microscope
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Better detection tools and a rising retraction rate suggest scientific fraud may be widespread.
    21. Moken nomads leave behind their 'sea gypsy' life for a modern existence
      Brought to the world's attention by the 2004 tsunami, the seafaring tribe is struggling to reconcile tradition and modernity
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      The Moken, deep-sea divers off Thailand, find their way of life threatened by modern trawlers and voracious property developers.
    22. World's conservation hopes rest on Ecuador's revolutionary Yasuni model
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      A plan to preserve the most biodiverse region on Earth from oil exploitation has put Yasuni national park at the frontline of a global battle between living systems and fossil fuels. But enthusiasm is cooling and this bold project may now be at as much at risk as the wildlife itself.
    23. All Over the Map
      A Revolution in Cartography
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      On the effects of the digital revolution in cartography, including a discussion of Ken Jennings' Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks and Rebecca Solnit's Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas.
    24. Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho: 'I don't scare easily'
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Lydia Cacho is one of Mexico's most fearless journalists. Her investigations have led to attempts on her life, and now she has been forced to flee her country. What next?
    25. The Only Game in Town
      An Unlikely Comeback for Dying Newspapers
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Private newspaper owners have vaulted themselves into a historically unique situation, which enables them to sculpt the news to serve their personal interests while circumventing the costs that come with true adverserial journalism.
    26. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
      Sources News Release
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
    27. The modern US army: unfit for service?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Gone are the days of the all-American army hero. These days, the US military is as likely to be a sanctuary for racists, gang members and the chronically unfit.
    28. How to Start a Magazine
      The Basics
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      A list of practical suggestions for starting a magazine via several frequently asked questions by new and would-be publishers.
    29. The village where people have dementia -- and fun
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      How is society to look after the ever-growing number of people with dementia? A curiously uplifting care home near Amsterdam may have the answers.
    30. Wade Michael Page and the rise of violent far-right extremism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      The man who opened fire in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin was not just a crazed loner, but a vocal neo-Nazi – in fact, his white supremacist ideology reflected a growing form of extremism that expresses its strength through violence rather than at the ballot box.
    31. Cruise industry chafes at regulation that would help clean up Alaska's air
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      The cruise ship Sapphire Princess will emit the same amount of sulphur dioxide as 13.1m cars as it takes its guests from Whittier, Alaska to Glacier Bay and eventually Vancouver.
    32. Broken Heartland
      The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Today, the idea of a return to nature, which a pair of academics named Frank and Deborah Popper, first described twenty five years ago in a scholarly article entitled "The Great Plains: From Dust to Dust," has become central to almost any conversation about the region's future.
    33. Why is India so bad for women?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Of all the G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place to be a woman. How is this possible in a country that prides itself on being the world's largest democracy?
    34. Berlin's oldest squatters in town defend threatened community centre
      Pensioners take a stand against development of their comunity centre
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Dozen of pensioners took over a community centre in the east Berlin suburb of Pankow last month after the local council said the building they had used as a community centre for 15 years had to make way for real estate development.
    35. The mass graves of Kashmir
      India's dirty war unmasked
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      For 22 years this contested region has endured a regime of torture and disappeared civilians. Now a local laywer is discovering their unmarked graves and challenging India's abuses.
    36. Chinese shrine seeks stock-market path to financial nirvana
      Zhejiang's Mount Putuo is latest sacred site to contemplate listing, prompting alarm over commercialisation of Chinese culture
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Mount Putuo in Zhejiang is the latest of several religious sites whose administrators have announced plans for a multimillion-pound stock-market flotation.
    37. Beyond Solidarity
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      The American sociologist Richard Sennett has explored themes of class and social exclusion for more than 40 years. Horatio Morpurgo speaks with him about his recent book Together: The Rituals, Pleasure and Politics of Co-operation.
    38. Kazakhstan's 99 per cent
      Protests by Kazakhstan's oil workers in 2011 were crushed, but anger remains over huge inequalities of income and lifestyle
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Kazakhstan could be among the world’s top 10 oil producers by 2020, but the Kazakhs who get the oil out of the ground don't benefit much from it. In May 2011 thousands of oil workers in western Kazakhstan began the biggest strikes since the country emerged from the breakup of the USSR.
    39. The Legacy of Forest Defender Chut Wutty
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      On the life, work, and death of the late Cambodian forest activist Chut Wutty, shot and killed at a logging site by military police.
    40. Redemption Road
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      A four-month-long walk on an ancient pilgramage route offers young offenders a different pathway. Adam Weymouth reports on the slow healing of Oikoten.
    41. Museum of Endangered Sounds enshrines audio from bygone era
      Saved from the silence
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      A website preserves outmoded electronic sounds that are lost to the world.
    42. My life as a bibliophile
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      From school prizes to writing his own novels, the author reflects on his lifelong bibliomania and explains why, despite e-readers and Amazon, he believes the physical book and bookshops will survive.
    43. Richard O'Dwyer: living with the threat of extradition
      Student who set up website posting links to TV and film content fears being used as a guinea pig by Hollywood giants
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Richard O'Dwyer's web-linking site would place him at the heart of the titanic running battle between the Hollywood giants – struggling to keep their beleaguered business model intact in the online era – and a new digital generation unwilling to play by the old rules.
    44. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2012
      The searing account of Chris Hedges' and Joe Sacco's travels to sacrifice zones, those areas in the United States where human beings and the natural world are used and then discarded to maximize profit, places that have been offered up for maximum exploitation in the name of profit and progress.
    45. Western Uganda: crop-raiding elephants call for plan bee
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Attempts to stop the destruction of farmers' crops around Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park had failed until research into elephant reactions to bees provided an answer.
    46. Brazil's Quilombola Hit by Major Land Tax
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      For decades, marginalized ethnic communities in Brazil have fought for--and won--land rights. But this victory is turning into something of a poisoned chalice for some remote Quilombola communities, who are now facing a giant tax bill.
    47. Child Migrant
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      An article in the June-July 2012 issue of Canada's history, about children sent from Britain to Canada.
    48. Goodbye Welfare, Hello Workfare
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      The world’s richest countries are coercing their citizens to ‘donate’ their labour to big businesses and other organizations in return for welfare payments.
    49. Preparing the Ground
      Left Strategy Beyond the Apocalypse
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Richard Swift considers the fall -- and future rise -- of left politics.
    50. Tools That Might Help Us
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      A list of ideas that different groups and social movements have suggested for inclusion in the Rio+20 Final Declaration. At the time of writing, only two -- Planetary Boundaries and the Ombudsperson for Future Generations -- appear to have much chance of getting into the official text.
    51. US was 'key player in cyber-attacks on Iran's nuclear programme'
      Obama reported to have approved bid to target Tehran's nuclear efforts
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Fresh light is shed on the rapid development of US cyberwarfare capability and reveal its willingness to use cyber weapons offensively to achieve policies.
    52. Inside Halden, the most humane prison in the world
      Amelia Gentleman visits Halden, the high-security jail in Norway
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      A look into the flagship prison of Norway, where recidivism after two years is only 20%, and the focus is on rehabilitation rather than punishment.
    53. Medicare Myths and Realities 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Since medicare is an extremely popular social program, the media and right-wing politicians have learned that it is unwise to attack it directly. Instead, they propagate myths designed to undermine public support for, and confidence in, the health care system, with the goal of gradually undermining and dismantling it.
    54. Jamie Oliver: 'Tell me Mr Gove, Mr Lansley. How can we stop Britain being the most unhealthy country in Europe?'
      In the 10 years since opening his Fifteen restaurant, Jamie Oliver's campaigns have gone global. But his passion to improve British schools
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Jaime Oliver continues in his challenge to the educate people on healthy eating, with or without the British government's aid.
    55. Escape from Camp 14
      The first political prisoner born in a North Korean labour camp to make it past the fence and flee
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      An excerpt from a book of the same title narrating the harrowing experiences of Shin Dong-hyuk. He is believed to be the only camp-born person to have escaped the North Korean prison labor camps that detain up to two hundred-thousand political prisoners.
    56. Rendition ordeal raises new questions about secret trials
      Fatima Bouchar's story reveals involvement of the British government
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Investigative reporting on the rendition (initiated by British intelligence officers) of Libyian Islamist militants who sought to oust Muammar Gaddafi.
    57. US has a new tool to control the masses
      No one should want the state to have power to strip your clothes off. And yet that's what is happening, thanks to the supreme court
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Denouncing a new US Supreme court ruling that allows police to strip search any person who is placed under arrest for any offence at any time. Wolf says this state sanctioned sexual humiliation is a troubling anti-democratic development in a nation that is quickly expanding police powers.
    58. Tree-top vigil highlights destruction of Tasmanian forest
      Miranda Gibson hopes to bring international attention to the unprotected status of the ancient forests that are threatened by logging
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      For more than three months, 30-year-old Gibson has been living high above the canopy floor that is the home to some of Australia's most threatened indigenous wildlife, including the Tasmanian devil and spotted-tail quolls.
    59. Sierra Leone: local resistance grows as investors snap up land
      Farmers and activists more transparent about large-scale land deals with foreign firms and t
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Ten years after the end of civil war in Sierra Leone, the government is taking great pains to attract large-scale agribusiness investments, which it says will help boost exports and employment opportunites.
    60. Scandal forces Cameron to give details on Tory donor dinners
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Information has come to light that the British Prime Minister hosted private dinners in his official residences for wealthy donors.
    61. Media Names & Numbers 11
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats.
    62. Granting No Quarter: A Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Antisemitism of Gilad Atzmon
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
    63. From Google downwards, our digital masters must be watched
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Commentary on how the wielders of power who scrutinize our actions should be held in check, in the same way as politicians.
    64. Revealed: government plans for police privatisation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Private companies could take responsibility for investigating crimes, patrolling neighbourhoods and even detaining suspects under a radical privatisation plan being put forward by two of the largest police forces in the country.
    65. A Civil Tongue
      South Sudan tries to learn English
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      South Sudan has proclaimed English its official language as part of an attempt to encourage economic growth.
    66. Somaliland: open for business
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      The self-declared independent state in the north-west corner of conflict-ridden Somalia has been an oasis of calm, and it is now seeking foreign investment.
    67. State and mafia take their cut as Italians develop gambling habit
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Economic crisis and legalisation of slot machines help drive 20-fold rise in spending over a decade.
    68. Nothing Is Ever Won Without Organizing 
      Remarks to the First Nonviolence Training Session of the Mexican Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      All organizing begins with the telling of a story. When we listen carefully to somebody’s story, we learn what motivates him, what she is passionate about. Listening is the first skill and duty of a community organizer. Before we can get somebody to do something, we have to learn what he and she want, which is usually different than what we presumed they wanted.
    69. Mobile reserves could save marine species
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Mobile marine nature reserves have been advanced as a tool to protect highly mobile marine mammals such as seabirds, turtles and sharks. These would protect migratory routes and mating grounds during certain times of the year.
    70. One latrine at a time
      Liberia's president is unusually frank as she agrees that toilets are fundamental to creating a healthier country
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Diarrhoea kills more children than HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined – and its main cause is food and water contaminated with human waste. Liberia's president is trying to change all that. Building latrines must be a key priority to promote health and sanitation.
    71. Panama's indigenous champion defies president's mining deal
      Canadian-Korean consortium plans 30-year gold, silver and copper project
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      In Panama the Ngabe-Bugle indigenous community fights to keep a Canadian copper mining company off their land.
    72. Buoyant thinking for the future
      Homes that float could provide a solution for often-flooded regions in Thailand
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Building amphibious homes in Thailand that are designed to weather the annual flooding.
    73. Amazon defenders face death or exile
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Ordinary Brazilians who report illegal logging face threats to their lives.
    74. Fred Zierenberg, 1949-2012
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
    75. Designs on equality
      City planning is a mechanism of discrimination - it mainly serves the able-bodied
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      The idea of “universal design” is to stop creating public infrastructure that privileges one particular group, whether it’s car drivers, the able-bodied or those with paycheques, and start envisioning people with parallel but not identical mobility and sociability needs: children, teens, seniors, new immigrants, those on low incomes, parents, those with sports injuries or with physical and mental limitations, and those who care for any of the above.
    76. All Politics is Local
      Election night in Peru's largest prison
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Daniel Alarcon explores the internal politics of Peru's largest prison.
    77. Killing the Competition
      How the new monopolies are destroying open markets
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Barry Lynn discusses how today's markets have moved away from the openess they are supposed to represent.
    78. Some Assembly Required
      Witnessing the birth of Occupy Wall Street
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Nathan Schneider describes his experiences inside the early days of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
    79. The strike that led to Tahir Square
      An act of courage that launched a revolution
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Labour struggles at Egypt's largest cotton mill, starting in 2006, laid the groundwork for the revolution of 2011.
    80. The contribution of trees to our lives: it is time to take stock
      French botanist Francis Hallé makes a case for the defence of trees as a powerful ally in saving the Earth's ecosystems
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      A reflection on the impact of trees in the world and the necessity of improving urban forestry out of self-preservation.
    81. French farmers will have to pay to use their own seeds
      'Compulsory voluntary contribution' to seed companies extended to 20 more types of crops, and use of saved seeds for other crops banned
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      French government to begin cracking down on enforcing plant breeders' rights -- farmers will have to pay to use farm-saved seed.
    82. A Movement Without Demands?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      We claim that far from being a strength, the lack of demands reflects the weak ideological core of the movement. We also claim that demands should not be approached tactically but strategically, that is, they should be grounded in a long-term view of the political goals of the movement, a view that is currently lacking. Accordingly, in the second part of this text, we argue that this strategic view should be grounded in a politics of the commons.
    83. The Arab Spring, the West and Political Islam
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      The contemporary Arab political system, until the recent outbreak of Arab revolutions, is the byproduct of a number of domestic, regional and global arrangements and developments in the post-World War II international order.
    84. Black History and the Class Struggle
      #22
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
    85. The Case for Grassroots Archives - Farsi text
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
    86. The CIA's Death Machine at Work (book review)
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      In compelling detail, two leading civil rights attorneys — both leaders of the Center for Constitutional Rights (New York) — recount the extraordinary life and deliberate killing of the world’s most popular revolutionary, Ernesto Che Guevara. Using internal U.S. governmental documentation, only recently released, the authors use their forensic skills to analyze the evidence of the CIA’s involvement in the execution of a war prisoner captured alive.
    87. C.L.R. James' Visionary Legacy
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      In order to understand the connection between Black History Month and revolution, we must explode the stifling separation between art and everyday life that bourgeois society everywhere seeks to impose on us.
    88. A Convergence of Realities
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      What's striking the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) Movement and its popular slogan “We are the 99 percent” is how much the central demand of the movement resonates with the Black community. African Americans with few exceptions are in the bottom 20% of income and wealth. Double digit unemployment is the norm in “good” economic times.
    89. The Debate at Halle
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      There were two defining moments in the history of the international working-class movement in the first half of the 20th century. The first, by far the most discussed and written about for obvious reasons, was the revolution in Russia in October 1917 and its subsequent isolation and defeat. The second was the disaster in the German movement, which had been for half a century the model of a militant, socialist working-class movement, and the subsequent collapse of that movement in the face of Nazism.
    90. Detroit's Crisis -- Coming to You?
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      There are two realities to grasp about the current plight of Detroit. Reality one: Detroit is caught in a set of interlocking crises, from the level of the world economy and national political gridlock down to the viciously reactionary Michigan state government and the yawning divide between the city and suburban Detroit, that would severely challenge the most competent, the most visionary, the most energetic and most progressive city leadership.
    91. A Doctor's Quest
      The Struggle for Mother-and-Child Health Around the Globe
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2012
      Recounting medical missions in half of the thirty countries in which she has worked for the past twenty-five years in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific -- from Darfur in Sudan to Papua New Guinea and Bhutan -- Dr. Gretchen Roedde shares the grim reality of world politics, bureaucratic red tape, and corruption on the front lines as a doctor in mother-and-child health and HIV/AIDS.
    92. An Education in Occupy
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Two months earlier, I had been sitting in class listening to an ILWU member talk about Export Grain Terminal’s (EGT) union-busting tactics in Longview, WA. “Great,” I thought, “but how can I help from the campus of a little college in Moraga, California?”
    93. Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      An interview with Atef Said, a human rights lawyer and a political activist in Egypt before moving to the United States in 2004. He is the author of two books on torture under Mubarak.
    94. Fighting Back: Sotheby's and OWS
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Forty-two teamster art-handlers at Sotheby’s auction house in New York City have been locked-out of their jobs for more than four months. Against the Current interviewed Sotheby’s shop steward David Martinez about what’s at stake, and how they’ve built links with the Occupy movement to fight back.
    95. France: The NPA in Crisis
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      France's new Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) is in crisis. While only two years ago many on the international left talked about the NPA as one of the brightest lights on an otherwise dim revolutionary horizon, today the Party is hemorrhaging members and struggling to stay afloat.
    96. Freedom Riders
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      When Hillary Clinton expressed dismay over gender segregation on buses in ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem — where women are forced to sit separately — she somehow neglected to mention the Jewish-settlers-only bus system in the Occupied Palestinan Territories.
    97. From "Occupy" to ...
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      The question isn't whether the magnificent “Occupy” movement will continue after police action and the onset of winter have largely emptied the encampments. The righteous rage that made the movement possible, and the enormous social and economic crisis that made it necessary, are not going away anytime soon. Quite the contrary — capitalism’s inherent contradictions, made worse by economic policies in Europe and the United States that seem calculated to maximize the damage, pose the real possibility of a new global financial meltdown and potential world depression.
    98. Hitler's Bestiary from the Inside
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Over a decade ago, I spent several months poring through the Martha Eccles Dodd papers at the Library of Congress. I was driven to research her life while working on a book about Left feminist culture and anti-fascist resistance in the McCarthy era. I had just read two of Dodd’s novels (Sowing the Wind and The Searching Light) and was driven to find out more about the sources of Dodd’s attraction to antifascist causes.
    99. How Laws Assault Queer People (book review)
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Queer (In)Justice is authored by Joey Mogul, a partner at the People’s Law Office in Chicago and director of DePaul University’s Civil Rights Clinic; Andrea Ritchie, an attorney and organizer who works on issues of police misconduct; and Kay Whitlock, an organizer and writer around structural injustices.
    100. The Inconvenient Indian 
      A Curious Account of Native People in North America
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2012
    101. Israel's Worldwide Role in Repression
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Researched, written, and edited by members of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, this pamphlet focuses on the role of Israel’s government, its military, and related corporations and organizations in a global industry of violence and repression. The states most involved with this industry profit from perpetual war and occupation across the globe while maintaining vastly unequal societies of their own.
    102. Mumia Faces Life in Prison
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      On Wednesday, Decemerber7, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams held a news conference to announce that the city will no longer seek the death penalty against long-time political prisoner and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jama — convicted in a frameup trial for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.
    103. Not a Philosophical Atheism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2012
    104. O Caso dos Arquivos de Movimentos de Raiz
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
    105. The Oakland Port Shutdown
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      A personal account of the growing dialogue between the labour movement and the Occupy organizing, as seen by someone heavily involved in attempting to build these linkages.
    106. Occupy and Detroit's Crisis
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      What's the new center of gravity on the political landscape? Dan La Botz has provocatively remarked that Occupy Oakland’s November 2 shutdown of the Port of Oakland — one of the largest recent labor actions — was initiated from outside union structures. Earlier, in New York City, on the morning Mayor Bloomberg dispatched police to expel Occupiers from Liberty Park, 5,000 people — many city workers, transit workers and teachers — turned out, forcing him to back off.
    107. Occupy Isla Vista for the 99%
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Isla Vista is an unincorporated community within the Santa Barbara County, a gentrified ghetto on the sunny seaside of southern California packing 23,000 people within its meager 1.8 square miles. The core is composed of students studying at the nearby University of California, with a largely ignored community composed of Latino/Latina working-class and other permanent residents, including a houseless population.
    108. Our Great Lakes Commons
      A People's Plan to Protect the Great Lakes Forever
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      A booklet on the proposal to designate the Great Lakes and its tributary waters as a lived 'Commons' that will be protected by a robust legal and political framework.
    109. Our Harsh Logic 
      Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2010-2010
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2012
      Testimonies from more than 100 soldiers detailing the viciousness of Israel's military in the occupied Palestinian territories.
    110. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 50 No. 1 - Jan./Feb. 2012
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2012
    111. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 50 No. 3 - May/June 2012
      May Day 2012
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2012
    112. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 50 No. 4 - July/August 2012
      Summer Cultural Issue
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2012
    113. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 50 No. 5 - Sept./Oct. 2012
      Happy New Year 2012 ~ 5773
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2012
    114. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 50 No. 6 - Nov./Dec. 2012
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2012
    115. Parliamentary Names & Numbers 29
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2012
    116. The Police Riot at OccupyCAL
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      I remember as if it were just yesterday. I was linked in arms, peacefully protesting in support and solidarity with the students of UC Berkeley and my friend Meleiza. What I would soon have to witness would leave me traumatized and utterly disgusted.
    117. Police Violence and Media Coverup
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Among many tactics used by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD ) to disorient, dishearten, and divide members of Occupy Los Angeles during our detention at city jails, one of the more insidious was denying us access to the news.
    118. Pushing Demands at OWS?
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      A debate is going on about whether Occupy Wall Street should adopt a list of demands. A number of people I know and respect have supported the Demands Working Group in New York and have called for the General Assembly to adopt their list. The draft includes great demands — there is nothing I’ve seen that I don’t agree with, and I’ve worked hard for some of them for much of my life. Yet I keep thinking that pushing the list of demands is not the way to go right now.
    119. Raising the Workers' Flag
      The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2012
      A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour Unions.
    120. Rethinking Marxism - Volume 24, Number 1
      Special issue: Marxism and Nationalism
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2012
    121. Roots of U.S. Capitalism (book review)
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      This is a thoughtful, learned, stimulating, challenging and altogether valuable volume. It reprints a series of reflections by the Marxist sociologist Charles Post on various aspects of the rise and evolution of capitalism in North America between the colonial era and the late 19th century.
    122. Slucaj za arhivsku osnovu
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Ovaj dokument ocrtava razlog za Connexions-ovu arhivu i knjižnicu, projekt baziran u Torontu koji cuva i dijeli informacije i dokumente vezano za osnovne pokrete za društvene promjene. Connexions sadržava fizicku arhivu materijala, kao i opsežnu online knjižnicu na www.connexions.org.
    123. "Solidarity" Beats Austerity
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      The tumultuous month of November 2011 marked the emergence of a powerful and widespread movement on public university campuses throughout California. Brutal police repression of Occupy encampments at UC Berkeley and UC Davis gained national media attention and sparked massive solidarity actions among social justice movements around the nation and the world.
    124. Sources 69
      The Directory of Experts and Spokespersons - Winter-Spring 2012
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2012
    125. The Unknown Slave Rebellion
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012
      Though the planters had no difficulty reconciling the wealth they enjoyed and the price the slaves paid, the region’s black laborers did. By aborting their own children, poisoning livestock, lighting fires, and escaping to the cypress swamps, the slaves struggled to dilute, deflect, and if possible demolish slaveholders’ authority. Even open revolt was not beyond question. While it was a card that slaves played only rarely — planters tended to take a dim and deadly view of armed rebellion — the German Coast teemed with violent possibilities. The planters’ world rested on a powder keg to be ignited by the smallest of sparks.
    126. Untold History of the United States
      Resource Type: Film/Video
      First Published: 2012
      A 2012 documentary series directed, produced, and narrated by Oliver Stone. The ten-part series is supplemented by a 750-page companion book, The Untold History of the United States, also written by Stone and Kuznick, released on Oct 30, 2012.
    127. Why I Stand with Occupy
      Against The Current vol. 156
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2012

    2011

    1. An Illustrated Guide to Growing Food on Your Balcony
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2011   Published: 2015
      A booklet for people in the city who grow or want to grow plants in container. The information is meant to be basic enough for beginners and informattive enough to be a handy reference for even an experienced gardener.
    2. Charity nice, but no solution
      Re: The coolest gift ever - ice time
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      This kind of private generosity is fine but one must be clear that this is no funding model. We need a proper progressive tax system in which the rich pay their fair share.
    3. This bastardised libertarianism makes 'freedom' an instrument of oppression
      It's the disguise used by those who wish to exploit without restraint, denying the need for the state to protect the 99%
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      An argument against modern right-right libertarianism, using the concepts of positive and negative freedoms to illustrate.
    4. Immigrant cleaner leads revolt against Spanish mortgage trap
      Aida Quinatoa leads the fightback as Ecuadoreans struggle to escape 'impossible' home loans in their adopted homeland
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Ecuadorian woman using homeland courts to fight punitive morgage agreements in adopted homeland Spain.
    5. German autonomen: morality police
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      On the origins of "black bloc" tactics.
    6. South Africa: Early Years of the Communist Party
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      A brief history of the beginnings of the Community Party of South Africa.
    7. Pipeline follies
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      There are many of us Canadians who are totally outraged by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's policies on the environment - and particularly the tar sands devastation of the indigenous peoples.
    8. How The Oligarchy Gets Politicized
      A Short History of Elite Responses To Political-Economic Crisis
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      The political activism of the elite is striking in times of crisis, when the latter takes the form either of severe economic contraction or of working-class militancy, or both.
    9. UK urged to prevent vulture funds preying on world's poorest countries
      Campaigners demand Jersey legal loophole be closed as financiers seek $100m from the DRC
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Britain is being urged to help close down a legal loophole that lets financiers known as "vulture funds" use courts in Jersey to claim hundreds of millions of pounds from the world's poorest countries.
    10. Vulture funds await Jersey decision on poor countries' debts
      26 companies hope to double $1bn haul
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Pressure grows to end trade that has made $1bn for speculators but has been blamed for delaying recovery of war-torn countries.
    11. From 1960s New Left to Trotskyism
      Recollections of a Participant
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      What I am going to do today is talk about the 1960s—the last time there was serious social struggle in the U.S.—and why some of us concluded that struggle, even quite militant struggle, is not enough.
    12. Tasers: 'If officers have a new toy, they like using it'
      Tasers in the Line of Fire
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Tasers are part of the modern police's arsenal. But how safe are they and why are the guidelines for their use so vague? By 2011, Amnesty International had recorded 450 deaths after a Taser firing.
    13. Querying Young Chomsky 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Chomsky offers observations on what a desirable society might look like from the perspective of the heritage of libertarian socialist or anarcho-syndicalist or communist anarchist views.
    14. Is 'urban fiction' defined by its subject – or the skin colour of its author?
      Black writers see 'urban fiction' as ghettoising their work.
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Why are black authors of urban fiction treated differently from white novelists of the same material? Carlene Thomas-Bailey speaks to self-published black authors in the US who complain of 'seg-book-gation'
    15. Domestic reality does not match bold words on Internet freedom of expression
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      The U.S. government gives lip service to online free speech but simultaneously acts in ways to drastically limit freedom of expression.
    16. The food rush
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Commodity speculators have moved into food - with dire consequences for the world’s poorest.
    17. Latin America's Pink Tide
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Current governments in Latin America – not quite red and hardly cresting the wave – are discovering that policies of redistribution, for which they were elected, now have limits.
    18. A freedom that we can't afford
      Rightwing thinktanks profess a love of freedom, but their refusal to reveal who funds them is deeply undemocratic
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Freemarket thinktanks vastly outnumber those arguing for public spending. The author suggests that these thinktanks allow corporations to exert influence on public life without showing their hand, he advocates for legislation that would insure their funding is transparent.
    19. Global effects of GM crops questioned
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Twenty Indian, south-east Asian, African and Latin American food and conservation groups have published a damning study, saying that GM (genetically modified) crops have failed to increase yield, while requiring farmers to increase their dependence on herbicides and pesticides.
    20. Counter Power 
      Making Change Happen
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2011
      Argues that no major movement has ever been successful without counterpower, or the power that the "have-nots" can use to remove the power of the "haves." This book sets out to demystify the power dynamics of social change.
    21. The Mau Mau uprising against British imperialism
      Kenya's independence struggle in the 1950s
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      In Kenya the colonial rulers imprisoned in concentration camps a large proportion of the million and a half Kikuyu people, the country’s largest ethnic group. The Mau Mau rebellion was essentially a peasant-based revolt of the landless Kikuyu people against colonial rule that had dispossessed them of their lands, the basis of their existence. Although it was ultimately defeated, the uprising forced an end to colonial rule.
    22. Gay Rights: A World of Inequality
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      In the 82 countries that still criminalize homosexuality, new NGOs are taking a top down approach to making change. They are liaising with top ranking officials and establishing global legal networks to challange criminalization on the grounds that it contravenes intenational human rights law.
    23. My politics in brief
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
    24. Who owns Papua New Guinea's Resources Boom?
      Where tribes own the land
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Tribal people in Papua New Guinea fight to retain control of their communal lands in the face of 'development'.
    25. Occupy Wall Street vs. Kingian Methods
      Where are the Demands?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      The students, the labour unions, the working poor, the immigrants, the activists all over the country should come up with the solutions and make the demands. There can be dangerous consequences in organizing efforts when there is no clarity. It’s often a matter of life and death.
    26. A View of the Occupy Wall Street Movement from the Inside
      A Participant's Critique of the Occupation of Wall Street
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      The Occupy Wall Street movement was supposed to be a revolt against a hierarchal, dehumanizing oligopoly. In reality, all that was created was a microcosm of the same system, but with new leaders. Like our nation's leaders, Occupy Wall Street’s leaders listened to everyone’s grievances, then decided upon a pre-determined plan of action that cleverly borrowed the language of their constituency.
    27. Filipino Maids for Export
      'Always be Punctual and Don't Count the Work You are Doing'
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Twelve percent of the Philippines’ GDP comes as remittances from nationals abroad. Many of those are maids, sent all over the world into domestic service to support their children back home. The Philippines government is even training them in servitude.
    28. Germany goes for sustainable capitalism
      Greens now just ‘neoliberals on bikes’
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      The Greens are likely to be a major part of the next German government; few seem to have noticed that they’ve already been a substantial part of its regional governments for years.
    29. Guided by Voices
      Oral historians are giving a voice to refugees fleeing trauma and persecution in their homelands
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
    30. The Secret Lives of Terrorists
      Struggles that Change Little in the Real World
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      European groups who took part in violence in the 1970s and 80s did not gain the wide popular support they had hoped for. Interest in terrorism has grown since 9/11, but the motivations for it are not well understood: the transition from radicalisation to violence is neither systematic nor inevitable.
    31. Revolutionary Women in the Paris Commune
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      The Women’s Union was one of the most politically advanced expressions of revolutionary working-class consciousness in the Commune. It was able to lead and organize the widespread popular ferment among women.
    32. Grand narratives
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Those who reject 'grand narratives' have simply bought into the hoariest grand narrative of all, the one which says that capitalism is all-powerful and eternal.
    33. Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster: A 'realistic' answer to the ecological crisis 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Resolving the ecological crisis is incompatible with capitalism. We must build a movement that works against capitalist logic with the aim to overcoming it in favour of a properly sustainable and egalitarian form of society.
    34. Good Accounting is M.I.A
      City budget system is obsolete: daycare is as much a capital item as bridges
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      The author calls on Toronto's city hall to recognize that environmental and social programs are a kind of infrastructure in that they create stakeholders in the community. He advocates that the municipal budget treat these as such and consider them an investment rather than an expenditure.
    35. The Toronto Declaration (Toronto Stop the Cuts)
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
    36. 1493
      Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2011
      Alternate title in the United Kingdom: 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World. A study of the Colombian Exchange -- the biological cross-proliferation between the eastern and western hemispheres and its ripple effects through history.
    37. Save the feature before it explodes
      Several films directed by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1920s are being fully restored
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Nine films Hitchcock directed during the 1920s will be restored by archivists at the British Film Institute before the volatile nitrate reels combust. The film archivists' work and the hirstory of the profession are chronicled in this article.
    38. Why anger is all the rage
      The internet has made critics of us all. But why do so many commenters exploit the anonymity of chatrooms to promote hatred.
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Anonymity in the online community has its proponents and detractors, the author interviews the founder of wikipedia and a facebook employee about the importance of moderation in social media. He comes to the conclusion that many of the extremist opinions espoused online would not be published if their authors had to attach them to their names.
    39. ER certainties: death and co-pays
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Our society has made choices that dehumanize all of us. Dehumanization is felt inside and outside the shop floor. The HMO's bottom line is not about how well the patient's illness is treated, but how to minimize costs. They remind us employees daily that we're a business. The corporate ethos is the survival of the business above all, over anyone else's survival.
    40. The poor against the poor
      'Up for it to cause havoc' on the streets of London
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      The August riots in England may foreshadow far worse: they are the result of almost 30 years of deliberate destruction of a way of life and work that had a place for even the least-educated of young urban men.
    41. Social geography of a night of plunder
      ‘Up for it to cause havoc’ on the streets of London
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      In London last month every local uprising, or as a notice in a closed Clapham pub read, ‘social unrest’, had different origins and manifestations. And very few of them were riots.
    42. The pleasure principle
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Wilhelm Reich invented 'the Orgasmatron' and claimed that better orgasms could cure society. Then the FBI got involved.
    43. Iceland's Loud No
      Can't Pay Back, Won't Pay Back
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      The people of Iceland have now twice voted not to repay international debts incurred by banks, and bankers, for which the whole island is being held responsible. With the present turmoil in European capitals, could this be the way forward for other economies?
    44. Riding a wave of economic growth
      Asian charities, awash with cash, are filling the gap left by the west
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Asian charitable organizations have grown in number and capacity in recent years, partly filling the gap left by western organizations and donors that have been crippled by the recession.
    45. Madrid barrio expels 'racist' police patrols
      Jeering crowds chase away officers who try to detain immigrants
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Community protests police practice of racial profiling: the protests have been dubbed the "indignant" movement.
    46. Norway lets fathers do their share
      Paternity leave law has helped to create a quiet revolution in childcare
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      In Norway, twelve weeks of the forty six weeks of paid parental leave is reserved for the father. If he chooses not to take the leave the time and money is forfeit. The legislation is designed to promote equality in the household as well as the job market and has been adopted in Iceland, Germany and Portugal.
    47. Vanishing Lifeline
      Water is essential, but Earth's growing population are draining supplies and wells are running dry.
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Water supplies in the Middle East and north Africa are built on an environmental Ponzi scheme. The UN estimates that by 2025 two thirds of the world's population will face water shortages. Aid for the water shortage crises has drastically declined in the past decade as is seen as "unsexy" causes.
    48. 'Independent' currency hit by fraud
      More than nine million dollars of online cash was stolen this weekend
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Bitcoins are mined as a result of intensive calculations carried out on PC's throughout the world. Political hackers have been accused of the theft and the future of the currency remains unsure.
    49. Line in the sand: Africa's 'green wall' aims to stop desert's growth
      Villagers will help establish 15km-wide swath of trees as a nature reserve
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      The Great Green Wall is a pan-African plan to halt desertification through reforestation.
    50. The unrecognised truth behind that 'spontaneous' Belfast riot
      Violence was planned by manipulative, self-interested individuals
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      An analysis of sectarian violence in Belfast between the loyalists and republicans and the international media coverage of this violence, which often frames it as political.
    51. What Great Recession?
      Global report finds nearly 11million 'cash millionaires'
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      The richest people on the planet have now recouped the losses of the 2008 world markets crashed. High Net Worth inidviduals have at least one million in readily available funds, and there are more of them than ever before.
    52. Uk needs modern mosques
      The third generation of British Muslims still don't have mosques that teach compassion and citizenship
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      An Islamic woman's opinion column mourns the lack of modern mosques in England. She discusses her search for a place where her children could learn Arabic and how to read the Qu'ran without facing violence or being forced to cover their faces or change their hair.
    53. Pharmageddon: how the US got hooked on prescription drugs
      White House declares prescription drug abuse in US 'alarming' as thousands flock to Florida – the home of oxycodone pill mills
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      An investigation into the underground trade of oxycodone, a widely abused prescription drug. Ninety-eight percent of prescriptions in the United States come from southern Florida, where doctors at "pill-mills" can see up to one hundred patients in a sitting.
    54. How the 'ecosystem' myth has been used for sinister means
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      When, in the 1920s, a botanist and a field marshal dreamed up rival theories of nature and society, no one could have guessed their ideas would influence the worldview of 70s hippies and 21st-century protest movements. But their faith in self-regulating systems has a sinister history.
    55. Google can't be trusted to look after our books
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      The author warns that Google's lack of accountability to the public could put its digital collection in jeopardy should it become too expensive to maintain. He argues that the protection of cultural resources should be in the hands of the public sector.
    56. A Revolutionary Marxist History of May Day
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      The revolutionary heritage of May Day
    57. Get your head out of the clouds
      If we allow our personal data to be stored in giant electornic centres, we deserve what we get
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Appraising the risks to personal data held in cloud computing systems.
    58. Air safety pinned on isolated controllers
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      The problem of acute fatigue among air traffic controllers has been known. It was studied by sleep scientists genuinely concerned about the workers and public safety. Studies have shown that the kind of shift scheduling to which controllers are subjected affects behavior in the same way several alcoholic drinks would. That is especially true of constant shift changes and stacking eight-hour shifts as close together as possible, like working five shifts in three days.
    59. Revolution and counter-revolution take world stage
      Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2011-2012
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Revolution and counter-revolution have forced their way back to the center stage of history. First in Tunisia, then in Egypt, revolutions have opened up tremendous new possibilities and spread the fire of their passion from Libya and across the Arab world to Iran, Europe, the U.S. and China. Counter-revolution has reared its head in many forms as well.
    60. Strategy and tactics: how the left can organise to transform society
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2011
      John Rees draws on the experience of recent mass movements and past revolutions to suggest ways in which the left can maximize the effectiveness of all those who want to transform society.
    61. 'Evil' is in reality a lack of empathy
      It is one of humankind's strongest emotions; its absence lies at the root of human cruelty. How can we study it?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      A psychopathologist reframes the debate around 'the root of evil' by attributing it to a lack of empathy.
    62. The American right is trapped in a hyperbolic and dysfunctional world
      To have credibility within the Republican party is to have none outside it.
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      On the Republican primary race and the problem of credibility that socially conservative candidates who mobilize the Republican base will face in a general election regarding their appeal to centrist voters.
    63. Deadly Secret
      A 1940s whistle-blower uncovers hidden evidence linking asbestos to cancer
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
    64. US military taps 'sock puppets'
      Fake personas on social websites to manipulate and influence opinion
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      A new $2.76 million dollar 'counter-terrorism' initiative to create a pro-America online presence using fake online personas is underway. These interventions will not be conducted in English or on American sites, but will be Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and Pashtu speaking "sock-puppets".
    65. Publish It Not!
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      How Israel controls the way the international 'liberal' media portray its illegal and vicious occupation of Palestine and why the media allow them to get away with it.
    66. The school funding debate
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      The great divide in public schools reflects the increasing divide in Ontario and Canada.
    67. Google a great painting
      Project allows users to get a close-up view of works from 17 museums
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Google's Art Project allows viewers to browse works from 17 museums including the Metropolitcan Museum, MoMA, The National Gallery, Tate Britain and others in super-high resolution.
    68. Handcuffed and herded
      My big Alpine adventure with Switzerland's police
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      A journalist at the World Economic Forum Summit is detained and intimidated along with protestors by Swiss police.
    69. Protesters cast shadow over US billionaires' rally in the sun
      Koch brothers to host rightwing politicians and business leaders to discuss how to influence politics
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      The Koch brothers' annual rally of rich Americans and rightwing media figures was hosted to raise money for anti-government think tanks and climate change denial. This year a counter rally was orgnaized by Common Cause.
    70. Mubarak's third force terror tactic
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      President Mubarak unleashed his 'personal' thugs in a failed attempt to silence protestors seeking an end to his regime.
    71. Tahrir: Shock and awe Mubarak style
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
    72. Letter to Mayor Ford regarding funding for Immigrant Women's Health Centre
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      The health work done at Immigrant Women's Centre is high quality care involving all aspects of immigrant women's reproductive health.
    73. Fuck Hamas! Fuck Israel! Gaza youth offers up a cry of despair
      Rapid global reaction to cyber-manifesto surprises its drafters
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      A group of Palestinian youth put out a manifesto that calls for an end to divisive party politics in Gaza and the West Bank. The youth want peace and freedom.
    74. About Connexions - Farsi
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
    75. About Connexions - Japanese
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
    76. Acerca de Connexions
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Connexions es un proyecto canadiense creado para conectar a las personas que trabajan por la justicia social, con información, recursos y otras personas.
    77. The Arab Revolts Against Neoliberalism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
    78. Black History and the Class Struggle
      #21
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
    79. Connexions Archive home page
      Resource Type: Website
      First Published: 2011
      The Connexions Archive & Library is Toronto-based project dedicated to keeping alive the rich history of grassroots movements for social justice.
    80. Connexions Információ Megosztási Szolgáltató
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
    81. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Czech text
      Connexions Information Sharing Services
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
    82. Ulli Diemer - Brief Bio
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Ulli Diemer is a Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
    83. Enlightening Disillusionments
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2011
      Memoirs of an Israeli whom the Zionist dispossession and oppression of the Palestinians turned into a humanist and therefore anti-Zionist.
    84. False Prophets of Peace
      Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2011
      Honig-Parnass unearths the central role played by the Israeli Left in laying the foundation for the colonial settler project and its campaign of dispossession.
    85. Get Up, Stand Up 
      Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2011
      Levine offers insights into the epidemic of political passivity in America and analyzes how major U.S. institutions have created helplessness and fatalism. He proposes ways of recovering dignity, energy, and unity in order to wrest power away from the corporatocracy.
    86. In Praise of Marx 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Why might Marx be back on the agenda? The answer, ironically, is because of capitalism. Whenever you hear capitalists talking about capitalism, you know the system is in trouble.
    87. Let Them Eat Diversity 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      Alter Benn Michaels says that “'left neoliberals' are people who don’t understand themselves as neoliberals. They think that their commitments to anti-racism, to anti-sexism, to anti-homophobia constitute a critique of neoliberalism. But if you look at the history of the idea of neoliberalism you can see fairly quickly that neoliberalism arises as a kind of commitment precisely to those things."
    88. Love and Capital 
      Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2011
      A biography of Karl and Jenny Marx.
    89. Nation Maker
      Sir John A. Macdonald: His life, Our Times. Volume Two: 1867-1891
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2011
    90. The Next American Revolution 
      Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2011
      Why revolution is not only possible and necessary, but in some places already in the making.
    91. Our Way to Fight 
      Peace-work under siege in Israel-Palestine
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2011
      Documents the lives and work of grassroots peace activists, Israelis and Palestinians fighting for justice and human rights on both sides of the wall. The book also explore events that stirred people to action, and the escalating risks they face in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The title is borrowed from a young Palestinian who makes and teaches film in the Jenin refugee camp. "This is my way to fight," he said. Like other people featured in the book, he is a peace activist. Like them he is also, in his own way, a freedom fighter. If a just peace can grow in this beautiful, hard land, the seeds for it will have been planted by people like these.
    92. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 49 No. 1 - Jan./Feb. 2011
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2011
    93. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 49 No. 2 - Mar./Apr. 2011
      100 Years International Women's Day 1911-2011
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2011
    94. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 49 No. 3 - May/June 2011
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2011
    95. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 49 No. 4 - July/Aug. 2011
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2011
    96. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 49 No. 5 - Sept./Oct. 2011
      Happy New Year 2011 ~ 5772
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2011
    97. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 49 No. 6 - Nov./Dec. 2011
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2011
    98. Parliamentary Names & Numbers 28
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2011
    99. The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2011
      Stephen Jay Gould was not only a leading paleontologist and evolutionary theorist, he was also a humanist with an enduring interest in the history and philosophy of science. The extraordinary range of Gould’s work was underpinned by a richly nuanced and deeply insightful worldview. Richard York and Brett Clark engage Gould’s science and humanism to illustrate and develop the intellectual power of Gould’s worldview, particularly with regard to the philosophy of science.
    100. Shoot the Messenger
      WikiLeaks: Journalism or Espionage?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      In setting up WikiLeaks, Julian Assange wanted to bring to light secret agreements between countries. That he succeeded is clear from the number of companies and governments who have tried to shut him down.
    101. Sources 67
      The Directory of Experts and Spokespersons - Winter-Spring 2011
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2011
    102. Sources 68
      The Directory of Experts and Spokespersons - Summer-Fall 2011
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2011
    103. 2011 Spanish protests
      Wikipedia article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      A series of ongoing demonstrations in Spain.
    104. Ulli Diemer - Brief Bio - Japanese text
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
    105. Una diferente forma de democracia
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
    106. An Unfinished Revolution 
      Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2011
      A study of Marx's analysis of the American Civil War as a conflict about slavery, not tarrfifs. Marx saw the north as a bourgeois republic, and the south as expansionist.
    107. What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism 
      A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2011
      A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power — no matter how “green” — are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
    108. Why Marx Was Right 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2011
      Eagleton takes common objections to Marxism and demonstrates how and why they are wrong.
    109. Why We Loved the Zapatistas
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2011
      It would be absurd to admonish the Zapatistas for failing to overcome generations of poverty in a single sweep, but is it too much to ask their privileged supporters abroad to pay more attention to the material conditions in Chiapas and less on the innovative ways they use their laptops to conjure “resistance”?
    110. Work
      Capitalism. Economics. Resistance
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2011
      About work in capitalist society.

    2010

    1. Grassroots media relations 
      A short introduction to media relations strategies for activist groups
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010   Published: 2017
      A media relations guide for organizers and activists.
    2. Marx at the Margins 
      On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2010   Published: 2016
      Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
    3. The Problem of the Democratic Opposition Organization
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010   Published: 2014
      The basis for this proposal is an attempt to address the classic dilemma of the broad democratic opposition. In summary it is the need for a competent professional cadre to implement the changes needed, combined with the maintenance of a democratic and effective membership control of this 'elite'.
    4. The War on Unhappiness
      Goodbye Freud, hello positive thinking
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      A report on the Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference in Anaheim, California.
    5. About Connexions
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010   Published: 2011
    6. Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune
      Resource Type: Film/Video
      First Published: 2010   Published: 2011
      A documentary film on the life and times of folk singer-songwriter Phil Ochs.
    7. Cheap clothing proves far too dear
      The death of workers in Bangladesh are just the latest tragedy that springs from the west's addiction to fashion
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      In Bangladesh one hundred workers died in a garment fire, a common occurence plaguing a workforce that already has the distinction of being the "most poorly paid in the world". The author investigates the market forces that drive the terrible conditions and compensation for workers in this export industry.
    8. Cotton-pickin trade
      US and European growers receive government subsidies while farmers in Mali struggle to survive on 300$ a year
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Inequity in the global tradiing system of cotton means that farmers in West Africa struggle to survive. International prices have been driven down by subsidies and disproportionately disadvantage the poorest producers. The author inteviews these farmers and investigates the benefits of fair trade cotton in West Africa to the producers and their communities.
    9. Ignorance and Courage in the Age of Lady Gaga
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      It can be safely said that cultural ignorance consists of the rational, sensible questions that never get asked. But it also includes the weird ones that are. For instance, one of the questions asked regarding tasering school kids is: What is the allowable weight range of a child to be tased? (Taser manufacturers say 60 pounds.) Somehow, by this geezer’s prehistoric reasoning, that sounds like the wrong question.
    10. Extremism goes mainstream
      Across Europe far-right parties are gaining power by forming coalitions while liberals have failed to find a coherent response
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Right wing extremist parties that attempt to stir up racial and ethnic prejudices have been gaining support during the recession in Europe. In Denmark, the Netherlands and Italy liberals already form coalition governments with such parties. Both centre right and centre left political leaders across Europe are coming together to form a coherent response.
    11. Bright Frenetic Mills
      Easy Chair
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Chronicling the decline of the print media industry and the rise of market driven online content mills, the author speculates about professional standards in journalism and how they might have a hope of being upheld.
    12. Debate with the International Socialist Organization Continued
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      From a libertarian socialist point of view, the "self-emancipation of the working class" can't happen unless the working class builds organized mass movements that they control, such as labor organizations. This is the fundamental basis of syndicalism as a revolutionary strategy.
    13. "Autonome Nationalisten"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Die "Autonomen Nationalisten" send eine aesthetisch-stilistische and strategisch-aktionistische Neuerung im deutschen Neonazismus. Durch die Adaption linker Codes und Inszenierungsformen hat er sein Auftreten modernisiert.
    14. Curiouser and curiouser
      Tea Party members aren't foaming at the mouth racist bigots
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      A journalist travels to the first National Tea Party Convention in Tennessee as a delegate and finds the other delegates privately share his disdain for the racism and conspiracy theories the group fosters. He describes the delegates as average voters baffled by Obama's health care bill and economic policies.
    15. Book Review: Kevin Anderson, Marx at the Margins (2010)
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Anderson’s argument is based on a careful and comprehensive reading of the writings of Marx (and, to the extent necessary, Engels) on: (1) the history, economics and politics of societies and nations outside Western Europe (but including Ireland); (2) movements of national liberation, as in Ireland, Poland and India; and (3) the relationship between ‘race’ and class in countries such as England and the United States.
    16. Book Review: "Anarchism & Socialism: Reformism or Revolution?" by Wayne Price
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
    17. The fruits of protest
      Russia has shelved plans to break up the historic Pavlovsk seed bank
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      The Pavlovsk open air seedbank in St. Petersburg maintains 12,000 species of fruit trees, berries, and flowers. Plans to auction off the land have been placed on hold after protests.
    18. Saving past is first step to the future
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      The archives of southern Sudan are all currently housed in a tent donated by USAid. Many documents have been damaged due to the poor storage facilities. The Rift Valley Institute, a non-profit research group and scholars from Oxford plan to digitize and find a permanent home for the collection in the near future.
    19. Anarchists Unite with Big Brother Against Reds
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Campus anarchists support administration censorship of Trotskyist literature.
    20. The hidden history of Bob Rae's government in Ontario
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
    21. Fanning the flames of intolerance
      The burning of books -- an ultimate form of control and condemnation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      A historical overview of book burnings by political and religious regimes.
    22. I was wrong on veganism
      Traditional livestock production makes ecological sense
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      An environmental reporter reviews the environmental impacts of meat production in the developed world. He finds that First World meat production is incredibly wasteful but that this is not a requirement of livestock rearing so much as an entrenched practice, and offers suggestions for greening the industry.
    23. Once more around the Bloc
      Tactics, democracy, and mass politics
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Black Bloc tactics are deeply undemocratic -- and they don't work.
    24. Shock and Au-sterity
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Scared to death that all the lights were about to go out after pulling the plug on Lehman Brothers, the bourgeoisie rolled up its sleeves, girded its loins, crossed its fingers, and reached deeper than deep for that thing of all things, that relation of all relations that is the life of all lives for the bourgeoisie—OPM, other people’s money.
    25. Internet addiction driving South Koreans into realms of fantasy
      Government caught between promoting gaming and restraining its use in world's most wired nation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Two million South Koreans are thought to be addicted to Internet games as the government struggles to deal with the problem.
    26. Contemporary anarchism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Contemporary anarchism has some important differences, but also a great deal of continuity, with historical anarchism. Where it focuses on building an alternative in the “interstices” of capitalism, it accommodates to, rather than challenges, capitalism; and where it fetishizes street tactics, it generates more press than tangible success in either building the struggle or in challenging the state.
    27. The Food Bubble
      How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
    28. SNCC's 50-Year Legacy
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Celebrating SNCC's legacy.
    29. Tea Party in the Sonora
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      For the future of Republican governance, look to Arizona.
    30. Why illegalism is stupid
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Doing illegal things makes us look like criminals in the minds of most people.
    31. Crisis in the US
      Social and Economic Effects, Restructuring and Methods of Adapting
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      The cause of the crisis in the US must be found in the context of the world capitalist economy and not credited to internal causes. These internal causes of course exist but in fact only shape the way this crisis is expressed.
    32. Kyrgyzstan faces humanitarian crisis as Uzbeks flee slaughter
      Kyrgyzstan shaken by ethnic slaughter
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Kyrgyzstan is in the grip of a humanitarian crisis after more than 100,000 minority Uzbeks, fleeing Kyrgyz mobs in the south of the country, gather on the Uzbekistan border.
    33. Why the French Hate Chomsky 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Chomsky's criticism is laden with facts, a substance that seems to elicit ennui among contemporary French thinkers. No doubt the importance of the essay in the French educational system has bred a world of 'philosophers' whose skill at manipulating fact-free ideas was the guarantee of a distinguished career. If the social object is to entertain, then the French school reaches its goal -- mystification is often far more entertaining than straightforward descriptions of reality. On the other hand, if the object is to help readers reach their own understanding of reality, especially political reality, then their first need is to be provided with the basic relevant facts, which most people do not have time to ascertain through their own research. Thus Chomsky is useful to citizens by providing them with the raw material to develop their own ideas in a way that the purveyors of ready-made but flimsily supported ideas are not.
    34. The State as Protection Racket
      Chapters in the History of Daylight Robbery
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      The debate about the current global economic "crisis" is obscenely counterintuitive and illogical to the point of incoherence. Who is willing to 'follow the money"? This dictum appears utterly forgotten, despite recurring astronomic fraud perpetrated by US corporations.
    35. The Fire This Time: Burning Bridges
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Some activists hold back from condemning tactics that are politically stupid and destructive, like the recent Ottawa arson attack by an anarchist group, because of a commitment to the doctrine of a 'diversity of tactics'. However, the original idea behind a diversity of tactics, that is, a variety of approaches to organizing for change, has been appropriated by activists devoted to property destruction as a media spectacle, who feel that they should be exempted from criticism by other activists, no matter how much their tactics serve to undermine the building of a broad-based movement against capitalism.
    36. How Canada's Christian right was built
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      The religous right is organizing hard, and effectively, to get their hands on the levers of power.
    37. Joel Osteen: the new face of Christianity
      Through the eye of the needle
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      A profile of the most succesful pastor in America, Joel Osteen, one of those who preach 'the prosperity gospel'.
    38. May Day & SDS & SNCC Jubilee
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Class consciousness is the knowledge that emancipation is ours. Class struggle is the fight for it, the fight to be a class, and then the fight to abolish the class system. It is not economistic; it is historical. It was concrete not abstract. It was expressed in real voices, voices of the past and voices of the present. The skill is in the listening.
    39. They're Recharging Democracy
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
    40. A serious newspaper should not confuse Jews and Zionists
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      On the eve of the 62th anniversary of Israel, it is important to remember that it was the Zionist minority of Palestine's inhabitants that issued the unilateral declaration of independence. Israel is a Zionist state, not a Jewish one, another important distinction to make in future articles on this burning subject.
    41. The Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement
      For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      The mass mobilization of black people in the Southern civil rights movement, and the subsequent Northern ghetto rebellions, disrupted and challenged the racist American bourgeois order. It shattered the anti-Communist consensus and it paved the road for the mass protest movements that followed—against the U.S. dirty war in Vietnam, for the rights of women, gays, students and others.
    42. English Defence League: new wave of extremists plotting summer of unrest
      Growth of anti-Muslim group raises fears of street violence
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      A profile of the supporters and the protests of the English Defence League, a right wing anti-Islam group of mostly white, young British men, many of them mobilized through their soccer clubs.
    43. Notebook: Toward a Second Haitian Revolution
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      A historical review of economic policy in Haiti since its independence, and the impact of its smallholder's disposession by US policies that sought to 'liberalize' the economy. The author advocates investment in subsistence farming rather than spending foreign aid on foreign imports in the wake of the earthquake.
    44. The internet's cyber radicals: heroes of the web changing the world
      A generation of political activists have been transformed by new tools developed on the internet.
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Internet activists speak about censorship, the democratising impact of open source technology, and the importance of oportunities for anonimity in a post 9-11 world.
    45. Met police face legal action for 'kettling' of protest teenagers
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Police in the UK are being sued for using violence against students during a tuition fees protest by three minors who suffered injuries. They claim they were falsely detained and denied medical assistance. Their lawyers believe the police violated the European convention on human rights.
    46. Black Liberation and the Fight for a Socialist America
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      From slavery to convict labour, from the chain gang to the assembly line, American capitalism has been built upon the lash-scarred backs of black labour. Any organization that claims a revolutionary perspective for the United States must confront the special oppression of black people and their forced segregation at the bottom of capitalist society and the poisonous racism that divides the working class and cripples its struggles.
    47. Political activists call for inquiry after revelations about undercover police
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Protest groups that were targeted by infiltrators plan legal action to obtain access to police files after disclosures by Officer A.
    48. Is Israel an Apartheid State? 
      Rhetoric or Reality? Summary of a Legal Study by the Human Sciences Research council of South Africa
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Do Israel's practices in occupied Palestinian territory, namely the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, amount to the crimes of colonialism and apartheid under international law?
    49. Pictures of health
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Care-home staff are using books to stimulate those suffering from dementia.
    50. Funding for Non-profit Media or Public Interest Activities
      Part 7 of 7 - Canada's Media in Crisis
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      A group that launches, or even refocuses, an independent news media project - or raises money for just about any public-interest activity - will probably have success in fundraising if it does the proper research and targets a unique audience. It will need to demonstrate that it offers an important public service, such as providing in-depth coverage of local political, economic, and social issues not covered adequately by other media.
    51. Conning the Climate
      Inside the carbon-trading shell game
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      The carbon is, in essence, an elaborate shell game, a disappearing act that nicely serves the immediate interests of the world's governments but fails to meet the challenges of our looming environmental crisis.
    52. Independent media advocates must develop creative news sites
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      We should be able to come up with two or three practical models that can be used to set up sustainable news and information production and delivery systems.
    53. Could a 'mini-paper' nip at the heels of mainstream press?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      A mini-paper would be incredibly inexpensive to publish. There would be no requirement for newsprint, a huge printing plant or large delivery system.
    54. Creation of Sustainable Free Media Would Be Huge Breakthrough
      Part 4 of The Crisis in Canadian Media
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Independent media organizations would approach news differently compared to the coverage provided by corporate-owned media.
    55. Parecon & Participatory Society
      An Interview with Michael Albert
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Participatory Economics, or parecon for short, is a vision for how to conduct economics in a classless manner. It delivers to workers and consumers self managed say over their economic lives, a condition of solidarity with others, equitable incomes for their labors, diverse opportunities and options, and ecological balance.
    56. Canadian Media in Crisis
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      How so-called "business journalism" is often biased and tends to give readers a distorted picture of the news.
    57. Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2010
      Engler documents the fact that the essence of Canadian policy has always been support for the establishment and continued dominance of an expansionist Zionist state in the territories that now comprise Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank.
    58. Connexions Informacijas Apmainas Pakalpojumi
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Connexions (pilns nosaukums: Connexions Informacijas Apmainas Pakalpojumi - Connexions Information Sharing Services) ir centrala tiešsaistes biblioteka un arhivs, kas apkalpo Kanadas iniciativas par izmainam sabiedriba. Šis bezpelnas projekts uztur ari izsmelošu Kanadas asociaciju un NVS raditaju.
    59. Connexions Library French Title Index
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
    60. Connexions Library Persian Title Index
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
    61. Consensus decision-making 
      Connexipedia Article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Article about the group decision making process known as consensus decision-making.
    62. Diemer, Ulli
      Connexipedia Article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
    63. Diemer, Ulli
      Connexipedia article - Francais
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
    64. Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2010-2011
      Capital devours lives, labor, land; masses seek paths to freedom
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      A revolutionary organization can no longer allow any separation between theory and practice, philosophy and revolution, workers and intellectuals, "inside" and "outside."
    65. Glimpses of the Connexions Archive
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
    66. Grassroots Naturism
      A guide for the TNS Volunteer
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      A primer for the naturist volunteer.
    67. Justice for All: the Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt
      A Report by the Solidarity Center
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2010
      A report on recent workers' struggles in Egypt, against falling wages, oppressive working conditions, and violations of workers' rights, in the face of an authoritarian and repressive government.
    68. Libertarian Socialism
      Connexipedia Article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      A socialist political orientation which promote a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic, stateless society without private property in the means of production. Libertarian socialism is opposed to coercive forms of social organization, and promotes free association in place of the coercive social relations of capitalism
    69. Live Working or Die Fighting
      How the Working Class Went Global
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2010
      Mason relates a series of struggles for worker and human rights over the past two hundred years and compares them to current struggles.
    70. Making the Most of Your Media Interview
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Being prepared for an interview will make you less nervous and more confident, and with confidence comes increased credibility.
    71. Media Names & Numbers 10
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2010
      A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
    72. Moffatt, Gary
      Connexipedia Article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      Canadian anarchist and activist.
    73. New Hogtown Press
      Connexipedia Article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      New Hogtown Press was a Canadian left-wing publisher active during the 1970s and 1980s.
    74. Nostalgia de la luz (Nostalgia for the Light) 
      Resource Type: Film/Video
      First Published: 2010
      In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers search the sky and explore the origins of the universe. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones murdered and dumped in the desert by the Pinochet dictatorship. The desert also holds the stories of pre-Columbian indigenous societies, 19th-century miners, and political prisoners. A meditation on astronomy, the past, memory, and persistence.
    75. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 48 No. 1 - Jan./Feb. 2010
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2010
    76. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 48 No. 2 - Mar./Apr. 2010
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2010
    77. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 48 No. 3 - May/June 2010
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2010
    78. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 48 No. 4 - July/Aug. 2010
      Summer Cultural Issue
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2010
    79. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 48 No. 5 - Sept./Oct. 2010
      Happy New Year 2010 ~ 5771
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2010
    80. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 48 No. 6 - Nov./Dec. 2010
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2010
    81. A Paradise Built in Hell 
      The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2010
      The most startling thing about disasters, according to Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides.
    82. The Punishment of Gaza
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2010
      An account of Israel's criminal treatment of Gaza.
    83. Social Classes in the Process of Capitalist Landnahme
      On the Relevance of Secondary Exploitation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      So far, growing social insecurity and inequality have not led to a revival of class-conscious labour movements in the centres of capitalism. This article builds upon Rosa Luxemburg’s concept of Landnahme to attempt to explain this phenomenon.
    84. SUPA - Student Union for Peace Action
      Connexipedia Article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
      A Canadian student organization active from 1964 to 1967.
    85. The Trouble With Billionaires 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2010
      The glittering lives of billionaires may seem to be a harmless source of entertainment, but authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks argue that such financial power not only threatens everyone's economic and social well-being but also upsets the very functioning of democracy. Our society tends to regard great wealth as evidence of exceptional talent or accomplishment. Yet spectacular fortunes are often attributable to luck, ruthlessness, cheating, or advantageous positioning that allow some to build on the work and insights of others who have paved the way.
    86. VIP: Very Inventive Procrastinator
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2010
    87. A Vision from the Heartland
      Socialism for the 21st Century
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2010
      La Botz argues that to solve the problems of our economy and the environment, and to end America‘s wars abroad, we must begin to create a socialist society. A socialist society is one where the working people collectively own and democratically plan and manage the major industries and enterprises. I call for the abolition of the corporations and of capitalism in order to create a society of plenty for all. I believe that such a society can only be created by building a powerful movement for democracy and for working class power.
    88. The West Bank
      A Collection of Graphic Novels
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2010
      A collection of graphic stories by twelve students from An-Najah University depicting real descriptions of life in Palestine.
    89. What Would it Mean to Win?
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2010
      Where is the movement today? Where is it going? Are we winning? The authors of the essays in this volume pose these and other momentous questions.

    2009

    1. Police arrest 8 protesters at Israeli consulate
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Toronto police have arrested eight Canadian Jewish women who occupied the Israeli consulate on Bloor Street. The group carried out the occupation to show their opposition to Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip and its two-year economic blockade of the territory, Miriam Garfinkle, a spokesperson, told ctvtoronto.ca on Wednesday.
    2. Tácticas desesperadas: Acusaciones falsas de "antisemitismo" para silenciar reproches a la conducta de Israel
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
    3. Tactics of Desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-Semitism' - Arabic text
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
    4. Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
    5. La tactique du désespoir : Utilisant de fausses accusations de l'antisémitisme comme arme pour faire taire toute critique sur le comportement d'Israël.
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
    6. Taktyki Desperacji: Uzywanie falszywych oskarzen antysemityzmu jako broni uciszajacej krytyke zachowania Izraela
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
    7. Düstere Aussichten
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Ist es schon zu spät? Wir wissen, dass bereits vieles verloren ist. Aber wir können nicht wissen, ob bereits alles verloren ist. Man kann im voraus nicht wissen, was eine gemeinsame Aktion alles bewirken kann. Wir befinden uns in der Lage von Eltern, die bereits ein Kind verloren haben, und die sich jetzt überlegen müssen, ob sie für ihre anderen Kinder kämpfen wollen, die in Gefahr aber noch am Leben sind.
    8. Why Canada must limit the influence of corporate media
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Traditional news departments follow unwritten but well-understood guidelines concerning what they should not cover. Most people in the newsrooms have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in corporate ideology that they seldom suggest a story that falls outside of the guidelines.
    9. Canwest latest 'media giant' to exploit news operations
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Media corporations claim to care about quality journalism, but they've deceived Canadians for decades -- censoring news to protect their profits, pandering to the interests of the corporate world, and neglecting to invest adequately in their news operations. For decades powerful media corporations have decided what news Canadians should read, hear, and see. By reading just about any Canadian daily newspaper it's not hard to see how the values of corporate-owned media are quite different from the values and interests of the majority of Canadians.
    10. Readings on Postmodernism and Identity
      A selection of critical articles on post-modernism, identity politics, and related topics
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2009
      Articles by Noam Chomsky, Loren Goldner, Kenan Malik, Irfan Habit, Munira Mirza, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Barbara Epstein, Gavin Kitching, Robert Irwin, and Debra J. Dickerson. Readings compiled by Ulli Diemer.
    11. Seven Answers To Climate Contrarian Nonsense 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Within the community of scientists and others concerned about anthropogenic climate change, those deny climate change are commonly referred to as contrarians, naysayers and denialists. Not everyone who questions climate change science fits that description, of course - some people are genuinely unaware of the facts or honestly disagree about their interpretation. What distinguishes the true naysayers is an unwavering dedication to denying the need for action on the problem, often with weak and long-disproved arguments about supposed weaknesses in the science behind global warming.
    12. Half a man beats none
      In Russia and Mongolia, women don't shy away from polygamy
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Investigation into the socio-economic motivations behind the movement to legalize polygamy. There are fewer men than women in Russia and Mongolia due to economic migration and alcoholism. Both urban and rural women choose relationships that look like polygamy.
    13. The Caracas Commitment
      Declaration from World Meeting of Left Parties, November 19-21, 2009, Caracas, Venezuela
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      We have gathered with the aim of unifying criteria and giving concrete answers that allow us to defend our sovereignty, our social victories, and the freedom of our peoples in the face of the generalized crisis of the world capitalist system and the new threats spreading over our region and the whole world.
    14. Vaccine conspiracy theories spring from a society so skeptical that it's actually gullible
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      I wish I could sustain enough faith in humanity to believe in the conspiracy theores that I've heard recently regarding the H1N1 vaccine.
    15. What is Distinctive about the Library of Congress In Both its Collections and its Means of Access to Them
      And The Reasons LC Needs to Maintain Classified Shelving of Books Onsite, And A Way to Deal Effectively with the Problem of "Books on the Fl
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      The Library cannot solve its space problems by adoption of a "digital strategy"
      without seriously damaging our larger mission to promote scholarship of unusual scope and
      depth. If the Library’s own access to its own general book collection were to be dumbed
      down to only the levels of subject access provided by Google, Amazon, or Internet search
      mechanisms, we would effectively be endorsing, and institutionalizing, the level of
      ignorance exemplified by the Six Blind Men of India.
    16. Capitalism and the Ecological Footprint
      Published in Monthly Review, Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      The capture of ecological discourse by the political culture of the consensus (a necessary expression of the conception of capitalism as the end of history) is well advanced. In contrast, the expression of the demands of the socialist counterculture is fraught with difficulty—because socialist culture is not there in front of our eyes. It is part of a future to be invented, a project of civilization, open to the creativity of the imagination.
    17. The Resistable Rise and Predictable Fall of the U.S. Supermax
      Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      The modern supermax regime is an aberration in American corrections. Based upon a penitentiary model that was dismissed as unsound more than 150 years ago, it was resurrected in the late 1970s and ’80s during the greatest period of growth of the penal state, and at a time of government anxiety about the rise of radical political movements, both in and out of prison. However, the enormous expense of supermax-style solitary confinement and its evident failure to decrease prison violence or recidivism, combined with lawsuits alleging abuse and a rising tide of public anger at U.S. complicity in torture, predicts its eventual demise.
    18. What Needs To Be Done: A Socialist View
      Published in Monthly Review, Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      What is worth fighting for? Perhaps this severe recession offers us an opportunity to ask this question. This crisis has revealed the rotten foundation of our economy and called into question the neoliberal policies and ideology that have deepened the rot.
    19. Police log 'domestic extremists' and keep database on activists
      Forces survey and file details of peaceful protests and political activities
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      'Domestic Extremists' are persons involved in political meetings and protests who are photographed and added to a national database by the UK police. This surveillance falls under the purview of "terrorism and allied matters" and these police tactics are now the subject of an internal review. They have been widely criticized for lacking accountability.
    20. We attacked the bankers, but took our eyes off the whole rotten system
      Prince Andrew says that bonuses are minute 'in the scheme of things'. He is half-right. We must take the focus off individuals
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Much focus has been placed on individual bankers who, despite the banking crisis, are collecting exorbitant bonuses, diverting attention from the underlying systems that allow banks to own and trade risky securities -- a more intrinsic contributor to the economic crisis.
    21. Prostitution and trafficking – the anatomy of a moral panic
      Victims who never existed
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      The author challenges the underlying assumptions and methods used to assess the incidence of sex trafficking into the United Kingdom.
    22. If you're a new Canadian, 'you go to university'
      Variety of social factors cause first-and second-generation Canadians to attend university far in excess of non-immigrant children
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      An investigation into the factors that contribute to the very high university attendance rate for second generation immigrants and first generation immigrants who came to Canada as children as reported by Statistics Canada. The reporter found that strong family bonds and parental expectations are important factors.
    23. State steals authority from adults
      An official power grab is creating a British society that has no control over its children
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Adults no longer have the authority to reprimand or comment on the behaviour of children whom they are not the guardians of. Adults who directly speak to children about inappropriate behavious even if such behaviour is directed toward their own children, are increasingly facing legal consequences.
    24. Inuit Are Living on the Front Lines of Climate Change
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Climate change is being felt in northwest Canada, and in a wide circle at the top of the world, stretching from Alaska through the Siberian tundra, into northern Scandinavia and Greenland, and on to Canada's eastern Arctic islands, a circle of more than 300,000 indigenous people.
    25. Olympic torch stokes warm pride and fiery protest among aboriginals
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Differing opinions between aboriginal groups towards the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and Torch Relay.
    26. Season of dread returns as Haiti awaits devastating hurricane season
      Decades of deforestation left the Carribbean island defenceless against last year's catastrophic hurricanes. But Haiti hopes attempts to sav
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      An examination of the continuing effects of recent hurricanes on the economy and ecology of Haiti.
    27. Computer viruses slow African expansion
      Hampered by pirated software and super-slow download times, computer users in Africa are finding PC viruses hard to eradicate
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Expense of anti-virus software means a majority of African computer's are rife with malware that can brutally cripple the users relying on those systems.
    28. Collectors on the edge
      The influence of Kew Gardens reaches far. In the heart of Botswana, meet the leaders of the Millenium Seed Bank Project
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      The Millenium Seed Bank Project is an international botanical project to collect and study 10% of the world's plant species.
    29. Out of Africa but not very different
      Despite our expectation that human diversity should be reflected in our genes, a study reveals surprising little variation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Partial exerpt at: http://www.amren.com/news/2009/06/among_many_peop/
    30. Regroupment & Refoundation of a U.S. Left 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Perspectives for socialist renewal in the 21st century.
    31. The Two Main Trends in Anarchism
      Alternate Tendencies of Anarchism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      The broad anarchist tradition of class struggle anarchism overlaps with libertarian interpretations of Marx.
    32. Iran's democracy in the eyes of the Arab world
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      The sentiments in the Arab world regarding Iran are often ridden with tense undertones, as the Shiite-Sunni dichotomy and the history of this division is never exempt from the political speech in the Middle East. Also considering the recent "moderate/radical" schism in the region, SASEEN KAWZALLY looks at what the Arab media has to say about the ongoing protests in Iran.
    33. Citizen media takes the stage as protests continue in Iran
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Wth foreign media expelled from Iran, and local journalists being targeted, citizen journalists are becoming vital in covering the situation on the ground. MENASSAT interviewed Magda Abu-Fadil, Director of the Journalism Training Program at the American University of Beirut (AUB), to discuss what this means for the future of journalism
    34. Crisis Fund for Independent Media
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      The global financial crisis is threatening to silence independent news outlets more effectively than any government. The Media Development Loan Fund's (MDLF) Crisis Fund is providing vital support to help clients survive the recession.
    35. The New News
      Jouralism we want and need
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      With support from the Chicago Community Trust, the Community Media Workshop released "the New news: Journalism We Want and Need." This 36-page report is co-authored by giraffe prospect Thom Clark and includes a ranking of their top sixty news websites in Chicago, topping the list is the Chi-Town Daily News. An assessment of news coverage in the Chicago area due to economic pressures and crucial development in communication such as the importance of the online realm.
    36. The Penal State in an Age of Crisis
      Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 2 - June 2009
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      We may be approaching a moment where it will be possible to open up a debate on the obscenity and absurdity of the present order and its punitive social control mechanisms. Smashing the penal state is job one for socialist politics as we put the neoliberal hell in our rearview mirrors.
    37. Talk to United Church Toronto Conference AGM
      Supporting the call for boycott, divestment and sanctions
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
      Miriam Garfinkle spoke to the United Church Toronto Conference Annual General Meeting in 2009 when the United Church was considering resolutions supporting boycott, divestment and sanctions to pressure Israel to ends it oppression of the Palestinian people.
    38. Swine Flu Coverage Around the World
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      The swine flu story quickly topped the American media agenda when the story broke in late April. How did coverage in other countries compare with the U.S.? Was there any correlation between the number of confirmed cases and quantity or nature of coverage? How did Spanish-language media in the U.S. react? A new report examining press coverage of the outbreak in several countries offers answers. How did coverage in the U.S. compare to media in other countries, both in the level of coverage and the way it was framed? How did the number of cases reported or the geographic proximity to the epicenter of the outbreak impact coverage? And, did the Spanish-language press in the U.S. treat the outbreak differently than its English-language counterparts?
    39. Are you paying too much to send out your news releases?
      Sources News Release
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      If you have been using a corporate newswire service to send out your news releases you are likely paying $500 or more to send out a single release -- and that release may not even be reaching the people you want to reach.
    40. Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
    41. Publishers look to China and India to help them weather recession
      Potter, Blyton and business guides serve global appetite for English language books
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Book sales slowing in Britain, but booming in overseas markets.
    42. Confronting prejudice in South Korea
      Foreign teachers are campaigning against visa rules that they say are discriminatory
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Foreigners teaching English in South Korea who hold work visas are being subjected to compulsory STI and drug testing in response to a media frenzy that the teachers are a corrupting influence.
    43. A second tier in public system
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      I applaud People for Education for continuing to defend public education. The idea of a public school website with a shopping bag is repugnant.
    44. Canadian Jews condemn suppression of criticism of Israel
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Over 150 Jewish Canadians signed a statement expressing their concerns about the campaign to suppress criticism of Israel that is being carried on within Canada.
    45. Jailed for a MySpace parody, the student who exposed America's cash for kids scandal
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Judges receive kickbacks for imprisoning youths; slapping a friend or having tantrum leads to prison.
    46. Seven Reasons Why I Advocate Parecon
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      As economies all around us gasp and constrict, more and more people are willing to seriously recognize what has always been evident - that even at its best and certainly at its worst capitalism is a decrepit monstrosity of a system. As a proposed replacement for capitalism, Parecon rejects: Private ownership, Authoritarian decision-making, Remuneration for property, power, or output, Corporate divisions of labor, and, Markets and central planning.
    47. Knicker protest targets Hindu militants
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      The socially conservative Hindu Sri Ram Sena (Lord Ram's Army) a group of vigilantes has attacked women in pubs and unwed couples, in an effort to protect what they call "Indian Culture". Indian women fought back by sending 40,000 pairs of pink underwear to their offices.
    48. Children of the revolution
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      When a 15-year-old schoolboy was shot in Athens in December, it triggered the worst civil unrest in Europe since 1968. Ed Vulliamy and Helena Smith join the frontline activists to talk anarchic protest, political upheaval and police brutality.
    49. For a Workers Recovery Plan - The Causes and Cures of a New Great Depression 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Economics is now not just for the experts. If anything is clear from the panic that started in mid- September, 2008, it is that workers must understand the economy. For clearly the 'experts' have no idea what they are doing.
    50. Written off
      How the Indian Media Deals with its Freelance Journalists
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Most freelance journalists in India are perceived to be the stepchildren of the Indian news media. Though some indications are there, we want to come up with concrete numbers.
    51. The return of religion - and other myths
      Talk at a conference on 'Post-secularism', Utrecht, Netherlands, 11 January 2009
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Politics has became less about competing visions of the kinds of society people than a debate about how best to manage the existing political system. As the meaning of politics has become squeezed, so people have begun to view themselves and their social affiliations in a different way. Social solidarity has become increasingly defined not in political terms - as collective action in pursuit of certain political ideals – but in terms of ethnicity or culture. The politics or ideology, in other words, gave way to the politics of identity. It’s not faith, but identity, that has created the faultlines of contemporary conflicts.
    52. Media Interviews during the January 7, 2009 Israeli consulate occupation in Toronto
      Resource Type: Audio
      First Published: 2009
      On January 7, 2009, a group of Jewish women occupied the Israeli consulate in Toronto to protest against Israel's attack on Gaza. In this audio clip, spokeswomen Miriam Garfinkle and Judy Rebick explain why they are taking this action.
    53. Occupation of Israeli Consulate by Jewish & Israeli Women, January 7, 2009
      Resource Type: Audio
      First Published: 2009
      A group of Jewish women occupied the Israeli consulate in Toronto is protest against the brutal Israeli attack on Gaza.
    54. Are there too many people? 
      Population, hunger, and environmental degradation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      A number of liberal writers and publications have raised the specter of growing population as an unpleasant yet necessary topic of conversation.
    55. The Barefoot Guide to Working with Organisations and Social Change
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2009
      A partical, do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators wanting to help organisations to function and to develop in more health, human and effective ways as they strive to make their contributions to a more humane society.
    56. Building Media Relationships
      How to Establish, Maintain, and Develop Long-Term Relationships
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2009
      Sommers wrote this guide to teach how media can be used to raise an organization's public profile and improve its connection with the target audience.
    57. The Deaths of Michael Jackson and Neda Grip the Blogosphere
      PEJ New Media Index: June 22-26, 2009
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Michael Jackson and Neda Agha-Soltan had little in common in life. But together last week their deaths in Los Angeles and Tehran consumed the blogosphere and became emblematic of the flow and character of modern communication.
    58. Detecting Bull
      How to Identify Bias and Junk Journalism in Print, Broadcast and on the Wild Web
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      This book helps teach students how to view the news and find trustworthy information. It takes the lessons learned from his years leading GradeTheNews.org, a website that rated the news in San Francisco.
    59. Economic crisis and the responsibility of socialists
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Henryk Grossman is particularly relevant today and not only because of his explanation of economic and financial crises
    60. Hope for Animals and Their World
      How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2009
      Goodall illuminates the heroic efforts of dedicated environmentalists and the truly critical need to protect the habitats of endangered species.
    61. Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2009
      A readable introduction to the history and practice of apartheid in Israel.
    62. "Liberté de parole" - aussi longtemps que cela n'offense personne
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
    63. Making a Killing
      The Canada-Israel Military-Industrial Partnership
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Canadian companies supply many essential components to Israel's war machine. This pamphlet provides information on the arms trade that will help to strengthen the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
    64. Marx, Engels and Darwin
      How Darwin's theory of evolution confirmed and extended the most fundamental concepts of Marxism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
    65. Mirrors 
      Stories of Almost Everyone
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2009
      Open any history book and you'll learn about revolutionary leaders, decorated generals, genius scientists and passionate artists. What about the leaders’ assistants? The loyal soldiers? The helpful lab assistants and the inspirations for great art? History books are so filled with greatness that the stories of the people are often neglected. Mirrors resolves this issue. Mirrors is a mosaic of humanity.
    66. Nativism and Americanism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2009
    67. Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid?
      A re-assessment of Israel's practicies in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      A study of the Israel-Palestine situation from the standpoint of international law.
    68. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 47 No. 1 - Jan./Feb. 2009
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2009
    69. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 47 No. 2 - Mar./Apr. 2009
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2009
    70. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 47 No. 3 - May/June 2009
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2009
    71. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 47 No. 4 - July/August 2009
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2009
    72. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 47 No. 5 - Sept./Oct. 2009
      Happy New Year 2009 ~ 5570
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2009
    73. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 47 No. 6 - Nov./Dec. 2009
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2009
    74. The Path to Human Development
      Capitalism or Socialism?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      If we believe in people, if we believe that the goal of a human society must be that of "ensuring overall human development," our choice is clear: socialism or barbarism.
    75. The politics of display
      The redesign of the Ashmolean in Oxford provides a chance to reflect on how we understand the meaning of collections
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is the oldest museum in Britain, founded in 1693. The institution has grown, thanks to a new postmodern building by architect Rick Mather. The open concept design of the new galleries is perfect for the curatorial focus on the impact of trade and the legacy of intercultural exchange titled "Crossing Cultures Crossing Time".
    76. Rules of Production
      A Critical Look at Two Recent Books on the British Media
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      A review of two books: Flat Earth News, by Nick Davies, and Newspeak in the 21st Century, by David Edwards and David Cromwell.
    77. 'Smooth Operator?'
      The Propaganda Model and Moments of Crisis
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      An article by Des Freedman on Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model for the mass media and moments of crisis (disagreements within the ruling class), focusing particularly on the Daily Mirror and its anti-war coverage in the build up to the Iraq war.
    78. 'Socialism in One Country' Before Stalin, and the Origins of Reactionary 'Anti-Imperialism'
      The Case of Turkey, 1917-1925
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Today's climate of "anti-imperialism" compels us to turn back to the history of such a profoundly reactionary ideology, deeply anti-working class both in the advanced and underdeveloped countries, by which any force, no matter how retrograde, that turns a gun against a Western power becomes progressive and worthy of critical or military support, or for the less subtle, simply support.
    79. The State of the News Media 2009
      An Annual Report on American Journalism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Some of the numbers are chilling. Newspaper ad revenues have fallen 23% in the last two years. Some papers are in bankruptcy, and others have lost three-quarters of their value. Nearly one out of every five journalists working for newspapers in 2001 is now gone, and 2009 may be the worst year yet. In local television, news staffs, already too small to adequately cover their communities, are being cut at unprecedented rates; revenues fell by 7% in an election year # something unheard of # and ratings are now falling or are flat across the schedule. In network news, even the rare programs increasing their ratings are seeing revenues fall. The report also includes our in-depth content analysis, based on a study of nearly 80,000 news stories and television and radio segments in A Year in the News. This year we also offer some Special Reports. There is one on citizen-based media, including a university study of 363 citizen websites in 46 markets. There is a backgrounder on the growing models of entrepreneurial journalism, new Web news organizations run by professional journalists outside the mainstream press.
    80. Transcending Pessimism: Rekindling Socialist Imagination
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      Between Marx's broad historically-inspired vision of revolution/transformation and his detailed critique of political economy, there was an analytical and strategic gap - unbridgeable without addressing the problematic of working class capacities - which later Marxists sometimes addressed, but never overcame. Every progressive social movement must, sooner or later, confront the inescapable fact that capitalism cripples our capacities, stunts our dreams, and incorporates our politics.
    81. Transforming Power
      From the Personal to the Political
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2009
      Rebick champions new ways of achieving political goals by emphasizing co-operation and consensus over confrontation and partisanship.
    82. The Transition Initiative 
      Changing the scale of change
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
      People never need communities more than when there are threats to security, food, and lives. The Transition Initiative recognizes how much we need this scale now, because of peak oil and climate change. But beyond this concrete need, the lack of a sense of community has negative psychological impacts on individuals across the 'developed' world, as people report persistent and widespread feelings of loneliness, isolation, dispossession, alienation, and depression.
    83. Two fronts of anti-apartheid struggle: South African and Canada
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
    84. Visteon: How Workers Occupied and Won
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2009
    85. Women Soldiers' Testimonies
      Breaking the Silence
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2009
      A collection of testimonies selected from interviews with more than forty Israeli women soldiers breaking their silence, and is an additional example of the ethical and societal cost of the missions with which the Israeli Security Forces have been charged.

    2008

    1. Remember what we owe to Arab science
      It's time to herald the Arabic science that prefigured Darwin and Newton
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      In an era of intolerance, the West needs to appreciate the fertile scholarship that flowered with Islam.
    2. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Korean text
      Connexipedia
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008   Published: 2011
    3. Sources Wikipedia article - Korean
      Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008   Published: 2011
    4. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Dutch text
      Connexipedia
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008   Published: 2010
      Connexions (volledige naam Connexions Information Sharing Services) is de voornaamste online bibliotheek en het archief voor Canadese organisaties voor sociale verandering. Dit project dat geen winstoogmerk heeft, beheert ook een uitgebreide gids van Canadese en niet-Canadese verenigingen en niet-gouvernementele organisaties.
    5. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Artikel - Deutscher text
      Connexipedia
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008   Published: 2010
      Connexions ist die Zentrale Online Bücherei und Archiv für Kanada's Bewegung für gesellschaftlichen Wandel.
    6. Sources (portal for journalister og skribenter)
      Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008   Published: 2010
      Sources er en informationsportal for journalister, freelance skribenter, redaktorer, forfattere og forskere som især fokuserer på menneskelige kilder: eksperter og talsmænd som er parate til at svare på journalisters sporgsmål eller som er disponible til live interviews.
    7. Sources (portal para jornalistas e escritores)
      Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008   Published: 2010
    8. Wikipedia's article about Sources
      Local version on Sources website
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008   Published: 2009
    9. Sole offender?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      When an Iraqi journalist throws his shoe at the commander-in-chief of the forces that invaded and continue to occupy his country, the Globe huffily calls the reporter a disgrace to his profession and says he should be fired.
    10. Perché tante storie per l'omicidio di una ragazza musulmana dalla pelle scura?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    11. Por qué protestar por el asesinato de una chica musulmana de piel oscura?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    12. Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Arabic text
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    13. Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Chinese version
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    14. Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Japanese text
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    15. Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Korean version
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    16. Communist Organizing in the Jim Crow South
      What's Not in The Great Debaters
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      The Great Debaters is a well-made movie. But in its paeans to dedication and debate, it downplays the real social struggle that was going on in the U.S. in the 1930s, including by black people in the South.
    17. Keeping the Media Safe for Big Business
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    18. Guilty Mileage
      How the Indian News Media Covered the Judgements in Two High Profile Cases
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      The last few years have seen a number of high-profile cases in Indian courts wherein the rich and mighty have been held guilty and sentenced to prison. The news media, in many cases, has been accused of conducting its own shadow trials. The news media coverage these court cases have derived has been phenomenal...
    19. "Just Say No!" to the Robin Hood-in-Reverse Bailout
      And What to Do Instead
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      The reverse Robin Hood deal to bail out the rich cannot be allowed to stand. It's time to take to the streets.
    20. What We Mean By Social Determinants of Health
      International Journal of Health Services, Volume 39, Number 3, Pages 423-441
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008   Published: 2009
      Analyzes the changes in health conditions and quality of life in the populations of developed and developing countries over the past 30 years, resulting from neoliberal policies developed by many governments and promoted by international agencies. Critiquing a WHO report on social determinants of health, Navarro argues that it is not inequalities that kill people; it is those who are responsible for these inequalities that kill people.
    21. The occupation of Gaza and the West Bank must end
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      The occupation of Gaza and the West Bank must end. The dispossession of the Palestinians must be fully acknowledged and Israel must reach out to embrace the full rights of Palestinians to nationhood and viability. Only then will the nightmare end that is the reality of the Palestinian people living in the Occupied Territories and the refugee camps. And only with that can there be any hope for a real peace.
    22. Jewish International Opposition Statement Against Attack on Iran
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      We seek security for all concerned by affirming the right of all to security. While we lend no credibility to the prospect of an inevitable conflict, we nonetheless object to the hysteria promoted by the Iran-bashers who are now desperate in their repeated false starts to create another unnecessary war. The attempt to oblige Iran to comply with Security Council resolutions loses its legal, diplomatic and political force as the United States and Israel consistently ignore UN diplomacy and World Court decisions, relevant to the question of Palestine. We call upon all opposed to a military confrontation with Iran to write their governmental representatives demanding that the State of Israel subject its nuclear facilities to international inspection and sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) as has Iran, rather than issue threats of war.
    23. Inclusao ou Exclusao?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      Enqanto isso acontece, nós vamos preferir acreditar que as "comunidades étnicas" nao tem interesse nenhum em tais assuntos e nenhuma posiçao na luta que está sendo travada em volta deles?
    24. Inclusión o exclusion?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    25. Inclusion or Exclusion? - Farsi
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
    26. Integracja czy wykluczenie?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    27. Intégration ou Marginalisation?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    28. Postmodernism: Paralysed by postmodernism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      A great deal of "theory" in the humanities and social sciences -- and not just postmodern theory -- involves the creating of a kind of conceptual landscape filled with curious kinds of abstract objects -- "language", "power", "justice", "state", "culture", "government", "the polity", "the economy" and a host of others, which are viewed "theoretically" from somewhere way "outside" or "above" them. But it is just this way of looking at things -- from "on high" -- that makes it so difficult to see how people in the landscape are able to create and re-create the world in which they live, and are not simply trapped or formed by it. In fashionable postmodernist treatments of identity or subjectivity, language, as the ultimately hollow and imprisoning object, is put together with the notion that anybody who uses words must be committed to the standard definition of those words, to produce the conclusion that "language" determines the meaning of "identity" words such as man, woman, gay, straight, black, white, natural, normal -- and thus "constructs" (as it is said) human identity or subjectivity itself.
    29. Free speech for me - you shut up
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
    30. Mistaken Identity
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      Historically, antiracists challenged both the practice of racism and the process of racialisation; that is, both the practice of discriminating against people by virtue of their race and the insistence that an individual can be defined by the group to which he or she belongs. Today's multiculturalists argue that to fight racism one must celebrate group identity. The consequence has been the resurrection of racial ideas and the imprisonment of people within their cultural identities. Racial theorists and multiculturalists, the French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut observes, have 'conflicting credos but the same vision of the world'. Both fetishise difference. Both seek to 'confine individuals to their group of origin'. Both undermine 'any possibility of natural or cultural community among peoples'. Challenging such a politics of difference has become as important today as challenging racism.
    31. Law and the wives of others
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      How does a modern, plural democratic society deal with the desire of some minority groups to observe cultural norms at odds with the law of the land?
    32. Master's student earns top marks for dissent
      University of Toronto rabble rouser graduates in a gown of protest- but still faces criminal charges from a sit in gone wrong
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    33. The spectre of socialism for the 21st century
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      Building socialism is the only alternative to barbarism.
    34. Insurrection & Organisation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      An attempt to analyze the role of insurrection in the class struggle, in relation to the problem of revolutionary organization.
    35. Speech at Dr. Khan's Talk
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    36. Health Care Professionals In Canada Join with PHR-Israel
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      Canadian health care professionals are linking with Physicians for Human Rights - Isreal to support their work in struggling and advocating for human rights, in particular the right to health, for people both in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
    37. UK press targets middle India
      Associated's Mail Today is one of many British titles targeting the growing market
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      International publishing groups have recently rushed to publish and market Indian versions of their publications. They are taking advantage of the booming market the growing middle class demographic has created and the recent elimination of restrictions on foreign ownership of national media.
    38. Slumming in Kenya's back streets
      A young TV crew is chronicling a life of dirt, violence and hope
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      Slum TV is a group of young people from Mathare, one of the slums of Kenya, who chronicle life in their community during times of peace and unrest.
    39. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
      Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
    40. Broken Barricades: The Oaxaca Rebellion in Victory, Defeat, and Beyond
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      An analysis of the 2006 Oaxaca rebellion and its contradictions. Its diversity encompassed workers, indigenous groups, Stalinists, anarchists and others. Its weapons and tactics included general assemblies, strikes, barricades, mirrors and fireworks.
    41. Where has all the rage gone?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      In 1968, fury at the Vietnam war sparked protests and uprisings across the world: from Paris and Prague to Mexico. Tariq Ali considers the legacy 40 years on.
    42. Sri Lanka Safety Tips
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      Provides journalists who will be travelling to Sri Lanka during the war with practical guidelines on how to stay safe considering government hostility towards visiting journalists.
    43. The Stasi could only dream of such data
      Britain, the birthplace of liberalism, has become the database state
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      As technology increases the flow of stored data about individual actions, assurances of the "right to informational self-determination" must be hard won from governments. Government surveillance of citizens has become an accepted 'counter-terrorism' measure.
    44. Capitalism is still in dreamland
      Despite the markets' excesses, policymakers think they are in control
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      Reporting on the World Economic Forum 2008, the author finds the IMF's suggestion to cut taxes and interest to be perpetuating the myth that the crises is one of liquidity rather than solvency.
    45. Why the US has really gone broke
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      There is an enormous anomaly in the U.S. economy above and beyond the subprime mortgage crisis, the housing bubble and the prospect of recession: 60 years of misallocation of resources, and borrowings, to the establishment and maintenance of a military-industrial complex as the basis of the nation's economic life.
    46. 'It's like bombing the Louvre'
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      Marie Smith Jones was the world's last Eyak speaker - by the time she died last week, she could use her mother tongue only in her dreams. But the loss of a language is not just a personal tragedy, it is a cultural disaster
    47. CIA whistleblower was a spy who never came in from the cold
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      Obituary of Philip Agee a CIA operative for twelve years, during which time he was posted throughout Latin America. He questioned the company's alignement with the military dictatorships of the region and defected, writing a tell all book and exposing CIA operatives.
    48. Access Denied
      The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2008
      Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information -- often about politics, but also relating to sexuality, culture, or religion -- that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in over three dozen countries.
    49. Anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the Defense of Palestinian Rights
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    50. At a Fork in the Road
      A Debriefing on the RCP
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    51. Bookworms Rejoice
      Digital deal paves the way for online access
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      Google and the US book industry struck a deal to sell digitized books online and distribute royalties to their authors and publishers through a third party.
    52. Canada's 1960s 
      The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2008
      A history of social movements of the 1960s, including student and anti-war movements, the rise of women's liberation, labour struggles, and Quebec nationalism.
    53. Chasing a Mirage
      The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2008
      According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
    54. Comintern
      Revolutionary Internationalism in Lenin's Time
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    55. Confronting the Climate Change Crisis
      An Ecosocialist Perspective
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    56. Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - English text
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      Connexions (full name Connexions Information Sharing Services) is the central online library and archive for Canada's movements for social change. The non-profit project also maintains a comprehensive directory of Canadian associations and NGOs.
    57. Creating a Sense of Belonging
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      Social inclusion isn't rearranging chairs on the Titanic. It's building a new vessel, says Uzma Shakir.
    58. Cuba in a Time of Transition
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    59. Drop till you shop
      I insert my vision of retail subversion one haiku at a time
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      The author experiments with the culture jamming practice of shopdropping, leaving poems, polaroids, stickers, and other manner of messages for shoppers. This is designed to lead to a moment of incongruity for shoppers to reflect on consumerism.
    60. An end to Balkan national states
      Independence for Kosovo: The Domino Effect
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      If the Kosovo region declares indepence from Serbia, how will ethnic communities agitate to have the borders of Balkan countries redrawn to reflect and include their ethnic makeups? Will this only further the Balkan legacy of nationalist revenge and retaliation?
    61. For the Land!
      Roots and Revolutionary Dynamics of Indigenous Struggles in Canada
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    62. From Resistance to Power!
      Manifestos of the Fight for Indigenous Rights in Central and South America
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    63. How to Avoid Action on Climate Change
      The fine art of greenwash in Canadian politics
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    64. HTO
      Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2008
      A collection of essays on Toronto's water and watershed, ranging from burying streams to storm sewers and rainwater harvesting.
    65. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2008
      Gabor Mate looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and outlines what he thinks is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours.
    66. It makes economic sense to kill people
      Britain's approach to climate change puts a price on human lives. And the richer you are the more yours is worth
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      A study of the economics of climate compares the costs of halting runaway climate changewith the costs of inaction. The "costs" of climate change are calculated in part by calculating the reduction in consumption that would result from death and disease in the third world. Monbiot challenges the ethics of this economic model.
    67. Killing Hope 
      U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2008
      Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
    68. La "libertad de expresión", siempre y cuando no ofenda a nadie
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    69. Media Alert West Africa
      2006-2007: Annual State of the Media Report
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2008
      An annual publication on the poltiical, economic and social conditions of the media in West Africa published by the Media Foundation for West Africa.
    70. The Nakba
      Why Israel's birth was Palestine's catastrophe and what's the solution?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    71. The Oaxaca Commune
      The Other Indigenous Rebellion in Mexico
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    72. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 46 No. 1 - Jan./Feb. 2008
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2008
    73. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 46 No. 2 - Mar./Apr. 2008
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2008
    74. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 46 No. 3 - May./June. 2008
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2008
    75. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 46 No. 5 - Sept./Oct. 2008
      Happy New Year 2008
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2008
    76. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 46 No. 6 - Nov./Dec. 2008
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2008
    77. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 46 No. 4 - Jul./Aug. 2008
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2008
    78. Putting Technology to Work for Palestine Activism
      Palestine Activism Handbook Module
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    79. Real Utopia 
      Participatory Society for the twenty-first century
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2008
      Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.
    80. Servizi di condivisione dell'informazione Connexions
      Connexipedia
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      Connexions (nome intero Servizi di condivisione dell'informazione Connexion [Connexions Information Sharing Services]) è la biblioteca centrale online e l'archivio dei movimenti per i cambiamenti sociali del Canada.
    81. Soldiers' Testimonies from Hebron 2005-2007
      Breaking the Silence
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2008
      A booklet of testimonies from combatants who served in Hebron between 2005-2007, describing how IDF soldiers were required to exert absolute, daily and almost limitless control over the Palestinian residents of the city.
    82. Sources 61
      Winter (January) 2008
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2008
    83. Sources 62
      Summer-Fall 2008
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2008
    84. Strange Fruit 
      Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2008
      Malik makes the case that most anti-racists accept the belief, also held by racialists and outright racists, that differences between groups are of great importance. While racialists attribute the differences to biology, anti-racists attribute them to deep-rooted cultural traditions which are typically seen as inherent in the group. Malik argues that these positions are actually quite similar, and makes the case that racism and racial inequality are best combatted by focusing not on our differences but on what unites us. Malik also strongly criticizes the cultural relativism of many anti-racists, and their increasing tendency to reject science as some kind of western imperialist conspiracy to oppress the rest of the world.
    85. Tainted politics of a nuclear umbrella
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      A review of the US Pentagon's Missile Defence program since its incepton in 1946.
    86. There's still one injustice in Cuba to which Americans are wilfully blind
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      While criticizing Cuba for human rights violations, American politicians ignore the massive abuses taking place in their own prison at Guantanamo Bay.
    87. Toolkit for a New Canada
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimension magazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the first decade of the 21st century. The articles are all short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
    88. Tough Love at the Table
      Power, Culture and Diversity in Negotiations, Mediation & Conflict Resolution
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2008
      Stories that illustrate dispute resolution and bargaining concepts.
    89. Venezuela Eyewitness
      Canadian socialists report on Venezuela's achievements and the challenges facing the Bolivarian Revolution today
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
    90. Where News Itself is a Category
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      Highlighting the various reasons for the decline of quality news, Subir Ghosh says when business interests hold sway over all others, the basic tenets of journalism fall by the wayside. However, if people in the society want mature journalism, we ourselves have to mature too, he maintains.
    91. Women and the News
      Expanding the News Audience, Increasing Political Participation, and Informing Citizens
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008
      The proceedings and talks given at a conference discussing women in the news, the need to address how women are less likely to be informed of political issues and a discussion of gender biases in the news.
    92. Sources Wikipedia Article - Chinese
      Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2008

    2007

    1. Stupid to the Last Drop
      How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care)
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2007   Published: 2008
      As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic climate change, Alberta plunges ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels, levelling its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, and carpet bombing its southern half with tens of thousands of gas wells.
    2. Interview about The New Tendency
      Gary Kinsman interviews Ulli Diemer
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      There is a copy of the transcript of this interview in the Connexions Archive.
    3. Five Challenges for Ecosocialists in 2008
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      Ecosocialism is not separate from the existing left and green movements, and it is not a structured movement on its own. Rather, it is a current of thought within existing socialist and green-left movements, seeking to win ecology activists to socialism and to convince socialists of the vital importance of ecological issues and struggles.
    4. The Lessons of the Anti-Asiatic Riot
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      In 1907, an anti-immigration rally explodes into violence and vandalism in Vancouver's Chinatown and Japantown.
    5. A Tale of Tatamagouche
      The true story behind the beginning of the Acadian expulsion
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      Describes the explusion of the Acadians in 1755.
    6. A race for land is destroying the Guatemalan rainforest
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      Agriculture is quickly decimating Guatemala's primal forests> It has experience the most rapid deforestatation of any nation in the last five years.
    7. The treasures of Timbuktu
      The race is on to preserve papers dating back to a west African golden age
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      West African scholars are quickly discovering the wealth of manuscripts burried in and near Timbuktu dating from the 11th century. Governments and universities are building archives in which to house and digitize these important relics.
    8. How we learned to stop having fun
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      We used to know how to get together and really let our hair down. Then, in the early 1600s, a mass epidemic of depression broke out - and we've been living with it ever since. Something went wrong, but what?
    9. Das Leiden der Kinder im Gazastreifen
      Katastrophale Lage im Gazastreifen - Unzureichende Gesundheitsversorgung
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
    10. Health care and children in crisis in Gaza
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured or killed, or suffering injuries or danger themselves. The trauma goes on, long after the experience has ended and they are back in a place of safety. How much worse then for children in Gaza who witness and experience these events day after day, week after week with no end and with no place of safety.
    11. Salute e bambini in crisi a Gaza
      I bambini di Gaza sono in crisi
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
    12. Speech for Gaza Fundraiser
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
    13. Women behind the wheel
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      An article about the Immigrant Women's Health Centre and the mobile health centre van which travels to different locations around the city to provide health care to women.
    14. TOGETHER for GAZA
      Palestinians and Jews work together
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      A group of Palestinians and Jews in Toronto are holding an event to raise funds for primary health providers in Gaza.
    15. Post-traumatic stress and the children of Gaza
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      The situation in Gaza is devastating. We have to act to protect the children of Gaza.
    16. How the Left Should Frame Issues
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      The art and science of strategic frame analysis -- issue framing -- is relatively new in Canada, though the concept of framing is not. The right has been framing its issues carefully for years while the left has been oddly complacent about re-framing issues from their perspective.
    17. Province must treat health centre staff fairly
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      The government should deal fairly with health and social service staff who are bargaining for a new contract.
    18. The Abolition of the State
      Anarchist & Marxist Perspectives
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2007
      Both Anarchists and Marxists believe that it will be possible to do away with the state. But what do they mean by that? What is the state, after all? What institutions, if any, would be necessary to replace its functions? Would a transitional “dictatorship of the proletariat” be needed or will it be possible to immediately abolish the state? Does modern technology require a centralized institution such as the state? Throughout the history of revolutions, the people have created workplace councils and neighborhood assemblies--how could these replace the state?
    19. Anarchy and Art
      From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2007
    20. The Brain That Changes Itself
      Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2007
      Doidge explains neuroplasticity and shows that the brain is not a collection of specialized parts but a dynamic organ and can rewire and rearrange itself as the need arises.
    21. The Cabot Trail in Black & White
      Voices and Photographs from Northern Cape Breton
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2007
    22. Calling All Radicals 
      How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2007
      Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing.
    23. Choosing to be the man of the house
      An ancient tradition of the sworn virgin living as a male still survives in Albania
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      In Albania, biological women take an oath of virginity to have the freedom to live as men. They wear men's clothes and their hair is shorn. The tradition has persisted since the 15th century, in a region where ancient laws still limit women's rights.
    24. Creative Destruction
      An Exploratory Look at News on the Internet
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      Examines trends in Internet Based news traffic for the purpose of predicting future trends of news in America.
    25. Crimes of War
      What the Public Should Know (Crimes of War project)
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2007
      An A-Z guide to the laws governing armed conflict and their application in practice. The chapters include discussions of the crimes prohibited by international humanitarian law, key terms relating to modern warfare, analysis of legal categories, and case studies showing the place of war crimes in recent conflicts. The text of the Arabic edition of Crimes of War is also available online. For anyone interested in using Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know in high school or college education, Human Rights Education Associates have produced a study guide to accompany the book.The book is now available in Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Serbo-Croat and Spanish.
    26. Dinner with Friends
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      Profile of restauranteur and host of Italian language and culture classes and community figure Roberto Martella, the recipient of the Jane Jacobs prize in 2007.
    27. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2007
      Israelo historian Ilan Pappe recounts the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Israel during the war of 1948.
    28. Fascicm, Jewish Chauvinism and the Holocaust Revival
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2007
    29. Fictitious Capital for Beginners 
      Imperialism, 'Anti-Imperialism', and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      Rosa Luxemburg's framework enabled her to see how capitalism could ultimately destroy society - barbarism, in her words, or the 'mutual destruction of the contending classes' as the Communist Manifesto put it in 1847 - by being required to turn more and more to primitive accumulation and non-reproduction, a prophecy we see materializing before our eyes today.
    30. For Political Equality 
      All citizens vote on all policies: 20th Century Power Politics and their 21st Century electronic alternative
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2007
      This book aims to motivate people to set up post-parliamentary direct democracy (DD) enabling all citizens to propose-debate-vote on all issues of society. Every citizen - one vote - on every issue of society. This political equality abolishes Power - the role of deciding on behalf of others - the main cause of violence and corruption in society. "To be" is not merely "to exist" but to decide all issues of one's life. Denying citizens' right to decide all issues of society reduces them to mere political pawns. All citizens have the right to decide all policies.
    31. Heeding nature to understand ourselves
      A new genre of writing is putting centre stage the interconnectedness between human beings and the wilderness
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      A new literary tendency in the nature writing genre is to point out the interconnectedness between humans and their environment. Rather than study nature as a thing apart from man, these books challenge their readers to engage with the other species in their immediate surroundings.
    32. Hell & High Water
      Canada and the Italian Campaign
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2007
    33. The Internet and the Threat it Poses to Local Media
      Lessons from News in Schools
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      Internet news is trumping both television news and local newspapers as a daily mode of classroom instruction. Furthermore, national and international news site, such as nytimes.com and bbc.com. are trumping local news sites in American news. These developments threaten the economic viabilityof local news outlets but also the special contribution they make to American democracy.
    34. The John A. Livingston Reader
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2007
    35. Live News Africa
      A Survival Guide for Journalists
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      Provides practical information for journalists who plan to travel to Africa for on site work including circumstances of danger specific to the country and then possible consequences a journalist may have to deal with (PTSD, pursuing medical aid etc.). Available in different languages on the website in a more generalised context relevant to all regions.
    36. Media Names & Numbers 2007-2008
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2007
    37. Mercenaries on the make
      Iraq is now awash with unaccountable 'security contractors'
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      Contracted mercenaries now outnumber American troops in Iraq. These contractors are immune to prosecution for any wrongdoing in Iraq thanks to provisional laws that came into effect after the invasion. Most of these contractors are not American, the war is being outsourced.
    38. Moby Duck
      Or, the synthetic wilderness of childhood
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
    39. Move into the light?
      Postscript to a turbulent 2007
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      Can the left movement move into the light and become visible?
    40. Occupation 101
      Voices of the Silenced Majority
      Resource Type: Film
      First Published: 2007
      A thorough examination on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
    41. Out
      2 North American Jewish Women on the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian Territories
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2007
    42. Parliamentary Names & Numbers 25
      Winter (January) 2007
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2007
    43. Parliamentary Names & Numbers 26
      Autumn 2007 - Srping 2008
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2007
    44. Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
      Resource Type: Film/Video
      First Published: 2007
    45. Political Columns
      Behind the scenes with powerful people
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2007
      A reader of his book will get Bonner's insight on everyone from Winston Churchill to Belinda Stronach. It is a series of columns, many of which were written for the US magazine Winning Campaigns.
    46. Poverty and Policy in Canada
      Implications for Health and Qualityof Life
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2007
      Raphael writes with authority on the problem of inequality and poverty in Canada. Income variability has increased while social assistance and minimum wages have not kept people up.
    47. The Rankin Family Reunion
      Resource Type: Audio
      First Published: 2007
    48. Reproductive Rights Today
      Against The Current vol. 126
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      It's clear that women can make intelligent decisions for their lives when they are supported in their goals and encouraged to consider their full range of options. This begins with reproductive freedom, but needs to include access to education and health care, the right to a decent and meaningful job, the right to have a family and to raise children in a safe environment. It includes quality day care for parents who need it, as most do. No matter how many obstacles the radical right attempts to put in front of women, women have an objective need to circumvent them.
    49. Roots of Empathy 
      Changing the World Child by Child
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2007
      Roots of Empathy looks at eliminating crime and changing the world by starting with a compassionate environment for children.
    50. The Shock Doctrine
      The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2007
      Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
    51. Sources 59
      Winter (January) 2007
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2007
    52. Sources 60
      Summer 2007
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2007
    53. Step by Step: Stories of Change in Winnipeg's Inner City
      State of the Inner City Report 2007
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
    54. Winnipeg's Red Scare
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2007
      An account of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
    55. Workers Solidarity Issue 3
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2007
    56. The World Without Us 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2007
      A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
    57. Zatoun: a Life story in four parts
      Resource Type: Audio
      First Published: 2007
      In four audio documentaries (17–19 minutes each), Zatoun - a life story explores the genesis and evolution of a unique grassroots initiative to bring fair trade organic olive oil from farmer co-operatives in Palestine to North America. Zatoun is the Arabic word for olive.
    58. Miriam Garfinkle interviewed by Michael Riordon
      Resource Type: Audio
      First Published: 2007
      Michael Riordon interviews Miriam Garfinkle about her involvement in Zatoun, and her background and values.

    2006

    1. Radical Digressions 
      Resource Type: Website
      First Published: 2006   Published: 2017
      Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
    2. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
      Resource Type: Website
      First Published: 2006   Published: 2014
      A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Israel/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
    3. How Sources magnifies your Internet visibility
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
      How the high Internet ranking of the Sources Web site helps magnify the public profile of organizations and companies who are listed in Sources.
    4. Merry Christmas from an Atheist
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      I probably represent one of Archbishop John Sentanu's worst nightmares - I am not just an 'aggressive secularist' but a militant atheist to boot. But I have a Christmas tree in the house, I've sent out my Christmas cards, bought my Christmas presents and I will cook goose on Christmas Day. And I will probably listen to Bach's Christmas Oratorio or to Mahalia Jackson's wonderful gospel singing while I am doing so. Yet I don't have a religious bone in my body.
    5. Dancing in the Streets 
      A History of Collective Joy
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2006   Published: 2007
      An account of the toll that depression has taken on European and North American health since the 18th century.
    6. National Post columnist traumatized by having to wait his turn
      Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006   Published: 2012
      Columnist thinks people with money should get quicker treatment in emergency rooms than people who are poor.
    7. Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      A two-tier system means better care for the affluent, and worse or no care for the rest.
    8. Give your Sources media profile an extra boost
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      Creating a link from your Web site to your Sources listing boosts your visibility.
    9. How does your Web site rank? Alexa tells you
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      Find out your Web site's reach and what other sites are popular with the people who come to your site.
    10. Stupid Opinion #1: All Opinions are Equal
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      People say, "Don't be judgmental" - as if we shouldn't evaluate behaviour, from amazingly loving to atrocious. Many intone, "No one has the right to judge opinions" - as if racist opinions, say, had the same validity as anti-racist opinions.
    11. How right wing the left sounds after its moment of racial truth
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      We are not born with a gene that insists we become Muslim or Christian or Rastafarian. We are born, all of us, with a tabula rasa; we are not defined by the nationality or religion or cultural assumptions of our parents.
    12. Israel Must Win
      "You Cannot Promise Victory, Produce a Humiliating Defeat and Stay in Power"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      IDF military offensive doctrine is grounded on one basic axiom that was defined by David Ben Gurion in the early fifties: whatever it takes, Israel must always win! This axiom is indeed very powerful, yet, in reality, the Israeli army can’t provide the goods anymore. In the last three decades the Israeli army is constantly being beaten time after time by enemies that are getting smaller and smaller.
    13. How to fight reactionaries
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      Fundamentalists of all kinds only thrive when their communities feel besieged. Understanding why is not an indulgence.
    14. Statement of Concern for the Public Health Situation in Gaza
      Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      A statement by over eighty Canadian health professionals, including a number of prominent medical advocates for human rights and peace, expresses deep concern over the silence of the Canadian Government and the Canadian media about the humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
    15. Letter to Palestinian and Lebanese filmmakers from Israeli filmmakers
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      We unequivocally oppose the brutality and cruelty of Israeli policy.
    16. Shame on you, Mr. Harper
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      Open letter initiated by members of Shalom-Salaam, a Jewish-Arab Montreal dialogue group.
    17. Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      Nothing will change until the people of Palestine, Arabs and Jews, rise up to change the rules of the game, and rebuild the country on a new basis that respects democracy and human rights and good-neighbourly relations.
    18. If Israel Has the Right to Use Force in Self Defense, So Do Its Neighbours 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      There is no reason why Israel should be able to enter Arab sovereign soil to occupy, destroy, kidnap and eliminate its perceived foes - repeatedly, with impunity and without restraint - while the Arab side cannot do the same.
    19. Stop That Shit
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      Whoever longs for a solution must know: there is no solution without settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
    20. The real aim of Israel's attacks on Lebanon
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      The real aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government.
    21. What is Going on at the Library of Congress?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      What is going on at the Library of Congress? Several recent decisions by the current LC
      administration have produced firestorms of protest, both inside and outside the Library, that LC is abdicating its professional responsibilities to the national system of shared cataloging, as well as undermining its core mission to acquire, catalog, make accessible, and preserve its own unparalleled holdings – especially its book collections.
    22. With A Little Help From Outside
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      The world sees a great and ongoing injustice. They want a just Israel. They see an Israel that occupies and is clearly unjust, and they believe they should do something. We should thank them for this from the bottom of our hearts.
    23. South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
    24. Toronto Jewish Folk Choir 80th Annual Concert
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
    25. A Reply to B'nai Brith's Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario's Boycott of Israel
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
    26. Take a STAND Canada. An Interview on the Darfur advocacy group's path to success with director Ben Fine
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      An interview on the Darfur advocacy groups's path to success with director Ben Fine.
    27. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 44 No. 3 - May/June 2006
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2006
    28. A Revised History of the Slave Trade
      Lessons from a Terrible Global Experience
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      It’s almost 200 years since the Anglo-American trade was banned: how do historians now view its practices and effects?
    29. New book describes a century of Jewish opposition to Zionism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
    30. Black History and the Class Struggle
      #19
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2006
      Articles include: New Orleans: Racist Atrocity; Black Women's Narratives of Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction; The Lyncihing of Emmett Till and the Fight for Black Liberation.
    31. Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      If singling out South Africa for an international economic boycott was defensible, it would seem equally defensible to single out Israel's occupation, which uniquely resembles the apartheid regime.
    32. Media obsession over young voters' apathy reflect neediness and self-absorption that make teenagers such exhausting company
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      Coverage of voter apathy among teens reveals the Canadian media's advertiser driven content and desire to gain circulation in a desirable age bracket rather than a sincere desire to affect change and involve youth in the democratic process.
    33. American Fascists 
      The Christian Right and the War on America
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2006
      Hedges examines the Christian Right's origins, its driving motivation and its dark ideological underpinnings, with interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques. Hedges argues that the movement resembles the young fascist movements in Italiy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. He challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.
    34. Books of Interest - Sources 58
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      Reviews of books about journalism, media, and research.
    35. Build It Now
      Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2006
      Influenced by the dramatic proeesses unfolding in Venezuela, Lebowitz re-imagines a socialism for the twenty-first century that places workers and popular communities at the centre of the project.
    36. College Street - Little Italy
      Toronto's Renaissance Strip
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2006
    37. Counter-Rhetoric 
      Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      This useful little book does two things. It challenges the rhetoric, the perceptions and assumptions regarding the conflict in Israel/Palestine, and it exposes the underlying imbalance of power around which this rhetoric swirls. It is both useful as a historical guide and as a tool for countering the prevailing divisive rhetoric. Whether challenging the concepts embedded in Zionism, the wars of the mid 20th century and the later occupation, or the Wall as security argument, this book gives a systematic alternative to the prevailing mantras and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
    38. Dean's Digital World - Sources 58
      The Invisible Web
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      Article about the "invisible Web" or "Deep Web".
    39. A debate on ‘Who speaks for me?’ - Tanuka Loha vs. Kenan Malik
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      Kenan Malik says: I reject representation by identity not only because the idea that one should be represented only by one’s own kind is, and always has been, at the heart of the racist agenda, but also because such representation acts as an obstacle to what you call ‘a genuinely participatory democracy’. Why? Because it encourages the pursuit of sectional interests, rather than of common goals. The very system of ethnic representation that encourages people to see their problems in narrow, sectional terms.
    40. Effective Media Relations
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      Media relations is human relations. Journalism is about telling compelling stories about people and their lives.
    41. Expose Yourself!
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      A booklet about effective media relations, providing practical advice about getting media coverage and relating to the media.
    42. First Aid
      In Armed Conflicts and Other Situations of Violence
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      A practical manual presenting the specific knowledge, skills and practices that First Aiders should have to act safely and effectively when caring for people caught up in armed conflicts and other situations of violence, such as internal disturbances and tensions.
    43. Heat
      How to Stop the Planet From Burning
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2006
      Concerns about the effects of global warming on the Human species - especially those unfortunate enough to live in poorer countries - require drastic action, far outstripping the recommendations of the Kyoto protocol.
    44. Jane Jacobs, Urban Visionary
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2006
      A biography of Jane Jacobs.
    45. Keeping Current
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      With a blog, a piece in the Globe or an appearance on a cable show that only two percent of the population watches, you can get a bounce or multiplier effect. Mainstream networks and cable news shows are reading blogs on the air to viewers, thus giving them legs.
    46. Labour Left Out
      Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2006
    47. Life, Money & Illusion
      Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2006
      The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
    48. Manufactured Landscapes
      Resource Type: Film
      First Published: 2006
      Photographer Edward Burtynsky travels the world observing changes in landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing.
    49. Marxism's 'Communicative Crisis'?
      Mapping Debates over Leninist Print-Media Practices in the 20th Century
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      Marxism’s ‘communicative crisis’, it was a topic of concern that was addressed, debated and negotiated over by party leaders, intellectuals and activists on a continuous basis throughout the 20th century. These concerns revolved around three areas: first, the primary means of print communication, the party paper; second, the specialization of production, particularly around the role of writers and journalists; and third, the search for a popular rhetoric and writing style, which would appeal to the general public.
    50. Masters Of Our Domains
      Those ugly websites full of ad links are a multibillion dollar industry. Meet its kings.
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      Buying domain names and filling these with nothing but advertisor links who pay the owner a pay per click fee has become big business. The two largest advertisors on the ugly domain owner sites are Google and Yahoo who have been criticized for this practice.
    51. Media Names & Numbers 2006
      February 2006
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2006
    52. My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes
      Uncensored Iranian Universities
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2006
      With contributions by Azar Nafisi, Marjane Satrapi, Reza Aslan, Mehrangiz Kar, Azadeh Moaveni, Gelareh Asayesh, Naghmeh Zarbafian, Roya Hakakian, Salar Abdoh, Shoreh Aghdashloo, Negar Azimi, Babak Ebrahimian, Abbas Kiarostami, Shirin Neshat, and Daryush Shayegan.
    53. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2006
      Former U.S. President Carter calls Israel's treatment of Palestinians 'apartheid' and identifies continuing Israeli control of the occupied territories as the primary obstacle to peace.
    54. Parliamentary Names & Numbers 23
      Winter 2006
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2006
    55. Parliamentary Names & Numbers 24
      Summer 2006
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2006
    56. The Perils of Faith-Based Multiculturalism
      The Case of Shari'a in Canada
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      Conservative religious leaders have become more vocal and demanding, and governments are giving in to their demands without much regard for the serious consequences for democracy and citizens’ rights.
    57. Pictures Bring Us Messages
      Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa. Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2006
      An example of museum professionals working with member of an aboriginal community to explore photographs taken of members of that community many decades earlier.
    58. A Reporter's Field Guide
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      What is the extent of the right to gather news? The question arises on a daily basis for journalists around the country: reporters and photographers are told by police that they cannot enter a crime scene, are threatened with arrest for not moving where police order them to move, or are ordered out of a building or an area where a newsworthy event is taking place.
    59. Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do with Pigs
      And Other Fascinating Facts about the Language from Canada's Word Lady
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2006
    60. Sources 57
      Winter (January) 2006
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2006
    61. Sources 58
      Summer 2006
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2006
    62. Three Brothers In Blood
      Resource Type: Film/Video
      First Published: 2006
    63. Top Ten Questions to Ask When a Reporter Calls You
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      When you're respoding to a reporter's call, take time to think and ask yourself these questions.
    64. Top Ten Strategies for Appearing on a TV Talk Show
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      Prepare yourself to appear on a TV talk show.
    65. Top Ten Things to do Before a Radio Talk Show
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2006
      Be prepared when you go on a talk show.
    66. Towers of Deception
      The Media Cover-Up of 9/11
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2006
    67. Understanding new media
      augmented knowledge and culture
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2006
    68. Yellowjacket
      Resource Type: Audio
      First Published: 2006

    2005

    1. The Case for Socialism 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005   Published: 2010
      An argument for socialism: a society built from the bottom up through the struggles of ordinary people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice -- one in which people come before profit. A society based on the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.
    2. A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense 
      Find Your Inner Chomsky
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005   Published: 2008
      What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through everyday spin and jargon -- from politics to advertising, from mysticism to news reporting.
    3. The Wall Must Fall
      End the Occupation and Violence in Israel-Palestine
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005   Published: 2007
      A resource for interested union and community members featuring voices from the Israeli and Palestinian peace movements often shut out of the mainstream media. By highlighting the progressive peace movement, The Wall Must Fall demonstrates that this issue is not a Jewish vs. Palestinian one, but one of basic human rights.
    4. Insurgency Online
      Web Activism and Global Conflict
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005   Published: 2006
      Explores the nature of the web and its potential for facilitating participation in political debate.
    5. Race Against Time
      Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005   Published: 2006
      This book is a compilation of the 2005 Massey Lectures on the topic of the Millennium Development Goals, with a special focus on AIDS in Africa. Lewis' lectures are personal and passionate in their denunciation of the international community's response to the AIDS pandemic and poverty in Africa.
    6. A Writer at War
      A Sovet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941 - 1945
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005   Published: 2006
      War reporting by Vasily Grossman, a correspondent for the Red Army, the Soviet Army's newspaper.
    7. Telling it like it isn't
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      Let's call a colony a colony, let's call occupation what it is, let's call a wall a wall.
    8. Hate speech in a plural society
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      One of the ironies of living in a more inclusive, more diverse society appears to be that the preservation of diversity requires us to leave increasingly to leave less room for a diversity of views. So, it is becoming increasingly common these days for liberals to proclaim that free speech is necessary in principle – but also to argue that in practice we should give up that right.
    9. Demonizing the Victims of Katrina
      Coverage painted hurricane survivors as looters, snipers and rapists
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      Hurricane Katrina led many media reporters and commentators to reveal themselves and their deep-seated prejudices.
    10. Punctuation Marks: A Story of Class Struggle
      From 1905 to Our Time
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      An essay on the relevance of the 1905 revolution in Russia.
    11. Homefront Confidential, 6th Edition
      How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public's Right to Know
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      In the days immediately following September 11, the U.S. government embarked on a disturbing path of secrecy. The atmosphere of terror induced public officials to abandon this country's culture of openness and opt for secrecy as a way of ensuring safety and security.
    12. The settlers' retreat was the theatre of the cynical
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      The settlers' retreat from Gaza was the theatre of the cynical.
    13. Multiculturalism fans the flames of islamic extremism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      Multiculturalism as lived experience enriches our lives. But multiculturalism as a political ideology has helped create a tribal Britain with no political or moral centre.
    14. Women of Color & Reproductive Rights
      Against The Current vol. 117
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      The authors of Undivided Rights attempt to provide both an overview of how women of color approach organizing around reproductive rights, case studies of those specific organizations and the work they do on the ground. Three framing chapters introduce and summarize, while the other dozen describe specific women’s health organizations within the African American, Native American, Asian and Pacific Islander and Latina communities.
    15. Black Women's Narratives of Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      Anyone who has ever wondered how black people managed to struggle and survive the hideous tortures meted out during slavery and afterward would gain from reading these books. They offer inspiration to a new generation of fighters.
    16. Sanctions Against the Israeli Occupation: It's Time
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      A call from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) for sanctions as the next logical step in the global campaign to end the Occupation.
    17. Ukraine: the practice of protest
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      There was genuine, widespread rejection of the regime in Ukraine, but the mass demonstrations were still not spontaneous. They were backed by self-seeking organisations, both local and international.
    18. Autonomous Media
      Activating Resistance & Dissent
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
      Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
    19. Big business is not to blame
      Corporations would act on global warming but are stalled by government in the name of the market
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      Innovative technologies are available to improve the energy efficiency of residential and commercial properties. Businesses who want to adopt these new technologies would be placing themselves at a disadvantage to do so, unless governments mandate improved efficiency standards -- which they refuse to do.
    20. Black History and the Class Struggle
      #18
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2005
      Articles include: "A Life in the Black Panther Party — We Want Freedom — A Review of a Book by Mumia Abu-Jamal," "How the Liberals and Reformists Derailed the Struggle for Integration — For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!", "The 'N' Word in Racist America."
    21. Breaking the Silence
      Israeli Soldiers talk about Hebron
      Resource Type: Film/Video
      First Published: 2005
    22. Canadian Newspaper Ownership in the Era of Convergence
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
      An academic text aimed at scholars and students.
    23. The Case Against Israel 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
      Neumann argues that Israel's policies are the cause of the conflict, and that the conflict can be ended by Israel changing its behaviour.
    24. Damage Control: Noam Chomsky and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      While Noam Chomsky has provided extensive documentation of Israeli crimes, his approach has also served to block serious efforts to halt those crimes and to build an effective movement on behalf of the Palestinian cause.
    25. Don't be a Time Bandit
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      Don't waste journalists' time.
    26. The Empire of Mind
      Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
      Strangelove believes the Internet is a dire threat to capitalism.
    27. Employee Management for Small Business
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
    28. 1491 
      New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
      A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
    29. The Great War for Civilisation 
      The Conquest of the Middle East
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
      Fisk explores a number of key themes in the history of the modern Middle East: the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf War as well as the 2003 Iraq War as well as other regional conflicts such as the Armenian Genocide and the Algerian Civil War.
    30. Health Disparities By Race And Class: Why Both Matter 
      Health Affairs, 24, no. 2 (2005): 343-352
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      This essay examines three competing causal interpretations of racial disparities in health. The first approach views race as a biologically meaningful category and racial disparities in health as reflecting inherited susceptibility to disease. The second approach treats race as a proxy for class and views socioeconomic stratification as the real culprit behind racial disparities. The third approach treats race as neither a biological category nor a proxy for class, but as a distinct construct, akin to caste. The essay points to historical, political, and ideological obstacles that have hindered the analysis of race and class as codeterminants of disparities in health.
    31. History of the Book in Canada
      Volume Two: 1840 - 1918
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
      The second of three volumes dealing with the history of publishing in Canada.
    32. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
      Volume 5: War & Revolution
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
      The subject of this volume is Marx and Engels' views on the relation between war and revolution. Its thesis is that, over the course of decades, their views on this question changed -- evolved is a better word -- although, in this case as in others, they wrote no definitive statement of their views. Instead, we have a considerable corpus of ad hoc responses to the events of the hour, many of them politically explosive, from which we have to reconstruct, not a line, but an approach. To complicate things further, many of these crises, while they were the news of the day at the time, have since faded from memory.
    33. Living in One's OwnTime: A Memoir from the Left
      Introduction by Kirk Niergarth
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
    34. Low-Budget Online Marketing for Small Business
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
    35. Media Names & Numbers 2005
      February 2005
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2005
    36. News, Truth and Crime
      The Westray Disaster and its Aftermath
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
      McMullan examines the media coverage devoted to the ten year (1992-2002) aftermath of the May 9, 1992 explosion where 26 miners died at the Westray mine.
    37. Newsroom tips from The Canadian Press
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      Newsroom tips from The Canadian Press.
    38. 9/11: Debunking The Myths
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      Popular Mechanics special report on September 11 conspiracy theories.
    39. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 43 No. 5 - Sept/Oct 2005
      Happy New Year 2005 ~ 5766
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2005
    40. Paper-contestations and Textual Communities in England 1640 - 1675
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
    41. Parliamentary Names & Numbers 22
      Spring 2005
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2005
    42. Progressive Frames for Taxes 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      As progressives, we do not believe that taxes are necessarily an affliction. Instead, we think of taxes as investments that give us dividends.
    43. Rebels, Reds, Radicals 
      Rethinking Canada's Left History
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
      McKay looks at the history of the left in Canada as a series of experiments in "living otherwise" -- efforts to work out ways of life and thought strategically opposed to the prevailing liberal-capitalist order.
    44. Ruling Canada
      Corporate Cohesion and Democracy
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
    45. Sales Gurus Speak Out
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
    46. Salmon Wars
      The Battle for the West Coast Salmon Fishery
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
      The history of the west coast salmon fishery and the recent controversies that have surrounded it.
    47. Scott's Government Index
      Your Guide to Canada's Federal and Provincial and Territorial Governments
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2005
    48. Sell Your Home in Canada
      Understand the pros & cons of selling your home yourself or through an agent.
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
    49. Setting the Table
      An Anthology of Community Stories
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
      Reminiscences about food.
    50. Smooth Talking! Explore the Paid Speaking Market
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      Becoming a professional speaker.
    51. Socialist Register 2006:
      Volume 42: Telling the Truth
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
      A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
    52. Sources 55
      Winter (Jan) 2005
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2005
    53. Sources 56
      Summer 2005
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2005
    54. Speaking to the Media
      A special report from Sources with articles from The Sources HotLink
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
      Being seen, heard, and quoted in the media is perhaps the quickest, best, and most lasting way for a speaker to become better known and more sought after. This booklet offers advice on handling media calls and interviews well.
    55. Start and Run a Copywriting Business
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
      A resource for writers interested in selling their services in a commercial arena.
    56. The Suppression of Guilt
      The Israeli Media and the Reoccupation of the West Bank
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
      In the three years that have passed since Operation Defensive Shield – three years marked by denial, deceit, rage and resentment – one fact remains uncontroversial: never, until the operation, had there been such a wide breach between the Israeli collective consciousness and international public opinion. Israeli scholar Daniel Dor measures this gap and concludes that Israeli society has withdrawn into an unprecedented sense of isolation and victimization – largely because of the role played by the Israeli media.
    57. Surrealism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
      Takes the reader on a journey through one of the most fascinating and influential are movements of the twentieth century. Exploring works from some the the modern ear's greatest masters including Dai, Ernst, Miro and Magritte, this richly illustrated reference book offers a welath of insight into the complexities of the Surrealist imagination.
    58. Ten Thousand Roses
      The Making of a Feminist Revolution
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
      Using interviews with many feminist activists, Rebick provides an oral history of feminism in Canada from the 1960s through the 1990s.
    59. Vanishing British Columbia
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
    60. View from the Steel Plant
      Voices and Photographs from 100 Years of Making Steel in Cape Breton Island
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
    61. Whose Health Care?
      Challenging the Corporate Struggle to Rule Our System
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2005
    62. A Writer at War
      Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2005
      When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the front lines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soliders and civilians alike. Beevor and Vinogradova have taken Grossman's notebooks and fashioned them into a gripping narrative.

    2004

    1. Hope in the Dark
      Untold histories, wild possibilities
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004   Published: 2016
      Solnit reminds us of how changed the world has been by the activism of the past five decades. She argues for hope - hope even in the dark. She offers a vision of cause-and-effect relations that provides new grounds for political engagement in the present.
    2. Socialist Voice online archive
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2004   Published: 2011
      Socialist Voice: Marxist Perspectives for the 21st Century was an online journal published in Canada from 2004 to 2011.
    3. The Invention of Journalism Ethics
      The Path to Objectivity and Beyond
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004   Published: 2005
    4. Smoke and Mirrors
      Financial myths that will ruin your retirement dreams
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004   Published: 2005
    5. A Threat from Within
      A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004   Published: 2005
      Rabkin brings to light continuing Jewish opposition to Zionism, a religious tradition which presents a fundamental challenge to the idea of Israel as a Jewish state.
    6. Action Will Be Taken 
      Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      Marxism's decline isn't just an intellectual concern -- it too has practical effects. If you lack any serious understanding of how capitalism works, then it's easy to delude yourself into thinking that moral appeals to the consciences of CEOs and finance ministers will have some effect. You might think that central banks' habit of provoking recessions when the unemployment rate gets too low is a policy based on a mere misunderstanding. You might think that structural adjustment and imperial war are just bad lifestyle choices.
    7. Medical Reform - Volume 24 Issue 2
      October 2004
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2004
    8. Can the Sciences Help Us to Make Wise Ethical Judgments?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      Scientific knowledge has a vital, if limited, role to play in shaping our moral values and helping us to frame wiser judgments. Ethical values are natural and open to examination in the light of evidence and reason.
    9. For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! Part Two
      How the Liberals and Reformists Derailed the Struggle for Integration
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      There is a lot of talk today about multiculturalism, diversity, whiteness and "racialized subjects" and other liberal jargon that essentially attempts to erase the centrality of anti-black racism and black oppression in racist capitalist America.
    10. Medical Reform - Volume 24 Issue 1
      July 2004
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2004
    11. Pranks, Frauds, and Hoaxes from Around the World
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      It's pretty easy to hoax people. We all want to be deceived, but only up to a point. Some hoaxes are fun and pleasant, others malicious and unpleasant. We'd like a way to tell the difference.
    12. Elementary, dear teacher
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      Discusses an 1868 murder as means and motive to teaching history as investigation rather than a timeline with concrete established facts, encouraging more critical thinking and acknowledgement that we can't always know the answers.
    13. Trotskyism and Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      A Trotskyist view of political currents in the Spanish Civil War.
    14. Bridging the Chasm Between Two Cultures
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      A full-on clash of cultures makes communication extremely difficult between the skeptical community and the metaphysical/new age community.
    15. Journalist's Guide to Covering Bioterrorism
      Second Edition
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      The Radio and Television News Directors Foundation has published "A Journalist's Guide to Covering Bioterrorism" to help reporters and producers tackle these stories. Among this guide's features:
      - Specific information on biological weapons, including when they've been used in the past, how an attack might unfold and what countries have them
      - Details about possible bioweapons, including information about infection, prevalence and treatment
      - A list of national and local contacts
      - A glossary of terms
    16. Medical Reform - Volume 23 Issue 4
      April 2004
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2004
    17. Inventing Tax Rage (excerpt)
      Misinformation in the National Post
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004   Published: 2005
      The propaganda campaign to invent "tax rage".
    18. Words have failed
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      The written word is a failure at making tangible to Israeli readers the true horror of the Occupation.
    19. From Internet Scams to Urban Legends, Planet (hoa)X to the Bible Code
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
    20. ABC's of Media Relations
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
    21. An Action a Day
      Keeps Global Capitalism Away
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
    22. After Left Nationalism
      The Future of Canadian Political Economy
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      Kellogg argues against the left nationalist position that Canada's subordinate role vis-a-via U.S. imperialism is should be a concern for the left.
    23. Another world is possible if... 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
      Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
    24. Anti-Vaccination Fever
      The Shot Hurt Around the World
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      Sensationalist media, religious fanatics, and alternative medical practitioners fanned the fires created by questionable research to spawn worldwide epidemics of a disease that has almost been forgotten.
    25. Bad Marxism
      Capitalism and Cultural Studies
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
      Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. After an introduction critiquing the so-called 'Marxism' of the academy, Hutnyk provides detailed critical analyses of the approaches and theorists of cultural studies.
    26. Barrie Zwicker's 9/11 Resource Guide
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
    27. The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
      Broad surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry, Aboriginal writings, Francophone writings, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, urban writing, nature writing, travel writing, and short fiction.
    28. Challenged Books List
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      A partial list of books subjected to censorship attempts in Canada from the early 1980s to 2003.
    29. Co-operatives Bite back! The return of the co-op
      New Internationalist June 2004
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2004
      A look at the issues regarding and the basic principles of a co-op. Discussion of the history of the international co-operative movement and information on how to set up a co-op.
    30. Dark Age Ahead
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
      A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
    31. Directory of Editors 2004
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2004
    32. Doing & Saying the Right thing
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
      Professional risk and crisis management.
    33. Don't Think of an Elephant 
      Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
      Lakoff explains how conservatives think, and how to counter their arguments. He outlines in detail the traditional American values that progressives hold, but are often unable to articulate. Lakoff also breaks down the ways in which conservatives have framed the issues, and provides examples of how progressives can reframe the debate.
    34. The Elephants of Style
      A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
      Opinionated commentary on American English in the computer age.
    35. The Follow-Up Telephone Call
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      Making follow-up phone calls to the media.
    36. Getting Ink for Your New Product
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      Get media coverage of your product.
    37. Graphic Monthly Estimators' & Buyers' Guide 2004
      Ontario Edition: The Printing Industry at Your Fingertips
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
    38. The Great Conspiracy
      The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw
      Resource Type: Film/Video
      First Published: 2004
    39. A History of Modern Palestine 
      One Land, Two Peoples
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
      A history of the people of Palestine.
    40. HotLink Resource Shelf - #29
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      Here's a list of new releases that will keep you busy for a while.
    41. HotLink Resource Shelf #30
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      Start by accepting the fact that the media moves faster than you do, so be prepared. Always.
    42. How to Build a Media List
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      Often your desired target audiences are diverse so this should be clearly defined before beginning to build your media list.
    43. Hurricane Hazel
      Canada's Storm of the Century
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
    44. Imperial Crusades
      Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia: A Diary of Three Wars
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
      Iraq was just one of three major imperial crusades in the decade after 1992, orchestrated by a new generation of American politicians, both Democrat and Republican, who backed pre-emptive strikes to overthrow unruly regimes in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan under the pretext of humanitarian intervention. Imperial Crusades chronicles the lies that are now returning almost daily to haunt the liars in Washington and London, the secret agendas and the under-reported carnage of these wars.
    45. In Print: Maximizing Coverage in Community Newspapers
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      How to get coverage in community newspapers.
    46. It's the Law
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      The laws of media relations.
    47. Journey to the Ice Age
      Discovering an Ancient World
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
    48. Judging Authority
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      We are often required to accept the word of another person, but how can we best judge whether or not that person is a legitimate authority?
    49. Kicking Out Corporations
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      Rural areas revoke corporate "personhood" in order to reclaim self-rule.
    50. Letters to the Editor
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      The Letters page is one of the most popular sections of any newspaper, and is therefore an ideal way to keep your name and your core message in front of the public.
    51. Local First Campaigns: A How-To Kit
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
    52. Look Like a Hero
      The art directors' guide to magazine print production
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
    53. Media Names & Numbers 2004
      Winter (Jan) 2004
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2004
    54. Media Relations
      The Bonner Communications Series
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
      A primer on attaining media preparedness.
    55. Media Relations: Rule of Engagement
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      Rules for dealing with the media.
    56. Medical Reform - Volume 23 Issue 3
      January 2004
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2004
    57. Meeting the Media Face-to-Face
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      What to do when a reporter calls or when meeting the media face to face.
    58. New Legal Landscape Affecting PR
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      New laws affecting public relations.
    59. New on the Bookshelf
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      Reviews of recent books on publicity and media relations.
    60. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
      Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
    61. The Oxford Companion to Canadian History
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
      Here are the basic details of the main events, institutions, places, and people in Canada's past. The topics appear to be politics, economy, education, religion, law, medicine, science, transportation, social and cultural events.
    62. Parliamentary Names & Numbers 20
      Winter (Jan) 2004
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2004
    63. Parliamentary Names & Numbers 21
      Summer 2004
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2004
    64. Point and Click
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      Services that can help you write and distribute news releases.
    65. The Politics of Revolution: Learning from Autonomist Marxism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
    66. Prints for Books
      Book Illustration in France 1760-1800
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
    67. The Red Pages
      Toronto Website Directory 2004
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2004
    68. The ROM Field Guide to Wildflowers of Ontario
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
    69. 7 Ways to Get More Mileage from a Case Study
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      Case studies are a valuable addition to your public relations' arsenal. They not only explain the success of your product or service in action, they also tend to have high editorial acceptance and readership rates.
    70. A Short History of Progress
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
      If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
    71. Social Determinants of Health
      Canadian Perspectives
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
      The social determinants of health are summarized and analyzed by over 30 medical and social academics.
    72. Sources 53
      Winter (Jan) 2004
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2004
    73. Sources 54
      Summer 2004
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2004
    74. 3 Keys to Keeping Your Marketing and PR Writing on Strategy
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      How do you ensure that your marketing and PR piece isn't just pretty prose?
    75. Tips for Making the Call
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      Tips for making follow-up calls to the media.
    76. Touching Hearts and Changing Lives
      A Speaker's Legacy
      Resource Type: Audio
      First Published: 2004
    77. 2004 Canadian Donor's Guide
      To fundraising organizations in Canada, 19th Edition
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2004
    78. An Unauthorized Biography of the World 
      Oral History on the Front Lines
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
      This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
    79. Using History to Write Powerful Leads
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      Using history in writing marketing and PR communications.
    80. Weapons of Mass Persuasion
      Marketing the War Against Iraq
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
      Rutherford, an academic and media critic at the University of Toronto, tries to show how the marketing campaign for the war against Iraq was constructed and carried out with the aid of a compliant media.
    81. Wellness Options
      Number 18, 2004 - Brain & Memory
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2004
    82. What's the Matter with Kansas? 
      How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2004
      Explores the rise of conservative populism in the United States through the lens of Frank's native state of Kansas. According to his analysis, the political discourse of recent decades has dramatically shifted from the class animus of traditional leftism to one in which "explosive" cultural issues, such as abortion and gay marriage, are used to redirect anger towards "liberal elites."
    83. When to Contact the Media
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      Advice on when to contact the media.
    84. Why Publicity Sometimes Fails
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      You've done everything you can think of to publicize your new product launch, event, or small business. But nothing seems to work. Barbara Florio Graham explains why.
    85. Workers Solidarity Issue 2
      June - August 2004
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2004
      A newsletter pulbished by the Workers Solidairty Alliance (WSA).
    86. Workers Solidarity - Volume 1, Number 1 - New Series
      February - April 2004
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2004
      A newsletter pulbished by the Workers Solidairty Alliance (WSA).
    87. Three parents & a baby
      But the law only leaves room for two
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2004
      Article regarding the application of the non-biological parent in a lesbian couple to be recognized as co-parent without displacing the biological father's legal status as parent.

    2003

    1. Breakfasts keep friendships in shape
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      Profile of a fitness group that has a fifteen year standing breakfast date, and has become a support group and circle of friends.
    2. Trust Me
      A Handbook of Tory Contortions
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003   Published: 2011
      Satirical bites from Ontario’s past — 1995 to 2003. They expose the Common Sense Revolutionary backgrounds of some of Canada’s highest-ranking conservatives currently on the scene.
    3. Why is Religion Natural?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      Is religious belief a mere leap into irrationality as many skeptics assume? Psychology suggests that there may be more to belief than the suspension of reason.
    4. Hegemony or Survival 
      America's Quest for Global Dominance
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003   Published: 2004
      Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
    5. Oxford Canadian Thesaurus
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003   Published: 2004
    6. The Case For Revolutionary Socialism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      In my view, the movement for another world is committed to four main values – justice, efficiency, democracy, and sustainability.
    7. Victims No Longer?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      The author begins with the position that suffering is not moral and criticizes Israeli settlers and Zionists for disenfranchising Palestinians. She debunks the notion that they are a nation of victims. She calls into question the assumption that criticizing Israel is anti-semitic.
    8. Free trade is fine in a world of equals
      Developing countries should be wary of liberalisation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      A discussion of how the theory behind free trade is not real-world viable and in fact penalizes the developing countries.
    9. Power outage traced to deregulation and dim bulb in White House
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      An investigative report on the Federal and State deregulation of the energy sector by George Bush Sr. and Jr and by Republican governors in California and New York that weakened industry accountability and resulted in blackouts and price fixing.
    10. Against School
      How public education cripples our kids, and why
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      An essay by a retired teacher on the infantilization of children by the public school system. This intellectual history of US public school curiculum reveals that it was conceived as a democratic means to a reflexively obedient work force.
    11. Medical Reform - Volume 23 Issue 2
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2003
    12. These little piggies like deficits
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      A comparison of the early stages of the US debt crisis with that of Canada 1993 and the reactions of their respective financial communities, observing that because the US deficit was actually benefiting the financiers, there was minimal protest.
    13. Medical Reform - Volume 23 Issue 1
      July 2003
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2003
    14. Jewish Voices for Peace and Justice
      Press Release
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      Canadian Jews who oppose the continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza by Israel will gather for a one-day conference on June 8, 2003 in Toronto.
    15. Text crimes
      The very long & contentious career of "Men loving boy loving men"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      Rick Bebout on journalism and freedom and the Body Politic newspaper.
    16. Medical Reform - Volume 22 Issue 4
      April 2003
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2003
    17. Die Irak-Krise im Kontext
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
    18. The Iraq Crisis in Context
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      A rogue state, heavily armed with weapons of mass destruction, openly contempuous of international law and the United Nations, plunges the world into crisis.
    19. Kryzys w Iraku - podsumowanie
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
    20. Acupuncture, Magic, and Make-Believe
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      Traditional Chinese acupuncture is an archaic procedure of inserting needles through the skin over imaginary channels in accord with rules developed from pre-scientific superstition and numerological beliefs. New research has replaced this mystical sham medical procedure with a simple evidence-based no-needle treatment that stimulates motor points and nerve junctures and induces gene-expression of neurochemicals and activates brain areas important for healing. This is a scientifically based alternative to the previous metaphysical theories and magical rituals.
    21. Health care to go
      Special van delivers community program
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      An article about the Immigrant Women's Health Centre Mobile Health Unit
    22. Geschichte eines Irrtums: Das Tuch und das Missverständnis
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      Das Palästinensertuch is neuerdings auch bei den Rechten in Mode. Manche Linke wollen es deshalb künftig lieber im Schrank lassen.
    23. We can't afford a dim view
      Deputation at City Hall regarding funding for women's health clinics
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      These clinics are doing YOUR public health work at a grassroots level. The need and should receive more money, not less.
    24. Access to Electronic Records
      A State by State Guide to Obtaining Government Data
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      Reporters have a tool that allows them to report on entire populations and do original analysis on a subject for their stories, rather than relying solely on anecdotes. Computer-assisted reporting helps journalists do important stories that otherwise would not be covered.
    25. Aids Activist
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
    26. An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
      An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
    27. Beautiful
      A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot
      Resource Type: Audio
      First Published: 2003
    28. Big Ideas
      For growing your Business
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
    29. Blackout in Gotham City
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      Privatisation and deregulation are at the roots of both last Thursday's power meltdown and the 2001 California crisis, and both events have been lessons in the dangers of taking an exclusively private route into far from perfect markets.
    30. Canadian Key Business Directory 2003
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
    31. Canadian Left and the Test of War
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      The bloody U.S. war of conquest against Iraq was a litmus test for the left. Millions internationally and hundreds of thousands in Canada rallied against the war. yet is is patently clear that the biggest antiwar demonstrations in history had no effect whsoever on the war-crazed American ruling class.
    32. The Canadian Wirter's Guide 13th Edition
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
    33. The Canadian Writer's Guide
      13th Edition
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
      The handbook of the Canadian Authors Association, featuring how-to articles on many areas of publishing.
    34. The Canadian Writers' Guide
      13th edition
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
      Over 130 how-to articles on many aspects of writng for publication.
    35. Censorship in Islamic Societies
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
      A study of censorship in Islamic societies, concentrating on key events throughout history. The text includes analysis of: censorship in Algeria the "fatwa" against Salman Rushdie Taliban repression in Afghanistan and the 1980 transmission on British TV of "Death of a Princess".
    36. The charm of abusers
      Why queers put up with dangerous partners
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      Abusive relationships often have a magnetic quality to them. They can be very intense, like a one-of-a-kind partnership, which also makes them very hard to leave.
    37. Continentalizing Canadian Telecommunications
      The Politics of Regional Reform
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
      The issues behind privatization policies and telecommunications policies are looked at through a glass of drifting continentalism
    38. Contracts for Couples
      Self-Counsel Press Legal Series
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
    39. The Corporation 
      The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
      Makes the case that corporations function as a psychopathic entity. A companion to Mark Achbar's 2003 documentary of the same name.
    40. Democratic Struggle: What Role for Marxism?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      Exploring what Marxist approaches to democracy have offered to contemporary discussions.
    41. Dude, Where's My Country?
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
    42. The Eight Best Books for Publicity Seekers
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      For those of you pursuing and perfecting the fine art of getting publicity, here's a list of books you can't live without.
    43. Free for the asking
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      Any organization, corporation or individual listed in Sources has the ability to post news releases to the Sources Web site.
    44. The Holocaust Chronicle
      A History in Words and Pictures
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
      A chronological account of the genocide of European Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
    45. HotLink Resource Shelf #26
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      Reviews of public relations books.
    46. HotLink Resource Shelf #27 - The Art of the Handwritten Note
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      Review of a book about handwritten notes.
    47. How to Make Your B-roll Work
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      Getting a videographer or camera assigned to your story is a challenge to say the least. If you're lucky, you may get one or two cameras out to your news event. That leaves another three or four stations, not including the networks that will not cover your story because they are not there with a camera. PR practitioners can maximize their TV impact by investing in B-roll and hiring a news videography service.
    48. How to Make Your PR Photos Work
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      There is a real art and science to the news photo.
    49. Imagined Nations
      Reflections on Media in Canadian Fiction
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
      A basic look at the effects different forms of media have had on Canadian novels and film adaptations and cyberspace, and how these affect the sense of time and space and national identities.
    50. In Times of Crisis
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      As anyone facing a crowded room of reporters during an emergency will tell you, effective crisis communications is paramount in overcoming the predicament.
    51. Internet Marketing Intelligence
      Research Tools, Techniques, and Resources
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
      How to use the Internet for market research.
    52. Journalism: Truth or Dare?
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
      Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public. He focuses on the increase in journalism's influence and the criticism thrown at journalism today by all sectors of society.
    53. Media Names & Numbers 2003
      January 2003
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2003
    54. Media Relations - Behaviours Unbecoming
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      What NOT to do when dealing with the media.
    55. Medical Reform - Volume 22 Issue 3
      January 2003
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2003
    56. Memoirs of a Media Maverick
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
      An engaging memoir of a radical socialist who also was a recognized journalist, writer, and filmmaker.
    57. Michael Levine's Ten commandments for Dealing with the Media
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      Rules for dealing with the media.
    58. The No-Nonsense Guide to HIV/AIDS
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
      This book gives an overview of the origins of HIV, the ways in which it spreads, the profits made by drug companies, women's special vulnerability and the positive action being taken by people and communities to fight back.
    59. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
      An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
    60. Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
      Chomsky's classic analysis of the liberal scholarship that justified American foreign policy and aggression during the 1960s.
    61. Old Toronto Houses
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
      Photographs of old Toronto houses, with accompanying text.
    62. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 41 No.4 - July/Aug 2003
      Special Summer Literary Issue
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2003
    63. Parliamentary Names & Numbers 19
      Spring 2003
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2003
    64. Real Estate as a Professional Career
      Career Orientation Kit
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
    65. The Righteous
      The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
    66. 6 Tips for Writing a Successful VNR
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      A video news release(VNR) is essentially a press release on video. The key difference is how it is planned and written.
    67. Sounds of Dissent
      The Politics of Music
      Resource Type: Audio
      First Published: 2003
    68. Sources 51
      January 2003
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2003
    69. Sources 52
      Summer 2003
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2003
    70. The State of the News Media
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      Journalists are older, smarter, generally more educated, and usually more cynical than their predecessors. Cynicism often breeds distrust making the current generation of news reporters more suspicious and more formidable than ever.
    71. Telling Tales
      Storytelling in the family
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
      A guide to the art of storytelling.
    72. Terrorism, War and the Press
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
    73. There's no such thing as a slow news day
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      The news media are always looking for news.
    74. The Trouble with Islam
      A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
    75. User Error
      Resisting Computer Culture
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
    76. Video News Releases
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      Video News Releases (VNRs) are just that: broadcast-quality videos intended for release to television stations. They typically contain a "story" in television format, complete with reporter, just as a news release imitates a news story.
    77. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
      Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
    78. What is Public Relations?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      PR should be the guardian of an organization's brand, and that concept of brand is not just reserved for a private sector, product-oriented company. The concept of brand, what an organization is, what is it about, what it wants to say, is the organization's being, and PR is often its protector.
    79. Which Ad Pulled Best?
      40 Case Histories on How to Write and Design Ads That Work
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
    80. Without a Net
      The female experience of growing up working class
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2003
      Essays on growing up working-class in the USA.
    81. Writing a Successful Case Study
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      Readers love a good story. That's why these chronicles of success will often stand out on the editor's desk while press releases, media kits and other media communications fight a tough battle just to get noticed.
    82. CIA's dirty little secrets exposed
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2003
      Investigative reporting into the interrogation techniques used by the US Military on captured terrorism suspects. The author exposes the CIA secret detention centers abroad where interrogation occurs and US due process does not apply.

    2002

    1. Unravelling the DNA Myth
      The spurious foundation of genetic engineering
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      A survey of the implications of the collapse of molecular biology's "central dogma", that an organisms genome fully accounts for its characteristic assemblage of inherited traits. The author adresses how the biotechnology industry has been able to convince the world that genetic modifications are safe.
    2. From Dictatorship to Democracy 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2002   Published: 2010
      A short, serious introduction to nonviolent struggle, its applications, and strategic thinking. Based on pragmatic arguments, this piece presents nonviolent struggle as a realistic alternative to war and other violence in acute conflicts. It also contains a glossary of important terms and recommendations for further reading.
    3. The Enemy of Nature 
      The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2002   Published: 2007
      We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
    4. A Proposal to American Labor
      'Open source unionism' could reinvigorate American labor in the age of the Internet
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      The authors posit that union membership is too restricted by the requirement that unions have majority support in the workplace. They believe that pro-union workers who are a minority in their workplace should be mobilized by the labor movement if it wants to grow.
    5. Another World is Possible 
      Globalization and Anti-capitalism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2002   Published: 2006
      A call-to-arms for progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
    6. Mommy's little secret
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
    7. The write place to work
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      A study of the perfect environment for writing, with views from many of Canada's pre-eminent authors.
    8. The lessons we have learned
      Palestine & Iraq: Any Signs of Hope?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      A speech on "the peace movement: lessons learned and the way forward." Henry Lowi argues that "There is no sign of hope, for the old prejudices and the old concepts, and there is no hope for the colonialists, and the supremacists, and the ethnic nationalists. There is hope for those who proclaim clearly, and organize diligently, for coexistence between Arabs and Jews under a democratic constitution that upholds human rights."
    9. Quest for Justice
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      Judith Stone, an American Jew, argues that Jews of conscience must support the right of return of the Palestinian people.
    10. Dossier on Palestine
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      An illustrated compilation of articles, press reports, analyses of key issues, an in-depth timeline, and 23 detailed maps.
    11. Do I Divest? 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      If apartheid ended, so can this occupation, but the moral force and international pressure will have to be just as determined.
    12. Medical Reform - Volume 22 Issue 2
      September 2002
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2002
    13. Passing Stories
      Tales from a wander so far without end
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      A collection of stories based around experiences and observations from walking Toronto's Queen Street, considering the requirements and rewards of urban citizenship.
    14. The High Cost of Skepticism
      What happened to two scientists who believed that tenure and First Amendment would protect their rights to free inquiry
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      Here’s what happened to two scientists who believed that tenure and the First Amendment would protect their rights to free inquiry.
    15. Landscapes lost, and found
      Garrison Creek; downtown's other streams & ravines: reclaiming the life beneath our feet
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      A history of the Garrison Creek path in Toronto and how the creek shapes the surrounding landscape and environment, reflecting on the cities relationship with public natural spaces and parks.
    16. Healing Israel
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      Cherie Brown discusses some core obstacles to dealing with the Israel/Palestine issue and offers steps for a groundwork to build on.
    17. Investigative Files: Benny Hinn: Healer or Hypnotist?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      Benny Hinn tours the world with his "Miracle Crusade," drawing thousands to each service, with many hoping for a healing of body, mind, or spirit.
    18. Prophetic Witness
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      Editorial discussing some brief history of Israel since the Occupation up to the current day, focusing on the abuses of the Palestinians and seeking support for increasing awareness of the current situation.
    19. The State of the Spirit
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      The text of Michael Lerner's "State of the Spirit" address given at the founding conference of The TIKKUN Community.
    20. State Terrorism in Israel?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      A critique of the double standards applied to the different sides of the Israel/Palestine question and of the continued U.S. perception of Israel as victim versus oppressor.
    21. Roncesvalles
      Spanish name, Polish downtown; one avenue, many stories
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      A history of the immigrant populations in the Roncesvalles area of Toronto, with observations on the communities who have lived there told through monuments and landmarks.
    22. The Age of Ingenuity
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      September 11, 2001 gave us the best chance yet to reinvent the future -- one idea at a time.
    23. Not at liberty
      Jails (and gaols), Central Prison, the Mercer Reformatory, and the Asylum
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      A history of prisons, reformatories, asylums and mental health facilities in Toronto and their relationship with the populace, detailing and criticizing the implications of attitudes and approaches to mental health by the cities institutions.
    24. A truly fragile identify
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      Israel has equated modern identity not with actual live people, with rights and obligations, but with a vast collectivity with no limits either in the past, the present, or the future.
    25. How it all adds up
      $4 billion more flows out than comes back in - and that has to change if the city is to stay healthy, critics say
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      A discussion of Toronto's position within the Canadian economy, and an argument that given its' status as 'economic powerhouse' for the country, that perhaps some additional re-investment into the city is warranted.
    26. Urban amenities; erotic anxieties
      Baths, lavatories, and the YMCA: The politics of bodies in civic space
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      A history of public baths, in particular public baths and similar spaces in Toronto in the last century, and the changing perceptions and uses of such spaces by the public, in particular the treatment of private acts within public spaces.
    27. The Smile of Policeman Agadi
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      An account of the abuse of Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system.
    28. Advice on Hiring a Media Trainer
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      Media training is highly recommended for any media spokesperson, whether a novice or a veteran.
    29. Blue Book 2002
      Directory of Community Services in Toronto Bringing People and Services Together
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2002
    30. The Canadian Paper Finder 2002
      Canada-wide Fine Paper Directory
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2002
    31. The Canadian Writer's Market
      15th Edition
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2002
      Lists markets for freelancers to sell their writing.
    32. Collaborative Learning for Change
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
    33. Contact 02
      6th Annual Toronto Photography Festival
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2002
    34. A Crisis by Any Other Name
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      The role of communications in a crisis.
    35. Crow Lake
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2002
    36. Dialogues on Cultural Studies
      Interviews with Contemporary Critics
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2002
      Thirty-three questions were asked (but not necessarily answered) of each participant, dealing with cultural studies, modernity, postmodernism, referentiality, ideology and history, post-colonialism, neo-orientalism, revolution and tragedy, intellectuals and universities, gender, Marxism, new communications technology.
    37. Do think tanks matter?
      Assesing the impact of public policy institutes
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2002
    38. Facing the Facts
      A Guide to the GATS debate
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2002
    39. The G8, Globalization and Resistance
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
    40. HotLink Resouce Shelf: In the News
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      Review of a book on media relations in Canada.
    41. HotLink Resource Shelf: The Art of Cause Marketing
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      Review of a book on how to use advertising to change personal behaviour and public policy.
    42. How Media Relations Helps the Marketing Plan
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      Using media relations to support your marketing strategy.
    43. In The News
      The Practice of Media Relations in Canada
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2002
      Carney gives everyone, from student to seasoned practitioner, a thorough understanding of who the media are, how they work and how to approach them with stories.
    44. The Intangible Benefits of Media Training
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      One of the greatest frustrations of media relations specialists, and news media, is the slow response to interview or information requests. Many times I've noticed that executives don't understand the rapid timelines that the news media operate under - they don't understand how quickly something ceases to be "news" or how quickly the media may lose interest in a proactive media relations venture.
    45. Making Kyoto Work
      A transition strategy for Canadian energy workers
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
    46. Managing the Media: A Lesson in Making Publicity Come First
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      Case study of media relations strategy.
    47. Maximizing Coverage of Charity Activities in Community Newspapers
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      When it comes to getting coverage in the local newspaper, presentation is paramount. Tto maximize your profile and get your story or event covered, give the newspaper what it wants, when it wants it.
    48. Media Events - Maximizing Your Attendance & News Pick-up
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      Maximizing your attendance and news pick-up at media events.
    49. Media Names & Numbers 2002
      January 2002
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2002
    50. Medical Reform - Volume 22 Issue 1
      2002
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2002
    51. The Navigator of New York
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2002
    52. The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2002
      Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
    53. The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2002
      Ths book explores how democracy is constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class.
    54. Ontario Rocks
      Three Billion Years of Environmental Change
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2002
      A three-billion-year story of Ontario's geological evolution.
    55. The Other Israel
      Voices of Refusal and Dissent
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2002
      A compilation of essays written by Israelis who oppose Israel's occupation of Palestine.
    56. Over the Don
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2002
      Illustraitons of historic crossings of the Don River in Toronto.
    57. Parliamentary Names & Numbers 17
      Spring 2002
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2002
    58. Parliamentary Names & Numbers 18
      Fall 2002
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2002
    59. Presence of Excellence
      Twenty-Five Years of Selections from The National Magazine Awards
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2002
    60. Public Relations Strategy a Valuable Fundraising Tool
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      A case study of using public relations to enhance a charity's fundraising activities.
    61. Secret Justice
      Access to Terrorism Proceedings
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      The American judicial system has, historically, been open to the public, and the U.S. Supreme Court has continually affirmed the presumption of openness. However, as technology expands and as the perceived threat of violence grows, individual courts attempt to keep control over proceedings by limiting the flow of information. Courts are reluctant to allow media access to certain cases or to certain proceedings, like jury selection. Courts routinely impose gag orders to limit public discussion about pending cases, presuming that there is no better way to ensure a fair trial. Many judges fear that having cameras in courtrooms will somehow interfere with the decorum and solemnity of judicial proceedings.
    62. Slavery and the origins of racism
      International Socialist Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      Racism is not part of some unchanging human nature. It was literally invented.
    63. Sources 49
      January 2002
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2002
    64. Sources 50
      Summer 2002
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2002
    65. Spying 101
      The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities 1917 - 1997
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2002
      If you attended a Canadian university in the past eighty years, it's possible that, unbeknownst to you, Canadian security agents were surveying you, your fellow students, and your professors for 'subversive' tendencies and behaviour. Since the end of the First World War, members of the RCMP have infiltrated the campuses of Canada's universities and colleges to spy, meet informants, gather information, and on occasion, to attend classes. Why they were there is the subject of this book.
    66. Top Ten List of Media Relations
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      Top ten recommendations for becoming (and remaining) media friendly:
    67. Tragedies and Journalists
      A guide for more effective coverage
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      Reporters, editors, photojournalists and news crews are involved in the coverage of many tragedies during their lifetimes. They range from wars to terrorist attacks to airplane crashes to natural disasters to fire to murders. All having victims. All affecting their communities. All creating lasting memories. The practical tips in this booklet can help you become more effective in handling these vital areas
    68. The University of Toronto
      A History
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2002
    69. What Makes a Good Story?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      What makes a story interesting is often a combination of the interests of the audience, the interests and abilities of the reporter, and a long history of journalistic tradition.
    70. When & How to Hold a News Conference
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      So before you decide to call a news conference, make sure that the circumstances meet ALL of the criteria.
    71. When the Political Became Personal
      Health Matters Issue 51
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2002
      One health care professional's experiences with the British National Health Service while going through treatment for breast cancer.
    72. Where is Here?
      Canada's Maps and the Stories They Tell
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2002
      Morantz tries to show how maps and the art of map-making have shaped us as Canadians and what they reveal of who we are.

    2001

    1. Private-school debate grows
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      Proposed legislation to aid private schools amounts to a subsidy for rich parents, opponents to Bill 45 say.
    2. Is Your Web Site Media Friendly?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001   Published: 2005
      How to make your Web site media-friendly.
    3. The Princess and the Press
      How to write a news release that will make you the belle of the ball
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001   Published: 2005
      Your relationship with the press might not be a fairy tale, but it definitely doesn't have to be horror story: How to write a news release that will make you the belle of the ball.
    4. Canada: A People's History
      Volume Two
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001   Published: 2002
      Canadian history from the 1870s to the 1990s.
    5. Understanding Power
      The Indispensable Chomsky
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001   Published: 2002
      In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
    6. Sons and mothers vs. sacred cows
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      A growing movement to refuse to serve in the Israeli military and especially in the occupied territories.
    7. Making mid-life changes
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      "I'm so much more myself." So says Miriam Garfinkle, a family physician who recently left her busy private practice to work in a community health centre.
    8. Master builders meet citizen activists
      Trefann Court and beyond: from "urban renewal" to true civic life
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      Examining former Toronto Mayor John Sewell's role as a community organizer and advocate during the urban renewal of the Trefann Court neighborhood and the importance of community self-determination in urban planning.
    9. Of time and the river
      The Don: salmon to sludge to concrete; in time, to life revived
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      A history of the Don River in Toronto and reflections on its relationship with the city and citizenship as a natural space, and its decline and renewal.
    10. Quilt gives peace a chance
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      Now more than ever people need to try to understand one another. That is what Miriam Garfinkle believes in the aftermath of Sept. 11 and why she feels it is even more important for people to come out and view the Middle East Peace Quilt when it comes to North York.
    11. Peace messages are wrapped in quilt
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      Sima Elizabeth Shefrin wanted to do something to contribute to peace in the Middle East. And she wanted to do something that would draw the world's eyes to a just peace for both Arab and Jew.
    12. Blight and the Brave New World
      Rural estates to urban renewal: Moss Park, Trefann Court and Corktown
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      A history of, and observations and reflections on the Moss Park, Trefann Court and Corktown areas of Toronto.
    13. Government's house and housing the governed
      Parliament Street: Regent Park, Cabbagetown (old and "Old") and St James Town
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      A recent history of the neighborhoods around Parliament Street in Toronto, with a focus on the planning challenges and the function of mixed-income communities.
    14. Magical Thinking in Complementary and Alternative Medicine
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      Homeopathy and other popular therapies demonstrate ancient and universal principles of magical thinking, which some recent research suggests are fundamental to human cognition, even rooted in neurobiology.
    15. Response to Toronto Sun article
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      Sun reporter's ill-informed and poor-quality reporting reflects her hostility to organizatons providing services for immigrant women.
    16. World should intervene to end the Israeli Apartheid
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      Transcript of a speech given in South Africa addressing the circumstances of the Palestinians and the Israeli apartheid.
    17. When journalists forget that murder is murder
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
    18. Anti-racists who queston Zionism are not racists
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      Anyone who criticizes the actions of the Israeli government runs the risk of being labelled anti-Semitic by those who want to silence all criticism of Israel.
    19. Is the Corporation Obsolete?
      Corporate irresponsibility? Predatory behavior? Blame the charter--and rewrite it
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      The more pervasive the corporation becomes, the less we seem to notice. It's just the way things are, the new normal, and rapidly it is becoming the norm for the entire world.
    20. Godfrey High
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      Former and current students of Bathurst Heights Secondary School are objecting to the decision to invite Tory backroom operator Paul Godfrey to be the keynote speaker at a ceremony to mark the school's closing, given that Godfrey is a key advisor to the Conservative government whose cutbacks are responsible for the school's being shut down.
    21. Private property; public life
      The city indoors: The Eaton Centre and "Toronto's Downtown Walkway"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      A history of, and observations on, Toronto's Eaton Centre mall and PATH walkway and preceding indoor private-owned and publically accessible spaces.
    22. Freedom through regulation
      People power must make an ally of the state
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      The people's movements being deployed against corporate power are perhaps the biggest, most widespread popular risings the world has seen.
    23. Costly Energy
      Why oil and gas prices are rising and what we can do about it
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      A collection of progressive analysis and alternatives
    24. Alien Invasion
      How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
      An examination of the devasting results of seven years of social and economic destruction inflicted the by the right-wing fanatics who ruled Ontario under the premiership of Mike Harris.
    25. But It's Only a Tool!
      The Politics of Technology and Education Reform
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
    26. Canada's Century
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
    27. Canada's Red Scare 1945-1957
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
      A summary and examination of Canada's Red Scare, the name used to describe the paranoia and ideological insecurity that swept Canada in the years following the Second World War amidst widespread mistrust of the Soviet Union. Volume 61 of The Canadian Historical Association booklets.
    28. Canadian Books in Print Subject Index 2001
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
    29. Challenging McWorld
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
    30. The Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
    31. Daily News, Eternal Stories
      The Mythological Role of Journalism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
      Argues that in many ways news articles of today draw from age-old tales have have chastened, entertained, and entranced people since the beginning of time.
    32. Desintresse am Öffentlichen Intresse
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      In den Industrienationen haben die Menschen über Jahrzehnte hinweg gelernt, dass man privaten Unternehmen nicht trauen kann, wenn es um Sachen der öffentlichen Sicherheit geht.
    33. Eating Fire
      Family Life, on the Queer Side
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
      An inside look at a rainbow of relationships, sexual and otherwise, that gay, lesbian, and transgendered people create to animate their lives: lovers, partners, parents/kids, quick tricks, torrid affairs, sweethearts, crushes, exes, friends, bottoms and tops, threesomes, butches and fems, bears, cubs and johns. Based on hundreds of intimate conversations across Canada, Eating Fire explores the deepest currents of life: sex, love, loneliness, abuse, power and consent, giving birth, death, being a wo/man, pleasure, fear, joy - risks and rewards of creating family without boundaries.
    34. E-Commerce vs. E-Commons
      Communications in the public interest
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
      From privacy issues to intellectual property, from universal access to union activism, these essays challenge the rush to deregulate and disconnect communications from the public interest.
    35. The Essential Contact -12th Edition
      Canada's Music & Entertainment Industry Directory
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
    36. Expand your knowledge by getting advice from the experts!
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      Public opinion plays a key role in government spending decisions, and one of the most effective ways to influence public opinion is through the media. A single appearance on television, for example, gets your message across to tens of thousand of people.
    37. The Farm Crisis and Corporate Power
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
    38. Fatal Passage
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
    39. First Chapter
      The Canadian Writers Photography Project
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
      A "photographic archive" of Canadian writers from across the country.
    40. Flying High: 5 Sure Ways to Get Your Business Soaring
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      Know your audience, know your message, be clear and consistent in that message, then develop a strategy and execute it.
    41. The FTAA and the WTO: the meta-program for global corporate rule 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      The deepest and most systemic threat to civil and planetary life the world has ever faced is underway. Behind the disasters of regional economies and planetary ecosystems melting down, the threat is driven by an underlying meta-program, in terms of which every decision, every policy, every regulation and implementation is demanded and instituted by servant governments.
    42. Great Canadian Magazines 2001
      CAMPA Member Directory
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2001
    43. Das grosse Sackhüpfen
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
    44. Guerrilla Tactics for Maximizing the Results of Your Media Campaign
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      Strategy and tactics for successful media campaigns.
    45. How Embarassing when your messages unravel
      The Emperor's New Speak
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      Analyze your messages to make sure their will hold up to critical scrutiny.
    46. How the Media Can Be Positive For Your Business
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      If both you and the reporter benefit, the chances are you will do business with that reporter again, good business.
    47. How 2 Take an Exam... & Remake the World
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
    48. Journeys Just Begun
      From Debt Relief to Poverty Reduction
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
      The two essays in this volume critically examine the adequacy of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiatives and the more general issue of financing for the poorest countries.
    49. Kick It Over #39
      Fall 2001
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2001
    50. Media and Minorities
      Representing Diversity in a Multicultral Canada
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
      An examination of the politics of media minority relations in a multicultural Canada.
    51. Media Names & Numbers 2001
      February 2001
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2001
    52. Medical Reform - Volume 21 Issue 2
      2001
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2001
    53. Medicine Wars Will Alternative and Mainstream Medicine Ever Be Friends
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      In the wake of dozens of new and complementary medicines flooding both the marketplace and some hospitals, which path will medicine take?
    54. Missing Pieces II
      An Alternative Guide to Canadian Post-Secondary Education
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
    55. New Internationalist
      #331 - January-February 2001
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2001
      How the system makes us sick.
    56. Nickel and Dimed
      On (Not) Getting By In America
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
      Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them, inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour?
    57. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
      Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
    58. No to Bush's War
      The military face of globalization
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
    59. Our School Our Selves
      Volume 10 Number 2 (#62) January 2001
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2001
    60. Parliamentary Names & Numbers 15
      Spring 2001
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2001
    61. Parliamentary Names & Numbers 16
      Fall 2001
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2001
    62. The Peace Quilt Project
      Resource Type: Film/Video
      First Published: 2001
      A video report on the presentation of the Peace Quilt Project in Toronto.
    63. Pensions Under Attack
      What's behind the push to privatize public pensions
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
      Townson discusses the forces behind the drive to privatize public pensions and its impact on the financial security of seniors. In doing so, she traces a history from Pinochet's Chile to Thatcher's Great Britain to critique Canada's move toward privatization.
    64. Photo Impressionism and the Subjective Image
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
    65. Reckless Abandon
      Canada, the GATS and the future of Health Care
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
    66. Resist
      A grassroots collection of stories, poetry, photos and analyses from the Quebec City FTAA protetst and beyond
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
      A dynamic collection of personal accounts, creative works, reflections, images and analyses about the protests against the FTAA summit that took place in April 2001 in Quebec City.
    67. Respect Bathurst
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      A protest against inviting a Harris Tory to speak at the closing of Bathurst Heights Secondary School.
    68. Scott's Directory of Canadian Associations 2001
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2001
    69. Sources 47
      Winter 2001
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2001
    70. Sources 48
      Summer 2001
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2001
    71. Standards of Practice for Counsellors
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
    72. Stolen Lives
      The 'sisters' who are challenging Australia to admit to its forced separation of Aboriginal families
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      The issue of Austaralia's stolen children.
    73. Surviving and Thriving in a Crisis
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      Surviving and thriving in a crisis means joining hands for support and sharing information clearly, effectively and with respect for the human condition. Remember, you're never alone in a crisis - it just feels that way.
    74. Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
      A reference book on Canadian film and filmmakers, with reviews, biographical listings, and a detailed chronology of major events in Canadian film and television history.
    75. Trees of Ontario
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
    76. 205 Arguments and Observations in Support of Naturism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      Arguments in favour of naturism backed up by research and writings from various sources.
    77. The View from the Press Room
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      How charities can sell their stories to the media.
    78. Water: The Drop of Life
      Companion to the Public Television Series
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2001
      Water: The Drop of Life attempts to show how important the world's fresh water supply is, and how vulnerable it is.
    79. What Does a Reporter Want?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      What does a reporter what when they interview you?
    80. What Econometrics Hides: The Paradigm Revolution
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
    81. When Markets Fail People
      Exploring the widening gap between rich and poor in Canada
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
    82. Why I Am Listed in Sources
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      Over the years, I have turned to Sources time and time again to track down experts to interview for whatever newspaper or magazine article I happened to be researching at the time. So when the time came for me to position myself as an expert it was immediately obvious to me what I had to do: take out a listing in Sources.
    83. Abandonner l'intérêt publique
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2001
      Les sociétés industrielles ont appris au cour de décennies, que les intérêts privées ne peuvent être fait confiance de sauvegarder l'intérêt publique si il y à conflit avec leurs intérêts. C'étais une dure leçon apprie aux coûts de plusieurs vies, mais le résultat à été graduellement, pièce par pièce, pays par pays, une infrastructure de régulations publiques et d'agences et procédés mis sur pied pour protéger la santé publique et la sécurité. L'infrastructure est maintenant sapée pas seulement de l'extérieur, mais du gouvernement même.

    2000

    1. The Professor of Parody
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      It is difficult to come to grips with Judith Butler’s ideas because it is difficult to figure out what they are.
    2. In the Crossfire 
      Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000   Published: 2010
      This book is the story of those other movements and revolts in Vietnam, caught in the crossfire between the French and the Stalinists, told by one of the few survivors.
    3. Media Names & Numbers
      Your Connection to the Media
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2000   Published: 2009
      A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
    4. Media Names & Numbers 2009
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000   Published: 2009
      A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
    5. The Beaver - February-March 2000 issue
      Volume 80, Number 1
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2000
      Special issue on Contemplating Our Century.
      There is a copy of this publication in the Connexions Archive.
    6. Nature of Economies
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000   Published: 2001
      Jacobs argues that since human beings exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect, we should look to the processes of nature for vibrant and flexible models of economic planning.
    7. Left awakes
      John Clarke cheers conference with plan to bring down Mike Harris
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      It was a bombshell of a week in Toronto politics, one in which the two extremes of left-wing politics - the hard and the soft - gave two Toronto audiences their points of view, prognoses and programs.
    8. CHO!CES Transformed
      A look back on a long and extraordinary mo(ve)ment
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      Kevin Matthews reflects back on CHO!CES, a coalition for social justice that to many has represented an exceptional moment in the history of the Canadian Left, and in the Winnipeg activist community's contribution to that history.
    9. Abandoning the Public Interest 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000   Published: 2001
      The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
    10. Abandoning the Public Interest - Farsi Text
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
    11. Abandoning the Public Interest - Japanese text
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
    12. L'abbandono dell'interesse pubblico
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
    13. Het publieke belang negeren
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
    14. Natural light
      Life among Vermont's hippies, hunters, bears, and moose
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      An essay on the author's experience in his second home, in rural Vermont.
    15. Can We Really Tap Our Problems Away?
      Thought Field Therapy is marked as an extraordinarily fast and effective body-tapping treatment
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      Thought Field Therapy is marketed as an extraordinarily fast and effective body-tapping treatment for a number of psychological problems. However, it lacks even basic empirical support and exhibits many of the trappings of a pseudoscience.
    16. Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      The story of Ontario's right-wing Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
    17. Kontaminiert: Das giftige Erbe der Kürzungen in Ontario's Umweltpolitik
      Ein Artikel über Katastrophe für die Umwelt in Kanada.
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
    18. Rosa Luxemburg 
      A letter about Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to Marxism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      In a time when the socialist movement was evolving in directions increasingly removed from Marx's positions -- Social Democratic reformism on the one hand, and Leninist bureaucratic centralism on the other -- Luxemburg was the leading exponent of a Marxism in the spirit of Marx.
    19. An affair to remember
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      Graham Green's two-year passion for Catherine Walston.
    20. Medical Reform - Volume 20 Issue 1
      April 2000
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2000
    21. Finding Home in the Bain Co-op: Dagmar Baur's Journey from Poland to Toronto
      Baur, Dagmar
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      Dagmar Baur wrote this autobiography for Heritage Toronto.
    22. Action Speaks Louder
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2000
      Publication of OPIRG, a student-funded, volunteer-based organization at the University of Toronto that promotes action, education and research on a wide range of social justice and environmental issues. There is a copy of the Summer 2000 issue in the Connexions Archive.
    23. Agnes Macphail
      Champion of the Underdog
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
    24. Att överge allmänintresset
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
    25. The Best of The Nation
      Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      An anthology of articles from The Nation.
    26. Betrayal of Trust
      The Collapse of Global Public Health
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      The story of recent failings of public health systems across the globe.
    27. Birds of Ontario
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
    28. Blowing Your Own Horn!
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      Launching your own public relations campaign.
    29. Bowling Alone
      The Collapse and Revival of American Community
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
    30. Canada: A People's History
      Volume One
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      Covers Canadian history from the beginnings to the 1870s.
    31. Canada's Distorted Electoral System
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
    32. Canada's Great Divide
      The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      Over the course of the 1990s, Canada's growing gap has become a slippery slope for a growing number of middle income familes sliding towards the bottom of the income ladder.
    33. Canadian Books in Print 2000
      Author and Title Index
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2000
    34. Canadian Books in Print 2000
      Subject Index
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2000
    35. The Case for Penal Abolition
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      A collection of essays on various aspects of the penal abolition movement and its arguments.
    36. Caveat Surfer: Beware When Using Electronic Communication
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      Points about electronic communication and online security.
    37. Celebrate the Children of Resistance
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
    38. City of Toronto Streetfinder
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
    39. Colour Coded
      A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
    40. Contaminación: El envenenante legado de los recortes ambientales de Ontario
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
    41. Il contributo al marxismo di Rosa Luxemburg
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      Vedo Rosa Luxemburg come la marxista che fece il massimo per progredire le teorie rivoluzionarie di Karl Marx nel periodo successivo alla morte di Marx ed Engels.
    42. Cultures of Darkness
      Night Travels in the Histories of Transgression [From Medieval to Modern]
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      Peasants, religious heretics, witches, pirates, runaway slaves, prostitutes and pornographers, frequenters of taverns and fraternal society lodge rooms, revolutionaries, blues and jazz musicians, beats, and contemporary youth gangs -- those who defied authority, choosing to live dangerously outside the defining cultural dominations of early insurgent and, later, domanant capitalism are what Bryan D. Palmer calls people of the night.
    43. Doing Well and Doing Good
      How Softnews and Critical Journalism are Shrinking the News Audience and Weakening Democracy- And what News Outlets can do about it
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      The News has changed greatly in the past two decades. In response to the intensensely competitive media environment created by cable, news and entertainment, news outlets have softened their coverage. Their news has also become increasingly critical in tone.
    44. Effective Media Relations
      Nurturing your relationships with reporters
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      Our relationships with journalists need to be maintained over time in order to be fruitful.
    45. Emily Carr
      Rebel Artist
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
    46. Event Planning
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
    47. Falling Behind
      The State of Working Canada, 2000
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      An accessible collation of data and analysis, analyzed from a progressive perspective, about the social and economic realities of working people in Canada.
    48. Family ties: a brief, brief history of the Left in Canada
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      A brief overview of the history of the Canadian political Left.
    49. Flying Without A Net
      The "Economic Freedom" of Working Canadians in 2000
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      Reports on a project to construct a quantitative index summarizing the multi-dimensional economic status of working people in Canada, based on variations in 14 different component indicators of economic and social well-being.
    50. GATS: How the World Trade Organization's new "services" negotiations threaten democracy
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      Examines closed-door negotiations to expand the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which have the goal of commercialize every service sector in every WTO country, including essential services such as health care, education, and drinking water.
    51. Group Sex
      Communal Ethics of Eroticism, Free Love, and the Extended Family
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      Is free love a relic of the past? Does principled promiscuity still persist at the dawn of the twenty-first century? Where do anti-authoritarian radicals stand in the cultural combat?
    52. HotLink Resource Shelf #16
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      Reviews of books on writing and presentations.
    53. HotLink Resource Shelf: Going for Gold!
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      Review of Going for Gold, a book on marketing strategies for speakers.
    54. Imagine Democracy 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
    55. In London treffen wir uns wieder
      Vier Spaziergänge durch eine vergessenes Kapitel deutscher Kulturgeschichte
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
    56. In the Corporate Interest
      The YNN Experience in Canadian Schools
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
    57. Inside Language
      A Canadian Language Reader
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
    58. Involve Your Audience During TV Interviews
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      People who are watching the news are usually doing something else as well, like washing clothes, eating dinner or helping the kids with homework. It's up to you to get their attention.
    59. Islamic Peril
      Media And Global Violence
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
    60. Justice and the poor
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
    61. A közérdek mellozésre kerül
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
    62. The Laws of Nature
      A Skeptics Guide
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
    63. A Life on the Jewish Left
      An Immigrant's Experience
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      Biderman was a leader of the Labour League and the United Jewish Peoples Order, Communist-led organizations whose members were unted by progressive ideals and a love of Yiddish culture.
    64. The Lying Stones of Marrakech
      Penultimate Reflections in Natural History
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
    65. The Market vs Human Need
      A Marxist analysis of the WTO and the FTAA
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      Recent 'trade' deals include measures that severely threaten the lives and rights of the workers, small farmers and students who live in the countries covered by these deals.
    66. Media Names & Numbers 2000
      February 2000
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2000
    67. Media Think
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
    68. Medical Reform - Volume 19 Issue 3-4
      January 2000
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2000
    69. Medical Reform - Volume 20 Issue 2
      2000
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2000
    70. The MegaCity Saga
      Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
    71. The Missing News 
      Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
    72. Nature Hikes
      Near-Toronto Trails and Adventures
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
    73. New Media... Endless Possibilities
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      Using new media to get your message out.
    74. Oh, the Mistakes Spokespeople Make: Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Blow an Interview
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      Mistakes to avoid when being interviewed by the media.
    75. On Reparations
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      The notion that the United States government, or white institutions in general, owe reparations to black Americans for slavery and its legacy has been around for some time. Recently, however, talk of a movement to demand reparations for black Americans has been spreading beyond the nationalist enclaves where it has usually been contained. How has this happened? And what is its significance? To put it more provocatively, how does a project that seems so obviously a nonstarter in American politics come to capture so much of the public imagination?
    76. Original Sin and the Future of Socialism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      Marxism's Original Sin and the Future of Socialism.
    77. Other Conundrums
      Race, Culture, and Canadian Art
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      A collection of essays on Canadian art.
    78. The Other Guide to Toronto
      Opening the Door to Green Tourism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
    79. Parliamentary Names & Numbers 13
      Spring 2000
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2000
    80. Parliamentary Names & Numbers 14
      Fall 2000
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2000
    81. The Politics of Anti-Sweatshop Organizing in Canada What's missing
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      The ruthlessness of so-called "economic restructuring" over the past few decades has not only entrenched exploitative work conditions in the South; it has also caused an explosion in sweatshop work in the North.
    82. Reading Pictures
      A History of Love and Hate
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      A meditation on the questions we ask ourselves when standing in front of a piece of art.
    83. A Report Card on Women and Poverty
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
    84. Revolutionärer Optimist
      Ein Interview mit Martin Glaberman
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
    85. Scott's Canadian Sourcebook - 2001
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
    86. Skills Mania
      Snake Oil in Our Schools?
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      Davis argues that the purpose of education should not be primarily that of teaching skills useful in the job market.
    87. Sources 45
      Winter 1999-2000
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2000
    88. Sources 46
      Summer 2000
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 2000
    89. The Suburban Nation
      The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
    90. Le système électoral faux du Canada
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
    91. Toronto's Ravines
      Walking the Hidden Country
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
    92. Unsafe Practices
      Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario Health Care
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      Describes the process of healthcare privatization and its negative impact in Ontario.
    93. Watching the News
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      Watching the news to learn what the media are interested in.
    94. What Would They Do With the Surplus?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
    95. When Bad Things Happen to Good Spokespeople: Handling Tough Interviews
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      How to handle problems that arise in a media interview.
    96. Who do we try to rescue today?
      Canada under corporate rule
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000
      A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
    97. Why Bad Beliefs Don't Die
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 2000
      Because beliefs are designed to enhance our ability to survive, they are biologically designed to be strongly resistant to change. To change beliefs, skeptics must address the brain's "survival" issues of meanings and implications in addition to discussing their data.
    98. Zimbabwe Independence and Beyond
      Labour, Capital and Society - Volume 33, Number 2
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 2000

    1999

    1. Marx and Nature 
      A Red and Green Perspective
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999   Published: 2014
      While recognizing that production is structured by historically developed relations among producers, Marx insists that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by natural conditions. Paul Burkett shows that it is Marx's overriding concern with human emancipation that impels him to approach nature from the standpoint of materialist history, sociology, and critical political economy.
    2. A Guide to the Ferns of Grey and Bruce Counties, Ontario
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999   Published: 2005
    3. Relax a Little!
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999   Published: 2001
      Learning how to relax can mean the difference between a serene sense of accomplishment and a pounding headache.
    4. Seven golden rules for more effective speaking
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999   Published: 2001
      Tips to be a more powerful, memorable and successful speaker.
    5. Anarquismo Una promesa incumplida?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999   Published: 2000
    6. Awakening Your Life Skills
      A light-hearted, pragmatic and humorous approach to leading a less streeful life
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999   Published: 2000
    7. Crisis Communications Checklist
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999   Published: 2000
      Nothing impresses like real confidence, and only advance planning can bestow it.
    8. El ABC del socialismo
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999   Published: 2000
    9. The far-right stuff
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
      Something nasty is stirring in the heart of Europe. Linda Grant examines the rise of anti-immigration forces in Switzerland as voters flirt with extremism in unprecedented numbers.
    10. Medical Reform - Volume 19 Issue 2
      September 1999
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1999
    11. The Snuff Film
      The Making of an Urban Legend
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
      One of the most enduring, and little-recognized, urban legends about cinema is the "snuff film," in which actresses are supposedly actually killed onscreen. Over the course of nearly a quarter century, the snuff film has transformed from grade-Z slasher film to hoax to anti-pornographers' straw man to urban legend, and shows no sign of slowing down.
    12. Media in the United States
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999   Published: 2009
      Media omissions, distortion, inaccuracy and bias in the US is something acknowledged by many outside the USA, and is slowly realized more and more inside the US. However, due to those very same omissions, distortion, inaccuracy and bias in the US mainstream media, it is difficult for the average American citizen to obtain an open, objective view of many of the issues that involve the United States (and since the United States is the largest economic and military power in the world, they are naturally involved in many issues!).
    13. War, Propaganda and the Media
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
      Probably every conflict is fought on at least two grounds: the battlefield and the minds of the people via propaganda. The #good guys# and the #bad guys# can often both be guilty of misleading their people with distortions, exaggerations, subjectivity, inaccuracy and even fabrications, in order to receive support and a sense of legitimacy
    14. If you can moan this job is yours
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
      Life as a cyber sex worker.
    15. Academic Freedom In English Canada
      A History
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
    16. After the interview
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
      What to do after being interviewed by a reporter.
    17. Backing it Up
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
      If you say something in a media interview, make sure you can back it up.
    18. Canadian Who's Who
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1999
      To find background information on a prominent individual quickly, the Canadian Who's Who is an excellent resource. More than 15,000 Canadians are profiled, with addresses and phone numbers, date and place of birth, education, family history, career information, memberships, honours and awards, and short biographies (nothing juicy, though).
    19. Cities for People
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
      How two experiments in participatory democracy have transformed the political culture in Brazil and Uruguay.
    20. Civil Society in Question 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
      Civil Society ranks as flavour of the month among community volunteers, academics and policy makers. Many view it as a key concept in the struggle against poverty and for social justice and democracy. Is civil society anything more than a projection of our desires, a chameleon concept that can mean all things to all people? Does it risk being co-opted beyond recognition and usefulness?
    21. Compass Points
      Navigating the Twentieth Century
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
      A radical history of the twentieth century by a wide of Canadian authors and essayists grappling with crucial developments in politics, economics, society, and culture in Canada and abroad.
    22. Copyright
      Guide for Canadian Libraries
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
    23. Don't neglect your presentation skills
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
      Do not wait until you are about to present. It's not worth the stress, or to risk looking like a fool. Take time to prepare.
    24. Down To Earth People
      Beyond Class Reductionism and Postmodernism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
      Working class women and men offer their analysis of the world today and its multi-dimensional inequalities.
    25. Easily Led
      A History of Propaganda
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
      From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
    26. Equal Shares
      Oodi Weavers and the cooperative experience
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
      The story of a community-based co-operative in Botswana.
    27. God's Spies
      Stories in Defiance of Oppression
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
      Short stories on the theme of resistance to oppression.
    28. The Great Canadian Book of Lists
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
    29. History of Medicine
      A Scandalously Short Introduction
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
    30. Hostile Takeover
      Annual Report on Privatization
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
    31. Krieg im Kosovo
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
    32. Medical Reform - Volume 19 Issue 1
      1999
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1999
    33. Mushrooms of Ontario and Eastern Canada
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
    34. News releases that work -- and those that don't
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
      Media relations know-how: effective media releases.
    35. The Niagara River
      An Important Bird Area
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
    36. Out of Control
      Canada in an Unstable Financial World
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
    37. Parliamentary Names & Numbers 12
      Fall 1999
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1999
    38. "People and Government Travelling Together"
      Community Organization, Urban Planning and the Politics of Post-War Reconstruction in Toronto 1943-1953
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
      Published in Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine, vol 27, No. 2, 1999, p. 44-58
    39. A People's History of the World 
      From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
      Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
    40. The Power of public relations
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
      An overview of the role of public relations practitioners.
    41. A Primer on Canadian Productivity
      (or everything you wanted to know about productivity but were afraid to ask)
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
    42. Profit over People
      Neoliberalism and Global Order
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
      Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
    43. Regent Park
      The Public Experiment in Housing
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
      Photographs, commentary, and interviews.
    44. A Reporter's mindset
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
      Remember that reporters have a job to do. If you help the reporter, you are really helping yourself.
    45. Review: Secrets of Power Marketing
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
      A lively book, with a streak of practicality that reveals itself in an impatience with hoity-toity notions of marketing that have little impact on the bottom line.
    46. Review: World Wide Web Marketing
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
      A book for those whose jobs involve creating and maintaining corporate Web sites.
    47. Selling Online
      How to Become a Successful E-Commerce Merchant in Canada
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
    48. Sisters in the Wilderness
      The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
    49. Special Places
      The Changing Ecosystems of the Toronto Region
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
      Special Places explores the changing ecosystem of the Toronto area over the past century, looking at the environmental conditions that influence the whol region and at the surprising range of plants and animals you can find in many of its natural spaces.
    50. Spinwars
      Politics and New Media
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
      An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
    51. Spirit of the Web
      The Age of Information from Telegraph to Internet
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
      A journey through communication technology and our fascination and tribulations with it.
    52. Stop the War
      Why bombing brings more horror
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
      Opposing the US/NATO war against Yugoslavia.
    53. Stories from the Ice Storm
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
      Personal stories of the ice storm which hit eastern North America in 1998.
    54. The Straight Goods
      Canadians Informing Canadians
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1999
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
      A daily Internet news and feature publication featuring investigative reports, columns, and a variety of features. Ceased publication 2013.
    55. Street-Level Democracy
      Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
    56. Toward a Healthy Future
      Second Report on the Health of Canada
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
    57. Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
      An Open Conspiracy for Social Change
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
      Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
    58. Us and Them
      Building a just workplace community
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
    59. Wales: Class Struggle and Socialism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
    60. What are Journalists for?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
      Does the world you read about bear much resemblance to the one you actually live in?
      Who, or what, really writes the news?
      Are there any facts, or is there only spin?
      Is news inherently conflict-driven?
    61. Workers and the Celtic Tiger
      Why Partnership Doesn't Pay
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
    62. Working/Travailler
      Images of Canadian Labour
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
      The author, a film and TV producer for programs about Canada's labour movement, chronicles the Canadian labour movement using black-and-white photographs.
    63. The World Trade Organization
      A Citizen's Guide
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
      Shrybman argues that the WTO not only aggravates envrionmental and social problems, but takes away the tools that governments need to address them.
    64. World Wide Web Marketing - Second Edition
      Integrating the Web Into Your Marketing Strategy
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
      This book is designed for those whose jobs involve creating and maintaining corporate web sites.
    65. Writing For the Web
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1999
      Kilian puts communication before flash.
    66. Onward Humanist Soldiers!
      Arming Ourselves with Logic
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1999
      A humanist take on the religious debate over whether or not "God" should be removed from the Canadian constitution.

    1998

    1. An Annotated Bibliography of Nonsense
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      Academic critics today not only question the impact of science upon society, but they also question the very idea of scientific rationality.
    2. The History of Costa Rica
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998   Published: 2007
      An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
    3. Enemies of the State
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998   Published: 2002
    4. Resources for Radicals - Fourth Edition
      An annotated bibliography for those active in movements for social change
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998   Published: 2002
      Annotated resources - books, periodicals, films, handbooks, and other materials -- for people working for non-violent social change.
    5. The Canadian Oxford Dictionary
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998   Published: 2001
      More than just a dictionary, this is also a reference book with its ample informational entries which include short biographies of Canadians ranging from Elvis Stoiko to Nellie McClung and Canadian locations as diverse as Nunavut and the Red Chamber.
    6. Going to the Public -- Ten public speaking tips
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998   Published: 2000
      Advice on effective public speaking.
    7. Your virtual storefront: Your telephone
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998   Published: 1999
      Don't let a poorly thought out phone system interfere with your media relations.
    8. They are the champions
      Nine heroes for 99 -- Torontonians who inspire our own good deeds
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
    9. Even a 50-something with greying hair and a smallish you-know-what can be a Porn Star
      How to make your own smut so it moves you where it counts
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      Learning how to make a pornographic film.
    10. Has Fetish Flaked Out?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      Now that everyone's doing it, perversion may never be the same.
    11. Keystone Cops Sex Registry
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      Washroom sex might show up on Ontario's new offender list, but real pedophiles will probably go free.
    12. Does this ad actually encourage rape?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      Campus groups pull overly sensational rape crisis centre ads.
    13. Liberal dogma shipwrecked
      From Market Madness to Recession
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      The first serious crisis of the post-communist era is at once economic, political, ideological and strategic. All the postulates put forward over the past 10 years as fundamental to modern society are called into question, this time throughout the world.
    14. Porn stripped of its secrets
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      Covering the pornography industry.
    15. Medical Reform - Volume 18 Issue 2
      September 1998
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1998
    16. Where Ya at, General Strike ? !
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      The trade union hierarchy will claim that the will to fight a class battle is not there, yet they have done their best to make sure that Ontario's workers and anti-harris activists are ocvercome by doubt and demoralization. Nothing less than a general strike will even make harris sit up and take notice, let alone offer serious concessions.
    17. Why Punish Madame?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      A landmark trial is to determine whether a dominatrix dishes out sex or therapy.
    18. Medical Reform - Volume 18 Issue 1
      June 1998
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1998
    19. A pricey suburban sewer plan that stinks
      City pays for new pipe and the results will be flushed into our lake
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      Discussion of connecting King township to the Toronto sewer system.
    20. Medical Reform - Volume 17 Issue 4
      March 1998
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1998
    21. Why do Progressive Foundations Give too Little to too Many?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      Progressive funders, perhaps driven by the New Left's historic distrust of leadership and hierarchy, are inclined to avoid general-support funding. The natural result is a proliferation of short-term projects attached to flimsy institutions. And inherent in institutional weakness is poor press work, poorly marketed publications, poor management and poorly paid core staff with low morale and high turnover.
    22. Leslie Reagan's "When Abortion Was A Crime" - Book Review
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
    23. Ashbridge's Bay
      An Anthology of Writings by Those Who Knew and Loved Ashbridge's Bay
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
      The story of a great freshwater marsh destroyed by urbanization.
    24. At the Cutting Edge
      The Fight for Canada's Forests
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
      Exposes the overexploitation of Canada's forests and suggests measures to create a sustainable industry.
    25. Die Autonomen
      Portrait einer linksextremistischen Subkultur
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
    26. Ban Landmines
      The Ottawa Process and the International Movement to Ban Landmines
      Resource Type: Audio
      First Published: 1998
    27. Civil Society and the Aid Industry
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
    28. Coming Back to Life 
      Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
      A guidebook for dealing with the despair that stands in the way our our changing the world.
    29. The Common Good
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
      Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
    30. Don't play that game: Ending telephone tag
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      The multitude of communications technologies have actually made it more difficult to get in touch.
    31. Enhance your image in novel ways
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      Soft marketing supports and image enhancement strategies require as much consideration as any other portion of your marketing plan.
    32. Enough
      Lifestyle and Financial Planning for Simpler Living
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
    33. Exhibitors can get more bang for their buck
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      Trade shows are effective marketing vehicles when used well.
    34. 44 Country Trails
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
    35. Guidelines for successful interviews
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      Things to keep in mind when going into a media interview.
    36. Harness the Future
      The 9 Keys to Emerging Consumer Behaviour
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
    37. Hidden Agendas
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
      Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
    38. How many spokespersons?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      Speaking with one voice means your spokespersons should deliver the same message. It does not mean use only one spokesperson. If the news media representative knows your experts are available and reliable, you are more likely to be called and more importantly, to be believed.
    39. Industrial Cathedrals of the North
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
    40. Into The Looking-Glass Wood
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
      A journey through the possibilities of reading.
    41. The Iroquois in the War of 1812
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
    42. Keeping current with today's newsletters
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      Newsletters concerned with public relations, fundraising, and speaking.
    43. Lament for an Ocean
      The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery: A True Crime Story
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
      Harris's account of why and how the northern cod was taken to the brink of extinction in little more than thirty years.
    44. Learning how to live with editors
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      Pay attention to editorial fit, readership relevance, and good writing.
    45. Learning to Love Patriarchy
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      A Canadian Catholic school teacher's struggle with the patriarchal values of the Catholic Church and their instruction to teachers to impress upon their female students the "value of motherhood".
    46. The MAI and capitalist crisis - a Marxist analysis
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      The MAI is nothing more than a "bill of rights" for corporations.
    47. Mailing list know-how
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      Your mailing list is one of the cornerstones of a good communications strategy.
    48. Manifestations And Declarations
      Of the Twentieth Century
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
      This collection of original documents describes what significance they had for the social change and political movements of the twentieth century.
    49. Massive Uncritical Publicity for Supposed "Independent UFO Investigation"
      Demonstrates Media Gullibility Once Again
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      On Monday, June 19, 1998, all of the major media outlets were suddenly filled with accounts proclaiming that an independent panel of scientists had taken a fresh look at the UFO question, and had concluded that the matter needed to be taken seriously after all.
    50. Media Evasions
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      We often think of the news media as sensationalistic and intrusive. In fact, the press's basic modus operandi is evasive rather than invasive.
    51. Montreal Up Close
      A Pedestrian's Guide to the City
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
    52. 1998 Canadian Internet Handbook
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
    53. 1999 Canadian Internet Directory and Research Guide
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
    54. 1999 Canadian Internet New User's Handbook
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
    55. On Beulah Height
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
    56. Out of Mind
      An Investigation into Mental Health
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
    57. Pacifists in Action
      The experience of the Friends Ambulance Unit in the Second World War
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
      The Friends Ambulance Unit was composed of young men and women in Britian with pacifist convictions.
    58. Pain on Their Faces
      Testimonies on the Paper Mill Strike, Jay, Manie, 1987-1988
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
      An accourt of an epic struggle by workers and their community against a powerful and aggressive corporation -- a strike by 1,250 workers against the International Paper Company in Jay, Maine, in 1987-88. Over 40- testimonies by strikers and their supporters explain in their own words the significance of this struggle for themselves, their families, their community and future generations.
    59. Relationship Marketing
      New Strategies, Techniques and Technologies To Win Customers You Want and Keep Them Forever
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
    60. Researcher's Guide to the World Wide Web
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
    61. Review: Leadership from within
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      An outline of skills and leadership techniques.
    62. Reviews: The HotLink Bookshelf
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      Resources for communicators.
    63. Secrets of a worthwhile presentation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      Preparation is the key to a successful presentation.
    64. Slumming It At the Rodeo
      The Cultural Roots of Canada's Right-Wing Revolution
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
      Are the Federal Reform Party's Manning, Ontario's Harris and Alberta's Klein the struttin' cowboy champions of direct democracy? Or just sell- outs to the private sector? Laird tackles these questions.
    65. So You Think You Need a Lawyer
      How to screen, hire, manage or fire a lawyer
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
    66. A Step-by-Step Guide to Being a Successful Consultant
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      A practical guide to becoming a successful consultant.
    67. Toronto Rocks
      The Geological Legacy of the Toronto Region
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
      Toronto’s urban geology.
    68. Unequal Freedoms
      The Global Market as an Ethical System
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
      McMurtry's central argument in this work is the global market can be an ethical thing if a civil commons is put into place. The civil commons is a economic system in which individuals, not a handful of corporations, take part in a equal opporutinity framework of supply and demand.
    69. Where To Go When the Bank Says No
      Financing your small business in Canada
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
    70. Writing for broadcast
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1998
      Avoid the common pitfalls.
    71. Yesterday's News
      Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1998
      Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.

    1997

    1. The Joy of Revolution 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997   Published: 2007
      Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I'm afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."
    2. Your Guide to Toronto Neighbourhoods
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997   Published: 2002
    3. The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers, and Journalists
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997   Published: 2000
    4. The Activist Cookbook 
      A Hands-on Manual for Organizers, Artists and Educators who want to get their message across in powerful, creative ways
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997   Published: 1999
      Spicy recipes for fighting economic injustice.
    5. No Sweat
      Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997   Published: 1999
      Surveys the chasm between the glamour of the catwalk and the squalor of the sweatshop.
    6. Successful news releases: 7 must-know tips
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997   Published: 1999
      Make it short, make it make, make sure it's important.
    7. The God of Small Things 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997   Published: 1998
      A novel.
    8. Letter to Ira Basen
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Respect for others, high academic standards and creative and collaborative approaches to challenges have been the hallmarks of Huron Street School. What a shock then, to hear us represented on your show as a divided and bitter community unable to tolerate, much less respect, divergent opinions.
    9. For a Critical Marxism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Löwy emphasizes the open quality of the Marxist world view, in contrast with the conventional caricature of a closed, dogmatic system that has become ossified and irrelevant. Such a caricature of Marx and Marxism, of course, is useful for all this ideologies and social scientists whose "secular religion" (as Löwy describes it) would have us believe that capitalism and its free market are the natural and inevitable end product of human history.
    10. Why Bogus Therapies Seem to Work
      At least ten kinds of errors and biases can convince intelligent, honest people
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      At least ten kinds of errors and biases can convince intelligent, honest people that cures have been achieved when they have not.
    11. The Competition Myth - The Real Meaning of the Last Twenty-five Years
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      The problems which working people have suffered in the last twenty-five years are not problems which the ruling elite are trying to solve but weapons they have devised to attack working people in a class war.
    12. Feminism, multilinearism and revolution
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Grasping the historic uniqueness of each new women's movement is crucial. But the point is not mere multicultural diversity, but opening doors to new kinds of revolutions.
    13. News Media Stifle Ideas and Debate
      Review of Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Far from providing democracy's oxygen, as they claim, the news media today legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, they manufacture public consent for policies which favour their owners: the corporate elite.
    14. Reporting the Realities of Poverty
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Review of Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts, by P. Sainath.
    15. School Reform and the Attack on Public Education 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      The education reform movement is part of a wider corporate and government plan to undermine democracy and strengthen corporate domination of our society.
    16. Boys: Do you know where your mothers are?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Dr. Miriam Garfinkle got tired of being just the mom in the stands. She instigated the uprising from fan to player at her son's house league championship team party.
    17. Abstinence of Else!
      The Just-Say-No Approach in Sex Ed Lacks One Detail: Evidence That it Works
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
    18. Medical Reform - Volume 17 Issue 1
      June 1997
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1997
    19. A Life of Learning
      Charles Homer Haskins Lecture for 1997
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
    20. Media Watch: When the Media Tell Half the Story
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Twenty-eight years after Chariots of the Gods? author Eric von Däniken brought pseudoscience to new lows by suggesting that our ancestors were too stupid to create the pyramids, Stonehenge, and other monuments without the help of space aliens, his ideas are alive and well.
    21. Culture and monoculture: Old Order Amish face Ontario's dairy bureaucrats
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Tucked away in various pockets of Central Ontario is a quiet scattering of Old Order Amish and Mennonite communities. Apart from their sober black dress, the most obvious sign of their presence is the horse-drawn buggies they drive on road shoulders made deliberately wide to accommodate them.
    22. Some ideas about organizing from Citizens for Local Democracy
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Suggestions about starting a local group which will focus on issues of local democracy.
    23. Principles governing municipal/provincial financial relationships
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      In past decades, provincial governments have generally recognized the separate nature of local government and have not acted unilaterally in the field of financial relationships, but have attempted to reach amicable agreement.
    24. Letter to Ontario Minister of Education and Training John Snobelen
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      The actions of your government have made us all take a good look at what we have taken for granted for many years in Ontario and have forced us to stand up for the things we value most -- a caring society with quality universal public education system.
    25. Further Dialogue on Pornography
      Pornography, Censorship, Sexuality
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      The Church and right-wing groups have intensified their war on the three horsemen of immorality: abortion, gays and pornography. In the struggle against this, we have emphasized the need to oppose censorship. We have also-if appropriate or necessary-defended pornography. a freer, richer, sexuality cannot evolve by somebody (experts, feminists, socialists) legislating what liberating sex is, while censoring what falls beyond the practices so defined.
    26. Aboriginal Issues Today
      A Legal and Business Guide
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      An overview of current laws and policies.
    27. Anarchism: How Not to Make a Revolution
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Some see anarchims as the most radical of doctrines. Lenin called it "the politics of despair." Who is rights? Paul D'Amato looks at anarchism -- its theory and practice -- and finds that it falls far short of its professed ideals.
    28. Anatomy of Censorship
      Why the Censors have it Wrong
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      Bringing together diverse disciplines such as literary and legal history, modern psychology and contemporary feminism, Anatomy of Censorship sorts out the many confusing explanations and often misleading justifications for censorship to reveal the underlying conditions and motivations that lead to the suppression of various forms of communication.
    29. And Peace Never Came
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      The memoir of a Holocaust survivor.
    30. The Bruce Trail Reference
      Trail Guides and Maps
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
    31. A Call to Alms
      The New Face of Charities
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
    32. Canadian Dictionary of the English Language
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
    33. The Canadian Style
      A Guide to Writing and Editing
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      The Canadian Style suggests the first step in communicating clear ideas is to use plain language, without jargon or expressions. Then, consider your audience.
    34. The Canadian Writer's Guide
      12th Edition
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1997
    35. Citizens for Local Democracy Newsletter 20, November 1997
      Periodical profile published 1992
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1997
      Fighting for democracy and against the Harris government.
    36. Community Organizing: Canadian Experiences
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      Essays looking at four decades of community organizing in Canada.
    37. Corporate volunteering
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Corporate volunteer programs.
    38. Crisis Communications
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Being prepared for a crisis is second best only to avoiding one altogether.
    39. Democracy's Oxygen 
      How Corporations Control the News
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
    40. Democratizing Public Institutions: Juries for the selection of public officials
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
    41. Dictionary of Canadian Place Names
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      Includes 6,200 names of Canadian cities, towns, lakes, rivers, national parks, mountains, capes, channels and bays.
    42. Una diferente forma de democracia
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
    43. Do You Hear...
      Christmas with Heather, Cookie and Raylene Rankin
      Resource Type: Audio
      First Published: 1997
    44. Don't Forget to Write
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Writing letters to the editor is an effective way of getting publicity for your point of view.
    45. Don't forget to write
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Writing letters to the editor is an effective way of getting publicity for your point of view.
    46. Dressing for TV
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      What to wear when you're going to be interviewed on TV.
    47. Dying for Gold
      The True Story of the Giant Mine Murders
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
    48. The Ethical Slut 
      A guide to infinite sexual possibilities
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      A guide for anyone who dreams of having all the sex and love and friendship they want. Explores the skills and issues of a life beyond tradiational lifetime monogamy, from scheduling dates to handling jealousy, finding partners, resolving conflict, and raising children.
    49. The Fight at UPS
      The Teamsters' Victory and the Future of the "New Labor Movement"
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
    50. Fresh Air
      The Private Thoughts of a Public Broadcaster
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
    51. Friendly faxing
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      When you communicate by fax, keep these tips in mind.
    52. From Politics to Profit
      The Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890-1920
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      Analyzes the transformation of Canadian newspapers that occurred between 1890 and 1920 when daily newspapers slowly changed from political mouthpieces to a marketable industry.
    53. From Starting to Marketing: Your Own Consulting Business
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
    54. Get the Internet working for you
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      A Web site works best when it is integrated into a co-ordinated communications strategy.
    55. Getting the Most from Interviews
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Tips from a pro for getting the most from media interviews.
    56. Hazed and Confused
      Initiation rites let us have our kinky cake and eat it too
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
    57. How to Lobby Like a Pro
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      To reach government with your message you need to lobby like the professionals do.
    58. The Illustrated History of Canada
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
    59. Improve Your Publicity Awareness
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Tips on networking for success.
    60. Internet
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
    61. Leadership from Within
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      Skills and techniques for leadership and success based on a holistic approach.
    62. The Lesson
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      An educator in a nursing home's essay on Alzheimer's disease.
    63. Looking for Old Ontario
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
    64. The Macmillian Atlas of Irish History
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      A full-colour atlas of Irish history.
    65. Marginal Distribution 1997 Full Catalogue
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1997
      There is a copy of this catalogue in the Connexions Archive.
    66. Mass Media and Canadian Diversity
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      A collection of Canadian focused articles which examine portrayals of minority populations in the mass media as wel as cultural production emanating from within minority linguistic and cultural groups.
    67. Measuring Well-Being
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      A look at how we measure well-being; problems that arise from only counting economic expansion; ways to augment our measuring system to guide us more directly twoard well-being.
    68. Media Exposure
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Promoting your magazine on a shoestring.
    69. Medical Reform - Volume 17 Issue 2
      1997
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1997
    70. Mike Harris's Ontario
      Open for Business, Closed to People
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
    71. More HeartSmart Cooking
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
    72. The NDP: Can it make a difference?
      A marxist analysis
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      How is it possible that the NDP, the only party which is not funded by big business, has been unable to capitalize on the anger amongst ordinary people? This pamphlet examines the roots of the collapse of the NDP and why it has been so slow to recover.
    73. No olvides escribir
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
    74. N'oubliez pas d'écrire
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
    75. Oak Ridges Moraine
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      Members of the Oak Ridges Moraine (STORM) Coalition - naturalists, botanists, geologists, historians, writers, photographers -- celebrate the special nature of the Moraine in this collection of essays and photographers.
    76. Operating in the Dark
      Accountability in our Health Care System
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
    77. Perspectives On Power
      Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      Chomsky sets down his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature, to the Middle East and East Timor.
    78. Politics and The Press
      The News Media and Their Influences
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      Politics and the Press not only examines how journalists define the news; it also explores the role of the media in elections and the shaping of public opinion, as well as the reportage of the news on policy issues.
      This important work presents original research by a unique team of visiting scholars, journalists, and industry leaders at the Joan Shorenstein Center at Harvard University. Norris and the contributors pay particular attention to the influence of the press on the policy apparatus of government, and the impact of economics and changes in communications technology on news reporting. Included in the book are perspectives on minorities and women as members of the news industry.
    79. Radical Democracy 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      Lummis revives the meaning of democratic struggle and critques the economic and technological processes that have hindered its growth.
    80. Renewing Historical Materialism
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Ellen Meiksins Wood's Democracy Against Capitalism offers a sophisticated interpretation and defense of the core concepts of Marxism. The vision of socialism as the most radical democracy was always a minority understanding, but it was Marx's vision and it has appeared again and again throughout history. Ellen Wood has made a most valuable contribution to the struggle to realize that vision.
    81. Resources For Radicals
      An Annual Review of Books and Publications for Those Active in Movements for Social Change
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      An annotated list of resources -- books and periodicals -- for people working for non-violent social change.
    82. Review: Your Guide to Public Speaking
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      A no-nonsense guide to public speaking.
    83. The Slave Trade
      The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
    84. Successful Event Marketing Strategies
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Tips for marketing your events.
    85. Tomorrow the World
      Resource Type: Audio
      First Published: 1997
    86. Truth About Global Warming
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Review of The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate, by Ross Gelbspan.
    87. Valuable Clues to Finding What You Need to Know
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Review of books about online research.
    88. We're Being Cheated!
      Corporate and Welfare Fraud: The Hidden Story
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      We've allowed our corporate dominated media and politicians to sell us a bill of goods that welfare fraud is a big problem. Meanwhile, corporations continue on their robber baron path, virtually untouched by enforcement of our social rights.
    89. Wetland Plants of Ontario
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
    90. Working Together Online
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
    91. Yours in the Struggle
      Reminiscences of Tim Buck
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      Tim Buck's reminiscences, taken from a series of interviews taped by John (Mac) Reynolds for the CBC.
    92. Access to Places
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1997
      A guidebook intended to give reporters a "plan of attack" when access to newsworthy events has been unreasonably denied, and discusses legal restrictions that may be placed on reporters, as well as what to do if the restrictions seem unreasonable.

    93. A Different Sort of Democracy - Arabic translation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
    94. A Different Sort of Democracy - Japanese translation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
    95. Eine andere Art von Demokratie
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      Wie können wir uns eine neue freie und kooperative Gesellschaft ausmalen, wenn wir doch in einer Welt gefangen sind, die von Gier und Engstirnigkeit geprägt ist?
    96. The Peace Journalism Option
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1997
      The Peace Journalism Option represents the findings of the Conflict and Peace Journalism summer school which took place at Taplow Court in Buckinghamshire, UK, over the week of August 25-29 1997. Participants comprised journalists, media academics and students from Europe, Africa, Asia and the U.S. who divided their time between lectures, workshops and debate. The resulting document is a fair representation of the findings but may not represent the whole view of any of the contributors.

    1996

    1. Business Writing Basics
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996   Published: 2002
    2. A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996   Published: 1998
      The Beothuk, the aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland, were hunters, gatherers, and fishers who moved seasonally between the coast and the interior. With the influx of European settlements and fisheries in the 1700s the Beothuk found their territory increasingly reduced and conflict between the two groups escalated. The Beothuk declined steadily in numbers and by the early 1800s they had ceased to exist as a viable cultural group.
    3. Out Our Way
      Gay & Lesbian Life in Rural Canada
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996   Published: 1998
      Explores the richly varied life experience of gay and lesbian Canadians living in small towns and rural areas across the country. Travelling 27,000 km and recording more than 300 conversations, the author distills stories of people aged fifteen to eighty-one, including First Nations/Two-Spirited, people living with HIV/AIDS, individuals, couples, communes, and a range of chosen families. Riordon includes his own experience and his partner's in rural eastern Ontario.
    4. The Outdoor Resource Directory
      The Premier Guide to the Outdoor Experience 1997-98
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996   Published: 1998
    5. The Underbelly of the U.S. Economy
      Joblessness and the Pauperization of Work in America
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996   Published: 1998
    6. Unfair Shares
      Corporations and Taxation in Canada
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996   Published: 1998
      A popular tax directory that documents corporations and taxation in Canada. Includes a list of over 300 companies that paid little or no corporate income tax, as well as tables on corporate deferred taxes, CEO compensation, and corporate tax loopholes.
    7. The Struggle For Canadian Sport
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996   Published: 1997
      Bruce Kidd, a former track star, documents the development and transformation of Canadian sport in the twentieth century.
    8. Medical Reform - Volume 16 Issue 4
      December 1996
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
    9. Building Working-Cass Opposition to Stalin's Dictatorship?
      The Trotskyist Opposition, 1927-1940
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      A review of Tony Cliff's book Trotsky, 1927-1940. In Cliff's view, the Trotskyist movement in the USSR was not so much destroyed by Stalin as much as it collapsed under the weight of its own fundamentally faulty assumptions regarding the nature of the enemy--indeed, just who the enemy was.
    10. Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia: Note from a Mind-Control Conference
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      The debate over "recovered" and "false" memories continues to be one of the most contentious issues in the field of psychology today. The debate is extremely polarized with very little amicable communication among members of the opposing camps. While such a dispute may eventually be beneficial to science, in that both sides are clearly being spurred on to produce original research at a frenetic pace, at the moment the clearest manifestation of this dichotomy is miscommunication and friction between factions.
    11. Disabled Activists Seek Freedom
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      "I'd rather go to jail than to die in a nursing home".
    12. Medical Reform - Volume 16 Issue 2-3
      September 1996
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
    13. New Maritimes - Volume 15, Number 01 - September/October 1996
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    14. Marxism vs. Anarchism Part 6
      1914-1918: Imperialist War and the Realignment of the Left
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      The conclusion to a six part series, this article deals with how the formation of the Communist International, under the profound impact of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, culminated the realignment of the left which had begun in August 1914.
    15. Art, Politics, and the Imagination
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      The work of our best artists throws into sharp relief what is painfully missing from most activists' work: a fusion of living experience with political insight.
    16. Deep Left Dilemmas
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      Comments on how the radical environmental movement in Canada should define itself.
    17. English Road Opponents Turn to Direct Action
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      In Alternatives Journal 22:3, July/August 1996
    18. New Maritimes - Volume 14, Number 06 - July/August 1996
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    19. Pornography and the Sex Censors
      A review of 'Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights,' by Nadine Strossen
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      The pornography debacle has driven deep wedges among feminists, and has weakened the women's movement by alienating many women who cannot relate to a perceived ethos of anti-sexuality, gender antagonism, and victimhood. To the extent that it has convinced women to conceive of themselves as victims, to live in constant dread of male violence and aggression, rather than thinking of ourselves as the agents of our own liberation, it has been profoundly disempowering.
    20. Tips on How to Oppose Corporate Rule
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      Dr. Kelsey has devised what she calls "A Manual for Counter-Technopols" -- suggestions and ideas for actions that challenge corporate rule.
    21. Medical Reform - Volume 16 Issue 1
      June 1996
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
    22. Marxism vs. Anarchism Part 5
      From 1848 to the Bolshevik Revolution
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      Seymour analyzes the syndicalist movements - which emphasized that the main obstacle to social revolution lay in the organizational weakness of the anarchist movement and the disorganization of the working class in general - that preceded World War I.
    23. The Flint Sitdown for Beginners
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      The Sitdown Strike at GM's Flint, Michigan Fisher Body and Chevrolet plants (December 1936-February 1937) was a turning point in the history of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
    24. New Maritimes - Volume 14, Number 05 - May/June 1996
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    25. Resistance in Ontario
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      Jason Ziedenberg and Bryan Palmer look at London, Hamilton and the OPSEU strike.
    26. Medical Reform - Volume 15 Issue 4
      March 1996
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
    27. New Maritimes - Volume 14, Number 04 - March/April 1996
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    28. Anchors Aweigh
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      Abut the Tailhook scandal.
    29. An Acre of Time
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
      Phil Jenkins tells the life story of a single acre on Le Breton Flats, in Ottawa, Canada.
    30. Allow the Water
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
      The author shares his Christian vision of radical social transformation to develop a society based on the gospels of Jesus. Included are the stories of famous others who have also gone through social transformation, such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., J.S. Woodsworth, Jim and Shirley Douglas and members of the White Rose Movement.
    31. Alternate Sources
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
      A safe sex manual for SM Play. The authors, all experts in SM play, dispel the stereotypes and myths about sadomasochism with this introduction to a hitherto hidden world of human expression. Safe Edge is a pan-sexual book structured to answer the questions a novice might have as he or she begins to explore safer SM play, and those of experienced players as they try new ways to play. It provides an understanding of how SM play can be a positive, safe, and healthy expression of sexual fantasies.
    32. Answering Machine Tips
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      Voice mail needs to be managed effectively.
    33. Anti-Chomsky Fictions
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      Exposing right-wing lies about Noam Chomsky.
    34. At Twilight in the Country
      Memoirs of a Canadian Nationalist
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
    35. Black History and the Class Struggle
      #13
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      Articles published in Workers Vanguard in 1995.
    36. Canadian Ethnic Media Guide '96
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
    37. Censorship in Canada - When the Censor Comes
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      Developed primarily for teachers, librarians, booksellers and others who disseminate the printed word, this guide offers basic information about dealing with would-be censors. Researched and written by Sandra Bernstein for the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council.
    38. Chomsky for Beginners
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
      An introduction to the life and works of Noam Chomsky.
    39. Class Warfare
      Interviews with David Barsamian
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
    40. The Cultural Industries in Canada
      Problems, Policies and Prospects
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
      Dorland discusses policy problems specific to the Canadian cultural industries that produce cultural commodities, such as books, films and television programs.
    41. Deadlines & Diversity
      Journalism Ethics in a Changing World
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
      An anthology on journalism ethics.
    42. Dissent & Sensibility
      Linda McQuaig's uncompromising journalism challenges Canada's economic elite
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
    43. The Empire God Built
      Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
      A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
    44. Essais sur les droits humains et le developpement democratique
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
    45. Essay 5, The issues at stake of the international decade
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
    46. Essays on Human Rights and Democratic Development
      People or Peoples; Equality, Autonomy and Self-Determination: The Issues at Stake of the Internation
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
    47. Forest Plants of Central Ontario
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
    48. A Good File Never Forgets
      Improve your publicity awareness
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      Keep track of the calls you receive from the media. Don't rely on memory alone.
    49. The Graphic Monthly Master Equipment Catalogue
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
    50. A Health-to-Peace Handbook
      Ideas and Experiences of How Health Initiatives Can Work for Peace
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
    51. A History of Reading
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
      An exploration of what it means to be a reader of books.
    52. Human Rights in Asia - 1996
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
    53. I Have Lived Here Since the World Began 
      An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
      Ray shows that Native culture played an important -- and largely unrecognized -- part in Canada's economic development. Rather than being "civilized" by European explorers, the indigenous people were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers and hunters.
    54. I Remember Sunnyside
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
    55. If boycotts could change the system they'd be illegal
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      A ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal says that boycotting by a grassroots group Friends of the Lubicon Lake Cree Nation of Daishowa paper products was illegal because it resulted in economic harm to the corporation. This is an example of a growing number of "SLAPP suits" Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation brought by corporations against activists.
    56. Land Mammals of Newfoundland & Labrador
      A Self-Driving Guide
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
    57. Landscapes of the Interior
      Re-explorations of Nature and the Human Spirit
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
    58. Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
      Great Cities of North America Since 1600
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
      An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
    59. Local Places In the Age of the Global City 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
      The contributors to Local Places look at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution.
    60. The Marxism of C.L.R. James
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      James is generally acknowledged to have been one of the most original Marxist thinkers to emerge from the Western hemisphere, yet essential aspects of his identity came from the other side of the Atlantic, from Europe and Africa. He offered penetrating analyses on the interrelationships of class, race and gender, and his discussions of colonialism and anti-colonialism could be brilliant. C.L.R. James also embraced the heritage of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and the working-class and socialist movements of Europe and North America.
    61. McLuhan's Children
      The Greenpeace Message and the Media
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
      Looks at Greenpeace's rise to global prominence through its savvy use of mass media. Traces the evolution of Greenpeace's relations with the media.
    62. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine April 1/May 15, 1996
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
    63. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine December 1996
      For You At Chanukah
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
    64. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine January/February 1996
      May 1996 be a year of Peace & Harmony
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
    65. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine July/August 1996
      Remembering Spain - 1938 - 1939
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
    66. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine March 1996
      International Women's Day - March 8th
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
    67. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine May 15-June 30 1996
      Austerity Issue
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
    68. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine October 1/November 15 1996
      The Holocaust and Other Genocides
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
    69. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine September/October 1996
      Rosh Hashonah 5757/1996
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
    70. Politics and Memory in the Flint Sitdown Strikes
      A comment on Historiography
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      The General Motors strike of 1936-37 was the most important union victory of the 20th century, but the very meaning of its success was ambiguous indeed.
    71. Print Action
      National Help Directory for the Trade 1996
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
    72. Prisons in Canada
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
      Gosselin provides a political and historical view of the prison system and its inherent contradictions. He argues that the penal system is used by the State to maintain its authority. He remarks on corporations, the press and the parole board and the difference in their treatment and coverage of prisoners and prisons. He sees the penal system as a morally bankrupt bureaucracy which threatens future incarceration for many people that the economy cannot absorb.
    73. Proportional Representation: The Urgency of Real Reform
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      The introduction of an electoral system based on proportional representation would allow the left to be represented in government, because it allows for representation without requiring a majority vote.
    74. The Queer Exchange
      Fall '96 Spring '97
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1996
    75. Satan, the State and Anti-Sex Hysteria
      Unholy Alliance of Feminists and Christian Right
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      A lengthy review of two books about the anti-sex witchhunts in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s.
    76. Say No to Circumcision!
      40 Compelling Reasons
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
    77. 7 Tips for Effective Speeches
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      How to make your speeches more effective.
    78. Talking Back to the Right 
      A guide for community activists
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      The right's enormous success in framing the American public debate is based not just on isolated issues, but on in overall definition of what the debate is about. The purpose of this guide is to suggest ways that progressive community-based advocacy groups can reframe the right's definition of the debate-ways that can connect with deeply-held Values and understandings of the American people. It is designed to help advocates frame their views for the media, develop educational programs and materials for their constituents, and talk to their fellow citizens in meetings and informal discussions.
    79. 10 Deficit Myths
      The truth about government debts and why they don't justify cutbacks
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      Most of what we are told about government debts and defincits by politicains, right-wing academics and the media is untrue.
    80. Toronto Above and Below
      Public Works in Toronto 1910-1953
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
      exhibit brochure, The Market Gallery of the City of Toronto Archives
    81. Towards 21st Century Democracy
      Interview with a Proportional Representation Activist
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
    82. Tracking the News that Wasn't
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1996
      A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
    83. Watch the Rope
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996
    84. The Waterfront Trail
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1996

    1995

    1. Shunpiking
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1995   Published: 2013
      Web site of Nova Scotia's "discovery magazine". The magazine is no longer published, but an archive is available online.
    2. A People's History of the United States 
      1492 - Present
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995   Published: 2003
      Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
    3. Thinking Union
      Activism and Education in Canada's Labour Movement
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995   Published: 1999
      Examining activism and education in Canadian labour, it's both a personal memoir and a guide to labour education. Martin explores and explains union culture, mergers and internal splits, the mechanics and dynamics of grassroots campaigns and the changes in Canadian unions over two turbulent decades.
    4. Oxford Minireference Dictionary & Thesaurus
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995   Published: 1997
    5. Marxism and the National Question
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995   Published: 1996
    6. Medical Reform - Volume 15 Issue 3
      December 1995
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1995
    7. New Maritimes - Volume 14, Number 02 - November/December 1995
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1995
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    8. Medical Reform - Volume 15 Issue 2
      October 1995
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1995
    9. Ten Health Care Myths
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
    10. New Maritimes - Volume 14, Number 01 - September/October 1995
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1995
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    11. Exploring a New Vision
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
    12. Community is my family's support system
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      The teacher, the mother, my community - they are reminders of a world that still struggles to maintain decent values and a basic kindness between human beings.
    13. Beyond Oppression, Beyond Diversity: Class Analysis and Gender Inequality
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      Massive increases in tuition fees resulting from government cutbacks to education were not addressed at a Status of Women conference -- an indication that much of what shall be referred to in this paper as "left feminism" has increasingly lost its way.
    14. New Maritimes - Volume 13, Number 06 - July/August 1995
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1995
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    15. New Maritimes - Volume 13, Number 05 - May/June 1995
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1995
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    16. Breaking the Hurt/Counter-Hurt Cycle
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
    17. Medical Reform - Volume 15 Issue 1
      April 1995
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1995
    18. US soldier faces court martial for trying to stop Haiti abuses
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
    19. Exploring Mind, Memory, and the Psychology of Belief
      Part II: Perception, Memory and the Courtroom
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      So-called simple perceptions are anything but simple, and what we see is not always the true nature of reality. Perception is a creative act that involves not only the purely sensory apparatus of the brain but also such things as memory, emotion, and our hopes and fears.
    20. Medical Reform - Volume 16 Issue 5
      March 1997
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1995
    21. New Maritimes - Volume 13, Number 04 - March/April 1995
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1995
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    22. Remembering Dangerously 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      Like the witch-hunt trials of old, people today are being accused and even imprisoned on 'evidence' provided by memories from dreams and flashbacks -- memories that didn't exist before therapy.
    23. "Displaced Persons". Ein vergessenes Kapitel der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      At the end of the Second World War, the three western zones of Germany contained approximately 7 million "displaced person".
    24. Die Kriegsgefangen
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      Issues relating to the fate of German prisoners of war after World War II.
    25. Die Vertreibung der Deutschen - ein unbewältigtes Kapital europäisher Zeitgeschichte
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      The explusion of Germans after World War II.
    26. So, What Really Happened at the New Times, Anyway?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      Focuses on 'The New Times' newspaper as part of Canadian left journalism. Author's involvement with the paper; transformation from organ of the Communist party to a project of the left; support for the paper; failure of the paper.
    27. Against Censorship
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      Some of us would rather not have customs officials and cops deciding what we can read or look at.
    28. Blake
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
      A biography of William Blake.
    29. Blindspots in The News
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
      The filters that determine what gets into the "news" and what doesn't.
    30. A Brief History of the Medical Reform Group
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      Covers the year 1979 - 1994.
    31. Canadian Labour Congress Action Plan Calendar 1995
      Resource Type: Unclassified
      First Published: 1995
    32. Chomsky on Post-Modernism 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      What I find in the writings of the post-modernists is extremely pretentious, but on examination, a lot of it is simply illiterate, based on extraordinary misreading of texts that I know well (sometimes, that I have written), argument that is appalling in its casual lack of elementary self-criticism, lots of statements that are trivial (though dressed up in complicated verbiage) or false; and a good deal of plain gibberish.
    33. Crossing The Line
      Unionized Employee Ownership and Investment Funds
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
      This book studies the issue of employee ownership as the divide between management and labour blurs.
    34. Democracy Against Capitalism 
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
      Wood provides a brilliant explication and defense of the key theoretical concepts relevant to socialism, understood to be the most radical social and economic democracy.
    35. Diez Mitos del Cuidado de la Salud
      Entendiendo el Debate del Servicio Medico en Canadá
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
    36. 10 mythes des soins de sante
      Comprendre le debat de l'Assistance Medicale Canadienne
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      Un guide concis expliquant les 10 mythes regardant les Soins de Sant.
    37. Get a Life!
      How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
      Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
    38. Harm de Blij's Geography Book
      A Leading Geographer's Fresh Look at Our Changing World
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
      The world from a geographer's perspective.
    39. How Deregulation Destroyed Canada's Airlines
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
      Skene links the deregulation of Canada's airline industry with layoffs, service disruptions, higher fares, privatization, and bankruptcies.
    40. Human Rights in Asia - 1995
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
    41. The Jade Peony
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
    42. Kriegsende in Kassel
      Beiträge und Fotos aus der HNA
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      In Kassel endete der zweite Weltkrieg am 4. April 1945 mit der Kapitulation der deutschen Truppen. Die Amerikaner besetzen die Stadt und die gesamte Region -- knapp funf Wochen spater endete der Krieg endgultig.
    43. The Market Tells Them So
      The World Bank and Economic Fundamentalism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
      Mihevic asserts that World Bank policy can be viewed as a powerful fundamentalist quasi-religion whose effect is to perpetuate and even worsen inequities between developed and developing countries.
    44. Marketing on the Internet
      Multimedia Strategies for the World Wide Web
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
    45. Maximum, Minimum, Medium
      A Journey Through Canadian Prisons
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
      Serving a nine-year sentence, Melnitzer documented his experience in three different prisons, along with his own introspections.
    46. The More Information The Less Knowledge
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      While our short-term quest for knowledge must be related to the immediate problems of saving society from environmental and economic collapse, the long-term goals of learning more about humanity's place in the universe must not be neglected.
    47. New Maritimes - Volume 13, Number 03 - January/February 1995
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1995
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    48. New Maritimes - Volume 14, Number 03 - January/February 1996
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1995
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    49. No Place Like Home
      A Discussion Paper about Living and Working in Ontario's Long-Term Care Facilities
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
    50. Park Prisoners
      The Untold Story of Western Canada's National Parks 1915 - 1946
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
    51. Park Prisoners
      The Untold of Western Canada's National Park, 1915-1946
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
      The story of the labour camps that once existed in Canada's mountain and prairie national parks. Between 1915 and 1946, some ten thousand men were put to work in western Canada's national parks. They were the country's unwanted: unskilled foreign workers, the jobless and the homeless, conscientious objectors, perceived enemies of the state, and prisoners of war.
    52. Patent Folly
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      The misuse of patents rights and associated dangers.
    53. People's Aesthetics
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      An essay on self-proclaimed "progressives" and their hypocritical defense of cultural hierarchies and consumption of popular or lower middle class culture for camp value. He opines that the distinction between craft and art is class based.
    54. Population Growth, Resource Consumption, and the Environment
      Seeking a Common Vision for a Troubled World
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
      This work looks at the problem of overpoplulation and the environment.
    55. Progress Without People
      In Defense of Luddhism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
      This book describes how jobs and skills will be lost through new technologies as they were in the 19th century industrial revolution.
    56. Protecting Canada's Endangered Spaces
      An Owner's Manual
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
      Conservationist Hummel explains what needs to be done by whom and when to protect wilderness in Canada.
    57. The Real Child Molesters
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      The prime question you must ask yourself when you see "concerned citizens," social workers, child psychologists, police, politicians, educators and jurists, lawyers, newspapers and televison stations pumping up an "issue" such as kiddie porn and child abuse is -- WHO PROFITS?
      They do! They are the real child molesters.
    58. Recovered Memories Cross the Oceans
      Psychic Vibrations
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      The American practice of "recovering memories" of all manner of unspeakable abuse has leaped the Atlantic, and the Pacific as well.
    59. Restricted Entry
      Censorship on Trial
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
    60. Seeing Ourselves
      Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Culture
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
    61. Shooting the Hippo 
      Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
      An examination of how economic policies systematically favour the interests of the rich while pretending to be for the common good.
    62. The Sources Select Online Story
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      In SOURCES SELECT Online (SSO) we attempt to provide true diversity: access to people in organizations large and small, for-profit and not-for-profit, from low-tech to high-tech, long-established to just-launched.
    63. Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change
      Selected Essays
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
      Drache collects a selection of Innis' most important essays. This new collection commemorates the hundredth anniversary of Innis' birth in 1894. The subjects range from cultural issues to economic development in Canada.
    64. Toronto The Wild
      Field Notes of an Urban Naturalist
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
      Toronto as a natural world and and ecosystem.
    65. Tough Choices a Non-Partisan Look at the Ontario Election
      Ontario Election 95
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
    66. The Training Trap
      Ideology, Training and the Labour Market
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
      A collection of essays examines changes in the Canadian labour market with respect to education, training, and unemployment.
    67. Trolleycars
      Streetcars, Trams and Trolleys of North America: A Photographic History
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
    68. Warpaths
      Travels of a Military Historian in North America
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
    69. What You Really Need to Know About Cancer
      A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Their Families
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
    70. Whole Life Economics
      Revaluing Daily Life
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1995
    71. Why the Industrial Working Class Still Matters
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1995
      It is evident today that the vast majority of the population (perhaps 80% of the workforce) live and reproduce themselves only through wage-labor that produces surplus value, regardless of the nature of the commodity (good or service) they produce. Whatever the changing weight of the industrial sector of this enormous, working majority, it is clear that the working class as a whole is proportionately far larger today than at the time of classical Marxist writers.

    1994

    1. The Hike Ontario Guide to Walks Around Toronto
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994   Published: 199
    2. Brotherhood To Nationhood
      George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994   Published: 2021
      George Manuel's work as leader of the National Indian Brotherhood and the later founding of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. First published 1994; revised edition 2021.
    3. Das Wahljahr 1994 und die Strategie der PDS
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
    4. Parliamentary Names & Numbers
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1994   Published: 2007
    5. Selling Illusions
      The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994   Published: 2002
      Since he immigrated to Canada, Neil Bissoondath has consistently refused the role of the ethnic, and sought to avoid the burden of hyphenation - a burden that would label him as an East Indian-Trinidadian-Canadian living in Quebec. Bissoondath argues that the policy of multiculturalism, with its emphasis on the former or ancestral homeland and its insistence that There is more important than Here, encourages stereotyping and division.
    6. You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
      A personal history of our times
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994   Published: 2002
      Zinn tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war.
    7. Counselling Ethics Casebook 2000
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994   Published: 2000
    8. Age of Extremes 
      The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994   Published: 1997
      A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
    9. Health News Briefs 1992- 1994
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
      A round-up of health care in the news, 1992 - 1994.
    10. Gedanken über Selbstbestimmung
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
      Bei der Unterstützung für die Unabhängigkeit handelt es sich bei ein großen Teilen der Linken um nicht mehr als kleinbürgerlichen Nationalismus. Im Gegensatz dazu hielten es Karl Marx und Rosa Luxemburg für wichtig zu analysieren und nur die progressiven Bewegungen zu unterstützen.
    11. Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 5
      December 1994
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1994
    12. New Maritimes - Volume 13, Number 02 - November/December 1994
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1994
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    13. Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 4
      September 1994
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1994
    14. New Maritimes - Volume 13, Number 01 - September/October 1994
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1994
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    15. User Fees Hurt Sick
      News Release August 19, 1994
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
      Doctors who see no problem with asking patients to pull out their wallets before receiving medical treatment need to be educated about the negative effects of user fees, says the Medical Reform Group.
    16. New Maritimes - Volume 12, Number 06 - August 1994
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1994
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    17. The politics of Greenpeace
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
      Discusses various aspects concerning the programs, policies and management of Greenpeace Canada.
    18. New Maritimes - Volume 12, Number 05 - June/July 1994
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1994
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    19. Finding no offence in videos
      Moir, Jan
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
      Profile of Psychologist Ann Hagell, who has co-authored a report on Young Offenders and the Media.
    20. What's Wrong With Front Yard Parking?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
      The negative effects of front yard parking are significant, and affect us all. The benefits are small, and go only to a few.
    21. Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 2
      April 1994
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1994
    22. New Maritimes - Volume 12, Number 04 - April/May 1994
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1994
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    23. Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 1
      February 1994
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1994
    24. New Maritimes - Volume 12, Number 03 - February/March 1994
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1994
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    25. Bündnis 90/Die Grünen: Oppositions- order Regierungspartie?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
    26. Aboriginal Ontario
      Historical Perspectives on the First Nations
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Essays on the history of Ontario's native people.
    27. The Alternative Health Services Directory 1994
      The Authoritative Resource Directory of Therapists, Products and Services
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Listings of therapists, alternative healers and quacks in Toronto.
    28. Alternative Resources: An Investment in Human Dignity
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
    29. Always Change a Losing Game
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Help you to improve your life by showing you how to make positive, personal changes.

    30. L’autodétermination pour qui ?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
    31. Bloody Victory
      Canadians and the D-Day Campaign 1944
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
    32. The Canadian Patients Book of Rights
      A Consumer's Guide to Canadian Health Law
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
    33. Censorship
      A Threat to Reading, Learning, Thinking
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Pointing out that censorship is undermining the goals of education and plaguing all areas of the curriculum, this collection of essays considers many areas in which students' right to read is being infringed. The collection offers thought-provoking perspectives on the methods used by protesters to remove books and materials from classrooms and libraries and outlines the rationales behind censors' motivations.
    34. Charging Peter to Pay Paul
      Accounting for the Financial Effects of User Charges
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
    35. Class Warfare
      The Assault on Canada's School
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      The authors show that the attack on schools has been mounted by representatives of big business who stand to make a fortune by privatizing education, aided by the religious right, who want to control what is taught -- and not taught -- in our schools.
    36. Compass
      Volume 12 Number 1, March/April 1994 - The Twentieth Century, Part 5
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
    37. Connexions Annual 1994
      A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1994
      Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
    38. Dead Silence
      The Greatest Mystery in Arctic Discovery
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Disappearnce.
    39. Demobilization, Demilitarization, and Democratization in Central America
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
    40. Derailed
      The Betrayal of the National Dream
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
    41. Empathic Parenting
      Volume 17 Issue 4 Autumn 1994
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1994
    42. Eyes
      Your personal health series
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
    43. Flack Attack
      Public relations is shaping public life in ways we're not supposed to notice
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
      Public relations plays an important role in contemporary US politics. This essay follows the coopted grassroots organizing techniques of PR firms hired by industry lobbyists to undertake counteractivism campaigns. PR men mobilize citizens who may be opposed to new legislation, for example farmers may be opposed to clean air legislation that would impose taxes on small trucks, organize them and coach them to appeal to their congressman.
    44. A Gentle Death
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Explores the moral and legal implications of euthanasia. Offers advice on working with doctors and other health-care professionals, dealing with unresolved personal conflicts, involving family members and friends in the decision-making process, and coping with legal realities.
    45. Gotcha!
      How the Media Distort the News
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Written by a mainstream journalist/commentator, this book reveals information withheld by media and describes biases and a lack of professionalism.
    46. The Green Trees Beyond
      A Memoir
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      R.D. Lawrence, a self-taught biologist whose first years of life coincided with the Spanish civil war, and who later became a noted as well as self-taught Canadian biologist.
    47. Houses and Homes
      Housing for Canadians
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Canadians need access to sound housing in decent neighborhoods, writes author Sewell. And in order to achieve this, all ideoligical freight is to be jettisoned and deliver nothing but the straight goods. One solution is to build diverse neighborhoods and abolish the many building and planning codes that suppress the creation of affordable housing.
    48. If Pigs Could Fly
      The Hard Truth About the 'Economic Miracle' that Ruined New Zealand
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
      It would be a miracle if pigs could fly. It would be a miracle if the New Zealand economic quick-fix worked. But pigs can't fly. And the New Zealand economic quick-fix doesn't work. Never has. Never will. The only miracle is why anyone believes it does.
    49. In Conflict with the Law
      Women and the Canadian Justice System
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Critique of women and the Canadian justice system. Written from a feminist perspective, the collection is organized into three thematic sextions: Federal Imprisonment of Women -- Past, Present and Future; Images and Realities -- Profiles of Women Offenders; and Theoretical Considerations about Women in Conflict with the Law."
    50. In The Rapids
      Navigating the Future of First Nations
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      A collection of speeches by Mercredi with contributions by the Dalhousie law professor who assisted him in 1992 constitutional negotiations.
    51. Israel: Politics, Myths and Identity Crises
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Essays dealing with the politics and ideology of Zionism, the sociology of Israel, and politics of ethnicity generally.
    52. It's Not the Money, It's the Principle
      Why User Charges for Some Services and Not Others?
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
    53. Keeping the Rabble in Line
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
    54. Kick It Over #33
      Spring 1994
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1994
    55. Kick It Over #34
      Food and Land- Fall 1994
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1994
    56. Labour Gains, Labour Pains
      50 Years of PC 1003
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      This book is comprised of 4 parts: Historical Context, Origins and Evolution of the Fordist Accord, Case Studies, International Comparisons.
    57. Land Trusts: Land Held in Common
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
      With land trusts, we can ensure that the land is used the way we believe it should be used (or not used at all). With land trusts, we can ensure that human beings left behind in the race for corporate profits have a roof over their heads that no bureacrat or business interests can take away from them.
    58. The Legacy of the New Left
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
    59. Making Connections
      A Directory of Development Organizations Working in Southwestern Manitoba
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1994
      A directory of 22 organizations active in southwestern Manitoba, with addresses, phone and fax numbers, contact persons, and a descriptive paragraph.
    60. Making Money With Multimedia
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
    61. Menopause & Emotions
      Making Sense of your feelings when your feelings make no sense
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      "Looks beyond the physicial side of menopause to the emotional, cultural and developmental aspects."
    62. Moral Panic
      Biopolitics Rising
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Biopolitics, politics based on the grievances of sex and race, is said to distort facts especially with respect to violence against women.
    63. Morals and the Media
      Ethics in Canadian Journalism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Russell focuses on the fundamental moral questions and ethical dilemmas faced by journalists and discusses how the media both reflect and influence society.
    64. Organizing Unions
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      How to form or build a union. Shows how to strength organizing drives by responding to the concerns of all workers, including women, immigrant workers, people of colour, workers with disabilities, lebians and gay men, and part-time and casual workers.
    65. Pensando en la Auto-determinación
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
      Un buen lugar para empezar seria preguntarse si el familiar principio de la Izquierda, "el derecho de auto-determinacion" realmente significa algo o si es otro eslogan vacio cuyo principal uso es que la Izquierda lo puede repetir como mantra y asi salvarse de tener que pensar de manera critica.
    66. Pensando sobre Autodeterminaçao
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
      O significado oculto, a essência real, desse slogan, é a crença de que nao é possível ou desejável por dois ou mais grupos étnicos ou de linguagem viver juntos em um país. Nao consigo imaginar um momento mais pessimista e menos socialista do ponto de vista.
    67. Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
    68. Progeny and Progress
      Reflections on the Legacy of the New Left - Our Generation, Volume 24, Number 2
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1994
    69. Project Censored Canada
      Researching The Nation's News Agenda - 1994 Yearbook
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Researching under-reported news stories.
    70. Przemyslenia o samostanowieniu i niepodleglosci
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
    71. Rae Days
      The Rise and Follies of the NDP
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      An account of Bob Rae's New Democratic Party government in Ontario.
    72. The Reform Party
      How to expose and oppose the bigots
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      The Reform Party claims to be a new alternaive. But this so-called party of reform is no alternative at all. And its policies are hardly new. The Reform Party agenda puts profit ahead of social need and will lead to a reversal of hard-won gains made by workers, people of colour, immigrants, Natives, francophones, women, lesbians and gays and other oppressed groups.
    73. The Remarkable Tenacity of User Charges
      A Concise History of the Participation, Positions and Rationales of Canadian Interest Groups
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
    74. Review of three books about Heidegger
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
    75. Rogue Primate
      An Exploration of Human Domestication
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      The first domesticated animal, according to Livingston, was neither dog nor goat, but human. Humans cut themselves adrift from the rest of the world by becoming entirely dependent on ideas. Technical ideas gave them the power to manipulate nature as well as a rationalization for their destructiveness. Now humans have drawn other animals, and even the natural world itself, into the service of their belief systems. Even our understanding of nature is informed by an ideological insistence that domination is somehow 'natural'.
    76. Rural Routes
      Exploring the Back Roads of Saugeen Country
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
    77. Secrets, Lies and Democracy
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian.
    78. Strong Medicine
      How to Save Canada's Health Care System
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      The authors make comparisons of health care between the United States and Canada and argue that changes must be made to Canada's health care system so services can be accessible to the public.
    79. Take Care
      Warning Signals for Canada's Health System
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      "Examines the modern Canadian health care system and exposes the impact of neo-conservative and market-oriented policies, showing the effect these have on patients and caregivers, particularly women. The voices of hospital workers, relating their own daily experiences in the wards, add a poignant urgency to the crucial question: What kind of health care system will Canadians inherit in the twenty-first century?"
    80. Thinking About Self-Determination 
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
      Does that familiar canon of the left, 'the right to self-determination', actually mean anything, or is it an empty slogan whose main utility is that it relieves us of the trouble of thinking critically?
    81. Understanding Desktop Color
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
    82. Unruly Women
      The Politics of Confinement and Resistance
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Investigates the ways in which women who transgress the social order are disciplined, punished, silenced and confined. Covers material from the witch hunts to contemporary discriminatory treatment of women by the state and its law enforcement agencies.
    83. User Charges in Health Care
      A Bibliography
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
    84. User Charges, Snares and Delusions
      Another Look at the Literature
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
    85. Web of Hate
      Inside Canada's Far Right Network
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Kinsella asserts that some 40 groups are more dangerous than commonly perceived because of their violence and aggressive recruitment.
    86. When in Doubt, Do Both
      The Times of My Life
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Macpherson chronicles the stirrings that led to the modern women's movement in Canada, including the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in 1967.
    87. When Older is Wiser
      A Guide to Health Care Decisions for Older Adults and Their Families
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
    88. Who Are the Zombie Masters and What Do They Want?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1994
    89. World Orders Old and New
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1994
      Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.

    1993

    1. The "Date Rape" Issue: Feminist Hysteria, Anti-Sex Witchhunt
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993   Published: 2014
      The anti-sex frenzy springs from the agenda of the religious right. Espousing an ideology supposed to have something to do with women's rights, the feminists might be expected to oppose this witchhunt. Instead, there is a convergence between feminism and religious reaction in support of moralist repression. This is particularly evident in the "date rape" frenzy on the campuses which has recently grabbed headlines across the nation and the world. Egged on by feminist witchhunters, "politically correct" sex on campus serves the war on privacy by whitewashing the intrusion of the campus administration and the cops into students' personal business as "protecting women" and "stopping rape."
    2. Marketing Research Made Easy
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993   Published: 2002
    3. The Explorer's Guide to Algonquin Park
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993   Published: 2000
    4. Leading today's volunteers
      Motivate and manage your team
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993   Published: 1999
    5. Metro Network for Social Justice (MNSJ) newsletter
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993   Published: 1995
      A 1990s non-profit network of organizations committed to promoting social and economic justice in Toronto.
    6. Blood and Belonging
      Journey into the New Nationalism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993   Published: 1994
      Essays on nationalism in Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Ukraine, Quebec, Kurdistan, and Northern Ireland.
    7. Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 5
      November 1993
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
    8. New Maritimes - Volume 12, Number 02 - November/December 1993
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    9. Preserving the fruits of yesteryear: rescuing old species of apples
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993
      Most of the varieties our grandparents cherished have already been lost. A dedicated band of growers wants to rescue what remains.
    10. Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 4
      October 1993
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
    11. Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 3
      July 1994
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
    12. New Directions- Volume 7, Number 6, October-1993
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
      How the health unions got a break from the NDP
    13. New Maritimes - Volume 12, Number 01 - September/October 1993
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    14. New Maritimes - Volume 11, Number 06 - July/August 1993
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    15. ADL's Massive Spy Operation
      Zionist Fingermen for Apartheid, Salvador Death Squads
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993
    16. Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 3
      June 1993
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
    17. New Directions, Volume 7, Number 5, June-1993
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
      The Capitalist Hordes are at the Gate
    18. The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party
      A Revolutionary Marxist Analysis
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993
      A talk recounting the beginnings and tragic end of the Black Panther Power, a radical black power movement and political organization.
    19. Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 2
      May 1993
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
    20. New Maritimes - Volume 11, Number 05 - May/June 1993
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    21. What is an organizer?
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993
      Discusses the organizer's role in democratic organizations.
    22. Burnt bridges and a generation
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993
      A first person account of the struggle the children of immigrants face in communicating with their grandparents across a language barrier.
    23. New Directions- Volume 7, Number 4, April-1993
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
      Fighting for Fish
    24. Songs of the British Labour: Lyrical Protest and Propaganda
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993
      Despite their feelings of distress, their portrayals of discontent and their retelling of daily drudgery experienced by the British working class, these songs of labour which cannot elbow into the circle of high works of art, belong to another sphere of literature: that of political propaganda.
    25. Compass
      A Jesuit Journal - March/April 1993 - The Dirty Thirties
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
    26. Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 1
      March 1993
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
    27. New Maritimes - Volume 11, Number 04 - March/April 1993
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
      Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    28. Catering to Cows' Sociability
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993
      Organic dairy farming involves putting cows out to pasture. This provides better quality feed at half the cost of silage, reduced vet bills, and longer productive lifespans.
    29. The Activist's Almanac
      The Concerned Citizen's Guide to the Leading Advocacy Organizations in America
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
    30. Alex in Wonderland
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
    31. Alternate Societies
      A brief survey on intentional community in European history
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993
      A brief outline of the history of attempts in western society to create living arrangements which would complement, and in some cases further, efforts to become economically independent.
    32. Bakunin
      The Philosophy of Freedom
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
      An attempt to portray Bakunin's political theories in a coherent manner.
    33. Beyond Beef
      The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
      By consuming thousands of acres of North American grain, "cattle production and beef consumption now rank among the gravest threats to the future well-being of the Earth".
    34. Bringing Life to Artificial Ponds
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993
    35. Canada Firsts Ralph Nader's Salute to Canada and Canadian Achievement
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
    36. Canadian Printer 1993 Directory of Suppliers and Trade Services
      Plus the premier issue of the Printing Product Guide
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
    37. Circles of Strength
      Community Alternatives to Alienation
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
      Forsey, an activist and writer who works with the Federation of Egalitarian Communites has put together a collection of essays, and interviews with First Nations, religious orders and rural intentional communities giving their views and experiences as communities.
    38. Closer to Paradise
      Resource Type: Audio
      First Published: 1993
    39. Collectively Defending Democracy in a World of SovereignStates
      The Western Hemisphere Prospect
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993
    40. Community Economics Volume 3 Number 1
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
    41. The Complete Canadian Health Guide
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
    42. Consider the Nation and other sacred cows of the Left
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993
      Groups of people who share whatever it is that makes a nation don't always live in neat spatial clusters, with a given territory containing all those people who are alike and none who are different. Cultures are rarely if ever stable enough to become pure and coterminous with geographical territories.
    43. Culture of Complaint
      The Fraying of America
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
      Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasant realities in abstraction or sugar, is so perfectly endemic that we expect nothing else.
    44. Discussion Paper: Searching for Fairness
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993
      An overview of some of the issues being addressed by the Fair Tax Commission. Looks at some of the implications of the fairness issues that have been raised, and at the issues that arise in translating principles of fairness into policy. Included are sections on property taxes, personal income tax, sales tax, benefits taxes, wealth taxes, corporate income taxes, payroll taxes, resource taxation.
    45. Don't Blame the Medicine
      Use the Drug Expert Pharmacist
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
    46. Draining Canada Dry
      The Continental Thirst for Canada's Water
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
      The authors examine Canada's water policies and their socio-economic impact on North America.
    47. Empathic Parenting
      Volume 15 Issues 3 & 4 1992; Volume 16 Issues 1,2,3 & 4 1993 - Crime Prevention issue
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
    48. Fair Taxation in a Changing World: Highlights
      Report of the Ontario Fair Tax Commission
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
    49. False God
      How the Globalization Myth has Impoverished Canada
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
      Laxer argues that the neoconservative economic agenda is folly, and that the United States is caught in a downward spiral of limited government power and widening social divisions. He demonstrates that continued free trade with the United States will doom Canada economically, socially, and poolitically.
    50. Feminist Anti-Porn Prof and Her Junior Jesse Helms
      MacKinnon Clique Seizes Women's Art
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993
      A clique of aspiring sex witchhunters at the University of Michigan law school, home of notorious antippron crusader Catharine MacKinnon, recently put their mentor's precepts into practice by seizing and removing part of an artist's exhibit there.
    51. The Fight for Canada 
      Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
      In an effort to realize their grand dream of one nation from Panama to the Arctic, Americans have attempted to conquer Canada using war, trade sanctions, and political interventions of all kinds. "That fight for Canada continues to this day," says David Orchard.
    52. Finding Answers
      The Essential Guide to Gathering Information in Canada
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
      Outlines the essentials of how to find and use information.
    53. The Fine Art of Billboard Improvement
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993
      Change people's perception of an ad, and they'll never see that product in the same light again.
    54. Firing The Heather
      The Life and Times of Nellie McClung
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
      This is the story of Nellie McClung, Canada's leading figure in the early women's rights movements. She fought for the right for women not just to be recognized as persons but as also to work outside the home and for equal pay.
    55. Global Visions
      Beyond the News World Order
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
      This book seeks to establish how our diverse globalizing world can be turned into a common home. The authors create a dialogue about the two types of globalization occurring in the world: globalization from above and globalization from below.
    56. Grace
      The Life of Grace MacInnis
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
    57. Green Technologies for Development
      Transfer, Trade and Cooperation
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
    58. The Greenhouse Effect
      Ethics and Climate Change
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
    59. Historical Atlas of Canada - Volume II: The Land Transformed 1800-1891
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
    60. A History of Warfare
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
    61. Human Rights, Democracy and "Good Governance"
      Stretching the World Bank's Policy Frontiers
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993
    62. The Importance of Freedom of Association for Human Rights NGOs
      Defending Human Rights Defenders
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993
    63. Inventing Reality 
      The Politics of News Media
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
      Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
    64. Justice or `Just Us'?
      Rethinking Canda's economy
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993
    65. Kick It Over #31
      Summer 1993
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
    66. Kick It Over #32
      Living in the City- Fall 1993
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
    67. The Krug Brothers
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993
    68. Letters from Lexington
      Reflections on Propaganda
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
    69. Lore
      Capturing Traditional Environmental Knowledge
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
      This work is a collection of case studies of aboriginal and non-aboroginal research about traditonal environmental knowledge, from projects in the South Pacific, the African Sahel, northern Thailand and Canada.
    70. Magic or Medicine?
      An Investigation of Healing & Healers
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
    71. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
      Part 1: Thought Control in a Democratic Society. Part 2: Activating Dissent
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
    72. More Toronto Sketches
      The Way We Were
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
    73. Municipal Directory 1993
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
    74. New Maritimes - Volume 11, Number 03 - January/February 1993
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
      A special report on Gays and Lesbians in the Maritimes region.
    75. New Planning for Ontario
      Final Report Summary and Recommendations
      Resource Type: Article
      First Published: 1993
    76. Ontario Aboriginal Directory
      Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
      First Published: 1993
    77. Patterns of Censorship Around the World
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
    78. People of Terra Nullius
      Betrayal and Rebirth in Aboriginal Canada
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
    79. Political Ideology
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
    80. The Politics of Individualism
      Liberalism, Liberal Feminism and Anarchism
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
      An examination of the similarities and differences between liberalism, anarchism and feminism.
    81. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
      a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
    82. Rethinking Camelot
      JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
      Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
    83. Rituals Of Failure
      What Schools Really Teach
      Resource Type: Book
      First Published: 1993
      Contenta writes that there is a hidden curriculum of passiveness in today's schools in Canada; instead of making students critical thinkers, the not-so smart students are made to fe