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  1. B'Tselem: War crime? Israel destroys Gaza crops with aerial herbicide spraying
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Gaza farmers have lost 187 hectares of crops to aerial spraying of herbicides by Israel hundreds of meters within the territory's borders. The action, carried out in the name of 'security', further undermines Gaza's ability to feed itself and may permanently deprive farmers of their livelihoods. It may also represent a war crime under the 1977 Protocol to the Geneva Conventions.
  2. Bacevich, Andrew and Turse, Nick: What Obsessing About Trump Causes Us To Miss
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Since the late eighteenth century, the United States has been involved in an almost ceaseless string of wars, interventions, punitive expeditions, and other types of military ventures abroad – from fighting the British and Mexicans to the Filipinos and Koreans to the Vietnamese and Laotians to the Afghans and Iraqis. The country has formally declared war 11 times and has often engaged in undeclared conflicts with some form of congressional authorization, as with the post-9/11 "wars" that rage on today.
  3. Bacevich, Andrew J.: The American Imperium
    Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    With the present-day US military overextended throughout the globe, this essay takes a look at past American military policy and actions in overseas conflicts, and how these events of the past century affect public perceptions and ultimately how the military continues to be used.
  4. Bacevich, Andrew J.: Sound & Fury
    Just What Does Brexit Signify?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Not since Y2K thretened to plunge the planet into chaos has a story provoked overwrought handwringing comparable to that triggered by Britons voting to withdraw from the European Union. By common assessment, Brexit signifies something profound. History itself has seemingly gone off the rails. Darkness threatens to cover the earth.
  5. Bacevich, Andrew J.; Engelhardt, Tom: The End of (Military) History?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera. Counting on today's enemy to yield in the face of superior force makes about as much sense as buying lottery tickets to pay the mortgage: you better be really lucky.
  6. Bach, John; Snyder, Mitchell: Danbury: Anatomy of a Prison Strike
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
  7. Bacha, Julia: Budrus
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2009
    A documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel's Separation Barrier.
  8. Bacher, John: The Peace Movement's Limited Agenda
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1987
    In Canada, the peace movement's strength has been reduced by its limited agenda caused, for the most part, by a refusal to recognize the important value conflicts within it. Fundamental divisions occur once the agenda goes beyond the development of new weapons systems. A significant example is the refusal of any peace coalition in English–speaking Canada to direct attention to the bloc system, and the persecution of the independent peace movement in eastern Europe.
  9. Bacher, K.: 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.
  10. Backhouse, Constance: Colour Coded
    A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  11. Bacon, Francis: The New Atlantis
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1626
    Tells of a "lost civilisation" that lives in perfect harmony and peace. Their society is dedicated to the accumulation of knowledge and the study of science and nature.
  12. Badcock, Sarah: The Crisis of Revolutionary Power
    Against The Current vol. 140

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Alexander Rabinowitch has long stood as a major figure in the field of revolutionary history, his reputation forged by his series of books tackling the revolution in Petrograd. The book under review, his latest addition to this canon, is a meticulous and painstaking history, showing us the gaps and exploring the confusions of a tightly defined period.
  13. Badger, Emily: Justifying What You Know Can't Be True
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Researchers looking at al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein explore why it is that people often steadfastly believe something even when they've been shown it ain't so.
  14. Badsha, Omar; Wilson, Francis; Tutu, Bishop Desmond: South Africa: The Cordoned Heart
    Essasy by Twenty South African Photographers

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
  15. Baehr, Ninia: Abortion Without Apology
    A Radical History for the 1990s

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  16. Baer, Suzie: Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1992   Published: 2015
    Documentary about American Indian activist, Leonard Peltier. His story is told within the context of the American Indian Movement, the US federal government, and the multinational companies interested in mining the land in South Dakota.
  17. Bagdikian, Ben H: The Media Monopoly
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  18. Bageant, Joe: Ignorance and Courage in the Age of Lady Gaga
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    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.
  19. Bageant, Joe: Rainbow Pie 
    A Redneck Memoir

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    A fascinating and extremely readable account of a life now vanished, destroyed by the insatiable appetite of capital.
  20. Bageant, Joe: Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball
    The Best of Joe Bageant

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    25 essays by the self-proclaimed redneck socialist, edited by Ken Smith.
  21. Bah, Abdoulaye: A Century Later, Namibia Demands Justice From Germany for Its First Holocaust
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Between 1904 and 1908, German colonialists committed a holocaust against the Herero and the Nama, exterminating as many as 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama. Now Namibia is demanding reparations.
  22. Bahour, Sam: Diaspora Jews Must Speak Out
    Law in the Service of Discrimination

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    No democracy, in today’s world, should have the “right” to speak for persons who are not its citizens, live thousands of miles away, and have not given their direct consent to be spoken for or “represented.”
  23. Bahro, Rudolf: Building the Green Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    Rudolf Bahro has emerged from the West German Green Party as a political and social thinker with substantial international influence. In Building the Green Movement, he sets forth his views on North-South relations, the peace movement, his increasing disaffection with parliamentary politics, his ideas on the renewal of communities, and his insistence on the need for spiritual resurgence.
  24. Bahron, Rudolph: Socialism and Survival
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  25. Baichwal, Jennifer: Manufactured Landscapes
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 2006
    Photographer Edward Burtynsky travels the world observing changes in landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing.
  26. Baier; Walter: Peril from the Right
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Many serious observers hold that the crisis in Europe has not come to an end. With the restructuring of the Greek national debt and the enlargement of the European Stability Mechanism, only time was bought, yet the fundamental problems of over-accumulation2 and the imbalances of the current accounts among the members of the Eurozone still persist.
  27. Bailen, Maurice; Freitag, John: The Great Depression
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 1934
    WFPL docudrama with a silent narrative of one man's struggle and despair in search of a job in Depression-era Chicago.
  28. Bailes, Jon: Catherine Rottenberg's Neoliberal Feminism
    Book Review

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    An interview with Catherine Rottenberg, author of The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism (2018).
  29. Bailey, Eric: An Interview With Noam Chomsky on Obama's Human Rights Record
    Nothing Can Justify Torture

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    America's human rights record under the administration of President Obama and the military intervention policies that have seen increased use during the Arab Spring.
  30. Bailey, Geoff: Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    For workers around the world, the Spanish Civil War was a beacon of hope against the tide of reaction then sweeping Europe. As the promise of workers' revolution was being dashed by the rise of fascism in Germany and the rise of Stalinism in the Soviet Union, the workers of Spain led a heroic fight against the 1936 uprising of General Francisco Franco. In the process, they led not only a struggle against fascism, but also a workers' rebellion that gave the world an inspiring glimpse of what workers’ power could look like. The Spanish Civil War was also the high point of anarchist influence in the international workers' movement.
  31. Baillargeon, Normand: 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.
  32. Bain, George: 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.
  33. Baiocchi, Gianpaolo: The Workers' Party and Political Crisis in Brazil: Lula at a Crossroads?
    Against The Current vol. 123

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    In June 2005, the first allegations of a rogue politician in a rightwing party in coalition with Brazil's governing Workers' Party (PT) seemed spurious enough. The politician himself, Roberto Jefferson, had a long history of allegations of corruption, and of narrowly escaping indictment in Brazil's last corruption crisis in 1993. According to celebrity magazines, he had had a makeover, including plastic surgery, before coming forward with the allegations of a "payment for votes" scheme in congress in which the ruling PT doled out a monthly allowance for sympathetic politicians in congress.
  34. Baird, Vanessa: The No-Nonsense Guide to World Population
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Are we heading for a population ‘explosion’? How many people can the planet sustain?
  35. Baird, Vanessa: Trigger Issues: T-Shirt
    One Small Item, One Giant Impact

    Resource Type: Book
  36. Baird, Vanesse: The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity
    Resource Type: Book
    An examination of the ways in which tolerance and hostility have manifested themselves throughout history, and in current attitudes toward sexual diversity.
  37. Bajec, Alessandra: A Range of Abuses
    The Invisible Deaths of Lebanon's Migrant Domestic Workers

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Migrant domestic workers generally get very little protection from the Lebanese government and remain under-reported in the media, while the deaths of these workers are rarely discussed in the news. Despite the high incidence, domestic workers’ deaths are not investigated or documented by the Lebanese authorities.
  38. Bakan, Abbie: Exploitation, Alienation and Oppression
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Bakan discusses the varations of Marxism and proports that the best of the Marxist tradition resists orthodoxy. She considers the complexity and variation in the core concepts in Marx's work regarding inequality.
  39. Bakan, Abbie: The Market vs Human Need
    A Marxist analysis of the WTO and the FTAA

    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    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.
  40. Bakan, Joel: Childhood Under Siege
    How Big Business Ruthlessly Targets Children

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    An exploration of the corporate manipulation and exploitation of children and childhood and society's (lack of) response.
  41. Bakan, Joel: 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.
  42. Baker, Barry: World Development An essential text
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    The ultimate introduction for school students of World Development, Geography and General Studies.
  43. Baker, Dean: Can Coronavirus Force Policy Types to Think Clearly About Intellectual Property?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    While there are researchers all over the world working on developing a COVID-19 vaccine, they are to a large extent working in competition. Each team wants to be the first to develop a vaccine so that they can secure a patent and get immensely rich.
  44. Baker, Dean: Diverting Class War Into Generational War, Again
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Dean Baker provieds a counter argument to a New York Times article titled "65 or Older? Here's What We Owe Our Kids" by Glenn Kramon, which directs blame at Social Security and Medicare for the current struggles of the younger generation.
  45. Baker, Dean: The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 2011
    Progressives need a fundamentally new approach to politics. They have been losing not just because conservatives have so much more money and power, but also because they have accepted the conservatives’ framing of political debates.
  46. Baker, Dean: Ending the Cesspool in Pharmaceuticals by Taking Away Patent Monopolies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2023
    Explores the prevalent corruption in the pharmaceutical industry, inlcuding monopolies, patents of "dubious legal status," and concealing evidence of drugs' protential harm.
  47. Baker, Dean: The Great Spreadsheet Blunder
    Reinhart and Rogoff: One Year Later

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    It has been a bit more than a year since the Excel Spreadsheet error that shook the world. For those who may have missed it, in April of 2013, Thomas Herndon, a University of Massachusetts graduate student in economics, found an error in the calculations of Harvard Professors Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff on the relationship between government debt and economic growth.
  48. Baker, Dean: How Financial Transaction Taxes Make the Economy More Efficient
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The efforts to implement a financial transactions tax (FTT) within the European Union (EU) seem to be finally coming to a head. While the EU is far from unanimous in support of a FTT, an effort to implement a joint FTT has been moving forward for the last six years under a provision that allows ten or more countries to act collectively.
  49. Baker, Dean: Jeff Bezos' Quest to Find America's Dumbest Mayor
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Baker questions the wisdom of cities offering online-retailer Amazon tax and infrastructure incentives to host the company's second head quarters.
  50. Baker, Dean: Media Panic Over the Stock Market Plunge
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The media continue to be in a panic over the drop in the stock market over the last few weeks. Fortunately for political pundits, there is no expectation that they have any clue about the subjects on which they opine. For those more interested in economics than hysterics, the drop in the market is not a big deal.
  51. Baker, Dean: Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
    There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the United States in the last four decades. In his most recent book, Baker shows that this upward redistribution was not the result of globalization and the natural workings of the market. Rather it was the result of conscious policies that were designed to put downward pressure on the wages of ordinary workers while protecting and enhancing the incomes of those at the top. Baker explains how rules on trade, patents, copyrights, corporate governance, and macroeconomic policy were rigged to make income flow upward.
  52. Baker, Dean: The Solution to the Country's Debt and Deficit Problem
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    For most people, the country's national debt and annual deficit are not major concerns. However, for a substantial portion of the policy types who make, write, and talk about economic and budget policy, debt and deficits are really big deals. And, the fact that our budget deficit and debt are both large by historic standards, and growing rapidly, is an especially big deal.
  53. Baker, Dean: Taxing Financial Transactions Is More Strategic Than Taxing High Wealth
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
  54. Baker, Dean: To Readers, $X Billion Just Means 'a Whole Lot of Money'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    A call for media to put numbers in context, e.g., food stamps cost of $70 billion a year is just 0.4 percent of the budget.
  55. Baker, Dean: Trade Deals Are About Increasing Protectionist Barriers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Past trade deals were about making it easier to trade manufactured goods, making it as easy as possible for corporations to take advantage of low-cost labor in the developing world. This has the predicted and actual effect of putting downward pressure on the wages of less-educated workers.
  56. Baker, Dean: Why Aren't the Democrats Talking About Ending Patent Financed Drug Research?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Presenting a case for replacing government-granted patent monopoly financing of pharmaceutical research to make drugs available at free market prices.
  57. Baker, Harold R; Draper, James A; Fairbairn, Brett T (Edtors): Dignity and Growth
    Citizen Participation in Social Change

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Makes the case that rural communities cannot function without citizen participation in social change.
  58. Baker, Karin: 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.
  59. Baker, Karin: A Family, A Tragedy, A Movement (book review)
    Against The Current vol. 155

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    This book is a gripping account of a fire and a shooting. Yet it is so much more. The lives of James and Annie Hickman, the tragic death of their four children, and James’ trial after shooting their landlord, form the center of Joe Allen’s book. But Allen constructs his narrative with the vivid stories of those who came together around the Hickman tragedy as his building blocks.
  60. Baker, Karin: Final Victory for Geronimo
    Against The Current vol. 81

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    SINCE JUNE OF 1997 Geronimo Pratt has been free from prison, but not free from its threat. No longer!
  61. Baker, Karin; Quinn, Patrick M.: A Lifetime for Socialism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    An obituary of Milt Zaslow.
  62. Baker, Kevin: 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.
  63. Baker, Nicholson: Double Fold
    Libraries and the Assault on Paper

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Double Fold examines the preservation of books in United States libraries over the past 50 years. It details the libraries' "war" on books -- the alarming lack of preservation and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of irreplacable bound originals including 19th-century illustrated dailies. He chronicles the attempts to find ways of preserving books from both the ravages of time and the librairies' lack of shelf space. He also explains how librairies use the spectre of disintegrating books as part of their fundraising stategy. Baker offers aternative solutions to these problems. His ultimate and pesuasive plea is for librairies to stop "executing" the originals.
  64. Baker, Richard H.: Computer Security Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  65. Bakunin, Mikhail: Appeal to the Slavs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1848
    When reaction conspires throughout Europe, when it works without stint, with the help of an organization slowly and carefully prepared, stretching all over the land, the revolution should create for itself a power capable of fighting it.
  66. Bakunin, Mikhail: Confession to Tsar Nicholas I
    Resource Type: Article
    An excerpt from the 'confession' Mikhail Bakunin wrote in prison to explain his revolutionary goals and his ideas about how to organize a revolution. He writes: "I wanted to transform all Bohemia into a revolutionary camp, to create a force there capable not only of defending the revolution within the country, but also of taking the offensive outside Bohemia....

    All clubs, newspapers, and all manifestations of an anarchy of mere talk were to be abolished, all submitted to one dictatorial power; the young people and all able-bodied men divided into categories according to their character, ability, and inclination were to be sent throughout the country to provide a provisional revolutionary and military organization. The secret society directing the revolution was to consist of three groups, independent of and unknown to each other: one for the townspeople, another for the youth, and a third for the peasants.

    Each of these societies was to adapt its action to the social character of the locality to which it was assigned. Each was to be organized on strict hierarchical lines, and under absolute discipline, These three societies were to be directed by a secret central committee composed of three or, at the most, five persons. In case the revolution was successful, the secret societies were not to be liquidated; on the contrary, they were to be strengthened and expanded, to take their place in the ranks of the revolutionary hierarchy."
  67. Bakunin, Mikhail: God and the State
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1916   Published: 1970
  68. Bakunin, Mikhail: National Catechism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1866
    Bakunin sketches out his vision of an anarchist social and political revolution, stating that "in order to prepare for this revolution it will be necessary to conspire and to organize a strong secret association coordinated by an international nucleus."
  69. Bakunin, Mikhail: The Program of the International Brotherhood
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1869
    Bakunin maintains that his revolutionary anarchist vision "excludes any idea of dictatorship and of a controlling and directive power." but then goes on to say "It is, however, necessary for the establishment of this revolutionary alliance and for the triumph of the Revolution over reaction that the unity of ideas and of revolutionary action find an organ in the midst of the popular anarchy which will be the life and the energy of the Revolution. This organ should be the secret and universal association of the International Brothers.... a sort of revolutionary general staff, composed of dedicated, energetic, intelligent individuals, sincere friends of the people above all, men neither vain nor ambitious, but capable of serving as intermediaries between the revolutionary idea and the instincts of the people."
  70. Bakunin, Mikhail: Revolutionary Catechism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1866
    Bakunin believed that workers were very far from being able to attain revolutionary consciousness on their own. To imbue the masses with this consciousness and to prevent the deformation of a resulting revolution, Bakunin felt that the only alternative was to organize a secret International Fraternity headed by himself. Bakunin was convinced that this kind of vanguard movement was indispensable to the success of the anarchist Social Revolution.
  71. Balderson, Bill; Begin, Claudette: Campaigning for A Millionaires Tax
    Against The Current vol. 158

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    In February 2012, the California Federation of Teachers (CFT) launched a simple, clear initiative to raise taxes on Californians with incomes greater than $1,000,000 per year. The folding of this campaign for the Millionaires Tax (MT), following a compromise with the governor, has been felt as a seismic shock for many activists in California.
  72. Balderston, Bill: Assessing the Battle of Longview
    Against The Current vol. 157

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    How does the Occupy movement connect with more militant segments of the workers’ movement?
  73. Balderston, Bill: How Oakland Teachers Fought Back
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    The record in recent years of public-sector union battles, especially strikes, has largely been one of defensive actions. This is not so much due to anti-union propaganda, which labels such job actions as an attack on the 'public interest,' but because of the overall austerity programs.
  74. Balderston, Bill: 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.
  75. Baldi, Guido: Theses on Mass Worker and Social Capital
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1972
    An attempt to bring together, in the form on a historical outline, some of the political hypotheses and methodological guidelines that circulated within the Italian working-class movement in the period 1967-1972.
  76. Baldock, Kale: A Response to Critics
    Against The Current vol. 123

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    David Finkel's comments (ATC 122) about my book Is Iraq Another Vietnam?, and about my position against immediately withdrawing the US military from Iraq, were well-informed and fair. So were the judgments of Gilbert Achcar in his interview with Susan Weissman, though his focus was on the withdrawal issue in general and not on my essay specifically. Likewise, Michael Schwartz's current ATC response reflects an impressive familiarity with Iraq and the Middle East, and his critique of my analysis is well-taken.
  77. Baldock, Kate: The Case for Staying in Iraq
    Against The Current vol. 122

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    I don't support an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, because I think it would probably make an already bad situation much worse. Of course, there's no guarantee that continuing the occupation will succeed in allowing some form of stability to take hold—particularly if our military forces simply "stay the course" of brutality evidenced in Fallujah, Abu Ghraib, and the training of Iraqi death squads. However, I believe it offers the best chance for the chaotic forces now at work in Iraq to settle, over time, into some type of a coherent nation.
  78. Baldree, Alison: Thinking About Suffragette
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Alison Baldree responds to the 2015 flim Suffragette.
  79. Bale, Rachael; Knudson, Tom: Shot and gassed: Thousands of protected birds killed annually
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Reveal has obtained never-before-released data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service showing more than 300 species of migratory birds -- from red-tailed hawks to American kestrels, turkey vultures to mallard ducks -- have been killed legally across the United States since 2011 to protect a wide range of business activities and public facilities under what’s called the "depredation permit" program.
  80. Balhorn, Loren: Die Linke: Ten Years On
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Political organizations, particularly those committed to radical change, face their greatest tests in times of crisis. In 1914, German social democracy, the international socialist movement’s crown jewel, was brought to its knees by its inability to confront the outbreak of World War I. Two decades later, German Communism’s ultra-leftism proved similarly impotent in the face of the growing Nazi threat, and Europe's most powerful laboUr movement was decimated within a couple of years.
  81. Balhorn, Loren: The Lost History of Antifa
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    72 years after the triumph over Nazism, we look back to postwar Germany, when socialists gave birth to Antifa.
  82. Balkwill, Jack: America's Capitalist Religion has Little Room for Science
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The US mainstream press accuse the Pope of being leftist. Evidence? Well, they make the claim that he is leftist because he supports the theory of global warming. My guess is that the Pope also supports the theory of gravity, which, like global warming, has a great body of scientific evidence to support it. But is science now a part of the leftist realm of influence?
  83. Balkwill, Jack: My Journey from Racism
    And how we can best end it

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A white individual's experience of racism growing up in America in the 1940's and 1950's.
  84. Ball, James; Schneier, Bruce; Greenwald, Glenn: NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against people using Tor, a popular tool designed to protect online anonymity, despite the fact the software is primarily funded and promoted by the US government itself.
  85. Ball, John: John Ball Quotes
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  86. Ball, Olivia; Gready, Paul: The No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights
    Resource Type: Book
  87. Ball, Tom: Framing: Primer for a Progressive Revolution -- Part I Philosophy and Rational for Framing
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    The introduction of framing into the progressive community could well prove to be the beginning of a revolution. But such a revolution can evolve and sustain only with a concerted, impassioned effort by progressive opinion leaders -- executed in such a way that will compel the average voter to IDENTIFY with progressive values.
  88. Ballard, Mike: Letter - Manchester calling
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1980
    The Red Menace: very stimulating reading.
  89. Balles, Paul J.: Israel and US apologists rattled by UN report on war crimes in Gaza
    The 'democracy' that can do no wrong

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Paul J. Balles considers the, "...lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia" inherent in the hypocritical reactions of Israeli officials, and of Israel's apologists in the United States, to the UN report on war crimes in Gaza.
  90. Balles, Paul J.: The not-so-hidden persuaders
    The Israel lobby's global propaganda manual

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A major public relations manual for Israel lobbyists teaches pro-Israel propagandists how to hoodwink people about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how to silence critics and how to avoid making statements that produce negative reactions.
  91. Balog, Lester: Century of Progress
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 1934
    WFPL documentary film that criticizes society's direction in the early decades of the 20th century.
  92. Balthaser, Benjamin: Labor Organizing Across Israel's Apartheid Line: An Interview with Israeli Labor Activist Yoav Tamir
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Yoav Tamir is an organizer with the new Israeli labour union, Workers Advice Center, or WAC-MANN. WAC-MAAN was founded in the late 1990s as (as its name might suggest) a workers' advice center, and began organizing unions and negotiating contracts in 2010. A product of both deepening austerity within Israel as well as the wave of uprisings in the Arab world in 2011, WAC-MAAN organizes both across the racial line and across the Green Line, doing what no other labor organization in Israel or Palestine's history has done: create a multi-ethnic, bi-national workers' movement.
  93. Balthaser, Benjamin: Myron Perlman, Z"L: Working-Class Jewish Radical
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Memorial for Myron Perlman, union carpenter and social justice activist.
  94. Balthaser, Benjamin: 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.
  95. Balthaser, Benjamin: The SP's Roots and Legacy: In the American Grain - Book Review
    Against The Current vol. 160

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Book review of 'American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W.E.B. Du Bois' by Mark W. Van Wienen.
  96. Bamberger, Michelle; Oswald, Robert: The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
    How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    Across the United States, fracking -- the extraction of natural gas by hydraulic fracturing -- is being touted as the answer to energy independence and a fix for a flagging economy. Drilling companies assure us that the process is safe, politicians push through drilling legislation without a serious public-health debate, and those who speak out are marginalized, their silence purchased by gas companies and their warnings about the dangers of fracking stifled.
  97. Bambery, Chris: How the Easter Rising changed the world
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Chris Bambery argues that the Easter Rising relaunched the struggle for independence in Ireland and inspired national liberation movements globally.
  98. Bamford, James: Body of Secrets 
    Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    The National Security Agency (NSA) is the largest intelligence gathering agency in the world. James Banford in his sequel to "The Puzzle Palace" draws on newly released government documents and interviews with past and present personel to give a detailed picture of the agency. Tracing its origins from the Truman admisnistration and using examples from modern day incidents (Gary Powers, the Pueblo, the Israeli attack on a U.S. surveillance ship and many more) he provides us with an overview of the murky and dangerous world of intelligence operations.
  99. Bamford, James: The Puzzle Palace
    A Report on America's Most Secret Agency

    Resource Type: Book
    About the Natiional Security Agency
  100. Bamford, James: The Shadow Factory 
    The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America

    Resource Type: Book
  101. Bandhauer, Carina: Patrick Buchanan's Ezola Virus
    Against The Current vol. 89

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Amidst all the turmoil of the Reform Party this summer, Pat Buchanan named Ezola Foster as his running mate for his third bid at the presidency. For a man who has openly questioned the holocaust, and battled to save white America, choosing a Black woman is a little puzzling.
  102. Banerjee, Subhankar: An Ode To Seasons For Peter Matthiessen
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    When human survival is continuously being threatened by varieties of anthropogenic injuries (ecological, economic, social), our capacity to think about the non-human animal become very limited indeed. Nevertheless, it is our ethical obligation to also consider their survival as well.
  103. Banerjee, Subhankar: One of the Best Ways to Protect Biodiversity is to Preserve Indigenous Languages
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Is there a connection between loss of biodiversity and loss of Indigenous languages? Or, to put another way, what significance protecting Indigenous languages might have for protecting biodiversity?
  104. Bangs, David H. Jr.: The Personnel Planning Guide
    Successful planning of your most important asset

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1988
  105. Bank-Muñoz, Carolina; Dexter, Scott; Mulqueen,Tara: Resisting the Gutting of CUNY
    Against The Current vol. 142

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    New York state is experiencing its worst fiscal crisis since the 1970s, with profound impacts on the City University of New York (CUNY), the nation’s largest urban public university system. CUNY has been under public scrutiny since its founding in 1847 as The Free Academy, an institution dedicated to the experiment of providing education to “the children of the whole people” at a school “controlled by the popular will, not by the privileged few.”
  106. Banks, Arthur S (ed.): Political Handbook of the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  107. Banks-Smith, Nancy: Nancy Banks-Smith Quotes
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  108. Bannoura, Saed: Army Detonates Two Homes In Hebron, Seals One With Concrete Blocs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Israeli soldiers wired and detonated two Palestinian homes in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and sealed the home of a third Palestinian with concrete. A Palestinian home was also demolished in occupied East Jerusalem.
  109. Bannoura, Saed: Israeli government pays students to spread propaganda online
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The Israeli government has launched a program to pay students to promote the Israeli agenda on Facebook and internet chatrooms.
  110. Baptist, Edward E.: The Half Has Never Been Told 
    Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    A sweeping, authoritative history of the expansion of slavery in America, showing how forced migrations radically altered the nation's economic, political, and cultural landscape.
  111. Baraka, Ajamu: Israel Commemorates Nakba with Mass Murder at the Gaza Fence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    On the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" that resulted in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and the theft of their lands, homes, and even their household possessions, the message today was clear: the Israeli state is prepared to maintain its apartheid state by any means necessary. The catastrophe for the Palestinians was the birth of Israel and was celebrated by the Israeli state with tear gas, bullets and the blood of Palestinians.
  112. Baraka, Ajamu: Liberal Totalitarianism and the Trump Diversion
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Baraka warns against enthusiastic embrace of the FBI as a "neutral political force populated by people of unreproachable character" in light of their well documented history of politically motivated targetting of civil rights activists.
  113. Baraka, Amaju: The U.S. Press and Repression in the Obama Era
    A New Awakening or Political Theater?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The Obama administration’s is expanding its use of executive powers to intimidate and crush dissent had turned its focus on the U.S. press.
  114. Baran, Paul A.: The Political Economy of Growth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  115. Baran, Paul A.; Sweezy, Paul M.: Monopoly Capital
    An essay on American economic and social order

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1969
    An analysis of American capitalism.
  116. Baran, Paul A.; Sweezy, Paul M.: The Quality of Monopoly Capitalist Society: Culture and Communications
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    This is a hitherto unpublished chapter of Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy, Monopoly Capital (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1966). The text as published here has been edited and includes notes by John Bellamy Foster. The style conforms to that of their book. Part of the original draft chapter, dealing with mental health, was still incomplete at the time of Baran's death in 1964, and consequently has not be included in this published version.
  117. Baran, Paul; Sweezy, Paul: The Absorption of Surplus
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1969
    This pamphlet is a chapter from Monopoly Capital, by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy.
  118. Barbagallo, Camille: How Greens and Labor can Win ... Together
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A review of Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activists and the New South Wales Labourers Federation by Meredith and Verity Burgmann (UNSW Press, 1998).
  119. Barber, David: A Hard Rain Fell
    SDS and Why it failed

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
  120. Barber, Johnny: Crossing Rafah
    Heading to Gaza

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
  121. Barber, Kim: Childrens Liberation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
  122. Barca, Stefania: Labor in the Age of Climate Change 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Climate change must be stopped. But who will do the stopping? Who, in other words, could be the political subject of an anticapitalist climate revolution? Stefania Barca argues that this social agent could be, and indeed must be, the global working class. Yet to play this role, the working class must develop an emancipatory ecological class consciousness.
  123. Bardacke, Frank: Trampling Out the Vintage
    Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    An of the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers and its most famous and controversial leader, Cesar Chavez.
  124. Bardacke, Frank (ed.): Shadows of Tender Fury
    The Letters and Communiques of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Since the 1994 uprisings in the Mexican state of Chiapas, the spokesman of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a masked rebel who calls himself Subcomandante Marcos, has become a symbol of revolt in the post-cold war era. This book contains his letters, stories for children, military communiqués, demands, poems, descriptions of colonial exploitation, travelogues, history lessons, spoofs of magic realism, subtle jokes, and inspiring anecdotes.
  125. Barde, Jean-Philippe; Button, Kenneth: Transport Policy and the Environment
    Six Case Studies

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  126. Barenboim, Daniel, and the East-West Divan Orchestra: The Ramallah Concert
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2005   Published: 2006
    This concert by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra took place in August of 2005 in the Palestinian Territory in the city of Ramallah and includes repertoire that Daniel Barenboim is famous for, such as Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin & Viola and the ""Nimrod"" variation from Elgar's ""Enigma Variations."" Also includes a feature-length documentary: ""Knowledge is the Beginning"", which was filmed over a six-year period and tells the story of Barenboim's development of the orchestra through interviews, rehearsal and concert excerpts.
  127. Barghouthi, Mustafa: Four Years of Disaster
    Against The Current vol. 113

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    The second Intifada, now entering its fifth year, has seen the world distracted by events in Iraq, enabling Israel to continue violating Palestinians’ human rights with complete impunity.
  128. Barghouti, Mourid: I Was Born There, I Was Born Here (Wulidtu hunak, wulidtu huna)
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009   Published: 2001
  129. Barghouti, Omar: BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions 
    The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    The case for a rights-based BDS campaign against Israeli occupation and apartheid.
  130. Barghouti, Omar: Is the UN complicit in Israel's massacre in Gaza?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A friend forwarded to me the most original greeting for the New Year: "I wish in 2009 a horrible year for all war criminals and their accomplices." I could not but think of whether some United Nations officials can be counted among such "accomplices."
  131. Barghouti, Omar: Why Is BDS A Moral Duty Today?
    A Response To Bernard-Henri Levy

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The reality of the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
  132. Barker, Colin: Twenty five years of revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The period since 1987 has been, in one sense, extraordinary in the sheer number of revolutions that have occurred. If one thing seems certain, it is that revolution is alive and well across the globe, and is indeed a very “normal” part of the political process in the modern capitalist world.
  133. Barker, Graham: Highrise and Superprofits
    An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  134. Barker, Johnathan: Solidarity in a New Key
    The reflections of a bespectacled solidarity supporter

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    What does liberation mean? By what actions should we pursue it? In what kinds of alliances should activists for liberation join? This article intends to address these questions in a South African context. Changing words reflect changing times, so what does solidarity now mean?
  135. Barker, Jonathan: The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Political and moral analysis of the causes and contexts of terrorism the world over.
  136. Barker, Jonathan: 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.
  137. Barker, Jonathan; Cwikowski, Christine; Gombay, Kathrine; Shettima, Kole; Sundar, Aparna: Street Level Democracy
    Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    A wide-ranging book that traces the conflicts between global power and local action. People in farming communities, town mosques, city markets, and fishing communities suffer the effects of wrenching change and grapple with the politics of everyday life.
  138. Barker, Jonathon: Street-Level Democracy
    Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
  139. Barker, Michael: Foundations and Social Change
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Corporate philanthropy is money laundering, pure and simple. It is an institution that serves to legitimate ill-gotten gains, and to hide the fact that were it not for our system of regressive taxation, people could hypothetically exercise some sort of democratic control over money stolen from workers and cheated out of debtors and consumers.
  140. Barker, Michael: Why the CIA Cares About Marxism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Abundant evidence of course exists of the CIA's complex cultural interventions into French intellectual affairs -- but it is critical to recognise that it was the political shortcomings of communist organizations themselves (i.e., Stalinists) that had the determinant impact on the obscurantist trajectory of left-wing academic ideas.
  141. Barker, Micheal: Silence in NGO Discourse
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) maintain a ubiquitous presence in most peoples lives (whether they realize it or not). It therefore should be a commonsense act that we scrutinize NGO activities to ascertain their exact political function within the "our" neoliberal world order.
  142. Barksdale, Amiri: Convict and Immigrant Detainee Struggles Converge in Strike Wave
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    There was a time in the United States when it was not only common knowledge, but commonly reported, legislated, and adjudicated that crime is a function of poverty. This went out sometime during the Carter Administration, its demise heralded by the appearance in 1975 of James Q. Wilson's Thinking About Crime, where he first aired the broken-windows theory,which holds that punishment has to be harsh for minor violations of public order to incentivize criminals against larger violations.
  143. Barksdale, Amiri: Convict and Immigrant Detainee Struggles Converge in Strike Wave
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The ongoing struggle of us convicts to preserve and enhance their humanity has been taking on an explicit labor aspect, connected to and conscious of such struggles outside the prison walls, and it appears to be intensifying hand in hand with the convicts' traditional struggles for human dignity.
  144. Barksdale, Amiri: Los Angeles: Hands Up, Fight Back
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A basic and incomplete chronological overview... Protests and marches continued throughout the fall in Los Angeles, linking the Ezell Ford, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Antonio Martin murders together.
  145. Barksdale, Amiri: Notes on the Fly
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011   Published: 2012
    A report from Occupy Wall Street
  146. Barksdale, Amiri: Occupy LA: The Worst of the Best
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    A report from the 2011 Occupy movement in Los Angeles.
  147. Barksdale, Amiri: Whiteness Again
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Whiteness is a protection racket that used to provide material bonuses. It is a minimally advantageous deal that the ruling class continuously renegotiates with a part of the working class, and the first such deal happened before the founding of the United States.
  148. Barksy, Robert F.: Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent
    Resource Type: Article
  149. Barlow, Maude: Blue Betrayal
    The Harper government's assault on Canada's freshwater

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Canadians have long taken their water heritage for granted. This is largely due to the myth that there is an abundance of water. While it is true that compared to many other parts of the world Canada is blessed with water, it is false that there is water to waste or sell.
  150. Barlow, Maude: EU-Canada CETA trade deal is a back door for US to sue EU - even if TTIP fails
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    There's been a big fuss about the 'ISDS' clauses in the TTIP trade deal that would allow US corporations to sue the EU and its member states for 'lost profits', writes Maude Barlow. But ISDS is already in CETA, the already negotiated EU-Canada trade deal - and nothing would be easier than for US companies to use it as their 'back door'. We must make sure CETA is rejected at its final hurdle.
  151. Barlow, Maude: The free trade disaster: round two
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    Standards are being pulled down to the lowest common denominator, allowing the transnational corporations to play countries and their workforces off against each other. Already, workers in Canada are being warned that if they don't pull their wages and other demands down, workers in Mexico will be only too glad to take their jobs.
  152. Barlow, Maude: Millions of people yearning for a "Brexit" from destructive trade deals
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    While the votes for Brexit, and the support for Trump, may not always choose the best political framing, politicians and elites would be arrogant to dismiss the widespread discontent with the status quo.
  153. Barlow, Maude: Nestlé: Malevolent Corporation Capitalizes on Global Water Crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Demand for water is outstripping supply at an accelerating rate. Nestlé’s goal is to shift government policy away from providing public municipal water supplies to people, and toward a dependency on bottled water to provide basic drinking water.
  154. Barlow, Maude: Our Great Lakes Commons
    A People's Plan to Protect the Great Lakes Forever

    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    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.
  155. Barlow, Maude; Campbell, Bruce: Take Back the Nation
    Revised Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991   Published: 1993
    A passionate and thoughtful assessment of Canada in crisis. Analyses the dangers posed by NAFTA to Canada's economy and independence. Proposes economic, political and cultural solutions to Canada's problems.
  156. Barlow, Maude; Clarke, Tony: Blue Gold 
    The battle against corporate theft of the world's water

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2003
    International tensions around water are rising in many of the world's most volatile regions.This book exposes the enormity of the problem, the dangers of the proposed solution and the alternative, which is to recognize access to water as a fundamental human right, not dependent on ability to pay.
  157. Barlow, Maude; Clarke, Tony: Global Showdown
    How the New Activists are Fighting Global Corporate Rule

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Documents the new forces of resistance and invitates readers to join the struggle for alternatives.
  158. Barlow, Maude; Robertson, Heather-Jane: 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.
  159. Barna, Laszlo; White, Bob (Foreword): 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.
  160. Barndt, Deborah: To Change This House
    Popular Education Under the Sandinistas

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    An account of how popular education transformed all aspects of life in Nicaragua following Somoza's overthrow in 1979. Throu8gh interviews, photographs, and analysis, Barndt explores the collective, participatory, critical way of learning that connects education to experience and seeks out the structural and historical causes of social problems.
  161. Barndt, Deborah, Freire, Carolos: Naming the Moment
    Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    A given moment - this moment - is unlike any other moment in time. Howe can we understand what it offers so that we can make the best use of it? How have people used moments in the past to push toward greater social justice?
  162. Barndt, Deborah, Cristall, Ferne, Marino, Dian: Getting There
    Producing Photostories With Immigrant Women

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    Photostories about immigrant women surviving in and adapting to a new culture.
  163. Barnes, Simon: Flying in the Face of Nature
    A Year in the Minsmere Bird Reserve

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    The author describes conservation efforts around the world, using the Minsmere bird reserve in Britain as a starting point.
  164. Barnet, Richard J.; Muller, Ronald E.: Global Reach
    The Power of the Multinational Corporations

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    An examination of corporate power.
  165. Barnett, David: Draw and you'll go to jail': the fight to save comics from the censor
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    From worried parents to policemen with built-in 'Satan detectors', underground comics have never lacked enemies. And for 30 years Neil Gaiman and his friends have fought back in the name of free speech.
  166. Barnett, Jerry: Porn, Women's Rights and the Left
    A Response to Gail Dines

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    I believe that government belongs in health, education, welfare, social services, environmental protection and transport; but I do not believe that it belongs in our bedrooms.
  167. Barnett, Katherine: Are Israel's spies stealing your data?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Many Israeli spies go into careers in surveillance software bringing techniques that are used to violate the privacy of Palestinians into everyday commercial software.
  168. Barnett, Marcus: The Real Dad’s Army
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Britain's wartime Home Guard is immortalized in popular culture -- but the socialists who shaped it are forgotten.
  169. Barnfield, Graham: Not Such A Lonely Crusade
    The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Brian Dolinar's The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation.
  170. Baronowski, Bubba: Review: Chris Rhomberg, The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor (2012)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Review on Chris Rhomberg's book 'The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor.'
  171. Baroud, Ramzy: Arab Media on the Brink
    The Age of TV Jokers

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    In the last year or so in Egypt, much of what has been achieved in terms of carving space for alternative voices in the Egyptian media was quickly and decisively reversed.
  172. Baroud, Ramzy: The Boomerang Effect: How Netanyahu Made Israel an American Issue, and Lost
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Trends in US opinion polls indicate that Israel is not just losing support and overall appeal among large sections of American society but also among the newer generation of American Jews, a worrying change in US public opinion for the Israeli government.
  173. Baroud, Ramzy: The British Warrior Who 'Matured with Age'
    A Kuffiya for Tony Benn

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Long before the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment campaign inched slowly from the fringes of global solidarity with Palestinians to take center stage, Tony Benn had been advocating a boycott of Israel with unrestricted conviction, for years.
  174. Baroud, Ramzy: The Compelling Memoirs of Ali Abumghasib
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Ali Abumghasib knows little about the current intrigues of the Fatah Movement, or, perhaps, he is just not interested. Now living in an old, rusty and tiny caravan somewhere in Gaza, Ali has no money, no family, but also no regrets. We spoke at length about his life. He wanted to share his story, and I wanted to understand what went wrong in what was once Palestine's leading movement.
  175. Baroud, Ramzy: The Different Faces of 'Popular Resistance' in Palestine
    Manipulating History

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Apparently, 'popular resistance' has suddenly elevated to become a clash of visions or strategies between the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and its rivals in Gaza, underscoring an existing and deepening rift between various factions and leaderships.
  176. Baroud, Ramzy: Eight Things I learned About Palestine While Touring Eight Western Nations
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The main theme of all my talks in various cultural, academic and media platforms was the pressing need to refocus the discussion on Palestine on the struggle, aspirations and history of the Palestinian people. But, interacting with hundreds of people and being exposed to multiple media environments in both mainstream and alternative media, I also learned much about the changing political mood on Palestine in the western world.
  177. Baroud, Ramzy: Fighting the Wrong Enemy: Why Americans Hate Muslims
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Certainly, anti-Arab and Muslim sentiments in the US have been around for generations, but it has risen sharply in the last two decades. Arabs and Muslims have become an easy scapegoat for all of America's failed wars and counter-violence.
  178. Baroud, Ramzy: Foreign Policy for Sale: Greece's Dangerous Alliance with Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    For a brief historical moment, Alexis Tsipras and his political party, Syriza, ignited hope that Greece could resurrect a long-dormant Leftist tide in Europe. A new Greece was being born out of the pangs of pain of economic austerity, imposed by the European Union and its overpowering economic institutions – a troika so ruthless, it cared little while the Greek economy collapsed and millions of people experienced the bitterness of poverty, unemployment and despair.
  179. Baroud, Ramzy: Gazan Gandhis: Gaza Bleeds Alone as 'Liberals' and 'Progressives' Go Mute 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Tens of thousands of protesters, raising Palestinian flags continue to hold their massive rallies across the Gaza border. Despite the high death toll and the thousands maimed, they return everyday with the same commitment to popular resistance that is predicated on collective unity, beyond factionalism and politics.But why are they still being largely ignored? It is politically convenient to criticize Palestinians as a matter of course, and utterly inconvenient to credit them, even when they display such courage, prowess and commitment to peaceful change.
  180. Baroud, Ramzy: Gaza's Kite Runners
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Gazan children's kites are expressions of defiance, hope and the longing for freedom.
  181. Baroud, Ramzy: The Genocide of the Rohingya: Big Oil, Failed Democracy and False Prophets
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    To a certain extent, Aung San Suu Kyi is a false prophet. Glorified by the west for many years, she was made a 'democracy icon' because she opposed the same forces in her country, Burma, at the time that the US-led western coalition isolated Rangoon for its alliance with China.
  182. Baroud, Ramzy: How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Entire communities in the West Bank either have no access to water or have had their water supply reduced almost by half. This alarming development has been taking place for weeks, since Israel’s national water company, "Mekorot", decided to cut off – or significantly reduce – its water supply to Jenin, Salfit and many villages around Nablus, among other regions. Israel has been 'waging a water war' against Palestinians.
  183. Baroud, Ramzy: Insisting on Humanity
    The Plight of the Palestinians

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    It is important that we preserve the distinction between the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian people, who have held on to their rights for so many years, and unleashed two of the greatest expressions of people's power and resolve: the First Uprising of 1987 and al-Aqsa Intifada of 2000. A whole population taking on the self-celebrated "greatest army in the Middle East" is hardly "powerless". The Palestinian people have printed themselves on the practical discourse of this conflict, and they have proved themselves to be powerful players in determining their own fate.
  184. Baroud, Ramzy: Journalism, History and War: Sit, Type and Bleed
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    There are millions of victims throughout the Middle East region, that cannot be understood or expressed through typical media narration: a gripping headline, couple of quotes and a paragraph or two by way of providing context.The price is too high for this kind of lazy journalism.
  185. Baroud, Ramzy: The Logic of Murder in Israel: A Culture of Impunity in Full View of the Entire World
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    "Whether he made a mistake or not, is a trivial question," said an Israeli Jewish man who joined large protests throughout Israel in support of a soldier who calmly, and with precision, killed a wounded Palestinian man in al-Khalil (Hebron). The protesting Jewish man described Palestinians as 'barbaric', 'bestial', who should not be perceived as people.
  186. Baroud, Ramzy: The Logic of Murder in Israel: A Culture of Impunity in Full View of the Entire World
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    "Whether he made a mistake or not, is a trivial question," said an Israeli Jewish man who joined large protests throughout Israel in support of a soldier who calmly, and with precision, killed a wounded Palestinian man in al-Khalil (Hebron). The protesting Jewish man described Palestinians as 'barbaric', 'bestial', who should not be perceived as people.
  187. Baroud, Ramzy: Money, Power and Turf: Winning the Middle East Media War at Any Cost
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    It is hardly surprising to see Middle Eastern countries at the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index, as the worst violators of freedom of the press. But equally alarming is the complete polarization of public opinion as a result of self-serving media and, bankrolled by rich Arab countries, whose only goal is to serve their specific, often sinister, agendas.
  188. Baroud, Ramzy: Omar and the Checkpoint
    The Essential Story that is Rarely Told

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Omar is a 7-year-old boy from Gaza. His family managed to obtain the necessary permits that allowed him to cross the Erez checkpoint to Jerusalem, through the West Bank, in order to undergo surgery. He was accompanied by his father. On the way back, the boy and his father were stopped at the Qalanidya checkpoint, separating occupied East Jerusalem from the West Bank. The father needed another permit from the Israeli military to take his son, whose wounds were still fresh hours after the surgery, back to the strip. But the soldiers were in no obliging mood.
  189. Baroud, Ramzy: Palestine's 'Prayer for Rain': How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Israel has been 'waging a water war' against Palestinians, according to Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah. The irony is that the water provided by "Mekorot' is actually Palestinian water, usurped from West Bank aquifers. While Israelis, including illegal West Bank settlements, use the vast majority of it, Palestinians are sold their own water back at high prices.
  190. Baroud, Ramzy: Palestinian, Jewish Voices Music Jointly Challenge Israel's Past
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Baroud analyzes how Israel has appropriated the Palestinian narrative of Al-Nakba to rewrite history and place the occupation of Palestine in a positive light.
  191. Baroud, Ramzy: Perpetuating the Abu Ghraib Culture
    The Harrowing Abuse of Iraqi Women

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The phenomenon of kidnapping, torturing, raping, and executing women is shockingly widespread within the Iraqi criminal justice systm, which continues the policies of the US miliary administration. If such a reality were to exist in a different political context, the global outrage would have been profound.
  192. Baroud, Ramzy: Photographing Tragedy
    What Victims Actually Want

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    What is the use of a photo when the human conscience has grown numb, and barely appreciates the artistic expression of the photo, not the moral and political crisis it represents?
  193. Baroud, Ramzy: The Prisoners' Revolt: The Real Reasons behind the Palestinian Hunger Strike
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Gaza is the world’s largest open air prison. The West Bank is a prison, too, segmented into various wards, known as areas A, B and C. In fact, all Palestinians are subjected to varied degrees of military restrictions. At some level, they are all prisoners.
  194. Baroud, Ramzy: Recruiting To Kill - It Is Not Just An Israeli War On Gaza 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    To some, US secretary of state John Kerry may have appeared to be a genuine peacemaker as he floated around ideas during a Cairo visit on 25 July about a ceasefire between Israel and resisting Palestinian fighters in Gaza. But behind his measured diplomatic language, there is a truth not even America's top diplomat can easily hide. His country is very much involved in fighting this dirty war on Gaza that has killed over 1,050, injured thousands more, and destroyed much of an already poor, dilapidated space that is barely inhabitable to begin with.
  195. Baroud, Ramzy: Seven Points Not on the Arab Media Agenda – What Is There to Celebrate?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    As media experts plan to establish an 'Arab Media Day', Baroud criticizes in seven points the censorship and repression of Arab journalism and media.
  196. Baroud, Ramzy: Ten Principles to Guide the Young Activist
    Finding Happiness in Helping Others

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Tips for young activists. They say people who live for a higher cause are happier than those who don’t. May you always find your happiness in alleviating the pain of others by standing up for what is right and honorable.
  197. Baroud, Ramzy: Time to End the 'Hasbara': Palestinian Media and the Search for a Common Story
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Merely being in the company of hundreds of Palestinian journalists and other media professionals from all over the world has been an uplifting experience. For many years, Palestinian media has been on the defensive, unable to articulate a coherent message, torn between factions and desperately trying to fend off the Israeli media campaign, along with its falsifications and unending propaganda or 'hasbara'.
  198. Baroud, Ramzy: The Trials of Africa and the Real Dr. King They Want Us to Forget
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s views beyond those emphasized by the mainstream media, where he pushed beyond 'liberal' America and his strong anti-war and global solidarity values were unapologetically linked to the fight against racism and poverty.
  199. Baroud, Ramzy: The Trump-Netanyahu Circus: Now, No One Can Save Israel from Itself
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The President of the United States can hardly be taken seriously, saying much but doing little. His words, often offensive, carry no substance, and it is impossible to summarize his complex political outlook about important issues. This is precisely the type of American presidency that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, prefers.
  200. Baroud, Ramzy: Ukraine: Cost of War in Africa & Global South
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    As the West is busy dealing with its own economic woes while cutting off Russian exports, little heed is being paid to those suffering the most.
  201. Baroud, Ramzy: Whatever Happened to Al Jazeera?
    All the News That's Fit to Slant

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    In Al Jazeera’s early days in the mid and late 1990s, the channel took on taboo subjects and proudly challenged the status quo. In recent months, however, Al Jazeera has begun to change course. It has deviated from its journalistic responsibilities in Libya, and is now completely losing the plot with Syria. The channel is in urgent need to revisit its own code of ethics.
  202. Baroud, Ramzy: Why do Palestinian children throw stones?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    Children of my Gaza refugee camp were rarely afraid of monsters but of Israeli soldiers. This is all that we talked about before going to bed. Unlike imaginary monsters in the closet or under the bed, Israeli soldiers are real, and they could show up any minute – at the door, on the roof or, as was often the case, right in the middle of the house.
  203. Baroud, Ramzy: Why Is the Truth on Syria Difficult To Decipher?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    According to Steven Kinzer, the American media's misinformation on Syria is leading to the kind of ignorance which is enabling the American government to pursue any policy, however imprudent, in the war-torn Arab country. The US government can "decree the death of nations" with “popular support because many Americans - and many journalists - are content with the official story," he wrote.
  204. Baroud, Rmazy: The Genocidal Language Behind Israel's Intent in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2023
    Long before October 7, 2023, the Zionist-Israeli discourse was always that of racism, dehumanization, erasure and, at times, outright genocide.
  205. Barrett, Patrick; Kumar, Deepa: The Art of Spin
    How Hillary Clinton backers deployed faux feminism and privilege politics to divert attention from her destructive policies

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Propaganda and misdirection have been deployed to great effect in the 2016 American election.
  206. Barrett, Stanley R.: Is God a Racist?
    The Right Wing in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
  207. Barrickman, Nick: Lack of regulation behind West Virginia water disaster
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A chemical spill at the Etowah River Terminal, near Charleston, West Virginia, resulted in nearly 300,000 people in the state losing access to drinkable water. Since then, several reports have been released detailing the decades-long lack of regulation by state or federal agencies of the site responsible.
  208. Barrickman, Nick: Thousands imprisoned, some executed, based on false FBI lab reports
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A major inquiry conducted by the US Justice Department (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation has found hundreds instances in which FBI forensic units charged with gathering data on cases involving violent crimes provided false information. The doctored FBI lab reports led to the imprisonment of thousands of innocent people, some of whom were executed, according to a report in the Washington Post.
  209. Barriere, Manel: Durgan, Andy; Robson, Sam: The challenge of Podemos
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The emergence of so-called populist parties as a response to increasingly discredited political elites is a European-wide phenomenon. In most cases these parties have emerged on the right, if not the far-right. Not so in the Spanish state where Podemos, after barely ten months in existence, appears to be undermining the whole political set up in place since the end of the Franco dictatorship in the late 1970s.
  210. Barrington-Bush, Liam; Wilton, Jen: Catch your dreams - utopia is possible!
    While Marinaleda has its flaws, it reminds us that alternative economic models are not only possible, they already exist.

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Amid Spain's general depression, Marinaleda - an Andalucian town sometimes dubbed the 'communist utopia' - is bucking the moribund trend with a heady mixture of direct action, community-level democracy, cooperation and mutual aid.
  211. Barrios de Chungara, Domitila; Viezzer, Moema: Let Me Speak!
    Testimony of Domitila, A Woman of the Bolivian Mines

    Resource Type: Book
    The author is the wife of a Bolivian tin miner and a pro-marxists activist. This is a vivid account of her activities and imprisonment, accompanied by her observations on the clergy, military, and upper-class abandonment of Bolivia's repressed poor.
  212. Barros, Pia: Pia Barros Quotes
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  213. Barrot, Jean; Martin, Francois: Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1974
    Essasys on capitalism, class struggle, communism, Leninism, and ultra-leftism.
  214. Barrows-Friedman, Nora: Israel's first trans officer helps with ethnic cleansing
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Queer and transgender activists protested an event featuring an Israeli soldier in Seattle on 5 April.The event was supported by the LGBTQ Commission, a body that advises city leaders on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.Two commissioners resigned in protest just days earlier, criticizing the group’s participation as an act of pinkwashing. Pinkwashing is a public relations strategy that deploys Israel's supposed enlightenment toward LGBTQ issues to deflect criticism from its human rights abuses and war crimes and as a means to build up support for Israel among Western liberals and progressives.
  215. Barry, Bernard: National Skid Row Coalition Conference, Vancouver May 12-15, 1975
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1975
    Description of conference with reflections on implications for Calgary.
  216. Barry, Jan; Layton, Mary Jo; Nussbaum, Alex; Troncone, Tom; Washburn, Lindy; Williams; Barbara: What Ford did to the Ramapough Mountain Indians
    Ford, the feds, the mob: Making a wasteland

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Ford repeatedly dumped in poor communities and failed to clean up its mess. Documents reveal that Ford executives knew as early as 34 years ago that its waste had contaminated a stream that feeds the Wanaque Reservoir. They show that the company tried to evade responsibility by presenting tainted land as a “gift” to the state. Organized crime played a key role in a vast assault on the environment. An analysis of public records and interviews with truckers who hauled Ford’s waste shows mob-controlled contractors dumped anywhere they could get away with it. They bribed, threatened, even murdered to maintain control of Ford’s trash.
  217. Barry, Tom: America is a Smuggler Nation
    Why Legal Trade is a Greater Threat to National Security

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Smuggler Nation is not the oft told, routinely taught story of America’s emergence as a major nation and a global power, rather we come to see U.S. history as “the story of how smuggling – and the attempts to police it – have made and remade America, from the illicit molasses trade in colonial times to drug trafficking today,” as Peter Andreas observes in the book’s introduction.
  218. Barry-Shaw, Nik: Reve/cauchemar: Allende's Chile and the Polarization of the Quebec Left in the 1970s
    MA Thesis,Queen's University, 2014

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
  219. Barrymore, John: John Barrymore Quotes
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  220. Barsamian, David: Chronicles of Dissent
    Noam Chomsky Interviewed by David Barsamian

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  221. Barsamian, David: Targeting Iran
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
  222. Barsocchini, Robert J: Endless Atrocities: The US Role In Creating The North Korean Fortress-State
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    An overview of the history that informs North Korea's relations with the United States and "drives its determination never to submit to any American diktat".
  223. Barsocchini, Robert J.: American Rape of Vietnamese Women was Considered "Standard Operating Procedure"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Comparing testimony from Vietnamese women and American soldiers, Gina Marie Weaver, in her book Ideologies of Forgetting: Rape in The Vietnam War, finds that rape of Vietnamese women by American troops during the US invasion of Vietnam was a "widespread", "everyday occurrence" that was essentially "condoned", even encouraged, by the military, and had its foundation in military training and US culture.
  224. Barth, Brian: Curitiba: the Greenest city on Earth
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Eco-savvy urban planners have been studying Brazil's seventh largest city for decades.
  225. Bartkowski, Maciej (ed.): Recovering Nonviolent History
    Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Essays showing, in considerable detail, the varied roles played by civil resistance in fifteen liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
  226. Bartlett, Rob: Chicago Teachers Strike Back
    Against The Current vol. 161

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Chicago Teachers Union stage a walkout that leads to an improved contract.
  227. Bartlett, Rob: Evidence and Evolution: A Controversial Theory
    Against The Current vol. 121

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The importance of evolutionary theory for biology can hardly be overstated. An oft-quoted remark by the geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky captures this: "Nothing in Biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." The applications of genetics—the foundation of evolutionary theory—are widespread and profound in technology as well as basic biology.
  228. Bartlett, Rob: Update: Chicago's School War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Chicago Public Schools took a hit on May 22, 2013 as the appointed Board of Education of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) voted to close 50 schools, of the 54 originally targeted for shutdown -- in the largest closing of public schools in U.S. history. This was done despite an outpouring of opposition, expressed by thousands of parents in more than 100 meetings mandated by state law to allow parental and community input into the process.
  229. Bartlett, Robert: Can Chicago Teachers Win Again?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Three years ago Chicago teachers defied the corporate-led attack on public education and went on a successful strike, widely supported by the public and parents, to support public education in all neighborhoods of the city.
  230. Bartlett, Robert: Chicago Charter Teachers Strike, Win
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Reporting on the unprecedented and successful strike of charter school teachers in Chicago.
  231. Bartlett, Robert: 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?
  232. Bartlett, Robert: Looking Inside the Education Crisis
    Book review

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A book review of The Future of our Schools:Teachers Unions and Social Justice by Lois Weiner.
  233. Bartlett, Robert: 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.
  234. Bartlett, Robert: The UTLA Victory in Context
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    A look at the bigger picture surrounding the LA teacher's strike as part of the national upsurge that began with the 2012 strike of the Chicago Teachers Union.
  235. Bartley, Allan: The Ku Klux Klan in Canada
    A Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable Kingdom

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2021
  236. Bartosiewicz, Petra: Beyond The Broken Window
    William Bratton and the new police state

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Assistant chief Paul McDonagh was the man with the unenviable task of explaining the Seattle Police Department's drone program to the public. In October 2012, a lawsuit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation revealed that the department had secretly purchased a pair of camera-equipped Draganflyer X6 drones two years earlier. Soon after, McDonagh stood in a local community center before a roomful of citizens, who were shouting "shame" and "murderer" and "no drones, no drones, no drones!"
  237. Barwin, Rudi; Joelle, Genevieve: The BDS movement is about justice for Palestine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The University of Ottawa Israeli Awareness Committee (IAC) blocked a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) resolution presented by the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO). The BDS movement is a call to action from Palestinians seeking justice and equality, while the IAC is a pro-Israel lobby group which works with the Israeli Embassy and others to promote the Israeli government to students.
  238. BASICS Community News Service: Building people power in Toronto: Next Steps
    A discussion document on strategy for advancing the organization of people's struggles in Toronto

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    BASICS was launched in 2006 to serve the immediate purpose of building a fight against gentrification in Lawrence Heights. As our paper’s readership grew in this and other communities, our membership did as well, ultimately extending our organization’s coverage and connection to many more issues facing the most exploited, precarious, and brutalized sections of the working class in Toronto.
  239. Bassey, Nnimmo; Shiva, Vandana: Stemming the tide together: Soil, not oil
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    We are living in a rapidly changing world. The changes that we are witnessing have not come about by accident; they have been carefully orchestrated and the price has been dire. Today, a handful of corporations and entities control the global supply of food, water and other resources. They operate without any sense of responsibility and the space for people to seek redress is becoming continually more constricted.
  240. Basso, Gustavo: In Brazil, thousands of people are still living under the threat of bursting mining dams
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais is home to several large dams many of which have burst causing death and environment damage. There is evidence that some of these disasters were predictable.
  241. Basso, Lelio: Rosa Luxemburg: A Reappraisal
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
  242. Basu, Moushumi: Protesters in Eastern India Battle Against Mining Giant Arcelor Mittal
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In the rural, tribal lands of Eastern India, protesters are going head-to-head with world steel giant Arcelor Mittal. "We may give away our lives, but we will not part with an inch of our ancestral land," the villagers cry. "The forest, rivers and land are ours. We don't want factories, steel or iron. Arcelor Mittal Go Back."
  243. Batalion, Judy: The Light of Days
    Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2021
    Judy Batalion draws on overlooked, untranslated Yiddish memoirs, supplemented by recorded testimonies, to reconstruct the wartime lives and ground level exploits of a remarkable cadre of Jewish women ghetto fighters.
  244. Batalo, Klas: Short Circuit: Towards an Anarchist Approach to Gentrification
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Gentrification, etymologically speaking, is a relatively new word, coined in 1964 by the English Marxist sociologist Ruth Glass.
  245. Bateman, Milford: The Microfinance Delusion
    Marred by Wall Street-Style Greed, Profiteering, Client Abuse, and Market Chaos

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    By celebrating self-help and individual entrepreneurship, and by implicitly discrediting all forms of collective effort, such as trade unions, social movements, cooperatives, public spending, a pro-poor ‘developmental state’ and – most of all – collective moves to ensure a more equitable redistribution of wealth and power, microfinance fits in well with the ideology of neoliberal policy-makers.
  246. Bateman, Milford: The Power of a Dollar
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Microcredit is nothing more than a socially validated way for financial elites to exploit the poor.
  247. Bates, Sarah: At the forefront of revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The gains won by the women's liberation movement during the 1960s and 1970s, such as the right to divorce and increased reproductive rights, are real material gains. Women are told that in Britain we have never had it so good. And on the surface that can appear to be true. But, as Judith Orr points out in Marxism and Women's Liberation, "much has changed for women, but too much has not".
  248. Bathalon, Real ; Lemieux, Nathalie (Compiled by): Ethnocultural Directory of Canada 1990/Repertoire Ethnoculturel du Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  249. Bathalon, Real, Lemieux, Nathalie: Ethnocultural Directory of Canada 1990
    Repertoire Ethnoculturel du Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1990
    A listing of 240 Canadian organizations (157 from Quebec) with descriptions, in English and French, of their objectives, services, activities and publications.
  250. Batou, Jean: Amnesia and the Armenian Genocide
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A century after the methodically planned, organized, and executed destruction of the Anatolian Armenians, this article revisits the causes of this genocide and recognizes its importance for understanding the present.
  251. Battisoni, Alyssa: How to Change Everything 
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 2015
    Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything is a vital book whose limitations should spark discussion about where we go from here.
  252. Bauer, Agustín Souchy; Bluestein, Abe (trans.): With the Peasants of Aragon
    Libertarian Communism in the Liberated Area of Spain

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1937   Published: 1984
    The story of how Aragón peasants collectivised the land and established libertarian communism beginning in 1936.
  253. Bauer, Jan: Essais sur les droits humains et le developpement democratique
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  254. Baumann, Bommi: Wie Alles Anfing
    How it All Began - The Personal Account of a West German Urban Guerilla

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1977
    The original German edition of Wie Alles Anfing was seized by security police when it appeared in 1975. The resulting trial and publicity raised an international outrcy and the book has since been republished in German and translated into six languages.
  255. Bausell, R. Barker: Snake Oil Science 
    The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Illustrates how the placebo effect conspires to make medical therapies appear to be effective - not just to consumers, but to therapists and poorly trained scientists as well. Explores this phenomenom and explains why research on any therapy does not factor in the placebo effect will inevitably produce false results.
  256. Baxandall, Lee: World Guide to Nude Beaches and Recreation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
  257. Baxandall, Lee (ed.): Radical Perspectives in the Arts
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    An anthology of Marxist literary and cultural criticism.
  258. Baxandall, Rosalyn; Ewen, Elizabeth: Technology, the Labor Process, and the Working Class
    Monthly Review July-August 1976

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
  259. Baxter, David: Electronic Ethics
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
  260. Baxter, David: Go to the People...Some THoughts on Surveying Community Needs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
  261. Baxter, Sheila: No Way To Live
    Poor Women Speak Out

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  262. Baxter, Sheila: Under the Viaduct
    Homeless in Beautiful B.C.

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    The author, through interviews, gives a collection of testimonials of Vancouver's homeless and strategies to combat this social problem.
  263. Bayat, Asef: Life as Politics
    How Ordinary People Change the Middle East

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Asef Bayat reveals how under the shadow of the authoritarian rule, religious moral authorities, and economic elites, ordinary people can make meaningful change through the practices of everyday life.
  264. Bayat, Assef: Workers and Revolution in Iran
    The Third World Experience of Workers' Control

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Industrial workers in Iran played a major role in the overthrow of the Shah. This account of the shuras, or factory councils, they set up throws new light on the Shah's defeat, and the consequent revolutionary impulses Ayatollah Khomeini subsequently crushed so ruthlessly. This and other Third World examples show how uneven capitalist development can create conditions conducive to struggles for workers' control in advanced as well as in backward economies.
  265. Baynac, Jacques: The Story of Tatania
    Resource Type: Book
    The life of the young Russian revolutionary who in 1906 assassinated a man who she believed was a Tsarist minister.
  266. Bayoumi, Moustafa: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara
    The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    Eastern Mediterranean, Monday, May 31st, 2010, 4.30am: Israeli commandos, boarding from sea and air, attack the six boats of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as it sails through international waters bringing humanitarian relief to the beleaguered Palestinians of Gaza. Within minutes, nine peace activists are dead, shot by the Israelis. Scores of others are injured. The 700 people on board the ships are arrested and transported to detention centres in Israel, and then deported.
  267. Beachy, Ben: Let's Just Pretend
    We Didn’t Offshore Manufacturing?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Is an iPhone made in China and exported to Europe a U.S. export? Is an Apple executive a manufacturing worker? Yes, and yes. At least those could become the answers if a new proposal afoot among some in the administration is allowed to take effect. Federal agencies grouped under the bland-sounding Economic Classification Policy Committee (ECPC) are proposing to radically redefine U.S. manufacturing and trade statistics. The proposal would deceptively deflate the size of reported, but not actual, U.S. manufacturing trade deficits, while artificially inflating the number of U.S. manufacturing jobs overnight.
  268. Beaken, Mike: Engels, Neanderthals and the origins of the family
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Based on concrete evidence from genetics and archaeology, Friedrich Engel's theories well over a hundred years ago are still relevant to current disputes about the origins of the human family.
  269. Beals, Melba: Expose Yourself
    Using the Power of Public Relations to Promote Your Business and Yourself

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A hands-on, practical book that gets down to the details of doing promotion.
  270. Bean, David: Critical distance (Bean)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    Letter: anarchists must make a choice.
  271. Beard, Mary: The New Political Democracy
    Chapter XXIII of History of the United States

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1921
  272. Beard, Mary: Woman as a Force in History
    A study in Traditions and Realities

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1946
  273. Beardsley, Doug (ed.): Tribal News
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    News pamphlet written primarily to raise the social and political awareness of native people in B.C.
  274. Bearman, Jonathan: Qadhafi's Libya
    Resource Type: Book
    The author follows the evolution of a backward tribal society into one of the most militant Arab states, a significant force within OPEC, and a troublesome puzzle for the superpowers. He gives a blow-by-blow account of Colonel Qadhafi's seizure of power and examines the changing nature of his authority within the country. This book provides the facts necessary for an understanding of contemporary Libya and its place in world events.
  275. Beaton, Lynn: The importance of women's paid labour
    Women at work in World War II

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1982
    An examination of women's paid labour, which was used as a cheaper labour force both prior to and during the Second World War.
  276. Beaton, Lynn: International Women's Day and Working Class History
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986
    In this concise essay Beaton looks at the Socialist roots of International Women's Day.
  277. Beaton, Lynn: International Women's Day. Defend the Gains of October
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1987
    Beaton calls for the defence of the gains made in the emancipation of women by the October revolution.
  278. Beatty, Warren (director): Reds (film)
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1981
    A 1981 film that was co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty. The picture centres on the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book Ten Days That Shook the World.
  279. Beaud, Michel: A History of Capitalism
    1500-2000, New Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Beaud's analysis provides a realistic and thorough examination of the developments of capitalism in the last twenty years, including globalization, the accelerating speed of capital transfer, and the collapse of the Soviet empire.
  280. Beaulieu, Devin; Postero, Nancy: 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.
  281. Beaumont, Daniel: The Palestinians: "We Shall Not Be Moved"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2021
    The resolve of the Palestinians to live on the land that is rightly theirs, despite all the Israeli efforts to dislodge them and drive them out, has never wavered. Just as the long struggle of African Americans has persisted in the face of white resistance.For both peoples their simple determination to win their rights remains their greatest strength.
  282. Beaumont, Matthew; Dart, Gregory: Restless Cities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    A collection of narratives and visual art that strive to capture the essence of life in the city. For the author, the urban dweller is a wanderer, a people watcher, a daydreamer attuned by virtue of his life in the metropolis to potentially transformative experiences.
  283. Beaumont, Peter; Kingsley, Patrick: 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.
  284. Beauvoir, Simone de: Old Age
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1977
  285. Beauvoir, Simone de: The Second Sex 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1953   Published: 1970
    simone de Beauvoir explores what is is to be a woman from a multitude of perspectives: sexual, social, biological, historical.
  286. Bebel, August: Woman Under Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1879
    An analysis of how socialism would advance the freedom of women and their position in society. First edition written and published in German in 1879.
  287. Bebout, Rick: 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.
  288. Bebout, Rick: 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.
  289. Bebout, Rick: 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.
  290. Bebout, Rick: 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.
  291. Bebout, Rick: 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.
  292. Bebout, Rick: 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.
  293. Becerra, Diana C. Sierra: Colombian Workers Injured and Fired
    Against The Current vol. 163

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The General Motors subsidiary in Colombia, Colmotores, fired over 200 workers who were injured on the job, ranging from spinal fractures to cancer.
  294. Becerra, Diana C.S.: 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).
  295. Bechmann, Henrik: A Guide to Co-op Alternatives
    Diverting Profits from the Banks, Food Middlemen, the Landlords

    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1978
    This extensive guide to cooperative alternatives in the city of Toronto provides information about cooperative and collective ventures in areas such as education, housing, food, work and finance.
  296. Beck, Richard: We Believe the Children
    A Moral Panic in the 1980's

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    A brilliant, disturbing portrait of the dawn of the culture wars, when America started to tear itself apart with doubts, wild allegations, and unfounded fears for the safety of children.
  297. Becker Stevens, Angi: 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.
  298. Becker, Leslie: Entrepreneurs Convert Landfill Gas into an Alternative Source of Energy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    New technology is presenting alternatives for the generation of energy from landfill gases.
  299. Becker, Marc: Ecuador: Left Turn?
    Against The Current vol. 142

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    On April 26, 2009, Rafael Correa won re-election to the Ecuadorian presidency with an absolute majority of the vote. He gained broad popular appeal through a combination of nationalist rhetoric and increased social spending on education and health care. The victory cemented Correa’s control over the country as the old political establishment appeared to be in complete collapse.
  300. Becker, Marc: 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.
  301. Becker, Marc: The FMLN's Historic Victory
    Against The Current vol. 140

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    For the first time, the left will govern El Salvador. In the March 15, 2009 presidential elections, Mauricio Funes of the former guerrilla movement the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) defeated former police director Rodrigo Ávila of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) by a thin margin of less than three percentage points.
  302. Becker, Marc: Latin America: A Conservative Restoration?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    After a decade of the left's near-hegemonic control over government structures throughout Latin America, previously discredited conservative politicians who favour a return to the capitalist neoliberal polices of privatization and austerity are staging a comeback.
  303. Becker, Marc: A Revolution's Heritage (book review)
    Against The Current vol. 155

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    S. Sándor John's Bolivia’s Radical Tradition explores in detail the emergence in Bolivia of what became the strongest Trotskyist tradition in the Americas, thanks in large part to militant tin miner unions.
  304. Becker, Marc: A Tale of Two Social Forums
    Against The Current vol. 149

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    From June 22-26, 2010, fifteen thousand social movement activists gathered in Detroit, Michigan for the second United States Social Forum (USSF). Less than two months later, about half that number met at the other end of the continent in Asunción, Paraguay for the 4th Americas Social Forum (ASF).
  305. Becker, Mark: Ecuador's New Indigenous Uprising
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Ecuador's Indigenous movements have launched an uprising to challenge the government's opposition to bilingual education and its support for an extractive-based economy.
  306. Becker, Markus: Factory and Lab: Israel's War Business
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Israel invests more money in research than most other countries -- and in no other place are research institutes, the defense industry, the army and politics as interwoven. The result is a high-tech weapons factory that successfully exports its goods globally.
  307. Becker, Norma: Beyond the Abdication of Power
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    Presents an argument against the views expressed by Kokopeli and Lakey in Leadership For Change. Raises thought provoking issues it raises and demonstrates situations and assumptions under which consensus is not appropriate.
  308. Becker, Richard: Shots All Around: How Four Roses Bourbon Workers Won Their Strike
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Four Roses Bourbon Worked successfully striked over a two-tier contract proposal that would have given worse benefits to new hires.
  309. Beckford, George; Witter, Michael: Small Garden, Bitter Weed
    Struggle and Change in Jamaica

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
    This is a social history of the Jamaican people - from the time of the European invasion to the present day. It is a history of struggle and change. Written in the run-up to the 1981 elections which led to the defeat of the Manley government, this revised and extended version now analyzes the consequences of that defeat for the people of Jamaica.
  310. Beder, Sharon: This Little Kiddy Went to Market
    The Corporate Capture of Childhood

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Analyses how people and planet are being systematically subordinated to profit.
  311. Beder, Sharon: Turning Children Into Consumers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Children are naïve about advertising and can easily be manipulated and exploited by marketers to want and demand their products. Corporate marketers believe that over time they can be shaped into lifelong consumers with brand loyalties and that can be profitable for decades to come.
  312. Beeching, William; Clarke, Dr. Phyllis: Reminiscences of Tim Buck
    Yours in the Struggle

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
  313. Beeman, Angie: Gig Economy or Odd Jobs: What May Seem Trendy to Privileged City Dwellers and Suburbanites is as Old as Poverty
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The rise of precarious employment is not a stimulus to "creativity" but a long-established way of explloiting the poor.
  314. Beer, Jennifer E.: Peacemaking in Your Neighbourhood
    Reflections on an Experiment in Community Mediation

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Describes ten years of work of the Community Dispute Settlement Program, an innovative program in a suburban area near Philadelphia, founded by the Society of Friends (Quakers). The program set out to try to help solve community disputes using the guidelines of nonviolence, alternatives, and empowerment.
  315. Beer, Jennifer E.; with Stief, Eileen: The Mediator's Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   Published: 1997
  316. Beers, David; and Tyee Staff and Contributors: Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence Compiled
    The Tyee's full, updated list of 70 Harper government assaults on democracy and the law.

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Stephen Harper and his Conservatives have racked up dozens of serious abuses of power since forming government in 2006. From scams to smears, monkey-wrenching opponents to intimidating public servants like an Orwellian gorilla, some offences are criminal, others just offend human decency. Here are 70 instances of abuse of power by the Stephen Harper government.
  317. Begg, Alex: Empowering the Earth
    Strategies for social change

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Alex Begg examines how power is the fibre of society, by studying the politics of power we see how to empower a movement for change. Distinguishing between patterns of power will facilitate strategic thinking among those working for change.
  318. Beggs, Mike: Debt: The First 500 Pages
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    We need more grand histories, but 5,000 years of anecdotes is no substitute for real political economy.
  319. Begin, Claudette: An Abortion Doctor's Jailhouse Journal
    Against The Current vol. 141

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    With Dr. Tiller’s death, we are painfully reminded of how “abortion doctors” are subject to ongoing harassment and even death. The question of what motivates such doctors to continue to provide abortions is once again front and center.
  320. Begin, Claudette: Peter Camejo: A Red-Green Life
    Against The Current vol. 139

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The Progressive movements lost a major advocate last September 13th when Peter Camejo died after a long battle with lymphoma at the age of 67. The broad, historical impact he had was obvious in the national media response and the hundreds of emails and blog entries following his death.
  321. Begin, Claudette: The Save Public Education Fightback
    Against The Current vol. 145

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The Coalition of University Employees (CUE) represents workers on ten University of California campuses and one national laboratory. We have been involved in bargaining statewide for the last two years, with no end in sight. For several years our members had not received raises. Additionally there had been hundreds of layoffs on campuses and at the Office of the President.
  322. Begin, Claudette: Solidarity Alliance: A Call to Action
    Against The Current vol. 145

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    A historic alliance was born at UC Berkeley on August 28, 2009. Lyn Hejinian, Professor of English and a member of SAVE, a newly formed faculty group, had issued an invitation to student groups and the union coalition to come together and share our plans to fight the cuts.
  323. Begin, Claudette: Undisputed Success
    Against The Current vol. 146

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    March 4th was an undisputed success in California. Students, workers, teachers, parents and UC faculty found a way to participate. The major demonstration in San Francisco of 10,000, and other demonstrations in Sacramento and Oakland and in Southern California brought people together from different sectors, K-12, community colleges, state universities and university of California campuses. The California Teachers Association, representing most of the K-12 teachers, initiated rallies and picket lines across the state involving their teachers and students. The California Federation of Teachers reported that events happened at all the state universities except Chico which travelled to join the Sacramento rally.
  324. Begley, Josh: A Visual Glossary
    Decoding the language of covert warfare

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Along with illustrations, Begley explains some of the terminology employed in the drone warfare.
  325. Behrens, Matthew: The God that fails: C-51, review committees and the dangers of window dressing
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Among the Harper era's most destructive legacies is a toxic stew of repressive "anti-terror" laws that, in building on similarly repressive measures brought in under Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, extended major new powers to Canadian state security agencies Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS), Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the RCMP, among numerous others.
  326. Behrens, Matthew: Militarism degrades, disrupts and destroys democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    As the Canadian government plays at fighting wars in Iraq/Syria and in eastern Europe, we see daily examples of how militarism ultimately degrades, disrupts and destroys democracy.
  327. Behrens, Matthew: Reflections on a violent day in Ottawa 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    After a long day focused on these gripping events in the nation's capital, I have to wonder if this direct experience of fear and trauma will force us to examine our own addiction to violence as the solution to conflict. Last week's events provide us with an opportunity to reflect on our insidious contribution to the climate of hate, and the chance to disengage from our increasingly militarized culture.
  328. Behrens, Matthew: Taking liberties: When elite representatives define 'national security'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Most reporters assigned to the national security beat are not physically embedded within the RCMP and CSIS in the way those covering the occupation of Afghanistan seem to become stenographers for the Canadian military. But they tend to write as if they were, buying the assumptions created and sustained by those who benefit most from them while generally ignoring the fact that these agencies have a historical profile that reads "pathological liar."
  329. Beiler, Ryan Roderick: Hebron Activist Who Died of Tear Gas Showed Israel's Crimes to the World
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Hebron resident and anti-occupation activist Hashem al-Azzeh died Wednesday after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli forces.
  330. Beiler, Ryan Rodrick: I was "part of a terror organization," says Israeli pilot turned activist
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Interview with Yonatan Shapira, former Israeli air force pilot and current supporter of the Palestinian-led call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
  331. Beinin, Joel: Egypt at the tipping point?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  332. Belden, Jack: China Shakes the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1949   Published: 1973
    Jack Belden's classic account of the Chinese civil war.
  333. Bell Laurie: Good Girls, Bad Girls
    Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Looks into issues like racism in pornography, reclamation of the label "whore," the concerns surrounding censorship and the myths and stereotypes that have made sex trade workers outcasts.
  334. Bell, Beverly: Agroecology as a Tool for Liberation: Transforming Industrial Agribusiness in El Salvador
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    "We say that every square meter of land that is worked with agro-ecology is a liberated square meter. We see it as a tool to transform farmers''social and economic conditions. We see it as a tool of liberation from the unsustainable capitalist agricultural model that oppresses farmers."
  335. Bell, Beverly: "They Fear Us Because We Are Fearless:" The Life and Legacy of Berta Cáceres
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    I began writing a eulogy for Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores years ago, though she died only last week. Berta was assassinated by Honduran government-backed death squads on March 3, 2016.
  336. Bell, Beverly; Hsu, Jessica: Solidarity Economies: A Guerrilla War against Capitalism
    An Interview with Nicolás Cruz Tineo

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Capitalism is based on the philosophy that man is inherently evil and selfish. But solidarity economies suggest something different: that we are human, we cooperate with one another, we love, we struggle for the love of humanity, and that the future of our planet, our life, is based on our having a culture of brotherhood, sisterhood, collaboration, cooperation. It is an economy of love.
  337. Bell, John: Guaranteed income's dangerous outcome
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The Ontario Liberal government of Kathleen Wynne is talking about a guaranteed basic income for all residents. It sounds great; in fact it sounds too good to be true. There are a number of very different models of guaranteed annual income (GAI) out there, and there are proponents on both the right and left. In Canada, most GAI proposals have come from the right and, importantly, at times when capitalism is experiencing crises.
  338. Bell, Peter; Cleaver, Harry: Marx's Theory of Crisis as a Theory of Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1982
  339. Bell, Shamell: The Black Infinity Complex
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    We're a group of UCLA grad students, and our vision of the Black Infinity Complex is inspired by the boundlessness and sustainability of Black creativity and imagination. It's a collective of organizers coming together as a liaison to create a united front of existing structures of grassroots organizations and community institutions, and organizers like you, or scholars.
  340. Bellamy Foster, John: James Hansen and the Climate-Change Exit Strategy 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Hansen has provided the starting point for a realistic climate-change exit strategy aimed at keeping the increase in global average temperatures below 2°C (3.6° F), an amount that constitutes the planetary tipping point with respect to climate change.
  341. Bellamy, Edward: Looking Backward From 2000 to 1887
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1888
    Tells of a Rip van Winkle who wakes in the year 2000 to discover that a form of top-down socialism has been established.
  342. Bellantis, Dimitris: On Catalonia: Debates in the Greek Left
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Without the burden of self-censorship or "political correctness" on our backs, let us examine what the possible secession of Catalonia actually means and where it could potentially lead.
  343. Bellar, Ken; Chase, Heather: Great Peacemakers
    True Stories from Around the World

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Profiles 20 world's most effective activists in this five-part book. Each part highlights different types of peacemakers. Part One recognizes activists who stand out for their efforts of choosing non-violence for change. Part Two covers those who spent their lives living peace. Part Three showcases people who have made their life’s work honouring diversity. Part Four highlights those who value all life. Part Five deals with those who have dedicated their lives to the health of the planet.
  344. Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick: Haiti: Racially Profiled!
    Against The Current vol. 117

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    I thank the organizers for this event that places Haiti squarely in our consciousness where it belongs. I am grateful that Honor Ford-Smith, Jacqui Alexander and Alissa Trotz were so insistent that I attend despite my best efforts to excuse myself. A large number of campus units and off-campus organizations came together, and one knows that this is the proper way to approach our subject tonight. Men anpil, chay pa lou (many hands make the load light).
  345. Bellegarrigue, Anselme: Manifeste de l'Anarchie
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1850
    Le Manifeste est une intervention passionnante contre la folie politique que, sous le nom de démocratie, prétend que nous cédions nos droits à la liberté et à l'autonomie à des représentants élus pour qu'ils fassent ce qu'ils veulent.
  346. Beller, Ken; Chase, Heather: Great Peacemakers: True Stories from Around the World
    True Stories from Around the World

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
  347. Bello, Judy: Prisoners of the War on Terror
    Time to Give up "Hope" and Think About Active Change

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Status of prisoners of war in Guantanamo.
  348. Bello, Walden: Dilemmas of Domination
    The Unmaking of the American Empire

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Argues that in a not-too-distant future the American empire's hidden weaknesses will pose fatal challenges to American supremacy.
  349. Bello, Walden: Philippines: Walden Bello on fighting fascism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Walden Bello at the National Anti-Dictatorship Conference, University of the Philippines, outlines the key elements of an anti-dictatorship program.
  350. Bello, Walden: Sexual Prey in the Saudi Jungle
    Lorena's Tale

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The working conditions of many domestics, which include 18-22 hour days and violent beatings, cannot but be described except as virtual slavery. Apparently among the items of the "job description" of a domestic slave in Saudi is being forced to minister to the sexual needs of the master of the household.
  351. Bello, Walden: Slavery, Genocide, Abuse: The Dark Side of Asia's 'Tiger Economies'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    From declining worker protections to violent labour trafficking and ethnic cleansing, the dark underbelly of Southeast Asia's "tiger economies" is on full display this year.
  352. Bello, Walden: Why We've Been Targeted
    Against The Current vol. 115

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Jose Maria Sison must take us for fools. He and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) leadership compile a list of living and assassinated “counterrevolutionaries,” disseminate it among CPP members, then claim this is simply a harmless exercise in information dissemination!
  353. Bello, Walden F.: U.S. Sponsored Low Intensity Conflict in the Philippines
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  354. Bello, Walden; Elinson, Elaine: Development debacle
    The World Bank in the Philippines

    Resource Type: Book
    Reveals the bureaucratic blunders and misguided assumptions behind the World Bank's model for third world development, a model that serves the interests of the US and the multinational corporations.
  355. Bello,Walden: The Food Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Walden Bello presents an analysis of the various causes of hikes in global food prices and their effects on poverty in the countries of the global South.
  356. Bellware, Kim: Grace Lee Boggs, Legendary Activist, Dead At 100
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Boggs spent her life actively supporting causes ranging from civil rights and labour to the Black Power and feminist movements.
  357. Belz, Willi: Die Standhaften
    Über den Widerstand in Kassel und Hessen-Waldeck 1933-1945

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1960   Published: 1978
    Lokalhistorische Studie zum Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus.
  358. Ben Fogel: Book Review: African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Conspicuously absent from the renewed and resurgent discourse amongst anti-capitalist forces and the popular imagination was sub-Saharan Africa, “black Africa,” the Africa of the eternal cycle of dictators, corruption, famine, “bad governance” and debt. African Awakenings: The Emerging Revolutions ambitiously sets out to remedy this and place the host of new movements arising across the continent in a singular socio-political context.
  359. Ben-Abba, Amitai: "The Term has Become Meaningless to Me": on Violence, Social Change, and Nonviolent Communication
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Violence means different things to different people. While some people find it important to show their opposition to acts like touching someone against their will or supporting an oppressive regime, others mill about in confusion around the middle of the space when facing supposedly unambiguous statements such as "murder is violent." Participants from the same family or the same activist group disagree on the classification of certain acts as violent. In our context, two important questions arise out of this apparent incoherence of the term: what are the implications for Nonviolent Communication? And, what does this mean about nonviolence as a political strategy for social change?
  360. Ben-Dor, Oren: Why Israel Desires to be Hated by Palestinians
    Gaza 2012: On the Use and Abuse of Hatred and Violence

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Israel desires to be hated by Palestinians. By provoking violence Israel has not merely managed to divert the limelight from its apartheid nature. It has also managed to convince that, as Joseph Massad of Columbia University once captured, it has the right to occupy, to dispossess and to discriminate, namely the claim that the apartheid premise which founds it should be put up with and rationalized as reasonable.
  361. Ben-Menashe, Ari: Profits of War
    Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  362. Bender, Frederic L.: Karl Marx: Essential Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A selection of Marx's writings ranging from his early works on philosophy, religion, alienation, and Hegelianism, through the materialist conception of history, the theoretical analysis of capitalism, and the politics of revolution. Bender provides informatative introductions setting the context for each set of materials.
  363. Bender, Frederic L. (ed.): The Betrayal of Marx 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    The public has too long been fed the view that figures such as Lenin and Stalin are genuine followers of Marx, simply because they have claimed that distinction. Nothing justifies the deeds of a perverse 'Marxism' (e.g. that of Stalin); a proper understanding of Marxist humanism, and its betrayal, in contrast, enables us to raise afresh the question of means and to reevaluate the relevant historical, economic, and political facts.
  364. Bender, Peter Urs: 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.
  365. Bender, Peter Urs: Secrets of a worthwhile presentation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    Preparation is the key to a successful presentation.
  366. Bender, Peter Urs: 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.
  367. Bender, Peter Urs: 7 Tips for Effective Speeches
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    How to make your speeches more effective.
  368. Benello, C. George; Swann, Robert; Turnbull, Shann; Morehouse, Ward (ed.): Building Sustainable Communities: 
    Tools and Concepts for Self-Reliant Economic Change

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983   Published: 1989
    Presents the underlying ideas and essential institutions for building sustainable communities. The major sections of the book deal with community land trusts and other forms of community ownership of natural resources, worker-managed enterprises and other techniques of community self-management, and community currency and banking. Also included are a lexicon of social capitalism and a bibliography of key works on self-reliant economic change.
  369. benfogel: Marikana A Point of Rupture?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    South Africa, despite 18 years of majority rule, continues to be one of the most unequal societies on an increasingly unequal planet and is in crisis. Around half the population, mostly black Africans, live below the poverty line. Almost half of all black African households earned below R1670 a month in 2005–06, while only 2 percent of white households fell in that income bracket.
  370. Benger, Robin: The Great Canadian Tax Dodge
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2015
    It is estimated that between 100 and 170 billion dollars leaves Canada every year, untaxed. Much of it is siphoned off to Canadian-made offshore tax havens. "The Great Canadian Tax Dodge" documents the birth of the Canadian Tax Fairness movement and examines the issue of tax avoidance, exposing the sophisticated corporate strategies and tax loopholes commonly used to legally avoid tax.
  371. Bengtsson, Verenice: Berta Cáceres: her fight for human rights in Honduras continues
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Last week the environmental and human rights activist Berta Cáceres was murdered by gunmen in an early morning attack on her home which may have been carried out by or in collusion with state agents. Now her friend and colleague Gustavo Castro, himself wounded in the attack and the only witness to Berta's murder, has been detained for questioning.
  372. Benhabib, Seyla: Feminism and Postmodernism: An Uneasy Alliance
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    A discussion of feminist theory, particularly the usefulness of postmodernism as a theoretical concept. From the book "Feminist Contentions. A Philosophical Exchange."
  373. Benilde, Marie: Ads are coming to get you
    Billions of pieces of data crunched to target your screen.

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The amount of personal information we donate to the Internet giants, and their ability to monitor our every move, are now being fed to ad exchange sites that bid within milliseconds for the space on our screens.
  374. Benjamin, Medea: Drone Warfare
    Killing by Remote Control

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    A comprehensive look at the growing menace of drone warfare, with an extensive analysis of who is producing the drones, where they are being used, who are "piloting" these unmanned planes, who are the victims and what are the legal and moral implications.
  375. Benjamin, Medea: Is Saudi Women's Vote a Step Forward?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The global press has been heralding the December 13, 2015, vote in Saudi Arabia as a breakthrough for women, since it's the first time in history that Saudi women have been allowed to vote. But is this vote really a significant step forward?
  376. Benjamin, Medea: Kingdom of the Unjust
    Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
    The co-founder of CODEPINK's research on the sinister nature of the relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.
  377. Benjamin, Medea: Putting the Fox in Charge: What's Fair About the Fair Labor Association?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    AFTER THE EXPOSÉS in the early 1990s of horrendous conditions in sweatshops producing clothing and shoes for some of the largest U.S. companies, the fight against sweatshops has come a long way. Companies that once refused to acknowledge responsibility for factory conditions by alleging they were “only the buyers” now have codes of conduct, undertake more serious internal monitoring of the factories they buy from, and several companies have begun experimenting with different forms...
  378. Benjamin, Medea: RE/MAX Cashes in on Israel's Illegal Settlements
    End the sale of Settlement Properties

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The Israeli government’s recent announcement that it had authorized the building of another 1,000 settlement homes in East Jerusalem left the US government seeing red, with State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki calling the settlement activity 'illegitimate' and 'incompatible with the pursuit of peace.' But the announcement must have left the US-based real estate giant RE/MAX “seeing green,” ready to cash in on the sale and rental of more illegal settlement homes.
  379. Benjamin, Medea: South Korean Activists' Extraordinary Struggle to Save Jeju Island
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    South Korea's Jeju Island is a popular tourist destination full of spas, resorts, golf courses, sandy beaches, waterfalls and hiking trails. But if you really want to get rejuvenated, skip the tourist hotspots and go directly to the village of Gangjeong to support the extraordinary community that has been opposing the building of a naval base since 2007.
  380. Benjamin, Medea: Ten Reasons to Oppose the Saudi Monarchy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    During the discussion on the Iran nuclear deal, it has been strange to hear US politicians fiercely condemn Iranian human rights abuses while remaining silent about worse abuses by US ally Saudi Arabia. Not only is the Saudi regime repressive at home and abroad, but US weapons and US support for the regime make Americans complicit. So let's look at the regime the US government counts as its close friend.
  381. Benjamin, Medea: 10 Ways that the Climate Crisis and Militarism are Intertwined
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    The environmental justice movement that is surging globally is intentionally intersectional, showing how global warming is connected to issues such as race, poverty, migration and public health. One area intimately linked to the climate crisis that gets little attention, however, is militarism.
  382. Benjamin, Medea (ed.): Don't be Afraid, Gringo
    A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Elvia Alvarado provides a firsthand account of her experiences as a peasant organizer and the efforts of her peasant communities as they struggle to obtain land, food, education, and healthcare.
  383. Benjamin, Medea and Pam Bailey: It's Time to Put an End to Israel's "Don't ask-don't tell" Nuclear Policy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Israel and its allies in the U.S. Congress continue to lobby against a deal that would meet Iran in the middle, insisting on a “zero-enrichment” policy that is a deal-breaker for Iran.
  384. Benjamin, Medea; Davies, Nicolas J. S.: Venezuela: The U.S.'s 68th Regime Change Disaster
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    The US's sanctions and political interference in Venezuela are part of a long history of foreign meddling that brings strife to the affected country.
  385. Benjamin, Walter: Illuminations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1955   Published: 1969
    Litearcy essasy, general reflections, and probings into cultural phenomena.
  386. Benjamin, Walter: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1936
    Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.
  387. Bennett, Claude: How to Gain Power Without Gaining Control
    Resource Type: Book
  388. Bennett, Edward M.: 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.
  389. Bennett, Steve: 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.
  390. Bennett, Steve: 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.
  391. Bennett, Steve: 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.
  392. Bennis, Phyllis: Inside Israel-Palestine The Conflict Explained
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    An ideal guide, in question and answer format, to this most complex of conflicts.
  393. Bennis, Phyllis: Obama Launches an Illegal War in Syria
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    President Obama’s decision to bomb Syria stands in stark violation of international law, the UN Charter, as well as the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.
  394. Bennis, Phyllis: Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 2002
    Designed to inform those who are somewhat unfamiliar with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Written in question and answer format
  395. Bennoune, Karima: Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here 
    Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Karima Bennoune interviews 300 people from 30 countries to report on a largely invisible group of people: Muslim opponents of fundamentalism. They remain largely invisible, lost amid the heated coverage of Islamist terror attacks on one side and abuses perpetrated against suspected terrorists on the other. A veteran of twenty years of human rights research and activism, Karima Bennoune draws on extensive fieldwork and interviews to illuminate the inspiring stories of those who represent one of the best hopes for ending fundamentalist oppression worldwide.
  396. Bensaïd, Daniel; Kahn, Marcel-Francis; Tomkiewicz, Stanislas; Vidal-Naquet, Pierre: French Jews for Palestinian Rights
    Against The Current vol. 89

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    The following text (abridged here) was published in the French daily Le Monde of October 18, 2000 accompanied by the signatures of fifty French people of Jewish origin, several of them well-known political or intellectual figures. Citizens of the countries in which we live and citizens of the planet, we do not habitually express ourselves as Jews.
  397. Bense, Klaas: One Fine Day
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    The documentary One Fine Day, shows six people from different cultures and religions who all, through a small nonviolent act, have had a significant and positive influence on society. Director Klaas Bense investigates how frustration can be turned into positive actions. He looks at what one single individual can achieve, and the often severe, personal consequences.
  398. Bentley, Eric: The Jewish Wife & Other Short Plays
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965
    A collection of six short plays.
  399. Bentley, Paul: A Little Crooked House: Trudeau, Morneau, BMO & KPMG Inc
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Canada's Finance Minister Bill Morneau has recently reinvigorated his promise to crack down on tax evasion schemes, but how can we trust him when he is himself named in the Panama Papers?
  400. Benton, Ted (ed.): The Greening of Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    An examination of the influence of green politics on Marxism.
  401. Benvenuto, Francesca M.: Fighting impunity, but only in some cases
    Is the International Criminal Court too Politicized?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    So far all the 20 prosecutions in the 11 years of the ICC’s existence have been brought over African conflicts. The US, China, Russia and Israel haven’t even signed up to the court, and actively seek exemption from it.
  402. Bercuson, David J.; Cooper, Barry: Derailed
    The Betrayal of the National Dream

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  403. Berens, Lewis H.: The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth
    As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1906
  404. Berg, Daniel: Outlaws of America
    The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Based on interviews with former Weather Underground members, as well as with civil rights activists, Black Panthers, Young Lords, and others.
  405. Berg, Jeff: A Grim Very Tale: The Kehoe Paradigm
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In the 1920s two employees of GM working in the research lab discovered that the addition of tetraethyllead - TEL - to gasoline would reduce engine 'knock'. It would take sixty years to stop industry from adding TEL to gasoline. During that time the lead contamination in the environment - globally - was raised by hundreds of times. Billions of tons of lead was dispersed into the environment.
  406. Berg, Peter; Magilavy, Beryl, Zuckerman, Seth: A Green City Program
    For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Ideas for green, sustainable cities.
  407. Berger, Greg; Olivera, Oscar: Community Police in Guerrero's Costa Chica Region to Celebrate 19 Years of a Better Way to Combat Crime and Corruption
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The same southern Mexican state where 43 students were disappeared is also home to a grassroots movement that shows how people can police themselves when the state becomes criminal.
  408. Berger, Gregory: How I Became a "Recovering Documentary Filmmaker" and Learned to Reach a Wider Public
    The School of Authentic Journalism Saved My Life: Your Donations Make It Possible

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    A look into the way that the The School of Authentic Journalism guides journalists and organizers to reach wider audiences.
  409. Berger, John: About Looking
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    A collection of essays covering a wide range of topics from photographs and media, to zoos and forests, grouped around the theme of how people look at things.
  410. Berger, John: The Nature of Mass Demonstrations
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1968   Published: 2017
    John Berger analyses the social dynamics and strengths of mass demonstrations.
  411. Berger, John: A Seventh Man
    A book of images and work about the experience of migrant workers in Europe

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    Images, poetry, quotes and short written pieces that portray the experiences of male migrant workers in Europe.
  412. Berger, John: Ways of Seeing
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    Seeing establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it.
  413. Berger, John: We must speak out 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Supporting a world-wide appeal to teachers, intellectuals and artists to join the cultural boycott of the state of Israel.
  414. Berger, John; Mohr, Jean: Another Way of Telling
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   Published: 1995
    Everyone in the world is familiar with photographs. And yet what is a photograph? What do photographs mean? How can they be used?
  415. Berger, Thomas R.: A Long and Terrible Shadow
    White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
  416. Berger, Thomas; Rodinov, Alexi; Roche, Douglas et al: The Arctic
    Choice for Peace and Security

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  417. Bergfeld, Mark; Fischer, Leandros: Victory in Stagnation? 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    An analysis of the direction of the German left party, Die Linke, in the wake of the 2017 national elections.
  418. Berggren, David: Time to Call US Aid to Africa by Its True Name: Bribery
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Aid, what is it good for? While many Bono-loving, bleeding heart liberals would be appalled at the very thought of questioning the importance of giving money to charity or to the less fortunate, such a belief is rooted in pure fiction. In fact, the seemingly innocuous act of transferring money abroad in voluntary Robin Hood fashion is at the root of most political problems wreaking havoc across the developing world.
  419. Berglund, Birgitta; Lindvall, Thomas: Community Noise
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    Critically reviews the adverse effects of community noise, including interference with communication, noise-induced hearing loss, annoyance responses, and effects on sleep, the cardiovascular and psychophysiological systems, performance, productivity, and social behaviour.
  420. Berinstein, Paula: Finding Statistics Online
    How to Locate the Elusive Numbers You Need

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
  421. Berkman, Alexander: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
    Resource Type: Book
  422. Berkowitz, Bill: Community Dreams 
    Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    A compilation of vignettes, fragments and thought starters that provides stimulating ideas for practical community transformation.
  423. Berkowitz, Bill: Iran in Christian Zionist crosshairs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the United Nations has stirred up two leading Christian Zionists, Mike Evans and Joel Rosenberg, to once again open fire on Iran.
  424. Berkowitz, Peter: "We Went into the Mall and Began 'Looting'"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Peter Berkowitz is a long-time Monthly Review subscriber. He was in New Orleans bringing his son Ernesto to begin his freshman year at Loyola when they were caught in the hurricane. Peter and Ernesto spent five days on the street by the Convention Center.
  425. Berlak, Ann: Joelito's Big Decision
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    Story of ten-year old Joelito, who learns about the struggle for economic justice as he heads toward the door of MacMann’s Burger Restaurant for his regular Friday-night family dinner.
  426. Berlet, Chip: Re-Framing Dissent As Criminal Subversion
    Paradigm Shift and Political Repression

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    When our national security interests are perceived as threatened, secrecy becomes sacred, and the ends justify the means. Since the end of World War II, the techniques of political repression recur, banal and predictive, like the musical theme that signals stalking in a grade-B thriller. Those organizations and individuals targetted for repression are portrayed as enemies of democracy; those investigating and attacking then assume the mantle of democracy's guardians. Because of the covert nature of campaigns and the enormous difference in resources between government agencies and dissident/reform movements, it is often impossible to document or prove the existence of an organized campaign of political repression in its earlier stages. In case after case, however, later investigation has revealed illegal government surveillance, harassment and public opinon manipulation, as well as media complicity.
  427. Berlet, Chip: Right Woos Left
    Populist Party, LaRouchite, and Other Neo-fascist Overtures To Progressives, And Why They Must Be Rejected

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1999
  428. Berlet, Chip: Why Right-Wing Demagogues Are Trying to Peddle Ludicrous Conspiracy Theories
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Even before Obama was sworn in as the 44th President, the internet was seething with lurid theories exposing his alleged subversion and treachery.
  429. Berlet, Chip: You are Smeared by Right-Wing Demagogues
    Resource Type: Article
    Was it Glenn Beck? Or was it David Horowitz, or Ann Coulter, or Daniel Pipes, or any foot soldier in the army of right-wing smear artists? First…Congratulations! You are smeared by right-wing demagogues. Now some practical suggestions...
  430. Berlet, Chip; Lyons, Mathew N.: Right-Wing Populism in America
    Too Close for Comfort

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Examines the historical roots and current situation of right-wing populism in the US. Berlet and Lyons highlight the dangers of right-wing populism in affecting the political system and opportunities for social change.
  431. Berman, Ari: Give Us the Ballot
    The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    Countless books have been written about the civil rights movement, but far less attention has been paid to what happened after the dramatic passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965 and the turbulent forces it unleashed. Give Us the Ballot tells this story for the first time.
  432. Berman, Marshall: Adventures in Marxism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
  433. Berman, Marshall: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air 
    The Experience of Modernity

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   Published: 1988
    Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
  434. Berman, Marshall: Marshall Berman Quotes
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  435. Berman, Marshall: Tearing Away the Veils: The Communist Manifesto 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    At the dawn of the twentieth century, there were workers who were ready to die with the Communist Manifesto. At the dawn of the twenty-first, there may be even more who are ready to live with it.
  436. Berman, Paul: A Tale of Two Utopias
    The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
  437. Berman, Sanford & Danky, James P.: Alternative Library Literature 1986-1987
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    An anthology of writings about alternative literature and sources and producers of alternative literature, as well as about libraries themselves, and about what is happening within libraries to make them more relevant and activist in their orientation.
  438. Berman, Sanford, Danky, James: Alternative Library Literature 1988-1989
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  439. Berman, Sheri: No Cheers For Anarchism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A successful movement requires compromise, organization, and yes, even leadership, to actually get things done, none of which appeal to anarchists.
  440. Bern, D.H. von Dach: Total Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965
  441. Bernabe, Rafael: The Battle for Puerto Rico's Labor Movement
    Against The Current vol. 139

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The teachers' union Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico (FMPR) is the island’s largest labor union. Its evolution has considerable impact on Puerto Rico’s labor movement as a whole. In fact, recent events surrounding the FMPR reflect many of the debates and tensions that have shaped the island’s largest labor struggles over the past decade. These include:
  442. Bernabe, Rafael: Marx Turns 200: A Mixed Gift
    Book Review

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A mixed but detailed review of a biography of Karl Marx. The author likes the Life material but has problems with the treament of the Works.
  443. Bernabe, Rafael: Puerto Rico's La Huelga del Pueblo
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    AFTER FORTY DAYS on strike, several paros (one-day stoppages) in various government agencies and a two-day general strike, Puerto Rico's telephone workers have returned to work without attaining their objective: forcing the government to break its agreement to sell the state-owned Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC) to a group of investors led by GTE.
  444. Bernabe, Rafael: 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.
  445. Bernabe, Rafael: U.S. Workers and Puerto Rico's Crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Puerto Rico has been in the news lately, particularly the financial news. The possibility that its government may default on part of its $73 billion public debt has drawn the attention of Wall Street analysts.
  446. Bernarde, Melvin A.: Global Warning...Global Warming
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  447. Bernick, Thomas: Violence and the Newspaper Strike
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    To those who still allow their anti-union biases and their exposure to employer misinformation to cloud their perception of reality, I would pose the following question: If the employer and its supporters are really the victimized peace-loving martyrs that they pretend to be, why are the union members the ones who always end up in the hospital?
  448. Bernish, Claire: Land of the Free? Harvard Study Ranks America Worst in the West for Fair Elections
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    According to the EIP, U.S. elections scored lower than Argentina, South Africa, Tunisia, and Rwanda -- and strikingly lower than even Brazil. Specifically compared to Western democracies, U.S. elections scored the lowest, slightly worse than the U.K., while Denmark and Finland topped the list.
  449. Bernstein, Barton J.: Towards a New Past
    Dissenting Essays in American History

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    A critical look at established views of American history.
  450. Bernstein, Dennis: The Destabilization of Haiti
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    A short summary of the illegal and suppressed details of American intervention in Haiti during the 1990's and early 2000's.
  451. Bernstein, Dennis: Fighting Secrecy and the National Security State
    An Interview With Birgitta Jonsdottir, the Co-Producer of WikiLeaks's "Collateral Murder" Video

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    An interview with Iceland Member of Parliament Birgitta Jonsdottir of the Pirate Party on the status of the international struggle against government secrecy and surveillance.
  452. Bernstein, Eduard: Evolutionary Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1899
  453. Bernstein, Henry: Interview: Agriculture, class and capitalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Henry Bernstein, a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, has for decades been at the forefront of research into the class structure and political economy of agriculture.
  454. Bernstein, Hilda: For Their Triumphs and For Their Tears
    Women in Apartheid South Africa

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1985
    First published in 1975 at the start of the United Nations International Decade of Women, this substantially re-written and updated edition appeared in 1985. Containing much new material reflecting those ten years, the book details the circumstances of the lives of women in South Africa.
  455. Bernstein, Hilda: No. 46 - Steve Biko
    Resource Type: Book
    Steven Biko was the forty-sixth person to die in security police detention in South Africa. But, for the first time, the inquest revealed full and horrifying details of how political detainees are treated. By analysing the court proceedings Hilda Bernstein has reconstructed the events that led to Biko's death, even though what actually happened to him in Room 619 is known only to his interrogators.
  456. Berra, Yogi: Yogi Berra Quotes
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  457. Berrigan, Frida: It Runs in the Family
    On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    It Runs in the Family is a book about how parents can create lasting and meaningful bulwarks between their kids and the violence endemic in our culture. It posits discipline without spanks or slaps or threats of violence, while considering how to raise thoughtful, compassionate, fearless young people committed to social and political change-- without scaring, hectoring or scarring them with all the wrongs in the world.
  458. Berrigan, Philip: Prison Journals of a Priest revolutionary
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A collection of interviews, meditations and reflections on the current American prison system from the perspectives of past and current inmates. Berrigan, a political prisoner in Connecticut, shares thoughts about his radical activities, the inadequacy of the legal system, the failure of the prison system to rehabilitate, the meaning of true church reform, and the future of the radical movement in the US.
  459. Berry, David, Theobald, John eds: Radical Mass Media Criticism
    A Cultural Geneology

    Resource Type: Book
    Examines the thinkers who have reacted against the increasing media power. From the critiqes of the corrupt press during the First World War, an analysis of the relationship between public opinion and propaganda diring the Nazi years and the bias of the supposed objective news of today. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Slavko Splichal, Joost van Loon and many other leaders in the international field.
  460. Berry, Joe: Reclaiming the Ivory Tower
    Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    An organizing handbook for contingent faculty.It examines the situation of adjunct professors in U.S. higher education today and puts forward an agenda around which they can mobilize to transform their jobs - and their institutions.
  461. Berry, Wendell: Wendell Berry Quotes
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  462. Berry, Wendell: Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  463. Berry, Wendell: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    In this popular book, author Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual development, and modern agribusiness takes farming out of its cultural context, away from families and their connection to the land.
  464. Bertelli, Michele; Lil, Felix; Pedriel, Genciano; Saurus, Javier: Mothers and Children First
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    An interactive report on mothers and child bearing in Bolivia where deaths are highest among indigenous populations. This report looks at the efforts by doctors, indigenous midwives and healers who are collaborating in what is being called 'intercultural health care'.
  465. Berthold-Bond, Annie: Clean and Green
    The Complete Guide to Nontoxic and Environmentally Safe Housekeeping

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    "485 ways to clean, polish, disinfect, deodorize, launder, remove stains, even wax your car, without harming yourself or the environment.
  466. Berton, Pierre: The Big Sell
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1963
  467. Berton, Pierre: The Comfortable Pew
    A Critical Look at Christianity and the Religious Establishment in the New Age

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965
  468. Berton, Pierre: Cuts, Canadian Culture and the CBC
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986
    Canadian drams gives us a sense of community.
  469. Berton, Pierre: Requiem for a Fourteen-Year-Old
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1959
    Pierre Berton's poem, Requiem for a fourteen-year-old, appeared in the Toronto Star on Oct. 5, 1959; six days after 14-year-old Steven Truscott was sentenced to hang.
  470. Berton, Pierre: The Smug Minority
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    This book is about freedom -- and the lack of it -- in Canada: freedom from useless and often degrading toil, freedom from want and freedom from ignorance. Berton maintains that a smug minority of business and political leaders has conspired to inhibit that freedom.
  471. Besancenot, Olivier; Lowy, Michael: Che Guevara
    His Revolutionary Legacy

    Resource Type: Book
    Besancenot and Löwy explore and situate Guevara's ethical, revolutionary, and humanist legacy.
  472. Beshara, Robert K.: Language for Resisting Oppression
    Review of Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Review of the Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left by Ian Parker.
  473. Beslav, Lina: Five Revealing Facts About Homeless Youth
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The federal government has set a goal of ending youth homelessness by 2020 with Opening Doors, a strategic plan released in 2010. But as the plan acknowledges, figuring out how many youth are homeless is no easy task.
  474. Besliu, Raluca: Romania's 'occupy forests' movement demands clampdown on corporate crime
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A growing protest movement is demanding strong controls on international investors and logging companies buying up Romania's forests. In its sights is Austria-based Schweighofer, which stands accused of criminal malpractice and accepting illegal timber shipments. The popular outrage stirred up by corporate misdeeds is now stimulating a wider democratic revival.
  475. Best, Xavier: Crimea, El Salvador & the Fight Against Public Participation
    Policing "Irresponsibility"

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    On the Obama administration's disregard for democracy and public participation. Examples include the administration's silence on the coup against democratically-elected Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych and its threats to withhold development aid from El Salvador unless the winner of its presidential elections, the FMLN’s Sánchez Cerén, adopts right-wing economic and social policies.
  476. Best, Xavier: The Flood From the North
    Washington's Role in Triggering the Child Migrant Crisis

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    International law and basic morality demand that the children of Central America are treated with the care and dignity that they and previous generations have been robbed under several decades of US foreign and immigration policy. Achieving this end would require overcoming the convenient myths of power and the culture of indifference in which they take root.
  477. Beswick, Billy: The Peking University Marxist Society and Student Activists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Their report on the living and working conditions of university staff approaches Mao's suggestion that 'knowledge of any kind is inseparable from direct experience' when it states that 'it is only through practice that you can produce genuine knowledge.'
  478. Betcherman, Lita Rose: The Swastika and the Maple Leaf
    Fascist Movements in Canada in the Thirities

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    Betcherman deals with Adrien Arcand and other leading Canadian fascists of the 1930s, as well as Swastika Clubs, and fascist movements in the west.
  479. Betcherman, Lita-Rose: The Little Band
    The Clashes Between the Communists and the Political and Legal Establishment in Canada, 1928-1932

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  480. Betzold, Michael: Death of a Sacred Place
    Against The Current vol. 81

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    Special places are disappearing faster than endangered species. Places that move the heart foster messy attachments. They're unwieldy. The global economy prefers its consumers to have portable affections for interchangeable environments.
  481. Beurq, Julia: Bucharest's housing crisis: post-Communist restitution victimises Roma
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Twenty-five Roma families were evicted from an apartment block in Vulturilor Street, Bucharest, in 2014, turned out of homes they had rented from the state for nearly 20 years. The entrance to their alleyway was sealed off with a metal sheet.
  482. Bey, Daniel: How The Guardian Undermines Jeremy Corbyn and the Left
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    teleSUR spoke to David Cromwell and David Edwards, co-editors of Media Lens, about The Guardian and corporate media's bias against Labour party leader Jeremy Cobyn.
  483. Bey, Hakim: The Temporary Autonomous Zone
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1985   Published: 1991
    I believe that by extrapolating from past and future stories about "islands in the net" we may collect evidence to suggest that a certain kind of "free enclave" is not only possible in our time but also existent. All my research and speculation has crystallized around the concept of the TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE (hereafter abbreviated TAZ).
  484. Beynon, Huw: Digging deeper: Issues in the miners' strike
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  485. Bhagavan, M.R.: The Technological Transformation of the Third World
    Strategies and Prospects

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Dr. Bhagavan explores how Third World countries have tried to enforce an effective transfer of technology and technological know-how to their citizens. He argues a new strategy is required so that the technological level of the majority of the population is raised.
  486. Bhaggiyadatta, Krisantha Sri: Welfare Office
    Resource Type: Article
    Trying to get welfare.
  487. Bhalla, Angad Singh: Herman's House
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    'What kind of house does a man who has been imprisoned in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?' This film captures the remarkable creative journey and friendship of Herman Wallace, one of the Angola 3, and artist Jackie Sumell while examining the injustice of prolonged solitary confinement.
  488. Bhan, Mona; Bose, Purnima: Authoritarianism & Lockdown Time in Occupied Kashmir and India
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Under the guise of crises, authoritarian governments can compress time, manipulating it in ways to render decisions that are long in the making seem like spur-of-the-moment measures taken to protect the public interest.
  489. Bhasin, Anuradha: Bringing the Israeli model to Kashmir
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
  490. Bhasin, Kamla; Agarwal, Bina: Women and Media
    Analysis, Alternatives and Action

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  491. Bhatnagar, Dipti; Hasan, Syeda Rizwana: System change means dismantling patriarchy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at patriarchy and the sexual division of labour, and why gender justice is fundamental for meaningful environmental justice, and moreover how grassroots, anti-capitalist feminism is key to system change.
  492. Bhattacharya, Tithi: How Not To Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working Class
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    This essay refutes conceptions of what working class really means by reactivating fundamental Marxist insights about class formation that have been obscured by decades of neoliberalism. The author argues that the key to developing a sufficient understanding of the working class is the framework of social reproduction.
  493. Bhattacharya, Tithi: Ragpicking Through History: Class Memory, Class Struggle and its Archivists 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Our current conjuncture invites a renewed rethinking of two historical imaginaries: first, what is class memory? To ask this question is really to reopen a discussion on what is class struggle – and, more specifically, how does our collective memorialisation of struggles past inform our relationship to struggle in the present. Second, and relatedly, who can be this struggle's archivist?
  494. Bhattacharyya, Sayan: A Struggle in Solidarity with Others: Lessons from a Student Campaign Battling a Giant Corporation
    Against The Current vol. 141

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    I am a graduate student from India, studying at a university in Michigan. Some time ago, I became involved in a campaign to kick the Coca Cola company off the campus because of their treatment of workers and the surrounding community at their plants in India and Colombia.
  495. Bianco, Lucien; Bell, Muriel (trans.): Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1971
    An introduction to China's passage to revolution which takes as its central theme the relationship between China's social crisis and the revolutionary movement.
  496. Bianco, Marcie: One Group Has a Higher Domestic Violence Rate Than Everyone Else - And It's Not the NFL
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    In families of police officers, domestic violence is two-to-four times more likely than in the general population -- from stalking and harassment to sexual assault and even homicide.
  497. Bias, Thomas; Le Blanc, Paul; Palmer, Bryan D.: US Trotskyism 1928-1965 Part I: Emergence
    Left Opposition in the United States

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2019
    The first in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1928 to 1940, surveying labour struggles, contributions to the study of history and Marxist theory, and confrontations and convergences among left currents.
  498. Bias, Thomas; Le Blanc, Paul; Palmer, Bryan D.: US Trotskyism 1928–1965 Part II: Endurance
    The Coming American Revolution. Dissident Marxism in the United States: Volume 3

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2019
    The second in a documentary trilogy of U.S. Trotskyism, this volume spans 1941 to 1956, surveying the Second World War, the post-war strike wave, ongoing struggles against racism, and more.
  499. Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Johnathan: Profit by Fiat
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The current bond rigging scandal, in which banks colluded to rig bids on municipal bonds, was a scam that the banks learned from the mafia, who in turn learned it from the Rockfellers and tehri partners in crime.
  500. Bick, Carolyn: America's hidden homeless: Life in the Starlight Motel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A motel in Massachusetts reveals the extent of the US' hidden homelessness problem. Residents share their stories.
  501. BIDA: A Report on Recent Struggles in Greece
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In periods of crisis, such as the current period of overaccumulation crisis, capitalists use the politics of 'public debt' in order to devise new ways to intensify exploitation. In contrast with capitalist upturns when the private debt is increased, downturns are characterized by the increase of the 'public debt.'
  502. Biddle, Jennifer: Caroline Lund-Sheppard, Sept. 24, 1944-Oct. 14, 2006: A Life Fully Lived
    Against The Current vol. 125

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    It's my favorite photograph of Caroline: She’s just a girl, standing straight up, hands neatly folded in front of her, wearing a long, white tunic, and an exuberantly silly grin.
  503. Biddle, Kurt: Indonesia: Reformasi Betrayed
    Against The Current vol. 89

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    In complete betrayal of the student-led Reformasi (reform) movement, the ruling judge in the Suharto corruption trial dropped the case after hearing a report by a twenty-three member team of court appointed doctors that the former Indonesian dictator was physically and mentally unfit to stand trial.
  504. Biddle, Kurt; Noor, Rivani: Taplok Press, A New Flame
    Against The Current vol. 89

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Reading Left books has become somewhat of a trend in Indonesia. Although the struggle for democracy is far from won, overthrowing the dictator Suharto in 1998 has brought a lot of positive changes for people. One of the most important changes is the ability to openly explore political ideas and the access to information.
  505. Biddle, Sam: Amazon's Ring Planned Neighborhood 'Watch Lists' Built on Facial Recognition
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Amazon's plan to create proactive "watch lists" based on supposed suspicious activity - including facial recognition software - seen by their Ring cameras should alarm anyone who cares about privacy.
  506. Biddle, Sam: Republican Data-Mining Firm Exposed Personal Information for Virtually Every American Voter
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Evidence suggests that Republican-linked election databases were inadvertently exposed to the internet, without password protection, potentially violating the privacy of almost every registered voter in the United States.
  507. Biddle, Sam: This Israeli Presentation on How to Make Drone Strikes More "Efficient" Disturbed Its Audience
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Research backed by the U.S. and Israeli military scandalized a conference near Tel Aviv earlier this year after a presentation showed how the findings would help drone operators more easily locate people -- including targets -- fleeing their strikes and better navigate areas rendered unrecognizable by prior destruction.
  508. Biddulph, Barry: Lenin 1917-18: the road to the authoritarian state.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Lenin’s focus when he returned to Russia in 1917 was on the facts of the revolution, rather than outdated Bolshevik theory. He began with what was real, rather than an abstract possibility.
  509. Biddulph, Barry: Why Vote for a Scottish State ?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Barry Biddulph takes a critical look at, The National Question-Some Basic Principles, by John Molyneux in the Irish Marxist Review and the application of these principles to Scotland by Keir Mckechnie.
  510. Biderman, Morris: 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.
  511. Bidet, Jacques: Capital in context
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Deciphering Capital by Alex Callinicos is the impressive balance sheet of some 30 years of research. Its starting point is a thesis completed at Oxford in 1978 entitled "The Logic of Capital", which distanced him at one and the same time from both the surrounding Hegelian Marxism and the empiricism of Ernest Mandel.
  512. Biebel, Belle M.: Small Business Reference Guide
    Information for the small business owner

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  513. Biehl, Janet: Finding our Way
    Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  514. Biehl, Janet: The Flowers of Rojava: A Feminist Revolution in Northern Syria 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Janet Biehl speaks about her recent visit to Rojava, Kurdistan where Kurdish men and women have organized themselves into a democratic autonomous region.
  515. Biehl, Janet: The Murray Bookchin Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    This collection offers an overview of Bookchin's political philosophy, known as libertarian municipalism, which draws on the best of both Marxism and anarchism for the emancipatory tools to build a democratic libertarian alternative. Consistent throughout his work is a search for ways in which to replace today's capitalist society with a more rational and humane alternative.
  516. Biehl, Janet; Bookchin, Murray: The Politics of Social Ecology
    Libertarian Municipalism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    This book presents an introductory overview and sketches the historical and philosophical context in which the ideas of libertarian municipalism are grounded.
  517. Biehl, Janet; Staudenmaier, Peter: Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Explores the integral role ecological ideas played in German fascism, along with anti-rational, quasi-New Age ideas about nature, blood, and soil. A second essay looks at certain present-day ecological ideologies, notably deep ecology and primitivism, which are fundamentally regressive and authoritarian.
  518. Biel, Robert: Emulating the circle of life
    We need to rethink efficiency in our food system.

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Developing food systems that simulate the processes found in nature can make food production more sustainable.
  519. Bienkowski, Brian: Health experts question handling of songbird-killing Superfund site
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Health experts are questioning the Environmental Protection Agency and Michigan state officials for their decades-long delays in cleanup of a Superfund site that is killing songbirds in yards, possibly leaving people at risk, too.
  520. Bienkowski, Brian: Mass murder by botulism: Surge in Great Lakes bird deaths driven by invaders
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The botulism bacterium "is the most toxic natural substance on Earth. Just one gram could kill off like two million people. And for these birds it's essentially just widespread food poisoning."
  521. Bienkowski, Brian: Songbirds dying from DDT in Michigan yards; Superfund site blamed
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The neighbourhood's songbirds are being poisoned by DDT, a pesticide that was banned in the United States more than 40 years ago. Lethal concentrations were found in the birds' brains, as well as in the worms they eat.
  522. Bienkowski, Brian: Toxic gulls: Quebec's contaminated bird colony offers clues about flame retardants
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Research on Deslauriers and in Canadian laboratories indicates that flame retardants are altering birds’ thyroid hormones, reducing their clutch sizes, damaging their eggs, changing their behavior, shifting their gender ratio toward males and weakening their bones.
  523. Bigelow, William; Diamond, Norman: The Power in Our Hands
    A Curriculum on the History of Work and Workers in the United States

    Resource Type: Book
    Provides entertaining, easy-to-use lesson plans for teaching labour history.
  524. Biggin, P; Buonastella, O; Endicott, M; McKinnon, H; Spano, S; Ublansky, D: Justice for Injured Workers
    The Struggle Continues

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    Published in Journal of Law and Social Policy 41 (1995)
  525. Bihn, Pham: Wall Street occupation ignites mass movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The simple, horizontal structure originally created around a GA using modified consensus has become a barrier to practical and political work by the occupiers and those involved through working groups.
  526. Bikel, Theodore: Grieving the children of Palestine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Through all the turmoil of these last weeks and months I have been tortured by thoughts of children, Jewish children, Palestinian children, Syrian, Iraqi children – all those who most innocently of all, and most grievously of all, are the victims of the Middle East Madness.
  527. Bilbao, Luis: Fifth Socialist International -- Time for definitions
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Although in the past every international socialist organisation was founded amidst great debates and ideological confrontations, the motley crew of factions which all over the world today call themselves 'left' shows an unprecedented degree of ideological confusion and political diversity. It will be a difficult job to bring them together, to give them structure and a route map.
  528. Billeaux, Michael: What Black Lives Matter means for Labor
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    An account and analysis of the centrality of the Black freedom struggle to the working class movement as a whole, arguing that the struggle for Black liberation is a precondition for human liberation generallyand recognizing the deep historical thread connecting the centuries-old struggle for Black freedom in the U.S. and the struggle to organize the working class to fight for workers' power.
  529. Billings, Deborah L.: Woman-Centered, Activist Agendas
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Raising and politicitizing our demands for human rights, including the sexual and reproductive rights of women internationally, will contribute significantly toward improving women's health and respecting women's rights as human rights.
  530. Billington, James H.: Fire in the Minds of Men
    Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980   Published: 1999
  531. Billinton, Steve; Avery, Cheryl: Canadian Archival Resources on the Internet
    Resource Type: Website
    Comprehensive list of links to Canadian archives and associated resources on the Internet.
  532. Bills, E.R.: The Lynching of Ted Smith
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    An account of the brutal slaying of Ted Smith, an African American teen who was burned at the stake by a mob of white men in Greenville, Texas on July 28, 1908.
  533. Billson, Janet Mancini; Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn (eds.): Female Well-Being
    Toward a global theory of social change

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
  534. Bilton, Michael ; Sim, Kevin: Four Hours in My Lai
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  535. Bindel, Julie: Surrogacy: Human right, or just wrong?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2023
    Whether it is altruistic or for-profit, surrogacy is exploitation -- it turns the female body into a commodity for hire. Those gushing about the joy surrogacy brings to the lives of commissioning parents, and claiming it is a 'human right' to have a biological child, should take some time to consider the many wrongs being done to the women used as surrogates.
  536. Bingham, Russell: Viola Desmond
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The story of Viola Desmond's refusal to accept an act of racial discrimination, a stand that provided inspiration to a later generation of Blacks in Nova Scotia and in the rest of Canada.
  537. Binh, Pham: The Case for Socialism
    Resource Type: Article
    A series of articles making the case for socialism.
  538. Binh, Pham: The Evil of the Lesser Evil
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Lesser-evilism as a progressive strategy has succeeded -- succeeded in making American politics progressively more and more right-wing.
  539. Binh, Pham: Lessons of the Spanish Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
  540. Binh, Pham: The Nuts and Bolts of Occupy Wall Street
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  541. Binh, Pham: Occupy and the Tasks of Socialists 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  542. Binh, Pham: Pham Binh's historical survey of demands
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  543. Binh, Pham: A response to Paul LeBlanc’s “Marxism and Organization”
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    We need to be flexible tactically and organizationally while remaining steadfast on our goals.
  544. Binh, Pham: Thinking of Joining the ISO?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    My goal in writing this is to encourage a fundamental re-thinking of “Leninist” party-building efforts in order to help end the unnecessary separation between the socialist movement and the working class that has blocked both movements from beginning to reverse the balance of class forces in America. I strongly believe such party-building efforts have helped perpetuate rather than undermine this crippling separation.
  545. Binh, Pham: Thinking of Joining the ISO?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A critical examination of the ISO’s methods, practices, and structures compared to those of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) which the ISO holds up as its organizing model, as well as some suggestions for a better, more effective political practice.
  546. Binh, Pham: Trotskyism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  547. Birchall, Ian: Ian Birchall reviews Ernie Tate's 'Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Anyone who was active in Britain's Vietnam Solidarity Campaign (VSC) in the late 1960s will remember Ernie Tate, whose energy and enthusiasm made such a contribution. Now, 45 years later, he has published two volumes of memoirs from the 1950s and 1960s.
  548. Birchall, Ian: Lenin: Yes! Leninism: No?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    It is currently a commonplace on the left and not-so-left to announce that Leninism is dead. Indeed, one might wonder why it is necessary to keep repeating the point. Nobody is writing articles to explain that alchemy or social credit are dead. The enthusiasm to bury Leninism tells us that this is something that people want to be dead.
  549. Birchall, Ian: Response to May '68 Revisited
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    "May '68 was another step in the modernization of French capitalism." So was 1789, but it was a lot more too.
  550. Birchall, Ian: Workers Against the Monolith
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    How the so-called Communist parties became forces of order and counter-revolution.
  551. Bird, John; Fortune, John: Bird and Fortune - Subprime Crisis
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2008
    The Subprime mortgage crisis explained. John Bird and John Fortune (the Long Johns) brilliantly, and accurately, describing the mindset of the investment banking community in this satirical interview.
  552. Bird, Pat: Of dust and time and dreams and agonies
    A short history of Canadian people

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
  553. Bird, Stewart; Robillota, Peter: The Wobblies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
  554. Birkhold, Matthew: Living by the Clock of the World: Grace Lee Boggs' Call for Visionary Organizing
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Grace Lee Boggs recently argued that activists should spend less time on protest organizing because it "leads you more and more to defensive operations" and "Do visionary organizing" because it "gives you the opportunity to encourage the creative capacity in people and it’s very fulfilling."
  555. Birn, Ruth Bettina; Finkelstein, Norman G.: A Nation on Trial
    The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    A critical examination of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's work, "Hitler's Willing Executioners."
  556. Birnel, Alex; Day, Meagan: Off the Map: Disabilities and Just Mobility
    People with disabilities who rely on local public transit are getting squeezed between gentrification and austerity.

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    An examination of the tensions between investment driven public transit improvements and displacement of less affluent residents; with particular reference to people with mobility issues or disabilities.
  557. Biron, Carey L.: Half of U.S. Farmland Being Eyed by Private Equity
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    An estimated 400 million acres of farmland in the United States will likely change hands over the coming two decades as older farmers retire, even as new evidence indicates this land is being strongly pursued by private equity investors. In the long term, this dynamic could speed up the already fast-consolidating U.S. food industry, with broad ramifications for both human and environmental health.
  558. Bisharat, George: 'The Forced Displacement of Palestinians Never Truly Ended
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    As Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary, a child and grandchild of exiled Palestinian reflects on the Nakba, where 750,000 were driven from their homes or fled in terror following massacres of Palestinian civilians by Jewish militias.
  559. Bisharat, George: Gaza Occupation And Siege Are Illegal
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Collective punishment is specifically barred under Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Israeli officials have repeatedly stated that the objective of the blockade is to weaken the Gaza economy and undermine support for Hamas. That is a political, not a military, objective, and it is impermissible under international law to target innocent civilians to achieve nonmilitary goals. Actions taken to enforce an illegal siege cannot themselves be legal. Israel's blockade violates the human rights of Gaza Palestinians and must be brought to an end.
  560. Bisharat, George: How Israel Stacks the Legal Deck
    Court System Provides Little Justice for Palestinians

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    To Palestinians, Israeli military courts are sites of repression, not houses of justice. Palestinian defendants facing trial in 2010 were found guilty in 99.74% cases.
  561. Bishop, Elaine: Criminal Justiice
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
  562. Bishop, Elaine; Harkins, Kathy (eds.): Bulletin of the Quaker Jails and Justice Committee
    Vol. 1 No. 5

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    Irregularly published newsletter outlining some of the current concerns and activities of the Quaker Committee.
  563. Bishop, Maurice: In Nobody's Backyard
    Maurice Bishop's Speeches 1979-1983: A Memorial Volume

    Resource Type: Book
    A collection of Maurice Bishop's speeches accompanied by an introduction from Richard Hart, former Attorney-General of Grenada under the New Jewel Movement.
  564. Bissonette, Jamie: When the Prisoners Ran Walpole 
    A true story in the movement for prison abolition

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    In the months before they took over running the Walople maximum-security facility in 1973, prisoners and outside advocates created programs that sent more prisoners home for good. This account reveals what can happen when there is public will for change and trust that the incarcerated can achieve it.
  565. Bissonnette, Sophie; Duckworth, Martin; Rock, Joyce: A Wives' Tale
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  566. Bissoondath, Neil: 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.
  567. Biswas, K.: UK and France: far right’s opposing fortunes
    Le Pen stands for president, Griffin can’t get elected

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    France’s Front National is pushing to become part of the political mainstream, while the UK’s British National Party has returned to the fringes.
  568. Bjorkman, Ingrid: Mother, Sing for Me
    People's Theatre in Kenya

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    This play, acted by the villagers of Kamiriithu, was banned after a few public rehearsals. The Kenyan authorities subsequently ordered the total destruction of the village cultural centre which had been the play's birthplace. The thousands who saw the rehearsals recognized the play's message that the oppression of colonial times still bore down on them in the 1980s and the key to freedom lay in rejecting the divisive myth of tribalism and uniting as Kenyans.
  569. Black Lives Matter: 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.
  570. black Orchid Collective: The Radicalization of Decolonize/Occupy Seattle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    A report on Occupy Seattle 2011.
  571. Black, Debra: 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.
  572. Black, Edwin: IBM and the Holocaust
    The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Nazi Germany employed IBM Hollerith punch-card machines to perform critical tasks in carrying out the Holocaust and the German war effort, cranking out lists of Jews which were then turned over to the SS for deportation and eventual extermination.
  573. Black, Errol; Black, Tom: The East End Community Centre
    Working class socialism on a small scale

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1983
    The politics of the East End was manifested in two ways. This particular story focuses on the building of a community club. This story merits telling both because it is indicative of the capacity working class people have to build institutions which enhance life in their neighbourhoods, and because the community club, at least in the form it finally took in the East End and other working class areas in Brandon, has many of the characteristics of a socialist institution.
  574. Black, George: Triumph of the People
    The Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua

    Resource Type: Book
    This is the story of Latin America's first successful revolution since Cuba. Here is the first major study of the Sandinista Revolution. It focuses mainly on the years of armed struggle and on the exciting process of consolidation. It shows how the Samoza dynasty came to power and what kind of distorted capitalist "family state" it built under U.S. patronage. The author then tells the story of the overthrow of the dictatorship.
  575. Black, Ian: Saudi Arabia's foreign labour crackdown drives out 2m migrants
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Ethiopian workers face hostility amid 'Saudisation' campaign to control foreign labour and get more Saudi citizens into work.
  576. Black, Maggie: International Development: Illusions and realities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    Explores the myriad shapes of development, and argues for an organic approach driven by the people it's meant to benefit.
  577. Black, Maggie: The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development
    Resource Type: Book
  578. Black, Maggie: The No-Nonsense Guide to The United Nations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Conveys the complexity of the UN, assesses its record, and considers options for reform.
  579. Black, Maggie: The No-Nonsense Guide to Water
    Resource Type: Book
  580. Black, Simon: The Importance of Making Trouble: In conversation with Frances Fox Piven
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Coversation with Frances Fox Piven, a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the City of University of New York Graduate Centre and the past president of the American Sociological Association, about the importnace of social movements and upcoming 2016 US election.
  581. Blackadder, Derek: Evaluating the virtual picket line
    Italian union's Second Life information picket tests worth of a potentially valuable tool

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The organizers of the Second Life online action see it as a tool, a tactic as part of a larger campaign -- not necessarily a campaign-wining strategy.
  582. Blackadder, Derek: Facebook Facts
    Finding Friends and Foes

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Unions and workers are making much use of the latest web fad: social networking sites. But are sites like Facebook really adding anything to our ability to organize? If yes, how, exactly? And where are the pitfalls in using online commercial sites for organizing?
  583. Blackburn, Robin: Age Shock
    How Finance is Failing Us

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Blackburn examines the realities of an aging demographic in the midst of the disintegration, from both a monetary and social obligation perspective, of sound financial conditions for the elderly.
  584. Blackburn, Robin: The American Crucible 
    Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Robin Blackburn, an acclaimed historian of slavery, discusses the emergence of anti-slavery ideas and the important events that paved the way for abolitionist movements.
  585. Blackburn, Robin: The Making of New World Slavery
    From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Traces the development of slavery in the new world, with its origins in trade and business enterprise.
  586. Blackburn, Robin: The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery: 1776-1848
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988   Published: 2011
    An evocation of the diverse nature of New World slavery in the Revolutionary Age.
  587. Blackburn, Robin: 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.
  588. Blackford, Russell; Schuklenk, Udo (eds.): 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    A collection of essays from international figures in fields of academia, science, literature, media and politics who explain why they are atheists.
  589. Blackledge, Paul: Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2019
  590. Blackledge, Paul: The Great Schism
    Socialism and War in 1914

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    This article sketches the limitations of Second International Marxism before outlining the strengths and weaknesses of Lenin’s alternative.
  591. Blackledge, Paul: In perspective: John Holloway
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    John Holloway’s Change the World Without Taking Power (2002), like that other key text of autonomist post-Marxism, Michael Hardt and Toni Negri’s Empire (2000), cut with the grain of the global anti-capitalist mood at the beginning of the millennium. More than this, Holloway’s book was the focus for important debates on the international left and deserves praise both for emphasising the link between socialism and human self-activity and for criticising the idea that the capitalist state can be used to bring about socialist change.
  592. Blackledge, Paul: Left reformism, the state and the problem of socialist politics today
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The recent calls for the British left either to “reclaim Labour” (Len McCluskey) or to build a new party capable of emulating Syriza’s successes in Greece (Ken Loach) demand serious consideration on these pages. At their core these proposals reflect a widespread desire, shared by members of the Socialist Workers Party, to fight the cuts, alongside revulsion at the Labour Party’s failure to do so. They also reflect a genuine excitement across the left about the prospects for new left formations such as Syriza and France’s similar Front de Gauche.
  593. Blackledge, Paul: Left reformism, the state and the problem of socialist politics today
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Blackledge claims that, while it is of the first importance that revolutionaries welcome and work alongside these coalitions, it is also imperative that we maintain our political independence from them so that we are better able to struggle for an alternative beyond the limitations of their politics. This perspective demands a clear analysis of the nature of reformism.
  594. Blackledge, Paul: Once more on left reformism: A reply to Ed Rooksby
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Paul Blackledge replies to Ed Rooksby’s arguements about left reformism.
  595. Blackmon, Douglas A.: Slavery by Another Name
    The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    An account of how African Americans were forcibly enslaved by a corrupt legal system in the southern States, from the end of the Civil War through WWII.
  596. Blackstock, Nelson: Cointelpro
    The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    The first in-depth look at the covert and illegal FBI counterintelligence program - code-name COINTELPRO.
  597. Blain, Harry: The Troubling Link Between Attacks on Immigrants and Repression of Labor
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the targeting of immigrants and its connection to attacks on labour movements, and how it leads to disturbing increases in violations of civil liberties.
  598. Blake, Evan: California drought: agribusiness, fracking untouched by water rationing
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    California has responded to the drought by rationing water, with $500 fines for domestic 'water wasters'. But agribusiness and water-intensive industries like fracking remain untouched by the restrictions, even though they consume over 90% of the state's water.
  599. Blake, William: William Blake Quotes
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  600. Blakemore, Erin: The U.S. Forcibly Detained Native Alaskans During World War II
    In the name of safety, Aleuts were held against their will under intolerable conditions in internment camps

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A brief history of the internment of the Aleut people of Alaska during WWII.
  601. Blanc, Chen: The History Behind the Organizer of the Water War 
    Oscar Olivera remembers how the Bolivian people took back their land and their power

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Many know Oscar Olivera as the voice and the organizer of the water war in Cochabamba in 2000. Others remember his experience as a factory worker.
  602. Blanc, Eric: National Liberation and Bolshevism Reexamined
    A View from the Borderlands

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A view from the Czarist empire's borderlands obliges us to rethink many long-held assumptions about the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, as well as the development of Marxist approaches to national liberation, peasant struggle, permanent revolution, and the emancipation of women.
  603. Blanc, Eric: Revolutionary roots of women's suffrage: Finland 1906 - an International Women's Day tribute
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Eric Blanc traces the revolutionary roots of the suffrage victory of Finnish women. He focuses on the autonomous activities of the League of Working Women.
  604. Blanc, Eric (Selection, translation, and annotation): 1917: The View from the Streets #8 - 'The only guarantee of Polish independence is international solidarity'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1917   Published: 2017
    One hundred years ago, on March 17 (4) 1917, the following appeal calling on Polish workers to support the Russian Revolution and fight for Polish independence was adopted at a rally of Polish socialist workers in Petrograd.
  605. Blanchard, Peter: People - & Planet-Friendly Events & Information
    Bringing people together over ideas that matter

    Resource Type: Website
    Event calendar, job listings and other resources related to sustainable living, environment, and peace.
  606. Blankfort, Jeffrey: ADL Spies
    The Strange History of the Anti-Defamation League

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    2013 marks the 20th anniversary of the exposure of a nation-wide spying operation run by the ADL that went back at least five decades.
  607. Blankfort, Jeffrey: The Israel Lobby and the Left: Uneasy Questions
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
  608. Blankfort, Jeffrey; Poirier, Anne; Zeltzer, Steve: The ADL Spying Case Is Over, But The Struggle Continues
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    The Anti-Defamation League, an organization that claims to be a defender of civil rights, has engaged in a vast spying operation directed against American citizens opposed to Israel’s policies in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza and to the apartheid policies of the government of South Africa.
  609. Blau, Uri: Dead Palestinian Babies And Bombed Mosques - IDF Fashion 2009
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days to print on shirts they order to mark the end of training, or of field duty. The slogans accompanying the drawings are not exactly anemic either: A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription "Better use Durex," next to a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother and a teddy bear beside him. A sharpshooter's T-shirt from the Givati Brigade's Shaked battalion shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a bull's-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, in English, "1 shot, 2 kills."
  610. Blau, Uri: Israeli Company 'Doing Good' Using Luxembourg Outpost
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The international business and philanthropic group led by Israel's richest woman includes a Luxembourg subsidiary that shares its address with more than 1200 other companies, and uses complex financial structures like internal loans and hybrid tools, according to analysis of secret tax documents by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
  611. Blaug, Ricardo: Outbreaks of Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    For most of its history, democracy was seen as a degenerate mode of politics, much feared for its reliance on a populace seen as foolish and volatile. Yet since the adoption of representation in the eighteenth century, and the provision of an institutional place for democracy at the level of the state, we have laid to rest those dangerous images of noisy and volatile mobs, constant mass assemblies and endless inefficient talk. With the people being ruled by proxy, and periodically consenting to elite rule in elections, we have found a way to combine legitimacy with decency and viability.
  612. Blaut, James M.: The National Question
    Marxist Theory and National Liberation

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    This major exploration of the Marxist theory of national struggle takes issue with various modern contributors, notably Hobsbawm and Nairn. Professor Blaut draws on his wide experience of the Third World to argue that Marxist theory can be a powerful weapon for liberation struggles against colonialism and neo-colonialism. He suggests ways to strengthen the theory, particularly when trying to understand minorities in Western and Third World societies.
  613. Blazak, Randy: Who the Hell is Supporting Donald Trump?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Somehow the Trump shell game has gained followers. So the question is now, who the hell are these people voting for Trump?
  614. Blechman, Max: Drunken Boat
    Art, rebellion, anarchy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    A journal specifically devoted to anarchism and the arts. Novels, short stories, film, video, music, collage, dance, painting, poetry, theater, performance art, aesthetics and the idea of "art" itself and those are some of the subjects discussed in articles that have appeared in this journal.
  615. Bliss, Laura: A Comprehensive Map of American Lynchings
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A look at the practice of lynching in the United States through to the 1960's, where thousands of non-white Americans, mostly black, were killed in public acts of terror. A new map project called 'Monroe Work Today', named after the pioneering sociologist, shows that lynching was not limited to the southern states.
  616. Blizzard, William C.; Harris, Wess ed.: When Miners March
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    Complete with previously unpublished family photos and documents, When Miners March is an extraordinary insiders account of the uprising by coal miners that defined the West Virginia Mine Wars of the 1920's.
  617. Block, Diana: No To Preventive Detention: From Palestine, to Guantanamo, to U.S. Jails!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    On administrative detention of 500 Palestinians when they announced a boycott of Israeli military courts.
  618. Block, Dr. Suzy: Hot Wet Holiday Sex
    From Wikileaky Condoms to Yucky Zuckerburg

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Whatever your preferences, do go on some kind of holiday sex adventure. Try not to hurt anyone, including yourself, and whatever your pleasure, enjoy it and infuse it with a sense of *sacred* solstice power, a promise to resist the deadly status quo of depression, perma-war and power-grabs, and a passionate commitment to love.
  619. Block, Elizabeth: If Canada were a Christian state
    What would Canada be like if it were a Christian state in the same sense that Israel is a Jewish state?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    What apartheid looks like in Israel, and what it would like in Canada.
  620. Block, Susan: The Bonobo Way
    The Evolution of Peace through Pleasure

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    Author Susan Block writes: "The most revolutionary way bonobos use sex is for conflict resolution. It’s the main reason why these apes are my heroes."
  621. Block, Susan: Cucks, Cuckolding and Campaign Management
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Talk about a bunch of sad sacks that really stink in the sack. The Trumpocalypse is ruining sex for the rest of us.
  622. Block, Susan: Lupercalian Valentine's Day
    Whip It Good

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The tradition of honoring all-inclusive, natural LUST around February 14 pre-dates classical times when Ancient Romans celebrated the Lupercalia, an archaic festival of the now obscure old shepherd god Lupercus (or perhaps Faunus, the Roman Pan), and a celebration of communal sexuality, purification, fertility, the rush of hormones, the howl of the wolf, the crack of the whip and the coming of Spring.
  623. Block, Susan: Make 2015 the Year of the Bonobo!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    We humans have much to learn from our kissing cousins, the peaceful, empathic, playful, sensual and highly sexual Bonobo. Rather than play out the myth of ancestral 'killer apes', better follow the 'Bonobo Way', and extend our love to all living beings and Earth herself.
  624. Block, Susan: Our Promiscuous Prehistory
    A Review of Sex at Dawn

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Most otherwise topnotch evolutionary psychologists, primatologists and anthropologists come up with flip, vague or convoluted ways to explain away unpopular evidence. They seem to be trying to squeeze the square peg of monogamy into the round hole of humanity. Ryan and Jethá have chosen a more well-rounded term to characterize the essence of human sexuality as practiced by our prehistoric progenitors: promiscuity.
  625. Block, Susan: RIP Betty Dodson, Sex Revolutionary
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    The great sex revolutionary and Godmother of Masturbation, Dr. Betty Dodson (1929-2020), one of my most beloved mentors, died on the Blue Moon of Halloween night.
  626. Block, Susan: Secret Sexual Fantasies
    The Erotic Theater of the Mind

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Your fantasies are always with you, playing hide-and-seek with your perceived realities, whispering wild ideas into your inner ear, showing movies in your mind, stirring your passions mysteriously, yet so powerfully. If you are imprisoned in any way–by your work, your family, your education, your religion, your government–your fantasies become your freedom. Sometimes your ability to fantasize is the only freedom you have.
  627. Blomberg, Les: Noise, Sovereignty, and Civility
    Resource Type: Article
    Noise is caused by people and businesses claiming rights, usually property rights, to emit noise into the air, and by people who do not possess the civility to be good neighbors. While its effects are an environmental health issue, its causes are tied to the issues of sovereignty (who owns the air?) and civility (how should we treat our neighbors?).
  628. Blomqvist, Hakan: Sweden's Potato Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Together with the other Nordic countries Sweden was spared from the First World War but suffered food shortages and other hardships due to the surrounding conflicts.
  629. Blomqvist, Håkan: Stieg Larsson in the Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 151

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Stieg Larsson came to support the Vietnamese liberation struggle in 1968, when he was only 14 years old. He joined the Kommunistiska Arbetarförbundet — (The Communist Workers League), the Swedish section of the Fourth International –– around 1974 in the northern town of Umeå. There he distributed the party’s paper for soldiers –Röd Soldat (Red Soldier) — among the conscripts in his infantry regiment.
  630. Blood, Peter et al: Understanding and Fighting Sexism
    Resource Type: Book
  631. Blood, Peter; Tuttle, Alan; Lakey, George: Off Their Backs ...and on our own two feet
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1983
  632. Blood-Patterson, Peter: Rise Up Singing
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    There was a time when singing was a part of everyday life. Rise Up Singing was compiled to help bring song back into our lives, and especially to bring singing more strongly into the movement for social change.
  633. Bloom, Jack: Peter Camejo at Berkeley
    Against The Current vol. 139

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    I met and worked with Peter Camejo in Berkeley during the latter half of the ’60s. He was a leader of the Socialist Workers Party and the Young Socialist Alliance there, while I was active in the Independent Socialist Clubs, which later became the International Socialists. Peter was always a hard-driving speaker who always knew what he wanted to say, and he could say it elegantly.
  634. Bloom, Jack M.: 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.
  635. Bloom, Joshua; Martin, Waldo: Black against Empire
    The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Black against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party.
  636. Bloom, Joshue; Martin, Waldo E. Jr.: Black against Empire
    The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party.
  637. Bloom, Steve: 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.
  638. Bloom, Steve: Democratic Revolution and Socialist Revolution: A Reply to Malik Miah
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    IN ATC 75 Malik Miah presents an analysis of events surrounding the fall of Indonesian President Suharto (“Indonesia's Democratic Revolution”). As a descriptive report of what has been happening in that country, Steve Bloom says, his effort is valuable to activists. However, as an analytical assessment of what is at stake the article falls short.
  639. Bloom, Steve: The Implacable Russell Maroon Shoatz
    Book review

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A book review of Maroon the Implacable The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz
  640. Bloom, Steve: The Jericho `98 March: Amnesty and Freedom for All Political Prisoners
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    Pushing for justice and freedom for political prisoners in the United States.
  641. Bloom, Steve: 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.
  642. Bloom, Steve; Goodwin, Dayne: Rebuilding the Antiwar Movement
    Against The Current vol. 152

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    First, thanks to David Grosser for starting an important discussion. However, as two socialists who have been involved in antiwar organizing, we think the problem is more complex than he suggests. Further, the specific solution he calls for would mistakenly shift the focus of the movement away from mass action as a strategic orientation.
  643. Blowe, Kevin: How the cops try to predict our next move
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    As civil dissent ramps up, UK secret police develop new modes of repression. Kevin Blowe reports on cops, kettles and a database profiling thousands of activists.
  644. Bloy, Colin H.: A History of Printing Ink, Balls and Rollers
    1440-1850

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  645. Blue Pilgrimage: How Israel Abuses Africans
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    Part 2 of 3 - interview with community activist Rami Gudovitch about state-sponsored Israeli racism towards non-Jewish Africah asylum-seekers.
  646. Blue Pilgrimage: Israel's War on Africans
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2014
    72-minute slideshow about Israel's treatment of non-Jewish African asylum-seekers, given at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada on March 9, 2014.
  647. Blum, Paul Von: Book Review: This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Book Review of "This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible" by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
  648. Blum, William: Afghanistan 1979-1992
    America's Jihad

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of CIA and American involvement in Afghanistan since 1979
  649. Blum, William: AIPAC's Doomsday Conference
    It's the End of the World Again

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Iran, Israel, and the improbability of nuclear attack.
  650. Blum, William: American Exceptionalism: The Naked Truth
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A large number of Americans hold a deeply-held conviction that no matter what the US does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the government of the United States means well. American leaders may make mistakes, they may blunder, they may lie, they may even on many occasions cause more harm than good, but they do mean well. Their intentions are always honorable, even noble. Of that the great majority of Americans are certain.And Americans genuinely wonder why the rest of the world can’t see how benevolent and self-sacrificing America has been. Even many people who take part in the anti-war movement have a hard time shaking off some of this mindset; they march to spur America -- the America they love and worship and trust -- they march to spur this noble America back onto its path of goodness.
  651. Blum, William: America's Deadliest Export: Democracy 
    The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Since World War II, the world has believed that US foreign policy means well, and that America’s motives in spreading democracy are honorable, even noble. William Blum, a leading non-mainstream chronicler of American foreign policy, argues that nothing could be further from the truth. Moreover, unless this fallacy is unlearned, and until people understand fully the worldwide suffering American policy has caused, we will never be able to stop the monster.
  652. Blum, William: The Anti-Empire Report #124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A review of historical and current American imperialist activities.
  653. Blum, William: The Anti-Empire Report #126
    Ukraine

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    When it gets complicated and confusing, when you’re overwhelmed with too much information, changing daily; too many explanations, some contradictory … try putting it into some kind of context by stepping back and looking at the larger, long-term picture.
  654. Blum, William: The Anti-Empire Report #127
    Indoctrinating a new generation

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Is there anyone out there who still believes that Barack Obama, when he’s speaking about American foreign policy, is capable of being anything like an honest man?
  655. Blum, William: The Anti-Empire Report #153
    Cold War Number One: 70 years of daily national stupidity. Cold War Number Two: Still in its youth, but just as

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A comentary on current events in Russian and US relations which may be entering a new Cold War, as well as a look back at events through the Cold War period from 1948 to the 1980's.
  656. Blum, William: The Anti-Empire Report #132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Each of you I’m sure has met many people who support American foreign policy, with whom you’ve argued and argued. You point out one horror after another, from Vietnam to Iraq. From god-awful bombings and invasions to violations of international law and torture. And nothing helps. Nothing moves this person. Now why is that? Are these people just stupid? I think a better answer is that they have certain preconceptions. Consciously or unconsciously, they have certain basic beliefs about the United States and its foreign policy, and if you don’t deal with these basic beliefs you may as well be talking to a stone wall. The most basic of these basic beliefs, I think, is a deeply-held conviction that no matter what the United States does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the government of the United States means well.
  657. Blum, William: The Anti-Empire Report #140
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Are you confused by the Middle East? Here are some things you should know. (But you'll probably still be confused.)
  658. Blum, William: The Anti-Empire Report #150
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Anti-Empire Report by William Blum.
  659. Blum, William: The Berlin Wall: Another Cold War Myth
    A Response to Economic Sabotage

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    November 9 marks the 25th anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. The extravagant hoopla began months ago in Berlin. In the United States we can expect all the Cold War clichés about The Free World vs. Communist Tyranny to be trotted out.
  660. Blum, William: A Brief History of Superpowers
    The Neck Irons of Empire

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    From the Congress of Vienna of 1815 to the Congress of Berlin in 1878 to the “Allies” invasion of Russia in 1918 to the formation of what became the European Union in the 1950s, the great powers of Europe and the world have gotten together in grand meeting halls and on the field of battle to set the ground rules for imperialist exploitation of Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Australasia, to Christianize and ‘civilize’, to remake the maps, and to suppress revolutions and other threats to great-power hegemony.
  661. Blum, William: Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991
    Teaching Communists What Democracy is All About

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of American intervention in the Bulgarian and Albanian elections of 1990-1991
  662. Blum, William: The CIA
    A Forgotten History

    Resource Type: Book
    Describes the CIA's role in overthrowing governments, rigging elections, assassinating leaders, and manufacturing "news" in over 50 countries.
  663. Blum, William: The CIA: A Forgotten History
    U.S. Global Interventions Since World War II

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    This book tells the remarkable story of the multifarious US/CIA interventions in more than fifty foreign countries. Here are all the details of these exploits, the operations behind the overthrow of governments, suppression of revolutions, perversions of elections, assassination of leaders, manipulation of trade unions and other organizations. Here is the account of each of the most significant American interventions.
  664. Blum, William: Cuba 1959 to 1980s
    The Unforgivable Revolution

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA's continuing covert war against Cuba.
  665. Blum, William: Eavesdropping on the Planet
    The Inalienable Right to Snoop?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Like a mammoth vacuum cleaner in the sky, the National Security Agency (NSA) sucks it all up: home phone, office phone, cellular phone, email, fax, telex … satellite transmissions, fiber-optic communications traffic, microwave links … voice, text, images … captured by satellites continuously orbiting the earth, then processed by high-powered computers … if it runs on electromagnetic energy, NSA is there, with high high tech. Twenty-four hours a day. Perhaps billions of messages sucked up each day. No one escapes. Not presidents, prime ministers, the UN Secretary-General, the pope, the Queen of England, embassies, transnational corporation CEOs, friend, foe, your Aunt Lena …
  666. Blum, William: Ecuador 1960-1963
    A Textbook of Dirty Tricks

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA-backed coups in Ecuador of 1960-1963.
  667. Blum, William: Freeing the World to Death
    Essays on the American Empire

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    A collection of essays written by William Blum, some of which were published over the past decade in various magazines and anthologies, some appeared in his regular internet newsletter: The Anti-Empire Report, some which appeared only on his website, and some written explicitly for this book.
  668. Blum, William: From Portugal to Egypt: a Cautionary Tale
    The Anti-Empire Report

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The events in Egypt cannot help but remind me of Portugal. Here, there, and everywhere, now and before, the United States of America, as always, is petrified of anything genuinely progressive or socialist, or even too democratic, for that carries the danger of allowing god-knows what kind of non-America-believer taking office.
  669. Blum, William: Guatemala 1962 to 1980s
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the United States' repeated intereventions in Guatemala.
  670. Blum, William: Haiti: An Example of Fake News by Omission
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The main problem with the mainstream media today, as in the past, is not 'fake news' but what is left out of articles dealing with controversial issues.
  671. Blum, William: Hypocrisy Reigns
    Don't Forsake the Struggle

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    When Israel labels as "terrorists" the ship passengers who offered some resistance to the Israeli invaders, who points out that the passengers who resisted the 9-11 highjackers on the plane which crashed in Pennsylvania are called "heroes"?
  672. Blum, William: If You Like Obama, You'll Love Trump!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Oh, what fun we have with the nonsense that flows out of the mouth of Donald J. Trump. The man is suffocatingly banal, racist, dishonest, inarticulate, uninformed, uneducated, narcissistic, a bully, just plain stupid, and an asshole (or in the immortal words of my people -- a schmuck!) I would guess that as the boss of his own enterprises for many years, with the power and the habit of firing people, he eventually became deeply accustomed to not having his thoughts seriously questioned or challenged, to the extent that he really believes the crap that comes out of his mouth and doesn’t really understand what others actually think of him.
  673. Blum, William: Indonesia 1957-1958
    War and Pornography

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA's failed 1958 attempt to overthrow president Sukarno of Indonesia
  674. Blum, William: Iraq 1990-1991
    Desert Holocaust

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the American invasion of Iraq (Desert Shield) in 1990-91.
  675. Blum, William: It Doesn't Matter to Them If It's Untrue. It's a Higher Truth.
    The Anti-Empire Report

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The lies used to justify the US/NATO attack on Libya.
  676. Blum, William: 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."
  677. Blum, William: Libya and the World We Live In
    The Holy Triumvirate

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The Holy Triumvirate — The United States, NATO and the European Union — recognizes no higher power and believes, literally, that it can do whatever it wants in the world, to whomever it wants, for as long as it wants, and call it whatever it wants, like “humanitarian”.
  678. Blum, William: Osama Bin Laden, Bradley Manning and Me
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    As far as can be deduced, the government believes that the documents and videos that Bradley Manning gave to Wikileaks, which Wikileaks then widely distributed to international media, aided the enemy because it put US foreign policy in a very bad light.
  679. Blum, William: Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
  680. Blum, William: The Plague of Nationalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Catalan nationalists insist that "self-determination" is an inalienable right and cannot be curbed by the Spanish Constitution. Well, then, why stop with an "autonomous community" as Catalonia is designated? Why don’t provinces everywhere have the right to declare their independence? How about cities? Or neighbourhoods?
  681. Blum, William: Political correctness demands diversity in everything but thought
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    For 50 years I've been painstakingly cataloguing the brutal militarism and human-rights violations of US foreign policy, building up in the process a very loyal audience. To my great surprise, when I recently wrote about the brutal militarism and human-rights violations of the Islamic State, I received more criticism from my readers than I've gotten for anything I've ever written. Dozens of them asked to be removed from my mailing list, as many as I'd normally get in a full year. Others were convinced that it couldn’t actually be me who was the author of such words, that I must have been hacked. Some wondered whether my recent illness had affected my mind. Literally! And almost all of the Internet magazines which regularly print me did not do so with this article.
  682. Blum, William: The Punishment of Cuba
    The USA as Judge, Jury and Executioner

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    For years American political leaders and media were fond of labeling Cuba an "international pariah". We haven’t heard that for a very long time. Perhaps one reason is the annual vote in the United Nations General Assembly on the resolution which reads: "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba".
  683. Blum, William: Putting Syria Into Some Perspective
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The 19th- and 20th-century colonialist-imperialist mentality is alive and well in the West.
  684. Blum, William: Rogue State 
    A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.
  685. Blum, William: Russia Invades Ukraine: Again. And Again. And Yet Again
    The Missing Burden of Proof

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
  686. Blum, William: Trojan Horse: The National Endowment for Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    The NED, like the CIA before it, calls what it does supporting democracy. The governments and movements whom the NED targets call it destabilization.
  687. Blum, William: The United States and Torture
    We Tortured Some People and Probably Still Are....

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Two of the things that governments tend to cover-up or lie about the most are assassinations and torture, both of which are widely looked upon as exceedingly immoral and unlawful, even uncivilized. Since the end of the Second World War the United States has attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders and has led the world in torture; not only the torture performed directly by Americans upon foreigners, but providing torture equipment, torture manuals, lists of people to be tortured, and in-person guidance and encouragement by American instructors, particularly in Latin America.
  688. Blum, William: Uruguay 1964-1970
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of American involvement in torture and counter-insurgency in Uruguay.
  689. Blum, William: The War on Terrorism ... or Whatever
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A brief survey of the War on Terrorism, a war that has become increasingly difficult to sell to the American public as one of pro-democracy "moderates" locked in a good-guy-versus-bad-guy struggle with an evil dictator, although in actuality the United States has fought on the same side as al Qaeda on repeated occasions before Syria.
  690. Blum, William: West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir
    Resource Type: Book
    William Blum explores how he became, and what it felt like to be, a radical dissident, the proverbial outsider, in America in the 1960s, the 70s, and up to the present day,
  691. Blum, William: What Do the Imperial Mafia Really Want?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    Which is the more remarkable -- that the United States can openly announce to the world its determination to invade a sovereign nation and overthrow its government in the absence of any attack or threat of attack from the intended target? Or that for an entire year the world has been striving to figure out what the superpower's real intentions are?
  692. Blum, William: What Makes Americans Proud
    The Anti-Empire Report #152

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Donald Trump thinks that everyone will be impressed that the American military has never been stronger. Lucky for the man … his seeming incapacity for moral or intellectual embarrassment.He’s twice blessed. His fans like the idea that their president is no smarter than they are. This may well serve to get the man re-elected, as it did with George W. Bush.
  693. Blum, William: Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
    The Anti-Empire Report

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The double edged sword of declaring war and fighting "terrorism".
  694. Blum, William: Wikileaks, the US, Sweden and Devil's Island
    The Anti-Empire Report

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  695. Blum, William: Would You Believe That the United States Tried to do Something That was Not Nice Against Hugo Chávez?
    The Plan to Destabilize Venesuela

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Wikileaks releases documents on U.S. efforts to overthrow Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
  696. Blum, William; Gottinger, Paul: American Military Power
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    An interview with William Blum, a long-time critic of U.S. imperialism and the author of Killing Hope and Rogue State.
  697. Blum, Willian: From Wikileaks to TSA
    Anti-Empire Report

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    We have to remind the American people of what they once knew but seem to have forgotten: that they don't want BIG government, or SMALL government; they don't want MORE government, or LESS government; they want government ON THEIR SIDE.
  698. Blum, Willian: U.S. Government Assassination Plots
    An appendiex to Killing Hope, by William Blum

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    A list of prominent foreign individuals whose assassination (or planning for same) the United States has been involved in since the end of the Second World War.
  699. Blumberg, Andrew J.; Eckersley, Peter: On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Over the next decade, systems which create and store digital records of people's movements through public space will be woven inextricably into the fabric of everyday life. We are already starting to see such systems now, and there will be many more in the near future.
  700. Blumenfeld, Hans: Why Pay To Ride?
    The Modern Metropolis

    Resource Type: Article
    There is nothing revolutionary about providing "free" transportation. Why do we collect fares for some kinds of transporation but not others?
  701. Blumental, Max: Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2013
    About 60,000 African migrants have arrived in Israel since 2006, fleeing unrest in their home countries. But upon arrival in the ostensibly democratic country, the migrants have faced intense persecution and have been branded as "infiltrators" by right-wing politicians and activists.
  702. Blumenthal, Max: "Al Qaeda's MASH Unit": How the Syrian American Medical Society Is Selling Regime Change and Driving the US to War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) is not merely a group of Syrian doctors tending to the wounded in war torn areas, nor is it an objective and relaibale source on chemical attacks and other atrocities. This article explains that SAMS is actually a politically enaged organization that has for years been actively seeking to overthrow the Syrian government.
  703. Blumenthal, Max: British police detain journalist Kit Klarenberg, interrogate him about The Grayzone
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2023
    British 'counter-terror' police detained journalist Kit Klarenberg upon his arrival at London's Luton airport and subjected him to an extended interrogation about his political views and reporting for The Grayzone.
  704. Blumenthal, Max: Germany criminalizes journalist for exposing Ukrainian war crimes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    Independent Donetsk-based journalist Alina Lipp of Germany details her prosecution by the German state for violating new speech codes through her reporting in the Donetsk People’s Republic. As the only German reporter on the ground in Donetsk, Lipp has exposed Ukrainian forces shelling civilians, attacking a maternity ward, mining harbors, and bombing a granary filled with corn for export. She faces three years in prison if she returns to her home country.
  705. Blumenthal, Max: Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Blumenthal depicts a portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens.
  706. Blumenthal, Max: Honored Nazi Exposes Canada's Longstanding Ukraine Policy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2023
    By celebrating a Waffen-SS volunteer as a 'hero,' Canada's Liberal Party highlighted a longstanding policy that has seen Ottawa train fascist militants in Ukraine while welcoming in thousands of post-war Nazi SS veterans.
  707. Blumenthal, Max: How NATO states sponsored ICC prosecutor's Putin arrest warrant
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2023
    ICC prosecutor general Karim Khan raised millions from NATO states by crafting an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin while freezing investigations into well-documented US and Israeli war crimes. Along the way, he won powerful friends in Washington, London, Kiev - and Hollywood.
  708. Blumenthal, Max: How the White Helmets Became International Heroes While Pushing U.S. Military Intervention and Regime Change in Syria
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Created by Western governments and popularized by a top PR firm, the White Helmets are saving civilians while lobbying for airstrikes.
  709. Blumenthal, Max: Inside the Shadowy PR Firm That's Lobbying for Regime Change in Syria
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Posing as a non-political solidarity organization, the Syria Campaign leverages local partners and media contacts to push the U.S. into toppling another Middle Eastern government.
  710. Blumenthal, Max: "Killing Gaza" captures culture of resistance
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Watch Killing Gaza, absorb the atmosphere of siege and listen to the testimonies of the trapped. You might then understand why so many chose to rush the gates.
  711. Blumenthal, Max: Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to "weaken Russia," leaked docs reveal
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2021
    New leaked documents show Reuters' and the BBC's involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect "attitudinal change" and “weaken the Russian state's influence," alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat.
  712. Blumenthal, Max: US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as 'Watershed Event' for 'Galvanizing Public Unrest'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    A 2010 memo from Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) seems to be playing out as planned in 2019.
  713. Blumenthal, Max: A window to hell in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Spending the day of 17 August in Khuzaa was like peering through a window to hell. But what we witnessed in the landscape of apocalyptic oblivion paled in comparison to the experience described to me by two Palestine Red Crescent volunteers who had attempted to break through the Israeli military cordon during the siege of the town.
  714. Blumenthal, Max, Krishnaswamy: "One less traitor": Zelensky oversees campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture of political opposition
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    While claiming to defend democracy, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky has outlawed his opposition, ordered his rivals' arrest, and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents across the country.
  715. Blumenthal, Max; Cohen, Dan: The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela's Coup Leader
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    A detailed account of US-backed groups that positioned Juan Guaidó to declare himself president of Venezuela.
  716. Blumenthal, Sid: Cointelpro
    How the FBI Tried to Destroy the Black Panthers

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1975
    A brief history of the FBI's COINTELPRO, a counter intelligence program against the New Left and militant black organizations, specifically its covert operation to bring down the Black Panther Party, largely through illegal means.
  717. Blunden, Bill: The FBI Can Bypass Encryption
    Why Cyber Security is a Magic Act

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
  718. Blunden, Bill: Mass Surveillance is Driven by the Private Sector
    The Lesson of Hacking Team's Malware

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A report published by Privacy International as well as an article posted by Vice Motherboard clearly show that both the DEA and the United States Army have long-standing relationships with Hacking Team, an Italian company that’s notorious for selling malware to any number of unsavory characters.
  719. Blunden, Bill: The NSA's Corporate Collaborators
    Willing Accomplices

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Emails published by Al Jazeera America, in addition to showing hi-tech executives and senior intelligence officials interacting on a casual first-name basis, reference a government program referred to as the Enduring Security Framework (ESF).
  720. Blunden, Bill: Stuxnet on the Loose
    Security for the One Percent

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Suspicions that the Stuxnet computer worm was indeed developed by the United States and Israel has once again exposed American exceptionalism. Espionage and sabotage are presented as intolerable criminal transgressions, normally causing our elected officials and military leaders to erupt in fits of righteous indignation. That is, unless the United States is doing the spying and the sabotaging.
  721. Blunden, Bill: Volkswagen and the Quandary of Hidden Code
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    After Volkswagen's emissions-rigging scandal, Blunden states that this company is not the only one engaging in the practice of secretly modifying technology. Rather, systematic hidden codes are embedded in society and promoted by both companies and governments.
  722. Blunden, Bill: When Deep States Collide
    Turkey's Hesitancy Exposes Its Agenda

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    It's no secret that members of the so-called coalition against ISIS have been less than enthusiastic about substantive military action as the bulk of the airstrikes so far have been executed by the United States.
  723. Blunden, Bill: The Zero-Sum Game of Perpetual War
    Why the Deep State Always Wins

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Readers with a morbid sense of curiosity can visit a web site called NukeMap that allows visitors to witness the devastation caused by nuclear weapons of varying yields on a city of their choosing.
  724. Blunden, William A: Darknet Sweep Casts Doubt on Tor
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    When news broke of Silk Road 2.0’s seizure by law enforcement a lot of people probably wrote it off as an isolated incident. Silk Road 2.0 was the successor to the original Silk Road web site and like its predecessor it was an underground bazaar for narcotics, fueled by more than $8 million in Bitcoin transactions and operated as a hidden service on the Tor anonymity network.
  725. Blunden, William A.: The Media's Emphasis on Russian Hacking is a Diversion
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    It's highly likely that the flurry of reports on alleged Russian hacking has more to do with a rejection of the status quo than with the act of clandestine meddling.
  726. Blythe, Karl: Insurrection & Organisation
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 2008
    An attempt to analyze the role of insurrection in the class struggle, in relation to the problem of revolutionary organization.
  727. Blythman, Joanna: Farmers in Palestine create amazing produce in adverse conditions - and are fighting to export them
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Palestine produces some of the finest olive oils in the world, not to mention dates, nuts, tomatoes - even wine. Now, despite the conflict, farmers are finding ways to export their produce - and show the world that their country is still the land of milk and honey.
  728. Boal,Ellis: Courts Back Detroit Scab Papers
    Against The Current vol. 88

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    In July a federal court of appeals dealt a crushing blow to the Detroit newspaper strikers, holding management was bargaining in good faith at the time they walked out in 1995. This means replaced workers—of whom there are still several hundred—have no rights to displace scabs and over a thousand more will get no backpay.
  729. Boardman, William: Biological Warfare: US & Saudis Use Cholera to Kill Yemenis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The US has supported Saudi Arabia and its allies in their aggression against Yemen, committing daily war crimes involving civilians, who are now suffering a cholera epidemic with more than 400,000 victims.
  730. BoardmAN, William: CIA Chief Declares War on Truth
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Mike Pompeo made it clear that he has little regard for truth, for personal decency, or for the Constitutional protections for free speech or for the free exercise of religion. It was an altogether chilling debut for a spy agency head in a country that still imagines itself enjoying some basic freedoms.
  731. Boardman, William: Police Unions Sustain Police Violence Epidemic
    Since when did we decide that police officers should be above the law?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Two of the biggest police unions in the country are now on record in opposition to free speech. They are on record against constitutionally protected free speech that opposes the epidemic of police violence across America (more than 900 killed by police so far in 2015).
  732. Boarini, Silvia: Unrecognized in the Negev
    The Plight of Israel's Bedouin Citizens

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    At the break of dawn on 27th July 2010, the unrecognized village of Al Araqib was surrounded by 1,500 police officers clad in riot gear. Helicopters circled overhead as bulldozers razed homes and animal pens to the ground. It took 4 hours to demolish a village that was home to around 300 people, hundreds of sheep, dozens of goose, hens, pigeons and horses.
  733. Bober, Ari (ed.): The Other Israel
    The Radical Case Against Zionism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A collective effort by a small group of Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel to penetrate the dense net of illusion and myth that dominates the thinking and feeling of most Israelis and, at the same time, determines the prevailing image of Israel in the Western world. According to the Zionist fairy tale, the state of Israel is an outpost of democracy, social justice, and enlightenment, and a homeland and haven for the persecuted Jews of the world. The reality, as this book demonstrates, is utterly different.
  734. Bobo, Kim; Kendall, Jerry; Max, Steve: Organize! Organizing for Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996   Published: 2001
    A guide to community organizing with attention to specific tasks such as hosting meetings, public speaking and making partnerships with other activist groups.
  735. Bock, Alan W.: The ecological benefits of Marijuana
    Resource Type: Article
    The decriminalization of cannabis would not only have important medicinal implications, but also positive economic consequences and largescale environmental benefits
  736. Bocking, Richard C.: Canada's Water: For Sale
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    Describes the pressures behind U.S. demand for Canadian water and the Canadian response and presents the case against grand engineering schemes, major dams, and large river diversions.
  737. Boctor, Lillian: Twice Removed: Double Punishment and Racial Profiling in Canada
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2013
    Immigrants who commit criminal offences are punished twice: once when they're sentenced for their crime, and again when they are permanently removed from Canada, even if they had lived here since childhood.This is known as "double punishment."
  738. Bodian, Nat G.: Bodian's Publishing Desk Reference
    A Comprehensive Dictionary of Practices and Techniques for Book and Journal Marketing and Bookselling

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  739. Boe, Beverly and Philcox,l Phil: How You Can Travel Free as a Group Tour Organizer
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  740. Boehlert, Eric: Right-Wing Media Send Their Mobs of Crazy Fans to Go After Private Citizens -- Including Kids
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The right-wing is igniting the crazies by pushing them to snoop on everyday people.
  741. Boehm, Eric: This School District Threatened To Take Kids Away From Parents Over Lunch Debt. Then It Refused a Businessman's Offer to Pay Those Debts
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    A Pennsylvania school district sent letters to parents who owed lunch money informing them that they could lose custody of their children due to their lunch money debt.
  742. Boehm, Steffen: Greening Capitalism? A Marxist Critique of Carbon Markets
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Climate change is increasingly being recognized as a serious threat to dominant modes of social organization, inspiring suggestions that capitalism itself needs to be transformed if we are to ‘decarbonize’ the global economy.
  743. Boesak, Allan A.: If This is Treason, I am Guilty
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Allan Boesak has been in the forefront of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and has been increasingly recognized as a political as well as a religious leader. This collection of addresses and sermons from 1979 to 1986 shows all aspects of Boesak's involvement in the anti-apartheid movement. It includes pieces that offer analysis of the church's role in political issues, as well as sermons and articles showing a deep biblical understanding of the issues at stake. Among the selections are several of Boesak's important recent public speeches.
  744. Boetie, Etienne de la: The Politics of Obedience
    The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1550   Published: 1997
  745. Boff, Leonardo: Introducing Liberation Theology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    This work deals with the basic questions that are tackled by liberation theology--oppression, violence, domination and marginalization. It then goes on to show how the Christian faith can be used as an agent in promoting social and individual liberation, and how faith and politics relate.
  746. Bogado, Aura: The Disappeared
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    On the fifth floor of the tall glass federal building in Portland, Oregon, the immigration court hums in hushed tones, an air of reverence coming from a dozen or so fidgety children and teenagers. They sit in two long pews that line the back of the room, facing the elevated bench of the immigration judge.
  747. Bogard, Paul: The End of Night
    Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Paul Bogard illuminates the problems caused by a lack of darkness. We live awash in artificial light. But night's natural darkness has always been invaluable for our spiritual health and the health of the natural world, and every living creature suffers from its loss.
  748. Boggs, Carl: The End of Politics
    Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    From the events of privatization, economic globalization, spread of violence and gun culture, and the end of the cold war, Boggs explores the depoliticization process in the United States.
  749. Boggs, Carl: Gramsci's Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    Carl Boggs introduces Gramsci as one of the first marxist theorists to grapple with the problems of revolutionary change in advanced capitalist society and as the first to identify the importance of the ideological-cultural struggle against bourgeois values.
  750. Boggs, Carl: The Grand Illusion
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    As the ecological crisis deepens, nearing the infamous Tipping Point – taking us closer to planetary catastrophe – we are being led to believe that an imminent "greening" of the world economy will deliver us from a very dark future. Somehow, against all logic, we have adopted a collective faith in the willingness of ruling governments and corporations to do the right thing.
  751. Boggs, Carl: Imperialism and the Logic of Mass Destruction
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    As throughout much of its war-obsessed history, the United States is currently engaged in military conflict – or threatening such action – across a broad contested terrain. In the cases of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, Washington has resorted to its familiar global modus operandi: sending off barrages of missiles and bombs, much of it hitting civilian populations and resources needed for their survival. Death tolls mount, the largest numbers lately in the protracted battle for Mosul. Heavier casualties are being visited upon non-combatants in Yemen, thanks to U.S.-backed Saudi aerial savagery.
  752. Boggs, Carl: Russia and the War Party
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A critical look at the book "Russian Roulette", by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, which examines alleged Russian interference in the 2017 U.S. election.
  753. Boggs, Carl: The Strange (and Tortured) Legacy of 'Free Speech'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Despite a well-cultivated radical image, Antifa rarely focuses on the growing ultra-nationalism, militarism, and imperialism that lies at the very core of American politics – tendencies in fact more dangerous than the rhetoric of Yiannopoulos, Coulter, and Shapiro. Beneath its ultra-leftism is a modus operandi riddled with the worst of identity politics. And since its violent tactics are not aligned with any popular movement, its opposition to fascism (such as it is) turns hollow, empty. The irony is that while the FSM and its heirs did everything possible to expand the realm of free speech, new social forces – extreme identity groups, Antifa – want to restrict or deny freedoms.
  754. Boggs, Carl: The War That Never Ends
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    North Korean denuclearization is unlikely without concessions (such as sanctions relief) from the US side. How likely is the Trump administration to make such a deal?
  755. Boggs, Grace Lee: American Revolutionary 
    The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2014
    A documentary about the ideas and activism of 98-year-old Grace Lee Boggs, covering her lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century; from labour to civil rights, to Black Power, feminism, the Asian American and environmental justice movements and beyond. Boggs’s constantly evolving strategy -- her willingness to re-evaluate and change tactics in relation to the world shifting around her -- drives the story forward.
  756. Boggs, Grace Lee: Grace Lee Boggs Quotes
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  757. Boggs, Grace Lee: Living for Change
    An Autobiography

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    This fascinating autobiography traces the story of a woman who transcended class and racial boundaries to pursue her passionate belief in a better society.
  758. Boggs, Grace Lee: A Question of Place 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Global capitalism relentlessly displaces people and abandons places because it views local communities, cities, and even nations as inconveniences in the path of progress. Place-consciousness, on the other hand, encourages us to come together around common, local experiences and organize around our hopes for the future of our communities and cities. While global capitalism doesn't give a damn about the people or the natural environment of any particular place because it can always move on to other people and other places, place-based civic activism is concerned about the health and safety of people and places.
  759. Boggs, Grace Lee; Kurashique, Scott; Glover, Danny: 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.
  760. Boggs, James: The American Revolution
    Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1963   Published: 2009
    Drawing on his own experience as a factory worker and radical militant, Boggs offers both a keen analysis of U.S. society and a passionate call for revolutionary struggle. He sees the growing trend toward automation, the decline of organized labour, the expansion of imperialism, and the deepening of racial strife as fundamentally rooted in the contradictions of U.S. capitalism. He concludes that the only way forward is a new American revolution.
  761. Boghosian, Heidi: Spying on Democracy
    Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Heidi Boghosian documents the disturbing increase in surveillance of ordinary citizens and the danger it poses to our privacy, our civil liberties, and to the future of democracy itself.
  762. Boghosian, Heidi; Fernandez, Johanna: Mumia on COINTELPRO Activists and Other Ordinary Heroes
    The Linear Ancestors of Edward Snowden

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Mumia Abu-Jamal was one of hundreds of journalists who received in the mail a packet of covertly-copied COINTELPRO documents. They were sent by eight activists who broke into FBI offices in Media, Pennsylvania in 1971—and whose identities just became known last week. The papers detailed names and activities of individuals he knew well for years, living and working closely together in communal spaces, who were FBI informants.
  763. Bogues, Anthony: C. L. R. James and His Times
    Every Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact and the Works of C.L.R. James

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Review of the Worldwrite documentary film Every Cook Can Govern: The Life, Impact and the Works of C.L.R. James.
  764. Bohannon, John: Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
    In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to the Sci-Hub website

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Researchers are increasingly turning to Sci-Hub, the world's largest largest 'pirate' website for scholarly literature. Sci-Hub is becoming the world's de facto open-access research library.
  765. Bohmer, Peter: A History of Student Movements and Activism at Evergreen State College and the Greater Nation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Students and student movements have played a major role in struggles for reform and revolution in the United States and around the world. Before I turn to Evergreen, I will give a few examples, mainly from the United States in the 1960’s. I will also share a few conclusions based on many years of activism with student movements.
  766. Bohmer, Peter: Lessons from COINTELPRO
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    We can best honor those who have been murdered by our government and their agents, not by mourning but by organizing, by building movements that put into practice solidarity across borders that are inclusive in all the important ways - class, gender, race, sexual orientation, language, immigrant status and age - that resist boldly and courageously all forms of inequality and environmental degradation.
  767. Bohne, Luciana: Amazing Brexit: Identity and Class Politics 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    This shell of a once fighting left embraces the culture of identity but excludes the entity of class. As a result poverty has become the P-word, and the poor the pariahs of neoliberal dystopic utopia. When we talk about class in a Marxist, materialist, scientific sense, we are talking about a relation of power, specifically about who does and who doesn’t have power to shape society. Identity politics makes this conflict of interests in society invisible. Neoliberal economics, however, is class war. It has advanced in part because identity politics depoliticized the public.
  768. Bohne, Luciana: America's Recruitment of Nazis -- Then and Now
    Any bastard, so long as he's anti-communist

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The most prominent feature of the Nazi political philosophy was extreme anticommunism and particularly fanatic hatred of the USSR. That hatred set the world ablaze, and, yet, after the war, the Nazi administrators, chief intelligence officers, generals, police chiefs, and intellectuals of that regime of hatred and war were recruited to continue their work in the bosom of our secret National Security State, advising, influencing, and promoting our foreign policy in the Cold War. Did that policy change with the fall of the Berlin Wall? No, it intensified -- still absolutist, still aggressive, still dedicated to political warfare. Russia is still in our crosshairs.
  769. Bohne, Luciana: The Cowards' Wars
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The condemnation of Radovan Karadzic to forty years of imprisonment by the International Crime Tribunal-Yugoslavia occasions these reflections.
  770. Bohne, Luciana: The Fire Each Time
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind, and suddenly there was light, and warmth, and the gathering at the hearth. The gods never forgave, and ever since periodically they thrust a torch into villains' hands and watch the hearths burn and bring the roofs down. Civilization weeps, in Troy, Hiroshima, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria.
  771. Bohne, Luciana: World War I: Crime and Punishment
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Jacques Pauwels' The Great Class War is a contribution to the ideological front in the struggle for a world without wars, for in resetting the story of that war in the Marxist frame, he loosens our ties to idealist interpretations that obscure the class nature of wars, naturalize war as an inevitable part of life, and force us to assume and share a guilt that largely rests on the shoulders of a profiteering and exploitative class, which holds the power of decision making through its control of political, economic, military, police, and media powers and grants us a vote that is largely cosmetic.
  772. Bohr, Niels: Niels Bohr Quotes
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  773. Bohuslawsky, Maria: End of the Line
    Inside Canada's Nursing Homes

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  774. Bohuslawsky, Maria: End of the Line
    Inside Canada's Nursing Homes

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    An account of the grim reality of life in nursing homes. Sketches of nursing-home residents, their families, and nursing-home staff, reveal a generation suffering neglect and abuse, stripped of self-respect, confined to dangerous, dirty, depressing and de-personalized institutions.
  775. Bois, Marcel: Hitler Wasn't Inevitable
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials is cause to reflect on the forces that failed to halt Nazism’s rise.
  776. Bolan, Kim: Loss of Faith
    How the Air India Bombers Got Away with Murder

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    An account of the Air India Bombing trial and investigations.
  777. Bolaris, Leandros: Two in one?
    A review of Donny Gluckstein, A People's History of the Second World War: Resistance Versus Empire (Pluto, 2012)

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The Second World War was and still is the example of the “good war”, a war that put an end to Auschwitz, a war fought not only by regular armies but also by mass movements of anti-fascist resistance.
  778. Bold, Alan (ed.): The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    An anthology of poems, some by socialists, other by poets who do not identify themselves as socialist but who have written poetry reflecting a socialist sensibility.
  779. Boldt, Menno: Surviving As Indians
    The Challenge Of Self-Government

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Boldt argues that Canadian Indian nations should pursue the goal of self-government by breaking away from the the courts and constitutional processes, and campaign for human rights.
  780. Bolender, Keith: Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2019
    Mainstream media in the United States for the past 60 years has converged with the neo-colonial foreign policy objectives of the state to create a misinformed, biased narrative against the Cuban revolution. Using extensive examples, including pre-revolutionary historic coverage, journalist Keith Bolender reveals how the national press has established an anti-Cuba chronicle in adherence to Washington's unrelenting regime change policies.
  781. Bolivar, Simón: Manifiesto de Cartagena
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1812
  782. Bollier, David: Reclaiming the Commons
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    Why we need to protect our public resources from private encroachment.
  783. Bollier, David: Why The Language of the Commons Matters
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Our very language for identifying problems and imagining solutions has been compromised. We may have many unattractive human traits fueled by individual fears and ego, but we are also creatures entirely capable of self-organization, cooperation, a concern for fairness and social justice, and sacrifice for the larger good and future generations.
  784. Bollinger, Michelle: Why is Leonard Peltier Still in Prison?
    Justice is 33 Years Overdue for America's Most Famous Political Prisoner

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Leonard Pletier is a political prisoner who has spent more than 33 years in U.S. prisons for a crime he didn't commit.
  785. Bologna, Sergio: Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1972
    Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
  786. Bolster, W. Jeffrey: The Mortal Sea
    Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    Reveals the long history of warnings against overfishing and that the sea is not an 'infinite resource'.
  787. Bolton, Dianne: Nationalization
    A Road to Socialism?

    Resource Type: Book
    In this study, Dianne Bolton takes the example of Tanzania to explore whether nationalization has altered relations of production in the agricultural export sector, and improved the position of workers. She finds close continuities between colonial and post-colonial Tanzania, and similarities between the nationalized and remaining private sisal plantations.
  788. Bommel, Harry van: Dying for Care
    Hospice Care or Euthanasia

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  789. Bonacich, Edna: LA Sweatshops: Common Threads In Struggle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    Seeing how power is exercised by those who have it in this society opens one's eyes to the profound need for power on our side. You recognize the need to build organizational strength and resources. You come to see the need to inflict damage in order to budge those who hold the power. You realize that their ruthlessness knows no bounds. You learn that soft, liberal notions of hoping you can sit down and work it out in a civilized manner are out of this world.
  790. Bonanno, Alfredo M.: Critique of Syndicalist Methods
    Trade-Unionism to Anarcho-Syndicalism

    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1998
    Bonanno's 1975 meditation on the means to be used in pursuit of the anarchist project. Emphasizes the utility of unions in propagating capitalist control of industry and agriculture.
  791. Bonbnell, Kenneth H.: The Right to Offend
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    Humans do have a right to offend other humans, especially in presenting dissent from the views with which many people seem to be very content. This includes those views called religious.
  792. Bond, Jack W: How EC and World Bank Policies Are Destroying Agriculture And The Environment
    A European and Third World Perspective

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    Bond argues that bureaucrats, multinationals and banks lack the compassion and commitement to help farmers, consumers and the enviromment, and emerging nations of the South.
  793. Bond, Monica: Why Logging Forests After Wildfires is Ecologically Destructive
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Bond exposes three prevailing falsehoods about logging that the U.S. Forest Service disseminates.
  794. Bond, Myrtle, Draper, Sylvia: The People's Classifieds
    The Alternative Directory for Metro Toronto

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
    A directory of progressive/alternative businesses, professionals, services, groups, and individuals in Toronto.
  795. Bond, Patric: BRICS [Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa] and the tendency to sub-imperialism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Despite their anti-imperialist potential, BRICS states have promoted neo-liberal and imperialist practices that facilitate capital accumulation, resource extraction and expansion of their markets. But growing popular unrest against exploitation, ecological destruction and neoliberalism in the BRICS countries may lead to a different, anti-imperialist, course.
  796. Bond, Patrick: Africa: New evidence of ongoing corporate looting
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A World Bank report indicates a massive depletion of Africa's natural wealth by transnational corporations (TNC). There are two ways to address TNC capture of African wealth: bottom-up through direct action that blocks extraction, or top-down through significant reform.
  797. Bond, Patrick: Africa's Pioneering Marxist Political Economist, Samir Amin (1931-2018)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at the pioneering work of Egyptian-French Marxian economist Samir Amin, who died on August 12, 2018.
  798. Bond, Patrick: Beckoning Committed Climate Activists
    Extreme Weather and Even More Extreme Greenhouse Gas Emissions

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    It is evident the climate crisis is far more severe than most scientists had anticipated.
  799. Bond, Patrick: From Apartheid South Africa to Palestine
    "To Exist is to Resist"

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The growing support for Palestinian liberation via BDS reminds of small but sure steps towards the full-fledged anti-apartheid sports, cultural, academic and economic boycotts catalyzed by Brutus against racist South African Olympics teams more than forty years ago. Today, these are just the first nails we’re hammering into the coffin of Zionist domination – in solidarity with a people who have every reason to fight back with tools that we in South Africa proudly sharpened: non-violently but with formidable force.
  800. Bond, Patrick: Health and environmental victories for South African activists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    In South Africa, major advances in health and the environment during the 2000s were only won by social activists by removing the profit motive.
  801. Bond, Patrick: The Mandela Years in Power
    Did He Jump or Was He Pushed?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    South Africa's democratization was profoundly compromised by an intra-elite economic deal that, for most people, worsened poverty, unemployment, inequality and ecological degradation, while also exacerbating many racial, gender and geographical differences.
  802. Bond, Patrick: South Africa Windows on Washington
    Against The Current vol. 87

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    The World Bank! Haai! Is the Devil! Haai haai! This was the chant -- accompanied by that South African activist war-dance, the toyi-toyi -- that my comrades Trevor Ngwane and Molly Dhlamini introduced to A-16/17 week gatherings in Washington, D.C., ranging from Direct Action Network spokescouncil meetings to activist sessions, as well as the street protests and on stage at the main rally.
  803. Bond, Patrick: South Africa's Deadly Decade of HIV Denial
    Against The Current vol. 111

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    The African National Congress has returned to power with an overwhelming majority in South Africa's third post apartheid democratic election. With millions of South Africans dying early because of AIDS, however, the question posed in the header of this article remains.
  804. Bond, Patrick: South Africa's Political Change
    Against The Current vol. 90

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    On December 5, slightly less than half of South Africa's registered electorate went to the polls, and Thabo Mbeki's ruling African National Congress (ANC) emerged with just under sixty percent support -- down from the two-thirds received in the 1994 and 1999 national elections -- and control of all major cities aside from Cape Town.
  805. Bond, Patrick: World Bank: It's the Pits for the Poor
    Against The Current vol. 87

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    In early May, a National Reparations Conference opened by Njongonkulu Ndungane, the radical Archbishop of Cape Town who succeeded Desmond Tutu, resolved to demand that the World Bank and International Monetary Fund compensate South Africa for apartheid loans long ago repaid. What is the line of argument?
  806. Bond, Patrick: Zimbabwe: Mbeki to Mugabe's Rescue
    Against The Current vol. 119

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Consider these wise words from a leading African National Congress politician: "As we speak, the neoliberal orthodoxy sits as a tyrant on the throne of political-economic policymaking. The dominant social and economic forces are doing their utmost to hegemonize the discourse — both materially and in respect of how developmental processes are to be institutionalized and theorized. Among other things, they use such transnational governmental organizations as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organization to shape the discourse within which policies are defined, the terms and concepts that circumscribe what can be thought and done."
  807. Bond, Patrick; Banda, Azwell: South African Workers Tackle Neoliberalism
    Against The Current vol. 143

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Can the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) be credited with a sudden high-profile career change — from central banker to academic — by Tito Mboweni? The Reserve Bank Governor made a mistake in May when he refused to take a petition from thousands of Numsa members marching to the Banks’ Church St. headquarters. In July Governor Mboweni was rewarded with early retirement.
  808. Bond, Patrick; Desai, Ashwin: Dennis Brutus: Honored by the Enemies He Kept
    Against The Current vol. 145

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    So much has been said about the loving and nurturing characteristics of Dennis Brutus and his political and literary contributions. Those who knew him understood how much he wanted to encourage future generations of radicals and poets.
  809. Bond, Patrick; Sharife, Khadija: The Earth Grabbers
    Fighting the Minerals-Petroleum-Coal Complex

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Climate justice means that the Minerals-Energy Complex will have to take the same course as apartheid.
  810. Bond, Paul: The Peterloo massacre and Shelley (1)
    Part 1: The aftermath of the massacre and the responses

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    The escalation of repression by the ruling class that followed, resulting in a greater suppression of civil liberties, was met with meetings of thousands and the widespread circulation of accounts of the massacre. There was a determination to learn from the massacre and not allow it to be forgotten or misrepresented.
  811. Bond, Paul: The Peterloo Massacre and Shelley (2)
    Part 2: Shelley's politics and his Peterloo poems

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    The Peterloo poems adopt various popular forms and styles. Addressing a popular audience with his attempt at a revolutionary understanding suggests a sympathetic response to the emergence of the working class as a political force, and the poems are acute on economic relations.
  812. Bond, Turdy; Eidelson, Roy; Olson, Brad; Soldz, Stephen: Psychologists' Collusion in Ongoing Illegal Detentions
    The Status Quo of Torture

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
  813. Bond-Graham, Darwin: Recyclers Battle Waste Management... and the Teamsters Union
    With Friends Like These

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    It’s 4 AM. The air is cold and damp on 98th Avenue in deep East Oakland, down along the San Francisco Bay’s industrial waterfront. This is a hard geography of concrete and dust and pot-hole riddled roads latticed by train tracks. Much of the earth is landfill, crowded for miles with scrap metal yards, bakeries, machine shops, and warehouses.
  814. BondGraham, Darwin: Israeli Company Targeted by Oakland Blockade Imports Ammunition Into US
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Israeli-owned shipping company Zim, the target of recent port blockades organized by Palestinian solidarity activists in California, is importing millions of rounds of small arms ammunition into the United States each year.
  815. Bonelli, Laurent: 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.
  816. Bonhoeffer, Dietrich: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  817. Boni, Stephen: Making Money Off of Green Debt: Cory Morningstar Finds Corporate Wolves Behind Environmental Sheep
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Building through the privatization-friendly Reagan-Bush era of the 1980s, ramping up significantly with Bill Clinton's signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the 1990s, and solidified through the de facto repeal of the post-Great Depression separation between investment and commercial banks at the end of Clinton’s scandal-plagued final term in office at the turn of the millenium, the United States went through a very noticeable shift in how its economy functioned.
  818. Bonilla, Isadora: Egypt's Aunt Peaceful
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Ghada Shahbender knows the Egyptian Revolution Didn´t Start in January 2011, because she was there seven years ago reminding the government ¨We Are Watching¨
  819. Bonilla, Isadora; Giordano, Al: In Mexico, Finally, a Revolt Against the Media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The summer will determine if the “I Am 132” moment becomes a movement and that’s why “Mexican Spring” is a poor choice of words for it.
  820. Bonilla, Mayte G.: The work of authentic journalists is the most important thing for social movements
    How Mercedes Osuna became a rebel with a cause

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Not an activist, social organizer nor a defender: Mercedes Osuna would rather define her work as human labor, something that she has dedicated an entire life to. She was born in a place were true words are heard with the heart and she lived out her convictions at a young age.
  821. Bonilla, Victor Daniel: Servants of God or Masters of Men?
    The Story of Capuchin Mission in Amazonia

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    Bonilla traces the history of a Columbian Indian tribe facing a Catholic missionary community, but see much larger implications in the subject matter: "the everlasting story of the West against the Indian."
  822. Bonner, Allan: 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.
  823. Bonner, Allan: 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.
  824. Bonner, Allan: 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.
  825. Bonner, Allan: 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.
  826. Bonner, Allan: 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.
  827. Bonogofsky, Alexis: I Was Sick for a Year After an Oil Spill. Five Years Later, Pipeline Accidents Are Worsening
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Early in the morning on July 2, 2011, I walked down the gravel road on our Montana farm to let the goats out to graze for the day. I found an oily rainbow sheen on the Yellowstone River flowing through our hay fields and pasture, plus large clumps of crude oil sticking to trees, cattails and brush. The oily water was in our sloughs, our pond and the creek that runs along the eastern edge of the farm. I checked the local news on my phone and found that an Exxon oil pipeline had ruptured underneath the Yellowstone River upstream. More than 300 people upstream from us were evacuated, but no one had thought to notify those of us further from the spill. The smell of hydrocarbons was overwhelming. In the end, more than 63,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into the Yellowstone River from what we later learned was a "guillotine cut" in Exxon's Silvertip pipeline, which lay in a trench only four to five feet under the Yellowstone River.
  828. Bonomo, Robert: What If the Children Dying in Gaza Were Jews?
    They Made Them Do It....

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Let’s do a thought experiment and imagine that the Arabs had gotten the better of the Israelis in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and after years of conflict, all that was left of Israel was the Gaza strip. Assume for a moment that instead of Palestinians, over 1.8 million Jews were crammed into the 11 mile Gaza strip and the state of Palestine, subsidized and supported by a superpower, was administering the calories to the Jews in Gaza, keeping them to a limit of 2,300 a day.
  829. Bookchin, Murray: The Ecology of Freedom 
    The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   Published: 2005
    Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
  830. Bookchin, Murray: The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    The danger of modern anarchists of falling into the trap of anarcho-syndicalism.
  831. Bookchin, Murray: Listen, Marxist!
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1969   Published: 1971
    Murray Bookchin takes on the 'Marxist-Leninists' who are destroying the New Left.
  832. Bookchin, Murray: Listen Marxist: a reply
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
    Murray Bookchin replies to Jeremy Brecher's review of Post-Scarcity Anarchism.
  833. Bookchin, Murray: The Modern Crisis
    Resource Type: Book
  834. Bookchin, Murray: On Spontaneity and Organisation
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1975
    On the relationship of spontaneity and revolution.
  835. Bookchin, Murray: The Philosophy of Social Ecology
    Essays on Dialectical Naturalism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Bookchin addresses questions such as 'What is nature?", "What is humanity's place in nature?", "What is the relationship of society to the natural world?"
  836. Bookchin, Murray: Post Scarcity Anarchism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    Modern radicals, says Bookchin, have ignored the real revolutionary possibilities of modern technology and the counterculture. Unless they start building a movement which looks to the future, they are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.
  837. Bookchin, Murray: Remaking Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  838. Bookchin, Murray: Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism an Unbridgeable Chasm
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    For some two centuries, anarchism -- a very ecumenical body of anti-authoritarian ideas -- developed in the tension between two basically contradictory tendencies: a personalistic commitment to individual autonomy and a collectivist commitment to social freedom. These tendencies have by no means been reconciled in the history of libertarian thought. Indeed, for much of the last century, they simply coexisted within anarchism as a minimalist credo of opposition tothe State rather than as a maximalist credo that articulated the kind of new society that had to becreated in its place.
  839. Bookchin, Murray: The Spanish Anarchists
    The heroic years

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    The seminal history of Spanish anarchism: from its earliest inception to the organizations that claimed over two million members on the eve of the 1936 Revolution.
  840. Bookchin, Murray: Theses on Libertarian Municipalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1985
    These theses advance the view that a libertarian municipalism is possible and a new civic politics is definable as a dual power that can counterpose assembly and confederal forms to the centralized State.
  841. Bookchin, Murray: The Third Revolution, Volume 1 
    Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    This project is a comprehensive account of the great revolutions that swept over Europe and America during the past three centuries.
  842. Bookchin, Murray: Urbanization Without Cities
    The Rise and Decline of Citizenship

    Resource Type: Book
    The author argues that there should be participatory democracy so there could be balance ecologically between city and country.
  843. Booma-Prediger, Steven and Walsh, Brian: Beyond Homelessness
    Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Beyond Homelessness looks at the socioeconomic, ecological and spiritual dimensions of homelessness. Going further than seeing housing as being bricks and mortar the authors see it as a search for belonging, identity and security. They argue that if we see the world as holy instead of earth as home and we understand the Gospels, faith will heal the disharmony in which we have mired ourselves.
  844. Boone, Barri: California Burning, PG&E Bankrupt
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    A synopsis of PG&E's history of negligence and corruption which has caused wildfire disasters. The company tries to escape consequences but others are demanding change.
  845. Boone, Barri: California Home Care: Terminated!
    Against The Current vol. 109

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Question: What's the best health care plan in the U.S. Answer: Don't get sick!
  846. Boone, Barri: How Smart Are the "Smart" Meters?
    Against The Current vol. 150

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    What does it really mean when a corporation calls a new product “smart?” Gas and electric corporations are calling their newest technology “smart meters.”
  847. Boone, Barri: The Left & Disability
    Against The Current vol. 115

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    I joined “the crips” 13 years ago, upon being forced to quit work due to toxic exposure at my workplace. “The crips” are not a group you really fight to get into, but they can have excruciating initiation rites, worse than to get into “Skull and Bones.” And you don’t have to come from a rich family; in fact, membership almost always insures that you become poor, and very quickly!
  848. Boone, Barri: Left Out History - review
    Against The Current vol. 162

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A review of 'Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power' by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy.
  849. Boone, Jon: 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.
  850. Boorstein, Edward: The Economic Transformation of Cuba
    A First-Hand Account

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
  851. Booth, David: Censorship Goes To School
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
  852. Booth, Heather; Creamer, Day; Davis, Susan; Dobbin, Deb; Kaufman, Robin; Klass, Tobey: Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    Our movement's strategy must grow from an understanding of the dynamics of power, with the realization that those who have power have a vested interest in preserving it and the institutional forms which maintain it. Wresting control of the institutions which now oppress us must be our central effort if women's liberation is to achieve its goals. To reach out to most women we must address their real needs and self-interests.
  853. Booth, William: A History of the Barricade
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The barricade is the iconic tactic of historic class struggles, and its history is engagingly explored in Hazan's history, finds William Booth.
  854. Boraman, Toby: A Middle-Class Diversion from Working Class Struggle?
    The New Zealand New Left from the Mid-1950s to the Mid-1970s

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Published in Labour History, 103 (November 2012).
  855. Boraman, Toby: The New Left in New Zealand
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    Published in In On the Left: Essays on Socialism in New Zealand, edited by Pat Moloney and Kerry Taylor Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2002.
  856. Boran, Yasar: Turkey in 2019: An Assessment
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    A look at the current state of the Erdogan regime in Turkey as well as the hopes and challenges of what the left can accomplish.
  857. Borger, Julian: Blackout in Gotham City
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    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.
  858. Borger, Julian: GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Edward Snowden papers unmask close technical cooperation and loose alliance between British, German, French, Spanish and Swedish spy agencies.
  859. Borgers, Frank: The Clouds Clear: Labor, Seattle and Beyond
    Against The Current vol. 85

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    As the clouds of teargas lifted from the streets of Seattle two images emerged in public consciousness: The edifice of the WTO brought crashing to its knees, simultaneously revealing an odd Lilliputian army of labor, environmental, church and assorted activists that had appeared out of nowhere to assault what had been presumed to be an unassailable new world order.
  860. Borgstrom, Daniel: Remembering a Vietnam Veteran
    The Death of Sgt. Van Dale Todd

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
  861. Borgstrom, Daniel: Report from the Pvt. Manning Contingent at SF Pride, June 2015
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Sunday, June 28th started out cloudy, as one might expect in San Francisco, but the sun eventually came out, making it a good day for the Gay Pride event -- and a good day to honor Whistleblower Chelsea Manning. There was to be a parade, and one of the units would be the Pvt. Manning Contingent.
  862. Borjesson, Kristina; foreword by Gore Vidal: Into the Buzz Saw
    Resource Type: Book
    Accounts of journalists investigating stories which the power structure doesn't want investigated.
  863. Borovoy, A. Alan: The New Anti-Liberals
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
  864. Borovoy, A. Alan: Uncivil Obedience
    The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    How to push for social change without breaking the law.
  865. Borovoy, A. Alan: When Freedoms Collide
    The Case for Civil Liberties

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Civil liberties are proclaimed as important in our society, but in reality they are under constant attack.
  866. Borrell, Rachel: Land Day 2017: Israel's relentless land grab continues
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    As Israel resumes its settlement expansion with impunity, Palestinians have plenty to protest at this year's Land Day.
  867. Borrero Carlos: Oscar Lopez Rivera and the Struggle for Puerto Rican Independence
    An Indomitable Spirit of Resistance

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Oscar López Rivera has served 32 years in the dungeons of imperialism for the crime of fighting for the independence of Puerto Rico as a member of the Armed Forces for National Liberation (FALN). The continued militancy of Oscar López Rivera, after more than three decades of imprisonment, is a living testimony of the indomitable will to resist all attempts to break the combative spirit of a man, who has become a symbol of his people, yearning for freedom.
  868. Borrero, Carlos: Winning the Rank and File Soldiers in Egypt
    An Historical Drama Unfolds

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces will wield power during and immediately after the current transition of the toppling of Mohamed Morsi.
  869. Borsodi, Ralph: A Decentralist Manifesto
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1958
    No political institution can be considered human and properly adapted to the nature of humankind if it in any way infringes upon liberty; if it even in the slightest, interferes with the conditions necessary to individual self-expression and to the free development of the highest potentialities of being human.
  870. Borsodi, Ralph: Major Universal Problems of Living
    A New Approach to Information

    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1936   Published: 1967
  871. Borsodi, Ralph: Seventeen Problems of Man and Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    Ralph Borsodi's magnum opus, outlining his philosophy of society and the practical implications that flow from it.
  872. Bose, Prasenjit: India's Freedom Struggle Influenced by Marxism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    In India Marxism has influenced revolutionary figures to varying degrees. As inequality rises a renewed interest in Marx that engages local philosophies could invigorate a proletarian movement.
  873. Bose, Purnima: A Cosmetic Cover for Occupation
    Against The Current vol. 142

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October of 2001, the Bush administration belatedly latched on to the plight of Afghan women under the Taliban as a rationale for military action. As part of their ideological arsenal, they deployed the heretofore retiring First Lady to present a humanitarian face to military intervention. Addressing the nation by radio on November 17, 2001, Laura Bush connected misogyny to terrorism, noting, “The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.”
  874. Bose, Purnima: Feminism, The Global Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 139

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Coming to feminist consciousness in the early 1980s, I belong to a generation of U.S. feminists caught between the second and third “waves” of the movement. The activist energy of second-wave feminism was inspiring indeed. It challenged the ideological presuppositions of heteronormative patriarchy, established some legal protection against discrimination in the workplace and educational institutions, and enabled a significant percentage of women to enter the ranks of the professional-managerial class.
  875. Bose, Purnima: For Campus Free Speech
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Bose describes the right-wing incursion on universities and his troubled feelings about the climate of intellectual fear among some on the campus left. He elaborates on this by discussing the demands for speaking engagements for right-wing pundits to be cancelled.
  876. Bose, Purnima: Inside the Corporate University
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Recent corporate transformation of the university, the profit-driven research orientation and the direction of instruction to the requirements of the private sector discourages faculty from finding common cause with other constituencies. The article looks into problems of neoliberal university and how to help create a genuine university community.
  877. Bose, Purnima: Textbook Tempest in California: Who Speaks for Hinduism?
    Against The Current vol. 122

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Decades after their arrival in the United States in significant numbers following the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, Indian Americans are entering the political fray. Like other ethnic communities, Indian Americans are not a monolithic group. Yet the most conservative Hindu elements have had some success in claiming to represent the whole community in recent debates regarding the certification of sixth grade history textbooks in California.
  878. Bose, Purnima; Lyons, Laura E.: Soft Power and the Case of Iraq
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Following the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, pundits have touted the desirability of pursuing "soft power" as a supplement to military action in Iraq and other parts of the Muslim world.
  879. Bose, Rana; Swift, Richard: SOS Alternatives to Capitalism: A discussion with Richard Swift
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Montreal Serai had the opportunity to discuss SOS: Alternatives to Capitalism – a handy, slim compendium of vital, essential thoughts and discussions on the concept of an alternative economy and society – with Richard Swift.
  880. Bossin, Bob: Only one bear in a hundred bites, but they don't come in order
    Resource Type: Videotape
    First Published: 2017
    Bob Bossin talked about oil tanks in a Youtube video
  881. Bosworth, Bill: A.G.A.I.N./Direct Services/Employment:
    Introduction to Employment Strategies & Note on the Consultation A.G.A.I.N.

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    Critiques of government employment strategies in the urban core/skid row areas.
  882. Bosworth, Bill: What A.G.A.I.N.?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1975
    Adequate Guaranteed Annual Income and Skid Row.
  883. Bott, Robert; Brooks, David; Robinson, John: Life After Oil: A Renewable Energy Policy For Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  884. Bottari, Mary: Document Trove Details Bradley Foundation's Efforts to Build Right-Wing "Infrastructure" Nationwide
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Documents examined by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) expose a national effort funded by the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation to assess and expand right-wing "infrastructure" to influence policies and politicians in statehouses nationwide.
  885. Bottari, Mary: GOP Creates Perverse Online Voter Registration, Making It Harder for People to Vote
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The bill will ultimately reduce voting by senior citizens, people with disabilities and minorities.
  886. Bottomore, T. B.: Classes in Modern Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965   Published: 1970
    Bottomore provides an introduction to the concept of class and examines its place in Marxist theory and in critical revisions and rejections of that theory.
  887. Bottomore, T.B.; Rubel, Maximilien (eds.): Karl Marx: Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1956   Published: 1961
    A selection of Marx's writings intended to present the evolution of his ideas, the main features of his mothod, and the chief conclusions of his research.
  888. Bottomore, Tom: A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  889. Bottomore, Tom (Editor of English Edition): Socialism Of The Future
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1993
    A European journal of socialist scholarship and political debate covering global problems such as the new industrial revolution and the upheavals in Eastern Europe.
  890. Botts, Lee; Krushelnicki, Bruce: Great Lakes
    An Environmental Atlas and Resource Book

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  891. Bouchard, Mary Alban: Peace is Possible
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  892. Boucher, Doug: Is there a vast cowspiracy about climate change?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Cowspiracy movie review: Cowspiracy's argument is based on badly flawed and almost unanimously rejected interpretations of science. Actual science and scientists are practically absent among the many talking heads in the film.
  893. Boudin, Chesa; Farrow, Kenyon; Dohrn, Bernardin; Berger, Dan: Letters from Young Activists
    Today's Rebels Speak Out

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
  894. Boudreau, Julie-Anne: The MegaCity Saga
    Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  895. Boudreau, Michael: The Struggle for a Different World
    The 1971 Gastown Riot in Vancouver

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    Published in Debating: Canada and Sixties, edited by Lara Cambell et al. Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 2012
  896. Bougeault, Ron ; Broad, Dave; Brown, Lorne ; Foster, Lori (Editors): 1492-1992
    Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Relates the European invasion and conquest of the Americas and also tells of the struggles and resistance of the indigenous peoples.
  897. Bougher, Kathy: El Salvador Feminists Fight for Justice
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The 1997 Salvadoran law banning abortion under all circumstances is one of the most punitive in the world.
  898. Bouguerra, Mohamed Larbi: Toxic spills threaten marine ecosystem
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2023
    The X-Press Pearl sank off Sri Lanka two years ago, releasing a toxic cocktail of chemicals and plastics into the sea, the biggest disaster. Only tough regulations can prevent a repeat.
  899. Bouharoun, Jad: Understanding the counter-revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A review of Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (Saqi, 2016).
  900. Bouharoun, Jad: Understanding the counter-revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A review of Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (Saqi, 2016).
  901. Bouk, Dan: Insurance and the orgin of big data
    Between the ledger and the computer was the card index - the basis of the mass commodification of personal insurance

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A historical look at the origins of 'Big Data' and the collection of personal information by corporate America in the early 20th century.
  902. Boulder, Kamala Kempadoo (ed.): Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
    New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    This collection of essays underscores the interlocking relationship between prostitution, migration and trafficking. They reveal a deep seated anxiety about borders, economic resources and the fragility of the nation-state. Far from from helping women and children become free from explotaiton, the obession with women sex workers has led to the detriment of all by excluding the questions of human rights, freedon of movement, basics such as food and shelter and a living wage. The book is a call for all those involved -- governments, aid workers and trafickees -- to go beyond a paternalistic and colonial view of these issues and deal with them in a spirit of cooperation.
  903. Bounce: Sex work: Solidarity not salvation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    An ongoing debate is taking place in anarchist and feminist circles on the legitimacy of sex work and the rights of sex workers. The two main schools of thought are almost at polar opposites of each other. On the one side you have the abolitionist approach led by feminists, such as Melissa Farley who maintains that sex work is a form of violence against women. Farley has said that "If we view prostitution as violence against women, it makes no sense to legalize or decriminalize prostitution." On the other side you have sex worker rights activists who view sex work as being much closer to work in general than most realize, who believe that the best way forward for sex workers is in the fight for workers' rights and social acceptance and for activists to listen to what sex workers have to say. In this article I will discuss why the abolitionist approach discriminates against sex workers and takes advantage of their marginalized status, while the rights approach offer the opportunity to make solid differences in the labour rights and human rights of sex workers.
  904. Bourgeault, Ron et. al.: Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
    Vol. 8: 1492-1992

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of poems and essays giving various perspectives on resistance to imperialism and capitalism.
  905. Bourgeault, Ron; Broad, Dave; Brown, Lorne; Foster, Lori: 1492-1992 -- Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Articles critiquing the "Columbus myth, and chronicles the repression of North America's original indigenous inhabitants.
  906. Bourne, Randolph: War is the Health of the State
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1918
    Once the State has begun to function, and a large class finds its interest and its expression of power in maintaining the State, this ruling class may compel obedience from any uninterested minority. The State thus becomes an instrument by which the power of the whole herd is wielded for the benefit of a class.
  907. Bourrie, Mark: Kill The Messengers
    Stephen Harper's Assault on Your Right to Know

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    Ottawa has become a place where the nation's business is done in secret, and access to information - the lifeblood of democracy in Canada - is under attack.
  908. Bovard, James: Bill Clinton's Most Abominable Freedom Fighters Uncloaked
    Return to Kosovo

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Unfortunately, Bill Clinton will never be held liable for killing innocent Serbs or for helping body-snatchers take over a nation the size of Connecticut. Clinton is reportedly being paid up to $500,000 for each speech he gives nowadays. Perhaps some of the well-heeled attendees could flourish artificial arms and legs in the air to showcase Clinton’s actual legacy.
  909. Bovard, James: FBI Cointelpro is Back and Worse Than Ever
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    Elon Musk has opened the floodgates to expose the FBI's latest war on Americans' freedom of speech. The FBI massively intervened to pressure Twitter to suppress accounts and tweets from individuals the FBI disapproved, including parody accounts. The FBI and other federal agencies also browbeat Facebook, Instagram, and many other tech companies.
  910. Bovard, James: The FBI's Forgotten Criminal History
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The FBI has a long record of both deceit and incompetence. Five years ago, Americans learned that the FBI was teaching its agents that "the FBI has the ability to bend or suspend the law to impinge on the freedom of others." This has practically been the Bureau's motif since its creation in 1908.
  911. Bovard, James: How Drug Courier Profiles Begot Terrorism Watch Lists
    The Drug War and the Fourth Amendment

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    More than a million names are now included on the catch-all terrorist watch list maintained by U.S. government agencies.
  912. Bovard, James: Obama food aid ravages Third World farmers
    Despite uplifting rhetoric, Obama is perpetuating a program that sabotages foreigners' self-sufficiency

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The US taxpayers who finance foreign food aid surely believe they are feeding starving people. But the truth is the reverse - it is undermining indigenous agriculture in recipient countries - creating famine and chronic malnutrition, while sabotaging self-sufficiency.
  913. Bovard, James: Obama's Hypocritical Crusade Against Extremism
    Will the Feds Soon be Targeting People With a "Bad Attitude"?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    In his speech last month to the United Nations, President Obama summoned foreign leaders to join his "campaign against extremism." Obama has repeatedly invoked the "extremist" threat to justify attacking abroad and seizing more power at home since taking office in 2009. But the president's own record makes it tricky for him to pirouette as the World Savior of Moderation.
  914. Bovard, James: Obamas Sordid Record on Censorship and Secrecy
    Blindfolding the Republic

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Obama’s failure to attend the Charlie Hebdo march in Paris and the condemnations of this press freedom omission.
  915. Bovard, James: The Political Slaughterhouse
    Statism's Death Knell for Liberty and Democracy

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The issue of government coercion has been taken off the radar screen of politically correct thought. The more government power has grown, the more unfashionable it becomes to discuss or recognize government abuses- as if it were bad form to count the dead brought about by government interventions.
  916. Bovard, James: Washington's Biggest Fairy Tale: 'Truth Will Out'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    The idea that the truth will eventually be exposed may be comforting to people that think we live in a transparent democracy. But this investigative journalist discusses how hard it is to get information from the government.
  917. Bovard, James: Where's the Body Count from Shootings by the Police?
    Protecting Killer Cops

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    It estimated that in the United States in 2011 police shot more than 1,100 people, killing 607. However, the government refuses to keep track of the killings, so the exact number is unknown, and may well be higher.
  918. Bow, James: 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.
  919. Bowden, Mark: Hue 1968
    A Turning Point in the American War in Vietnam

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2017
    Hue 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam.
  920. Bowe,John: Americans talk about love: How we chose an open marriage
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Bowe presents an American couple's conversation revealing their history of polyamory.
  921. Bower, Tom: The Squeeze: Oil Money and Greed in the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    A review the big business of the oil industry across the globe, and the lengths (depths) to which they will go to maximise profits.
  922. Bowes, Clay: Zelensky's terror team: Why the West looks the other way when Ukraine's secret murder squad kills journalists and activists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2023
    Threats and tactics that would be instantly labeled unacceptable against any other country get a pass when applied to Russians.
  923. Bowker, Marjorie Montgomery: On Guard for Thee
    An Independent Review of the Free Trade Agreement

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  924. Bowles, Paul; Veltmeyer, Henry: Voices of Resistance to the Northern Gateway Pipeline
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The National Energy Board's Joint Review Panel (JRP) has just published its recommendation that the Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway to transport Alberta's tar sands oil to the northwest coast of British Columbia should be approved.
  925. Bowles, William: So Different Yet So Familiar
    Book Review by William Bowles

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    A fascinating and extremely readable account of a life now vanished, destroyed by the insatiable appetite of capital and told with acid wit and great style making it enjoyable to relish the language but not too much, it's not a travelog but a rare account of life that most of us are barely aware exists.
  926. Bowser, Kenneth (director): 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.
  927. Boxely, Simon: The meaning of the school testing obsession
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    This article focuses on the new frontiers for the calculation of human productivity in its earliest forms, in early years education in Britain; but the general points are applicable across continents and educational age-phases. It will be argued that the English baseline test is just one example of the policing of capital's interests in our classrooms, but a particularly pernicious one for the way it reaches deep into the experience of the youngest children.
  928. Boxer, Marilyn J.; Quataert, Jean H., Eds.: Socialist Women
    European Socialist Feminism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    A collection of essays on women, feminism and socialism through the 19th and 20th centuries.
  929. Boyce, Steve; Edwards, Jake; Wetzel, Tom: Slaughterhouse Fight: A Look at the Hormel Strike
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986
  930. Boyd, Andrew: 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.
  931. Boyd, Andrew; Mitchell, Dave Oswald (eds.): Beautiful Trouble - Pocket Edition
    A Toolbox for Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    Ideas for organizers.
  932. Boyd, Kate; Storm, Cristien: 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.
  933. Boyd, Malcolm: Take Off the Masks
    Resource Type: Book
    This is the sensitive and moving coming out story of the well-known author, religious leader, and civil rights activist.
  934. Boyd, Melba Joyce: Roots of the Rebellion
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Kim D. Hunter interviews Melba Joyce Boyd about the 1967 rebellion.
  935. Boyd, Neil: Big Sister
    How Extreme Feminism has Betrayed the Fight for Sexual Equality

    Resource Type: Book
    "Some man did this to you didn't he?" That is Neil Boyd's complaint with radical feminism-that it blames men for everything. In doing so he believes that this small group who are now in powerful positions as lawyers, politicians and policy makers has undermined judicial due process and free expression. His utlmate aim the in the book is to rescue feminism from those who have hijacked it and to promote a feminism that is more inclusive. Whith his sardonic wit this book makes for a very enjoyable read.
  936. Boyd, Neil: High Society
    Legal and Illegal Drugs in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  937. Boyd, Stephanie: The Devil Operation 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    A tale of corporate espionage unfolds in this exposé of torture, intimidation, and murder of Peruvian eco-activists and indigenous farmers. Shocking video footage, horrifying photos, and meticulous reports compiled by private security firms working for U.S. and British-owned gold mines are co-opted by the filmmakers to reveal the truth.
  938. Boyd-Barrett, Oliver: The Crisis in Ukraine is a Planetary Crisis Provoked by the U.S. that Threatens Nuclear War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  939. Boyens, Ingeborg: Unnatural Harvest
    How Corporate Science is Secretly Altering Our Food

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
  940. Boyer, Jean-Pierre; Desjardins, Jean; Widgington, David: Picture This
    Posters of social movements in Québec (1966 - 2007)

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    A collection of posters which offer a veritable journey through Quebec’s social history and political imagination of the past four decades.
  941. Boykoff, Jules: Power Games: A Political History of the Olympic Games
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
  942. Boykoff, Maxwell T.: Who Speaks for the Climate?
    Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    This book helps students, academic researchers and interested members of the public explore how the media portray climate change and how they shape the spectrum of possibilities for policy action. Providing a bridge between academic research and real world developments, Boykoff makes sense of media reporting of climate change.
  943. Boyle, Kevin et al.: Unveiled
    Art and Censorship in Iran

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    This report seeks to illustrate the manner in which artistic censorship in Iran is both shaped and shapes; to demonstrate where the focus of the conflict lies between the Islamic Republic of Iran and individual expression.
  944. Bozzo, Sam (director); Barlow, Maude; Clarke, Tony (writers): Blue Gold: World Water Wars 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2008
    A documentary, based on the book Blue Gold, by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, which examines environmental and political implications of the planet's dwindling water supply, and posits that wars in the future will be fought over water. The film also highlights some success stories of water activists around the world and makes a strong case for community action.
  945. Bradbury, Richard: Uncovering the history of the English Revolution
    Book review

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A review of John Rees, The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640-1650, Verso (2016).
  946. Bradfield, M.; Dillon, J.; Gindin, Sam; Lockhart, A.: Strategies for Canadian Economic Self-Reliance
    Alternative Paths to Jobs, Development, Equality and Peace

    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1985
    Examines "the reality which lies behind the myth of increased international competitiveness and attempts to spell out the implication of a radically different model of development -- termed the self-reliant model --for different aspects of Canadian economy.
  947. BRADLEY MANNING SUPPORT NETWORK: What Bradley Manning Revealed
    The Wikileaks Files

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    PFC Bradley Manning is a US Army intelligence specialist who released classified information to WikiLeaks.
  948. Bradley, Alexandra; Slaughter, Jane: Principles for Troublemakers
    How to Fan the Flames

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The authors outline some trouble-making movement-building principles that should be the hallmarks of the labour movement.
  949. Bradley, James: The Cautionary Tale Of "Doctor America"
    How Dr. Tom Dooley -- Once A Universally Revered Secular Saint to Millions -- Found the CIA and Lost His Halo

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2021
    How the Dulles brothers, the CIA and the U.S. Navy conspired to turn a decent man into a deceitful spreader of disinformation in support of the Vietnam War.
  950. Bradley, Keith; Gelb, Alan: Cooperation at Work
    The Mondragon Experience

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    A guide to work co-operatives, based on the experience of the Mondragon group of co-operatives in Spain.
  951. Bradley, Mike; Danchik, Lonnie: Unbecoming Men
    A Men's Consciousness-Raising Groups Writes on Oppression and Themselves

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    Members of a men's group attempt to trace their experiences back to their roots, discovering how they learned to be male and sexist.
  952. Bragg, Melvyn: Readings from the Peasants' Revolt
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with Voices of the Powerless, in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at six critical moments across the last 1,000 years.
  953. Bragman, Bob: Turn on tune in - hippie photos unseen for decades
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A recent visit to the Chronicle's basement archives to look for hippie-related photos paid off with some wonderful images that have not been seen in several decades. Many of them were taken in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
  954. Brame, G., Grame, W., Jacobs, J.: Different Loving
    An exploration of the world of sexual dominance and submission

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993   Published: 1996
    Explores and demystifies the worlds of BDSM, sexual power relationships, and fetishism.
  955. Bramhall, Stuart Jeanne: Farming Without Machines: A Revolutionary Agricultural Technology
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974   Published: 2012
    Originally published in 1974, How to Grow More Vegetables, Eighth Edition: (And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land than You Can Imagine1 remains a vital resource for farmers, agricultural researchers and planners, sustainability activists and home gardeners.
  956. Bramhall, Stuart Jeanne: Private Banks: Creating Money Out of Thin Air
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    In his book The Joy of Tax: How a Fair Tax System Can Create a Better Society, Richard Murphy, UK Tax Justice Network co-founder, offers a radically pioneering approach to tax and fiscal policy. Murphy is one of the first economists to link tax policy to the 400- year-old reality that nearly all money is created by private banks out of thin air.
  957. Brand, Dionne; Stikeman, Ginny: Sisters in Struggle
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1991
    The film introduces us to a group of activists across Canada who are struggling to end systemic discrimination against women, particularly the challenges facing women of colour. Runtime: 49 min.
  958. Brand, Michèle; Gupta, Arun: What is the "Nuit Debout"?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    In late February the Michael Moore-style documentary "Merci Patron!" debuted in a few small cinemas in France. The sleeper hit caught a representative of Bernard Arnault, the CEO of the luxury-goods conglomerate LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy) forking over 35 thousand euros in hush money to a couple who were threatening to go public with their layoff from a garment factory.
  959. Brand, Stewart (Editor): The Next Whole Earth Catalog
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
  960. Brandon, Josh; Silver, Jim: Poor Housing
    A Silent Crisis

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    Across Canada, there is a severe shortage of decent quality housing that is affordable to those with low incomes, and much of the housing that is available is inadequate, even appalling. The poor condition of housing for those below the poverty line adds to the weight of the complex poverty they already endure.
  961. Brandow, Karen; McDonnell, Jim;: No Bosses Here!
    A Manual on Working Collectively and Cooperatively

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
    A perceptive and practical guide to working in a collective.
  962. Brandt, Barbara: Whole Life Economics
    Revaluing Daily Life

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
  963. Branfman, Fred: When Chomsky Wept 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    A portrait of Noam Chomsky.
  964. Branford, Sue; Glock, Oriel: The Last Frontier
    Fighting Over Land in the Amazon

    Resource Type: Book
    This richly detailed study of the Amazon region spells out the mismanagement, corruption, and resulting chaos and brutality of successive Brazilian government development schemes. The present situation in the Amazon and how it came about are vividly portrayed, often in the words of the people interviewed. We learn of the problems and resistance of the indigenous peoples, the conflicts between landowners and peasants, and the ecological damage large scale ranching and mining are causing.
  965. Branford, Sue; Kucinski, Bernardo: The Debt Squads
    The U.S., The Banks, and Latin America

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    With major banks now writing off a part of their outstanding loans, the debt crisis remains in the news. The problems of a continent struggling, under pressure from IMF programmes, to keep up its repayments, are having world-wide repercussions. Now, in contrast to the analyses which have reflected the interests of the banks, this book brings in the crucial Latin American perspective. It reveals the dramatic effect that the pressure to keep up repayments has had on the debtor nations.
  966. Brankamp, Hanno: Challenging the 'refugee-victim' narrative
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    With looming refugee and forced migration crises in the Mediterranean, Kenya, Burma, Syria, Burundi and elsewhere hitting international headlines, public attention is rightfully drawn to those people immediately affected by war, poverty, and persecution. For many, internally-displaced persons (IDPs), refugees, and asylum-seekers are above all unfortunate souls, devastated, and stripped of their humanity by seemingly never-ending civil wars, dictatorships and economic stagnation at home.
  967. Brasch, Walter: Arsenic-Laced Coffee is Good for You
    Would You Like Sugar With That?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The Environmental Protection Agency, in 2013, identified about 1,000 chemicals that the oil and gas industry uses in fracking operations, most of them carcinogens at the strengths they shove into the earth.
  968. Brasch, Walter: Citizen-Journalist Fined for Telling the Truth
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The story of an injunction against against a journalist who dared to tell the truth.
  969. Brasch, Walter: A Nation of Millennial Entitlements
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A student twice sued Misericordia College because she failed a nursing class. Why do significant numbers of people believe they are entitled to get the credentials they want even if they don't have the qualifications required?
  970. Bratich, Jack Z.: The Twitterest Pill
    Policing Dissent in the Information Age

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Who judges the legitimate and illegitimate uses of communications technology in social movements? Which networked alliances have State-sponsorship, and which ones face criminalization and State-crackdown? Social media are relying on open network access, but this openness too easily sugarcoats itself in democratic notions (participation, interactivity, freedom). At the same historic moment, we are also witnessing an expansion, integration, and refinement of sovereign police power. When the two converge we begin to see an increase in repressive intervention into, and pre-emption of, information use.
  971. Bratt, Peter: Dolores
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2017
    Dolores is a 2017 documentary directed by Peter Bratt on the life of activist Dolores Huerta. The film focuses on Huerta's work to organize farmworkers in California to form the United Farm Workers (UFW), in alliance with such movements as the Chicano Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, LGBTQ social movements, and the late 20th century Women's rights movement.
  972. BRAUCHLI , Christopher: And the Secret Word Is
    The Deep Meaning of "Relevant"

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Senators Mark Udall and Tom Wyden's secret about the operations of the N.S.A. was an interpretation of one word "relevant" in the Patriot Act by the FISA Court.
  973. Brauchli, Christopher: Criminalizing First-Graders
    Arrested and Handcuffed for Tantrums

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    All across the nation, schools have adopted draconian zero-tolerance policies that treat children like criminals and turn schools into prison-like environments.
  974. Brauchli, Christopher: Intolerance, Saudi-Style
    With Friends Like These...

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    What all of those victims of the Saudi criminal justice system have in common is that their offenses related strictly to intellectual activities and not physical violence.
  975. Brauchli, Christopher: Invitation to a Hanging
    Pity the Executioner

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A recently filed lawsuit suggests Texas execution officials were forced to engage in illegal activities in order to obtain a death dealing drug.
  976. Brauchli, Christopher: Privatizing the IRS
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The headline in the New York Times on January 10, 2018, a few short days before Congress decided it was easier to shut down the government than to legislate, announced that the I.R.S. "paid $20 million to collect $6.7 million in Tax Debts." At first blush the reader assumed this was a story that had somehow crept into the newspaper by mistake and escaped the attention of the articles editor. The reader who thought that could be forgiven for being surprised at seeing the story. That is because that story had appeared in the New York Times and other publications on two earlier occasions.
  977. Braudel, Fernand: The Perspective of the World
    Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 3

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  978. Braverman, Harry: Braverman, Harry (Harry Frankel) - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Harry Braverman (aka Harry Frankel) (1920-1976).
  979. Braverman, Harry: Labor and Monopoly Capital
    The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century

    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1974
  980. Braverman, Harry: Labor & Monopoly Capital 
    The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, 25th Anniversary Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    This widely acclaimed work, first published in 1974, overturned the reigning ideologies of academic sociology and became the standard text for many basic areas of sociological inquiry.
  981. Braverman, Harry: Monthly Review - Volume 26 Number 3
    Labor and Monopoly Capital: The degradation of work in the twentieth century

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
  982. Bray, Mark; Feeley, Diana; Finkel, David: Taking on the Far-Right Menace
    An Interview with Mark Bray

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Diana Feeley and David Finkel interview Mark Bray, author of The Anti-Fascist Handbook and professor at Darmouth College. Bray answers questions about his book, facism, tracking the racist right and tactical issues.
  983. Bray, Roberts: Spin Works! A Media Guidebook for Communicating Values and Shaping Opinion
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    A guide to utilizing the media for social justice organizations and individual activists.
  984. Brayer, Linda; Wimmer, Andrew: It's Not Piracy!
    The International Law Framework

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The crimes that Israel committed during its assault on the vessels and civilian passengers of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla fall firmly within the category of "high crimes." The assault, rather than an act of piracy, must be defined as a "crime against the peace" and a "crime against humanity" as Israel subjected "part of the high seas to its sovereignty" in a murderous attack on unarmed civilian vessels. The severity of these crimes is magnified precisely because the criminal actor is not an individual but a highly militarized state.
  985. Brazier, Chris: No-Nonsense Guide to World History
    Resource Type: Book
  986. Brazier, Chris: Trigger Issues: Football
    One Small Item, One Giant Impact

    Resource Type: Book
  987. Brazier, Chris (Ed.): Raging Against the Machine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Influential articles from 30 years of hard-hitting, independent journalism from New Internationalist.
  988. Breaking the Silence: 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.
  989. Brearton, Steve: 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.
  990. Brecher, Jeremy: Climate Insurgency
    A Strategy for Survival

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    Twenty-five years of human effort have failed even to slow climate change, let alone reverse it. Climate Insurgency lays out a strategy for protecting the earth s climate: a global nonviolent constitutional insurgency. This short book starts with a brief history of official climate protection efforts from above and non-governmental ones from below that explains why climate protection has failed so far. Then, it proposes a global nonviolent insurgency for climate protection to overcome that failure.
  991. Brecher, Jeremy: Climate Jobs for All 
    Building Block for the Green New Deal

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    This article discusses the federal jobs guarantee (JG) concept which is also known as "jobs for all." The advocates of JG generally include climate protection as one of many types of work beneficial to the public that might be included in a jobs guarantee program.
  992. Brecher, Jeremy: Climate Jobs for All
    Building Block for the Green New Deal

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A federal climate jobs guarantee (CJG) is a proposed program similar to the New Deal's WPA that would prioritize jobs that protect and improve the environment. Polls show that the program has popular support and could be a major political force in 2020.
  993. Brecher, Jeremy: Dakota Access Pipeline and the Future of American Labor
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    As United States Energy Transfers Partners began building the Dakota Access Pipeline through territory sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, the tribe began an escalating campaign against the pipeline.
  994. Brecher, Jeremy: Doom and Gloom 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Jermey Brecher says that the social roots of doom are part of a common pattern that we can observe repeatedly in history. People live their lives and pursue their goals by means of strategies that have been developed over time. But sometimes they discover their established strategies aren't working. No matter how hard they try, their problems remain intractable. The natural result is despair. But the awareness that other people are experiencing the same despair changes the context in which it is experienced. It opens up new possibilities. Perhaps the problems that we despair of solving as individuals can be addressed through some kind of collective action. When people begin to explore that possibility, the result may be a social movement.
  995. Brecher, Jeremy: 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.
  996. Brecher, Jeremy: From Mass Strike to New Society
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Jeremy Brecher examines where and how mass strikes have progressed into the working class attempting to run society in its own interests and the lessons we can learn from them.
  997. Brecher, Jeremy: How Labor and Climate United Can Trump Trump
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Co-operation between labour and climate groups may be possible in the Trump era.
  998. Brecher, Jeremy: 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."
  999. Brecher, Jeremy: Jeremy Brecher responds 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
    Jeremy Brecher responds to Murray Bookchin's critical response of Brecher's review of Bookchin's book.
  1000. Brecher, Jeremy: Jobs for Climate and Justice: A Worker Alternative to the Trump Agenda
    A working paper from the Labor Network for Sustainability

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Jobs for Climate and Justice exposes and challenges the Trump agenda and proposes the kind of economic program we must fight for. It also offers examples of the great organizing efforts around the country – led by working people – that provide the foundation for the a transition to a just and climate-safe economy.
  1001. Brecher, Jeremy: Making the Promises Real: Labor and the Paris Climate Agreement 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    As nearly 200 nations gathered in Paris approved the UN Climate Change Agreement, the AFL-CIO issued a statement that broke new ground on climate. While the AFL-CIO opposed the Kyoto climate agreement and never supported the failed Copenhagen agreement, it applauded the Paris climate change agreement as "a landmark achievement in international cooperation" and called on America "to make the promises real."
  1002. Brecher, Jeremy: Mayday, the 8-hour movement and the Knights of Labor
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Jeremy Brecher's account of the growth of the Knights of Labor union in the US, the agitation for a maximum 8-hour working day and the Chicago Haymarket events of 1886.
  1003. Brecher, Jeremy: A New Wave of Climate Insurgents Defines Itself as Law-Enforcers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Grassroots movement organizations from every continent will hold a global week of action called Break Free From Fossil Fuels in May 2016. They envision tens of thousands of people mobilizing worldwide to demand a rapid transition to renewable energy. Events will include nonviolent direct actions targeting extraction sites or infrastructure; pressure on political targets to shift policies around fossil fuel development; and support for clean energy alternatives.
  1004. Brecher, Jeremy: Strike! 
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1997
    A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
  1005. Brecher, Jeremy: This is What Insurgency Looks Like
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The call to Break Free from Fossil Fuels envisioned "tens of thousands of people around the world rising up" to take back control of their own destiny; "sitting down" to "block the business of government and industry that threaten our future"; conducting "peaceful defense of our right to clean energy." That's just what happened.
  1006. Brecher, Jeremy: Who Advocates Spontaneity? 
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1973
    The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
  1007. Brecher, Jeremy: The Working-Class Mini-Revolts of the Twenty-First Century
    Low-Level Insurgencies

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The start of the twenty-first century has seen a continuing decline in union membership and strikes. But it has also seen the emergence of unpredicted mini-revolts.
  1008. Brecher, Jeremy and Costello, Tim (ed.): Building Bridges
    The Emerging Grassroots Coalition of Labor and Community

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  1009. Brecher, Jeremy; Childs, John Brown; Cutler, Jill: 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.
  1010. Brecher, Jeremy; Costello, Tim: Common Sense for Hard Times 
    The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
  1011. Brecher, Jeremy; Costello, Tim; Smith, Brendan: Globalization from Below
    The power of solidarity

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    When tens of thousands of protestors brought the World Trade Organization in Seattle to a halt in November 1999, it marked the "coming out party" for a new global movement. Globalization from Below: The Power of Solidaritydraws on the history of past movements and their own experience as activists to propose strategies for building this powerful coalition into a successful movement for global democratization.
  1012. Brecher, Jermey: A post-affluence critique 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
    Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin (Ramparts Press, 1971) reviewed by Jeremy Brecher Root & Branch No. 4 (1973), pp. 7-22.
  1013. Brecher, Jermey: 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.
  1014. Brechin, Gray: Republic of Dunces
    Against The Current vol. 146

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    For its entire 142-year history, the University of California has served the state’s wealthiest businessmen well as a taxpayer-funded R&D facility. Its graduates have gone out into the world to serve as their mining engineers, attorneys, inventors, weapons designers, and business associates.
  1015. Brecht, Bertold: Stories of Mr. Keuner (exceprts)
    Resource Type: Article
  1016. Brecht, Bertolt: Bertolt Brecht Quotes
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  1017. Bredoux, Lenaig; Bolland, Patrick (Tr.): Commemorating France's Worst Mining Tragedy: 1099 Workers Perished to Profit the Bosses
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    A mining catastrophe in northern France on March 10, 1906, is remembered with a number of commemorative ceremonies.
  1018. Breeze, Nick: Climate litigation looms
    Interview

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Nick Breeze interviews Dr. Saleemul Huq, Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), who explains why we must stay below 1.5C, and why loss and damage compensation, and litigation, are the next big agenda items at COP24.
  1019. Breines, Wini: Community and Organization in the New Left, 1962 - 1968
    The Great Refusal

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
  1020. Brem, Maxwell: Connections, Vol.1, No.2
    Periodical profile published 1979

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    This newspaper is concerned with "news about Canada and the third world."
  1021. Brendel, Cajo: Brendel, Cajo - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Cajo Brendel (1915-2007).
  1022. Brendel, Cajo: Council Communism & The Critique of Bolshevism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    Council Communists don't see Stalinism as a sort of 'counter-revolution' that deprived October of its fruits. Rather they see Stalinism just as a fruit of this revolution, one that opened the door for capitalism in Russia. Stalin was the heir of Bolshevism and the Bolshevik Revolution.
  1023. Brendel, Cajo: Some Thoughts on the Re-organization of the Revolutionary Left
    Resource Type: Article
    It is not true that without revolutionary theory there is no revolutionary practice. It is not true that certain opinions and ideas, that a certain quantity of consciousness are the absolute precondition to struggle. It is the other way round! Many times, it has been stated that the "theory becomes a material force as soon as it takes possession of the masses." However, a theory is never more than a recapitulation of the experiences of the past and of its consequences. Not because of a certain theory does one have new experiences of the struggle, but new experiences that arise from the struggle give birth to new theory. This is a continuous process.
  1024. Brendel, Cajo: Theses on the Chinese Revolution
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1974
  1025. Brennan,M; Caffentzis,G; Colletrella,S; Coughlin,D.: New Enclosures
    Midnight Notes # 10 - Periodical profile published 1990

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  1026. Brenner , Johanna: Socialist Feminism in the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    In the 21st century, women of the working classes -- employed in the formal economy, the informal economy, working in the countryside or doing unwaged labour -- have entered the global political stage in an astonishing array of movements.
  1027. Brenner, Aaron; Brenner, Robert; Winslow, Cal (eds.): Rebel Rank and File
    Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below During the Long 1970s

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    A collection of essays that concentrate on struggles by American workers at the workplace and the political and economic context in which they took place.
  1028. Brenner, Bob: Devastating Crisis Unfolds
    Against The Current vol. 132

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Bob Brenner, for the ATC editors. The current crisis could well turn out to be the most devastating since the Great Depression. It manifests profound, unresolved problems in the real economy that have been — literally — papered over by debt for decades, as well as a shorter term financial crunch of a depth unseen since World War II. The combination of the weakness of underlying capital accumulation and the meltdown of the banking system is what’s made the downward slide so intractable for policymakers and its potential for disaster so serious. The plague of foreclosures and abandoned homes — often broken into and stripped clean of everything, including copper wiring — stalks Detroit in particular, and other Midwest cities.
  1029. Brenner, Johanna: Feminism's March from Nation to Home - interview
    Against The Current vol. 163

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Johanna Brenner interviews Ninotchka Rosca.
  1030. Brenner, Johanna: Marx for Today: A Socialist-Feminist Reading
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    In-depth look at the relationship between feminism and Marxism.
  1031. Brenner, Johanna: Remembering Barbara Zeluck
    Against The Current vol. 148

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Remembering Barbara Zeluck
  1032. Brenner, Johanna: 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.
  1033. Brenner, Johanna: Socialists Discuss During the DNC
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    On the steamy evening of July 27, 2016 in Philadelphia a raucous audience of close to 800 gathered to discuss electoral politics and movement-building. This was day three of Socialist Convergence, organized by a coalition of left organizations to create a socialist presence during the Democratic National Convention.
  1034. Brenner, Johanna: What is the Next Left?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    I think it is going to be very difficult to build national organizations that function under the control and as an expression of grassroots movements at this point; however, I think there is some real possibility for accomplishing this at the local level.
  1035. Brenner, Johanna: Women and the Politics of Class
    Resource Type: Book
    Engages many crucial contemporary feminist issues - abortion, reproductive technology, comparable worth, the impoverishment of women, the crisis in care-giving, and the shredding of the social safety net through welfare reform and budget cuts.
  1036. Brenner, Johanna; Resnick, Bill: Occupy Portland Regroups
    Against The Current vol. 156

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Early on a dark and freezing Monday morning, December 12, 2011, more than 800 people descended on terminals five and six at the Port of Portland. Having announced their intention to occupy and shut down the port, the demonstrators arrived to find that the Port of Portland management had beaten them to the punch and closed the two terminals over “safety concerns.”
  1037. Brenner, Johanna; Holmstrom, Nancy: After 9/11: Whose Security?
    Against The Current vol. 115

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Since 9/11 the United States has been obsessed with "security" in a very particular sense—protection from intentional threats to our safety and well being, as in "Office of Homeland Security," "our national security," "the conflict between civil liberties and security considerations," "security was tightened," or, more mundanely, "security guards."
  1038. Brenner, Lenni: Zionism in the Age of the Dictators
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    Documenting Zionist collaboration with Nazism.
  1039. Brenner, Mark: The Long Shadow of Mass Incarceration: A Generation Imprisoned
    Against The Current vol. 115

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    This January, the U.S. Supreme Court started what may prove to be a fundamental overhaul of criminal sentencing in federal jurisdictions. In two interrelated cases, Booker and Fanfan, the court struck down key elements of the current federal sentencing system, put in place over twenty years ago when Congress passed the Sentencing Reform Act.
  1040. Brenner, Mark: The Struggle to Stop Female Genital Mutilation
    Against The Current vol. 91

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    In January, 1999 the Senegalese parliament joined several other African nations imposing a ban on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). At the time of the ban over 700,000 women -- approximately twenty percent of the female population -- were estimated to have undergone some form of FGM in Senegal.
  1041. Brenner, Mark: Training for Freedom in Senegal
    Against The Current vol. 91

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    Mark Brenner interviews Amsatou Sow Sidibe. Amsatou Sow Sidibe is Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for the Study of Peace and Human Rights at University Cheikh Anta Diop at Dakar, Senegal. She is also a member of the National Elections Commission in Senegal and President of the West African Working Women's Network (RAFET).
  1042. Brenner, Michael: Crime or Punishment Why Wall Street Elites Don't Do Time
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Illicit financial behavior has been decriminalized in the United States -- for all practical purposes. Despite the revelations of massive misconduct by banks and other financial services businesses, criminal investigations are rare, indictments exceptional and guilty judgments extraordinary. Most potentially culpable actions are overlooked by authorities, slighted, reduced from criminal to civil status when pursued, individuals evade penalties much less punishment, and the appeals courts take extreme liberties in exonerating culprits when and if the odd conviction reaches them. The last mentioned are establishing new frontiers in the formulation of ingeniously sophistic arguments to justify letting financial malefactors off the hook.
  1043. Brenner, Michael: Keller's Hatchet Job
    The NYT vs. Assange

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    For evidence of the sorry state of honesty and integrity in American public life, one need go no further than the New New York Times.
  1044. Brenner, Michael: Plutocracy in America
    Runaway Exploitation

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Arguments for categorizing America as a plutocracy (a government of the rich and for the rich).
  1045. Brenner, Michael: US Can't Deal with Defeat
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2023
    In the U.S., the strongest collective memory of America’s wars of choice is the desirability -- and ease -- of forgetting them. So it will be when we look at a ruined Ukraine in the rear-view mirror.
  1046. Brenner, Michael: War, Conflict & Enemies of Truth
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    The frenzy engendered by the Ukraine conflict reinforces a herd mentality that cries out for critical thinking.
  1047. Brenner, Robert: The Economics of Global Turbulence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Brenner presents a survey of the world economy from 1950 to the present. He charts the post-war history of the global system and is critical of the results which include over-production and over-competition. He is then able to examine the systematic factors behind wage repression, high unemployment and unequal development.
  1048. Brenner, Robert: The Looming Crisis of World Capitalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    MARXIST ECONOMISTS ARE famous for having accurately predicted seven out of the last one international economic crisis. Perhaps for that reason, many in recent times have been unusually cautious about once again "crying wolf," even as the evidence of international economic dislocation has mounted around them. Today, however, prediction is no longer necessary. The international economy, outside of the United States and Europe—perhaps 50% of the world—is already experiencing...
  1049. Brenner, Robert: Property and Progress
    The Historical Origins and Social Foundations of Self-Sustaining Growth

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    A collection of texts on the origins of capitalism with substantive material on the debate regarding the transition from feudalism to capitalism.
  1050. Brenner, Robert: Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942-2016)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Remembering Marxist scholar Ellen Meiksins Wood.
  1051. Brenner, Robert; et al.: 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.
  1052. Brenner, Robert; et al.: 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.
  1053. Brenner, Robert; et. al: 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.
  1054. Brenner, Robert; et. al: 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.
  1055. Brenner, Robert; Feeley, Dianne; et. al: 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.
  1056. Breseé, Jack: Ashcroft? The Road to Theocracy?
    Against The Current vol. 91

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    Many stories are told about John Ashcroft here in his home town of Springfield, Missouri. Some of them are no doubt true. My personal favorite concerns John after we went to the same high school, but before his actual political career began. He was then acting as attorney for Southwest Missouri State University, located here.
  1057. Breseé, Jack: A Travesty of Justice: Why Peltier Remains in Prison
    Against The Current vol. 85

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    “It's 1999. Why is Leonard Peltier still in prison?” These words were on the huge banner behind the speakers' table for last summer's gathering of forces at Haskell Indian Nations College & Institute at Lawrence, Kansas.
  1058. Breton, Andre: Manifesto of Surrealism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1924
    Surrealism is the invisible ray which will one day enable us to win out over our opponents.
  1059. Brett, Guy: Through Our Own Eyes
    Popular Art and Modern History

    Resource Type: Book
    In this pioneering work, the author brings together the patchworks of the women of Chile documenting the Chilean resistance, Sha'aba painting of the people of Central Africa, and the collective view of reality expressed in the public paintings of the Chinese peasant communes. This book is an attempt to rescue the concept of art held hostage in museums and in the homes of the rich and return to us our collective legacy.
  1060. Breville, Benoit: Mobile homes can't move on
    Trailers are the cheapest available homes in the US, but thire owner - tenants are always at risk

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The challenges and vulnerabilities facing mobile home owners and tenants is examined.
  1061. Brewer, Helen: Here's how we stopped a brutal, inhumane and barely legal charter flight
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Helen Brewer describes how she, and 14 other activists, broke into Stansted Airport on the 28th of March 2017, and blocked a mass deportation charter flight due to send 60 people to Nigeria and Ghana -- a forced removal which threatened to place migrants in extreme danger.
  1062. Brewer, Joe; Lakoff, George: Why Voters Aren't Motivated by a Laundry List of Positions on Issues 
    Resource Type: Article
    An introduction to cognitive policy – the values, frames, and arguments that make sense of the political process.
  1063. Brewer, Rose M.: 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
  1064. Brewin, Andrea; Duclos, Louis; MacDonald, David: One Gigantic Prison
    The Report of the Fact-Finding Mission to Chile, Argentina and Uruguay

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    Three Canadian MPs report on human rights violations in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay.
  1065. Breyman, Steve: Nukes Now: Obama Worse Than Reagan
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    President Obama released his fiscal 2015 budget March 4. Ready for this? It asks for considerably more money (in constant dollars) for nuclear weapons maintenance, design and production than Reagan spent in 1985, the historical peak of spending on nukes: $8.608 billion, not counting administrative costs.
  1066. Breyman, Steve: The Return of Debtors' Prisons
    Reservations for the Poor

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Nearly a quarter of the people spending time behind bars on Riker’s Island in 2008 - one in four inmates - were there because they didn’t have the money to pay bail on a misdemeanor charge. These unfortunate souls may have been presumed innocent of the criminal charges by the judge, but they were nonetheless jailed for being poor.
  1067. Bricianer, Serge; Gadu, Anne: La Revolte des Etudiants Allemands
    Resource Type: Book
  1068. Brick, Howard: History, Culture and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 3
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    Historical materialism will remain the overriding framework for any effort that is intended to assist revolutionary practice.
  1069. Brick, Howard: Is Anti-Capitalism Enough? The New Crisis & the Left
    Against The Current vol. 138

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Whether or not the current economic crisis and a historic presidential election open up hidden potentials for renewed popular protest and collective action, it is obvious that the radical Left has lost a great deal of its size, visibility, élan and influence since the 1970s.
  1070. Brick, Howard: Reflections on Tom Hayden
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Reflections on Tom Hayden and the 1962 Port Huron Statement.
  1071. Bricker, Kristin: Chiapas Anti-Mining Organizer Murdered
    Mariano Abarca Led a Growing Movement to Kick Canadian Mining Companies Out of Mexican Communities

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Mariano Abarca Roblero, one of Mexico's most prominent anti-mining organizers, was shot to death on the evening of November 27, 2009, in front of his house in Chicomuselo, Chiapas. The incident comes just days after Abarca filed charges against two Blackfire employees, Ciro Roblero Perez and Luis Antonio Flores Villatoro, for threatening to shoot him if he didn't stop organizing against Canadian mining company Blackfire's barium mine in Chicomuselo.
  1072. Bricker, Kristin: Chiapas Murder Draws Criticism of Canadian Mining in Mexico
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The recent murder of Chiapan anti-mining organizer Mariano Abarca Roblero has drawn sharp criticism of Canadian mining in Mexico.
  1073. Brickhill, Daisy: 'Women are the strongest pillar'
    Meet the female fishmongers in Liberia fighting for healthy fisheries.

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    On the landing beaches of Liberia fishing canoes crowd the shallows, the bright colour schemes and fluttering flags showing the pride the fishermen take in their work. But although the men haul the nets this is an industry underpinned by women.
  1074. Bricmont, Jean: Beware the Anti-Anti-War Left
    Why Humanitarian Interventionism is a Dead End

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Ever since the 1990s, and especially since the Kosovo war in 1999, anyone who opposes armed interventions by Western powers and NATO has to confront what may be called an anti-anti-war left (including its far left segment).
  1075. Bricmont, Jean: How to Deal with The Lobby: The De-Zionization of the American Mind
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Countering the influence of the Zionist lobby.
  1076. Bricmont, Jean: Humanitarian Imperialism 
    Using Human Rights to Sell War

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world's leading economic and military powers, above all, the United States, in countries that are vulnerable to their attacks.
  1077. Bricmont, Jean: Open Letter to "Human Rights Defenders" on Aleppo
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Syria is the legitimacy of the interventionist policies of the U.S. and its "allies", Europeans, Turkey, and the Gulf states in that country.
  1078. Bricmont, Jean: Trump and the Liberal Intelligentsia: a View from Europe
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A new specter haunts the American elites: the candidacy of Donald Trump in the US President election and his success so far in the Republican primaries. The Republican establishment itself hopes to block his rise, even as he is drawing huge crowds into the party. As for the Democrats, they are hoping that his repugnant image will make the election of Hillary Clinton that much easier.
  1079. Bricmont, Jean: The Trump Phenomenon, as Seen From Europe
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Trump is berated as the latest incarnation of Evil (after Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad, the Brexiters): racist, sexist, Islamophobe, a friend of dictators, etc., in short the embodiment of all that arouses the righteous indignation of the human rights defenders. I would like to suggest a different way of seeing Trump. He is above all a capitalist, almost a caricature of the sort of man capitalism produces, encourages and celebrates. He makes money and is proud of it. For him, the bottom line is cost-benefit. Everything comes down to that ratio. Defend the Baltic States? What does it cost, what do we gain? Defend Japan? What does it cost, what do we gain?
  1080. Bridge, Robert: Assange revolutionized journalism, and the elite will never forgive him
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Julian Assange's treatment by governments and mainstream media shows how he is a threat to the former and shames the latter.
  1081. Bridle, James: New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2018
  1082. Brie, Michael: "Before all else a revolutionist": Marx and the Question of Strategy 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    If we begin listening to the voices of those he conversed with, we can stop seeing Marx as the source of infinite quotes and begin to view him instead as a comrade on a common path – a path that he walked before us, always in conversation, and often in dispute, with many of his contemporaries.
  1083. Brie, Michael: Elements of a Concept of Socialist Transformation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The concept of transformation, with the elements developed up to now, could be capable of advancing the process of creating a left that is up to the challenge of the great crisis of financial-market capitalism and today’s civilisation. Just like the Zapatistas, we will progress while learning - with the objective of overthrowing the total mode of production and life, of power and property relations, in order to go toward a solidary, socialist society, which puts an end to the exploitation of human beings and nature. The transformation of our very way of thinking is part of this progress.
  1084. Brie, Michael; Candeias, Mario: Just Mobility: Postfossil Conversion and Free Public Transport
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    In the face of a growing world population and metropolitan areas growing to accomodate them, Brie and Candeias analyze electric cars and free transit as alternatives to urban mobility.
  1085. Briemberg, Mordecai: A Journey from Satire to Legal Suite to Defense of Democratic Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    An account of CanWest's lawsuit arising out of a parody satirizing the Vancouver Sun's biased reporting on Israel and Palestine.
  1086. Briggs, Laura: Digital Disconnect and its adverse impact on how (or whether) we engage with nature
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    As the Digital Schoolhouse programme starts a national roll out to schools across the UK, scientists warn that digital disconnect can mean caring less - for each other and the environment.
  1087. Brighouse, Harry: March of the Vouchers - What Should the Left Learn from School Choice Debates?
    Against The Current vol. 82

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    In April, Florida became the first state to adopt a statewide school voucher plan. By a vote of 25-15 the State Senate adopted the absurdly named “A+ Plan for Education” which had previously been passed in the House by a vote of 70-48.
  1088. Brightman, Marc: Occupy Amazonia? Indigenous activists are taking direct action - and it's working
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The native peoples of the Amazon are employing the tactics of the Occupy movement against oil companies, gold miners and illegal loggers. Lacking the protection of the state, they fight their own battles. Recent campaign successes owe much to outside support.
  1089. Brightwell, Betty: The Raging Grannies
    Resource Type: Article
    We sing satire. We aren't very good at singing, but the medium being the message, as grannies in bright colourful clothes fashionable a couple of generations ago, and wearing smiles, outrageous hats and pink running shoes, we seem to have an appeal.
  1090. Brill, Alida: Nobody's Business
    The Paradoxes of Privacy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  1091. Brill, Harry: False Promises of Higher Education: More Graduates, Fewer Jobs
    Against The Current vol. 82

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    Through a continual dose of propaganda from the establishment and its allies, the American people have been persuaded that obtaining at least a college education is not only necessary, but also provides working people with excellent opportunities to avoid low-wage work and chronic unemployment.
  1092. Brimhall, James: How to combat boredom and formalistic thought
    Resource Type: Article
  1093. Brinton, Maurice: The Belgian General Strike
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1961
    The strike of 1960-61 was the culmination of a growing movement of social protest that had been building up over many years. The economic situation of Belgium had been slowly deteriorating. The last and most drastic attempt to improve it, at the expense of the working class, was the introduction of the loi unique, which cut into workers' purchasing power and threatened their conditions of work. On December 14, 1960, a one-day demonstration was called by the Socialist Party and the trade unions to protest against this law. It met with tremendous success. On December 20, the day the debate on the law began in Parliament, the municipal workers came out on official, nationwide, strike. While most of the other unions were discussing what to do next, a spontaneous movement of unparalleled extent swept the country like a tidal wave.
  1094. Brinton, Maurice: The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control 
    The State and Counter-Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A pamphlet exposing the struggle that took place over the running of workplaces in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In doing so not only does it demolish the romantic Leninist "history" of the relationship between the working class and their party during these years (1917-21) but it also provides a backbone to understanding why the Russian revolution failed in the way it did. From this understanding flows alternative possibilities of revolutionary organization.
  1095. Brinton, Maurice: Brinton, Maurier - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Maurice Brinton (1923-2005).
  1096. Brinton, Maurice: Capitalism and Socialism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1968
    The revolution must of course start with the overthrow of the exploiting class and with the institution of workers' management of production. But it will immediately have to tackle the reconstruction of social life in all its aspects. If it does not, it will surely die.
  1097. Brinton, Maurice: Capitalism and Socialism: A Rejoinder
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969
    Those who seem frightened of new ideas might at least rearrange their prejudices once in a while. But even this seems to be asking too much. In argument, they defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
  1098. Brinton, Maurice: "Dialectical Materialism and Psychoanalysis" -- A Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
  1099. Brinton, Maurice: Factory Committees and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1975
    It is a tragic fact, for which Leninists of all kinds (Stalinists, Trotskyists, Maoists, and the advocates of various theories of "state capitalism", i.e. International Socialists, Bordigists, "Marxist Humanists", etc.) must carry their full share of responsibility, that we know less today about the early weeks of Russian Revolution than we do, for instance, about the history of the Paris Commune.
  1100. Brinton, Maurice: For Workers' Power
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1965
    The road to socialism - and socialism itself - means the conscious and independent action of workers. It means the end of the division between leaders and led. By their rigid, hierarchical structure most "revolutionary" organizations encourage precisely those divisions. A socialist society will be one in which decisions will be taken by workers' councils, composed of elected and revocable delegates, and where the workers themselves will manage production.
  1101. Brinton, Maurice: The Irrational in Politics 
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1975
    The Irrational in Politics examines the way in which we have been programmed by social and sexual patterns of the dominant ideology. The result is mass produced individuals incapable of automous thought and perpetually craving authority and leadership. In this light he looks as well at the sexual revolution and the failure of the Russian Revolution. His aim is to allow the ordinary individual to aquire insight into their own phychic structure and in doing so become harmonised with their own deep aspirations and desires.
  1102. Brinton, Maurice: The Malaise on the Left 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
    Let us take it for granted that meaningful activity needs to be collective, that social transformation needs emancipated individuals, and that the institutional framework of any new society will probably be based, in part at least, on those forms which the struggle itself has repeatedly thrown up at its moments of deepest insight and creativity. What we now need to think about - and to discuss widely throughout the libertarian left - is the political content of an activity that consciously seeks both to avoid recuperation and to be relevant to the conditions of today.
  1103. Brinton, Maurice: Paris: May 1968
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1968
    This is an eyewitness account of two weeks spent in Paris during May 1968. It is what one person saw, heard or discovered during that short period.
  1104. Brinton, Maurice: Revolutionary Organization 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1961
    We here wish to examine one of the most fervently adhered to dogmas of the "Left": the need for a tightly centralized socialist party, controlled by a carefully selected leadership. The Labour Party describes this type of organization as an essential feature of British democracy in practice. The Bolsheviks describe it as a "democratic centralism". Let us forget the names and look below the surface. In both cases we find the complete domination of the party in all matters of organization and policy by a fairly small group of professional "leaders".
  1105. Brinton, Maurice: Socialism Reaffirmed 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1960
    "The emancipation of the working class is the task of the workers themselves". The working class cannot entrust its historical task to anyone else. No "saviours from on high" will free it. The class will never achieve power, its power, if it entrusts the revolutionary struggle to others. Mass socialist consciousness and mass participation are essential. The revolutionary organization must assist in their development and must ruthlessly expose all illusions that the problem can be solved in any other way. Moreover the working class will never hold power unless it is prepared consciously and permanently to mobilize itself to this end.
  1106. Brinton, Maurice: "What is Class Consciousness?" -- A Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
  1107. Brinton, Maurice; Guillaume, Philippe: The Commune, Paris 1871
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1961
    The most significant aspect of the Paris Commune is that it created social forms which in a sense define socialism itself, social forms which serve as yardsticks for proletarian revolutions past, present and to come. These forms provide criteria for analyzing the social nature of any particular regime.
  1108. Brinton, William M.: Publishing In A Global Village
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  1109. Briski, Zana; Kauffman, Ross: Born into Brothels
    Calcutta's Red Light Kids

    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 2004
    The chronicling of two documentary filmmakers and their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
  1110. Briskin, Linda; Eliason, Mona (eds.): Women's Organizing and Public Policy in Canada and Sweden
    Resource Type: Book
    Essays exploring the similarities and differences of women organizing and changing public policy in two different national and regional contexts. It examines the strategies that women have used to organize themselves as a vocal and political community.
  1111. Bristow, Gabriel: Yellow fever
    Populist pangs in France

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    The 'gilets jaunes' are a complex movement that has grown from a distrust of France's elites towards demands for citizen-led democracy. Their invocation of the French Revolution has provided the movement with a powerful sense of popular legitimacy but, as Gabriel Bristow argues, contains contradictions of its own.
  1112. Britell, Jim: "Zone Defense:" a New Way To Stop ATV’s in Wilderness Areas
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    In 2002, a new method of organizing was used by 20 organizations in a rural area of southwest Oregon to successfully confront an ATV threat in an area where no national, regional or local group had enough members to do much by itself. The nature of the campaign required numbers of people to turn out on short notice to meetings in sparsely populated areas for which little advance notice could be expected.
  1113. British Columbia Taskforce on Racism: Racism and Cultural Discrimination in B.C.
    Resource Type: Slide Show
  1114. Brittain, Victoria: The Jordan Valley: stolen land, stolen childhood
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The Jordan Valley in the Palestinian West Bank is under active annexation to Israel - in breach of the 4th Geneva Convention. Victoria Brittain went there to explore what this means for the people of the Valley.
  1115. Brittain, Victoria; Minty, Abdul S. (eds): Children of Resistance
    On Children, Repression and the Law in Apartheid South Africa

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    During the last decade the apartheid regime has unleashed the full force of its repressing not only against adults but even against children. The veil of censorship which the regime keeps over its actions was pierced for a few days in Harare in September 1987. There, children gave testimony of their own experience of violence and torture, and lawyers, doctors, social workers, religious leaders and parents spoke of what they had themselves seen of the treatment of children.
  1116. Britton, Nina Dillon: The Free University: A people's history
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    A history of a Free University in Australia.
  1117. Britton-Purdy, Jedediah: The Only Treatment for Coronavirus Is Solidarity
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    We live in an interwoven, interconnected world where an injury to one is truly an injury to all. We must confront the coronavirus with solidarity and fight for a society where the health of all is more important than profits for a few.
  1118. Brizan, George: Grenada: Island of Conflict
    From Amerindians to People's Revolution, 1498-1979

    Resource Type: Book
    This history of the island of Grenada is a timely account of the frequently violent transitions through which Grenadians have lived since even before the arrival of European colonialists. The author provides historical details of how these Caribbean people have always had to struggle against invaders who would enslave them.
  1119. Brneer, Michael: Wealth in America
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The greatest wealth transfer in America history goes on – into the bank accounts of the nation's 2% upper crust from the increasingly threadbare pockets of the lower 85% - to the sounds of silence.
  1120. Broadfoot, Barry: The Immigrant Years
    From Europe to Canada 1945-1967

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
  1121. Broadfoot, Barry: Ten Lost Years 1929 - 1939
    Memories of Canadians Who Survived the Depression

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    An oral history of the Great Depression in Canada.
  1122. Brock, Deborah; Kinsman, Gary: Workers of the World Caress
    An interview with Gary Kinsman on gay and lesbian organizing in the 1970's Toronto Left

    Resource Type: Article
  1123. Brock, Peter: Twentieth Century Pacifism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  1124. Brockman, Abby: Despair is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Brockman lists various methods to prevent feelings of cynicism, frustration, and grief for social activists and to inspire renewed hope in their efforts.
  1125. Brockway, Mac: Keep on truckin'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
    Mac Brockway analyes the machinations of unions in maintaining order in the workplace, with particular focus on a small dispute in the truck driving industry in New York.
  1126. Broder, David: Assessing Togliatti
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Broder provides a historical perspective of Italian Communism, looking at longtime leader Palmiro Togliatti's concrete actions during his leadership and not just the party's Gramscian-inflected theoretical canon.
  1127. Broder, David: The Lost Partisans
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Italy's April 25 holiday marks the anniversary of the country's liberation from fascism. This day in 1945, antifascist partisan units freed the northern industrial centers of Milan and Turin from the grip of Hitler and Mussolini's remaining loyalists, after Allied forces had swept through the country. Just three days later, in a humiliating epitaph to the twenty-year regime, partisans captured and executed il Duce and his entourage, hanging them upside down in Milan's Piazzale Loreto. Now the resistance is remembered more as representing 'national unity' than working-class resistance to fascism.
  1128. Broder, David: A Partisan Mayor
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A look back at the "French Tito," partisan militant Georges Guingouin.
  1129. Brodeur, Paul: The Great Power-Line Coverup
    How the Utilities and the Government are Trying to Hide the Cancer Hazrd Posed by Electromagnetic Fields

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  1130. Brodie, Janine; Gavigan, Shelley A.M; and Jenson, Jane: The Politics Of Abortion
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  1131. Brodine, Karen: Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1990
  1132. Brodribb, Somer: Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    An explanation of the foundation of recent post-modern theory which also criticises the misogynist and patriarchal work of Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard and Jean-Francois Lyotard.
  1133. Brody, David: Workers in Industrial America
    Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  1134. Brody, Hugh: Maps and Dreams
    Indians and the British Columbia Frontier

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 1997
    Brody's account of his extraordinary eighteen-month journey through the world of a people who have no intention of vanishing into the past.
  1135. Brody, Richard: Why Does It Matter If Heidegger Was Anti-Semitic?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The publication of the philosopher Martin Heidegger’s “Schwarzen Hefte” (“Black Notebooks”), written between 1931 and the early nineteen-seventies, is likely to cause an uproar.
  1136. Brody, Sam; Del Duca, Robert; Seltzer, Leo; Balog, Lester: National Hunger March, 1931
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 1931
    WFPL footage of protesters marching to Washington demanding jobs, food, and clothing during the infancy of the Great Depression.
  1137. Brogan, Peter: Ontario Teachers Face Austerity Drive
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Although conditions for teachers and students in Ontario, and Canada more broadly, remain far better than they are for their counterparts in the United States, concessionary austerity demands similar to those being more aggressively advanced in the United States have been rolled out in one guise or another across Canada too.
  1138. Bromberg, Sarah: Feminist Issues In Prostitution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    The flawed reasoning behind the opposition to prostitution by (radical) feminists.
  1139. Bronner, Stephen Eric: A Revolutionary for our Times: Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
  1140. Bronstein, Esteban Volkov; Gall, Olivia: Letter to Readers
    Against The Current vol. 148

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    We are writing you this letter to invite you to support the effort to preserve and renovate the Leon Trotsky Museum (IDA-MCLTAC) in Mexico City as we mark the 70th anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky, the 35th anniversary of the opening of the Trotsky Museum, and the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Institute on the Right of Asylum.
  1141. Brook, Timothy: Quelling The People
    The Military Suppression of The Beijing Democracy Movement

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1993
    The author examines what happened on June 3, 1989 when students protested in Tiananmen Square.
  1142. Brooks, Bonny: Buy Banned Books
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The article takes a look at 'banned books' in the social media era, where the 'imagination police' dominate and a form of 'fictional aparteid' is taking place, and moreover why we have a duty to buy them.
  1143. Brooks, David: Zero Energy Growth For Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
  1144. Brooks, Neil: We Can Save Social Programs 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991   Published: 1992
    We can save social programs by removing unwarranted tax subsidies for corporations and wealthy investors.
  1145. Brophy, Brigid: Brigid Brophy Quotes
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  1146. Brotchie, Jane ; Hills, Dione: Equal Shares in Caring
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
  1147. Broue, Pierre: The German Revolution, 1917-1923
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
  1148. Broughton, Alan: Julius Nyerere: Legacy and defeated dreams in Tanzania
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Julius Nyerere is regarded as one of the greatest African political leaders. He was a visionary for African unity, socialist development and self-reliance in the aftermath of colonialism, and still commands great respect. Though much of his vision failed to materialise he leaves a legacy of ethnic and religious tolerance and peace in his East African country, Tanzania.
  1149. Broughton, Alan; Garcia, Elena: Sustainable Agriculture Versus Corporate Greed
    Small Farmers, Food Security & Big business

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2017
    Examines the downfalls of profit-centred agriculture, and the struggle for a people-and-environment centred alternative in Australia.
  1150. Brouwer, Ruth Compton: All Things in Common
    A Canadian Family and Its Island Utopia

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2022
  1151. Broué, Pierre: Broué, Pierre - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Pierre Broué (1926 – 2005).
  1152. Broué, Pierre: Germany 1921: The March Action
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1964
    The debacle represented by the ‘March Action’ in Germany in 1921 was a crucial turning point in the development of the Communist International. The defeat led to a crisis in the German Communist Party (KPD), which had repercussions for the entire International.
  1153. Brower, Elaine: Report from Winter Soldier
    Against The Current vol. 134

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    On Friday, Day 2, testimony began at 9 AM with a panel about the "Rules of Engagement". Speakers from the Army and Marine Corps recounted the atrocities that they not only witnessed but participated in. The stories they were telling about the rules of engagement they learned while training at boot camp, or on a military base "back home," were the same as what I had heard from my son. I broke down sobbing. The photographs they were showing on the five viewing screens of bloodied bodies torn apart by close gunfire, 50-calibre Machine guns, rocket launchers, and every other damn weapon our great military industrial complex has created, were all too familiar to me.
  1154. Brown, Alison, K., Peers, Laura, with members of the Kainai Nation: 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.
  1155. Brown, Alleen: The Climate Movement Doesn’t Know How to Talk With Union Members About Green Jobs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Throughout the Democratic primary, the potential loss of good construction and fossil fuel industry jobs has helped prevent moderate Democratic candidates, including frontrunner Joe Biden, from taking policy positions that would aggressively confront the fossil fuel industry and the climate crisis. Whoever opposes Donald Trump in the general election will face a politics of climate denial built on an empty but alluring promise of job security in the oil, gas, and coal industries.
  1156. Brown, Alleen: A Coalition of Scientists Keeps Watch on the U.S. Government's Climate Data
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Via memos leaked to the press, rogue tweets, and unnamed agency sources, the public learned of growing pressure on federal employees to avoid sharing their scientific work. Meanwhile, small but significant changes to federal web pages hinted at the demise of former president Barack Obama’s efforts to manage climate change.
  1157. Brown, Alleen: How a Christian Nonprofit Helped a Controversial Minnesota Mining Company Buy Gear for Local Police
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    A Christian non-profit called Shield616 that donates gear to police forces has received donations from mining companies. This sparks concerns of a conflict of interest among residents that are protesting these mines.
  1158. Brown, Alleen: Huge Pipeline Company Kinder Morgan Hired Off-Duty Cops to 'Deter Protests' in Pennsylvania
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Kinder Morgan, the self-proclaimed "largest energy infrastructure company in North America," paid $50,000 for off-duty police officers from a Pennsylvania department to patrol a controversial gas pipeline construction site. The hiring came after a request from the corporation for uniformed officers that could "deter protests and prevent delays."
  1159. Brown, Alleen; Parrish, Will; Speri, Alice: Dakota Access-Style Policing Moves to Pennsylvania's Mariner East 2 Pipeline
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Examination of the troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
  1160. Brown, Alleen; Parrish, Will; Speri, Alice: Oil and Water
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A collection of articles charting how leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
  1161. Brown, Amanda; Stanford, Jim: Flying Without A Net
    The "Economic Freedom" of Working Canadians in 2000

    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    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.
  1162. Brown, Andy: Reassessing Podemos
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Podemos has come an immense distance in a very short time. It represents a clear choice by millions of people in the Spanish state to vote against corruption, institutionalised greed and contempt for voters, but also against austerity. As such, it weakens the ruling class in the Spanish state and strengthens the anti-austerity side in Europe. The success of Podemos in December is a cause for celebration and a source for lessons and parallels.
  1163. Brown, Barrett: This London Firm Helps the Wealthy Hide Assets - or Steal Them. Luckily We Have 15 Years of Their Client Communications
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    A London firm that helps the rich hide or steal money has had 15 years' worth of communications leaked. These are being made available to hopefully help return stolen money.
  1164. Brown, Bruce: Marx, Freud, and the Critique of Everyday Life
    Toward a Permanent Revolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    The theory and practice of revolutionary social transformation, Brown argues, must encompass the subjective, psychological dimensions of the revolutionary process.
  1165. Brown, Bruce: Towards a Method for the Revolutionary Reconstruction of Everyday Life
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    On the critique and transformation of everyday life as a key part of the struggle for revolutionary transformation. Published in Liberation magazine April 1972.
  1166. Brown, Caroline and Lorne: An Unauthorized History of the RCMP
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A critical history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
  1167. Brown, Dee: Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
    An Indian History of the American West

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    A well documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian.
  1168. Brown, Dennis: 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.
  1169. Brown, Ellen: Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash and the $10 Trillion Bail-in
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    If you’re an ordinary saver with your money in the bank, you may soon be paying the bank to hold your funds rather than the reverse.
  1170. Brown, Ellen: If China Can Fund Infrastructure With Its Own Credit, So Can We
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    What the US could learn from China about funding infrastructure initiatives.
  1171. Brown, Ellen: Monsanto, the TPP and Global Food Dominance
    Putting Profits Before Populations

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with GMO (genetically modified) seeds that are distributed by only a few transnational corporations. But this agenda has been implemented at grave cost to our health; and if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) passes, control over not just our food but our health, our environment and our financial system will be in the hands of transnational corporations.
  1172. Brown, Ellen: Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match In China
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Unless China starts playing by neoliberal rules Trump's economic war with them will lead the US to a race to the bottom or isolation from international markets.
  1173. Brown, Ellen: Richmond and Eminent Domaine
    The Stone That Brings Down Goliath?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    In a nearly $13 billion settlement with the US Justice Department in November 2013, JPMorganChase admitted that it, along with every other large US bank, had engaged in mortgage fraud as a routine business practice, sowing the seeds of the mortgage meltdown.
  1174. Brown, Ellen: The War on Savings: the Panama Papers, Bail-Ins, and the Push to Go Cashless
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The bombshell publication of the "Panama Papers," leaked from a Panama law firm specializing in shell companies, has triggered both outrage and skepticism. In an April 3, 2016 article titled "Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak," UK blogger Craig Murray writes that the whistleblower no doubt had good intentions; but he made the mistake of leaking his 11.5 million documents to the corporate-controlled Western media, which released only those few documents incriminating opponents of Western financial interests.
  1175. Brown, Ellen: Why Do Banks Really Want Our Deposits?
    Hint: It's Not to Finance Loans

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Many authorities have said it: banks do not lend their deposits. They create the money they lend on their books.
  1176. Brown, Ellen: Why Qaddafi had to go: African gold, oil and the challenge to monetary imperialism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    What was NATO's violent intervention in Libya really all about? Now we know, writes Ellen Brown, thanks to Hillary Clinton's recently published emails. It was to prevent the creation of an independent hard currency in Africa that would free the continent from economic bondage under the dollar, the IMF and the French African franc, shaking off the last heavy chains of colonial exploitation.
  1177. Brown, Harrison: The Human Future Revisited
    The World Predicament and Possible Solutions

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
  1178. Brown, Heather: Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    A study devoted exclusively to Marx's perspectives on gender and the family.
  1179. Brown, J Pat; Maass, Dave: How California police are tracking your biometric data in the field
    Agencies are using mobile fingerprint scanners, tattoo and facial recognition software

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    EFF and MuckRock got together to reveal how state and local law enforcement agencies are using mobile biometric technology in the field by filing public records requests around the country. Thousands of pages of documents were obtained from more than 30 agencies.
  1180. Brown, Jeff J.: Huawei Sting Operation Exposed
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    December 1, 2020 is the second anniversary of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou’s arrest — or kidnapping, depending on your point of view — in Vancouver, Canada. If you work for the U.S.’s Departments of Justice, Treasury and State, with the CIA/NSA cheering from the galleries, it is just a simple extradition request to "carry out the law." If, however, you are company executive Frédéric Pierucci, Meng was kidnapped by the U.S., just as he was in 2013, whereupon he was imprisoned for two years on similar — he would say trumped-up — charges. His seizure was used to extort France’s flagship Alstom Corporation to pay $772 million in fines (ransom according to Pierucci) and sell off its most valuable portfolios to General Electric (GE), its U.S. competitor — all to gain his release.
  1181. Brown, Jenny: Enough With the Just In Time Schedules, Say Retail Workers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Employers increasingly use part-time scheduling to decrease costs and crush attempts at worker organizing. Scheduling software now cuts shifts into chunks as small as 15-minutes. Last-minute schedule changes result when the software predicts customer traffic based on the weather forecast or recent sales patterns. Most retail workers now don't know their schedules a week ahead of time, and often have shifts added or cancelled at the last minute. Erratic scheduling can also make it impossible for parttime workers to hold two jobs, because they never know when they will be available.
  1182. Brown, Jim; Seeger, Pete: Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2007
  1183. Brown, John: John Brown Archive - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of John Brown (1800-1859).
  1184. Brown, L. Susan: 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.
  1185. Brown, Lester: Vital Signs
    The Trends that are Shaping Our Future

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Worldwatch Institute charts coming trends using a straightforward format. Areas addressed include military expenditures and cigarette consumption.
  1186. Brown, Lester R.: State of the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  1187. Brown, Lorne: When Freedom Was Lost
    The Unemployed, the Agitator, and the State

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    The struggles of unemployed workers against the Canadian state in the 1930s.
  1188. Brown, Lorne; Taylor, Doug: The Birth of Medicare
    From Saskatchewan's breakthrough to Canada-wide coverage

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    An account of the history of medicare in Canada, from its birth in Saskatchewan to its adoption nation-wide.
  1189. Brown, Malcolm; Seaton, Shirley: Christmas Truce: The Western Front, December 1914
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994   Published: 1999
    A history of the Christmas Truce of 1914 on the Eastern and Western fronts.
  1190. Brown, Michael: Neoliberalism and the New Lynching
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    I don't think it's a coincidence that they would raise mass Black and Brown incarceration as being a counterinsurgency tactic. I think we've seen that out there on the streets, out there in Baltimore and Ferguson lately.
  1191. Brown, Michael Barratt: The Economics of Imperialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Brown discusses different theories of the connection between capitalism and imperialism. His own position is derived from Rosa Luxemburg, holding that imperialism is a process of assimilation and transformation of economies into the sphere of competitive capital accumulation.
  1192. Brown, Michael E.: Inside/ Outside the Campus Box
    The Cutting Edge

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of David Lanksy's The Cutting Edge.
  1193. Brown, Norman O.: Life Against Death
    Psychoanalytical meaning of history

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1959
  1194. Brown, Paul: Cuba's urban farming shows way to avoid hunger
    Urban farming, Cuban-style, is being hailed as an example of how to feed ourselves when climate change threatens serious food shortages.

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    When countries run short of food, they need to find solutions fast, and one answer can be urban farming. That was the remedy Cuba seized with both hands 30 years ago when it was confronted with the dilemma of an end to its vital food imports.
  1195. Brown, Peter Stone: Where is Phil Ochs When We Really Need Him?
    There But For Fortune

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  1196. Brown, Peter; Robinson, Bill: Unsafe Harbours
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1986
  1197. Brown, Steve: When a Radio Host Interviews a War Criminal, Is It Churlish to Ask About His War Crimes?
    A letter to New York's popular WNYC-NPR radio host Brian Lehrer

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    An open letter to NPR radio host Brian Leher, critizing the host for not providing greater context and background for his guest Elliott Abrams, who was a go to-guy for U.S.-funded terrorism, and helped arrange the overthrow of democratically elected governments throughout Latin America and the Middle East.
  1198. Brown, Tom: Why Strikes Fail
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1943
    Essentially a reprint of Tom Brown's 1943 essay, "The Social General Strike: Why 1926 Failed." Centres on workers' response to the British General Strike of 1926, and their repudiation of traditional representation in unions and formen.
  1199. Brown, Valerie and Grossman, Elizabeth: Why the United States Leaves Deadly Chemicals on the Market
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Scientists are trained to express themselves rationally. They avoid personal attacks when they disagree. But some scientific arguments become so polarized that tempers fray.
  1200. Browne, Harry: 'Factivism' and Other Fairytales from Bono
    The 'Inner Nerd' Gets It Wrong, Again

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A rebuttal to U2 singer Bono's claims regarding the 'imminent eradication of extreme poverty'.
  1201. Browne, Paul Leduc: 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.
  1202. Brownhill, Leigh: Land, Food, Freedom
    Struggles for the Gendered Commons in Kenya

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
  1203. Brownlee, Jamie: Ruling Canada
    Corporate Cohesion and Democracy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
  1204. Brownlee, Jamie: Ruling Canada: Corporate Cohesion and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Ruling Canada critically examines Canada's "economic elite" -- a collection of the country's richest and most powerful individuals, many of whom preside over Canada's largest corporations. Brownlee argues that this corporate elite is increasingly unified and class conscious. As a direct result, a broad array of state policies and programs have been cut and/or implemented which serve the interests of this elite minority at the expense of most Canadian citizens.
  1205. Bruce M.: 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?
  1206. Bruenig, Matt: Don't Believe the Hype: Paying for Medicare for All Is Simple
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Debunking recent arguments that Medicare for All will require reducing spending in other areas.
  1207. Bruenig, Matt: The Racial Wealth Gap Is About the Upper Classes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    On the racial wealth gap in the US and how it is driven by the upper classes.
  1208. Brumback, Gary: Corporate America Unmasked
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    While US public views seem generally favourable about American corporations, an extensive study by psychologist Dr. Gary Brumback concludes that leadership, particularly in large corporations, is found to be morally depraved and their organizations often dysfunctional.
  1209. Bruneau, William; Turk, James: Disciplining Dissent
    The Curbing of Free Expression in Academia and the Media

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    A look into the restrictions on free speech in the media and academia in Canada, the US and Europe.
  1210. Brunel: Madagascar: At the Bottom of the Capitalist Abyss
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Madagascar is a country still too little known today and yet, in many ways, it is an emblematic victim of contemporary capitalist pillage. Set in the Indian Ocean, the size of France, with a population of more than 20 million people, Madagascar shows symptoms of advanced general degradation.
  1211. Brunner, Keith: The Rise of Vermont's Fracked Gas Battle: Communities Organize Against Pipeline Plans
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Nate and Jane Palmer's farm sits in a clay plain basin adjacent to one of the many wetlands in Monkton, a rural Vermont community known for, among other things, its annual salamander migrations and amphibian road crossings.
  1212. Brunton, Finn: A Short History of Spam
    Coming to an Inbox Near You

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Objects can talk in cartoons and fairy tales: toys tell their stories. Now our domestic appliances have begun to speak, and they would like to sell us pills and porn, and for us to give them our bank details.
  1213. Brushett, Kevin: 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.
  1214. Bryan, Kim: Wonderful Wonderful Carbon Haven!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    With the activists gearing up outside and developing countries in no mood for compromise - climate justice is definitely on the agenda this time round.
  1215. Bryant, Chris: How the aristocracy preserved their power
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    After democracy finally shunted aside hereditary lords, they found new means to protect their extravagant riches. For all the modern tales of noble poverty and leaking ancestral homes, their private wealth and influence remain phenomenal.
  1216. Bryant, Lee: Ocean 'dead zones' are spreading - and that spells disaster for fish
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Oxygen levels in our oceans are falling, producing growing 'dead zones' where only the hardiest organisms can survive. The causes are simple: pollution with nutrient-rich wastes, and global warming. But the only solution is to stop it happening - or wait for 1,000 years.
  1217. Bryant, Louise: Bryant, Louise - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Louise Bryant (1885-1936).
  1218. Bryant, Louise: Six Red Months in Russia
    An Observers Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918
    Louise Bryant's account of her time in Russia during the revolution 1917-1918.
  1219. Bryant, Nick: Ordeal of Australia's child migrants
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The story of the British child migrants sent to Australia has been described as a history of lies, deceit, cruelty and official disinterest and neglect.
  1220. Brygo, Julien: 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.
  1221. Brym, Robert J.; Sacouman, R. James (eds.): Underdevelopment and Social Movements in Atlantic Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    A collection of essays challenging conventional theories about underdevelopment in Atlantic Canada and presenting an alternative view of the origins and nature of regional disparity. The authors offer a persuasive and well-documented argument that underdevelopment is a consequence of capitalist development itself.
  1222. Bréville,Benoît; Bulard,Martine: 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.
  1223. Buber, Martin: Paths in Utopia
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    In this work, Buber expounds upon and defends the Zionist experiment - a federal system of communities on a co-operative basis. He looks to the anarchists Proudhon, Kropotkin and Gustav Landauer, but selects only that part of their doctrines appropriate to his case.
  1224. Buch, Peter: Burning Issues of the Mideast Crisis
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1969
  1225. Bucheit, Paul: Three Big Lies of the Super-Rich
    Why Being in the Highest Class Doesn't Mean You're a High Class Person

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The conservative spin of the media is designed to protect the rich from challenge.
  1226. Buchheit, Paul: Five Reasons the Super-Rich Need Big Government
    The Real Welfare Kings and Queens

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Taxes represent payment for society’s many benefits, which get bigger and better as people get richer.
  1227. Buck, Pem Davidson: Worked to the Bone
    Race, Class, Power, and Privilege in Kentucky

    Resource Type: Book
    A provocative examination of race, class and the mechanics of inequality in the United States.
  1228. Buck, Tim: Canada: The Communist Viewpoint
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1948
    Tim Buck, the national leader of the Labor-Progressive Party, sets out the Communist position on the big questions of Canada's destiny.
  1229. Buck, Tim; edited by Beeching, William; Clarke, Phyllis: 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.
  1230. Buckland, Kevin: Disobeying Spain: the Catalan Referendum for Independence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    On October 1, 2017, all across Catalunya ballot boxes were ripped from people's hands by masked police and a dangerous violence was unleashed, at random, upon some of the 2,262,424 people who stood in long lines to cast their vote. The repression dealt by the Spanish State to prohibit the Catalan Referendum, in every bloodied baton and ever rubber bullet, transformed the day from a question of independence to a question of democracy.
  1231. Buckman, Robert; Sabbagh, Karl: Magic or Medicine?
    An Investigation of Healing & Healers

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  1232. Budden, Sandra; Ernst, Joseph: The Movable Airport
    The politics of government planning

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    An account of the manoeuvring and bureaucratic runaround that went into the planning of the Pickering airport, and of the resistance that it produced.
  1233. Budge, Ian: The New Challenge of Direct Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    Direct democracy involves citizens in discussion and decisions about what the government is to do, rather than leaving this to officials or parliaments. It thus challenges the restrictions placed by representative democracies such as Britain and the United States on political consultation and popular participation. Why should responsible adults not take public decisions as well as making their own individual choices?
  1234. Budiardjo, Carmel; Liong, Liem Soei: The War Against East Timor
    Resource Type: Book
    A comprehensive account of the tragic fate of East Timor.
  1235. Budraitskis, Ilya: Ukraine's Protest Movement
    Is a 'Left Sector' Possible?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A conversation about the necessity and possibility of a "Left Sector" and its struggle for hegemony in the 2013-2014 Ukrainian protests is important not only in the contemporary Ukrainian context, but also for the future.
  1236. Budrovich, Jorg & Lagos, Carlos: Make Sure You Don't Fall: Perspectives on the Recent Social Agitation in Chile, Part One
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    To understand and make sense of the recent wave of social unrest in Chile, we have to refer to the history of the last half century of this country: the revolutionary upsurge that had its peak in late 1972, the destruction of the social movement after the military coup, the neo-liberal restructuring imposed by the Pinochet regime and the consolidation of that legacy by successive civilian governments.
  1237. Bufe, Chaz: Listen Anarchist!
    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1988
    Bufe criticizes many of the failings of the anarchist movement in North America, in theory and in practice.
  1238. Bufe, Chaz: Poles 'n holes: Working in the porn biz
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986
    Pornography worker Chaz Bufe on work, sexuality and censorship in America.
  1239. Bugan, Carmen: Burying the Typewriter
    Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    Carmen Bugan reflects on what life was like growing up in Romania during the 1980's with a dissident father.
  1240. Bugera, Vladislav; Sirotin, Vladimir; Khrustalev, Peter: Political Repression in Russia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    When someone in Russia today calls himself a Communist, in most cases it will turn out that what you have is a particular version of a National Socialist; all too many anarchists turn out to be “national anarchists.”
  1241. Bugera, Vladislav; Sirotin, Vladimir; Khrustalev, Peter: Political Repression in Russia
    Against The Current vol. 150

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The full implications of the extraordinary drought that struck the European part of Russia this past summer became apparent only in the third quarter of 2010, when accurate statistics on the human casualties and economic losses became available. But from the outset a solid foundation on which to base projections emerged from amongst the potpourri of facts and expert opinions.
  1242. Buhle, Mari Jo: Women and American Socialism, 1870-1920
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  1243. Buhle, Mari Jo; Buhle, Paul: It Started in Wisconsin: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    First-hand accounts of the largest pro-labour mass mobilization in modern American history. In the spring of 2011, Wisconsinites took to the streets in what became the largest and liveliest labour demonstrations in modern American history.
  1244. Buhle, Mari Jo; Buhle, Paul (Ed.s): It Started in Wisconsin
    Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    A collection of accounts of the first great wave of grassroots resistance to the corporate restructuring of the Great Recession in Wisconsin in the spring of 2011.
  1245. Buhle, Paul: Celebration and Fresh Inquiry
    Lineages of the Literary Left: Essays in Honor of Alan M. Wald

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Book review of Howard Brick's, Robbie Lieberman's, and Paula Rabinowitz's Lineages of the Literary Left: Essays in Honor of Alan M. Wald.
  1246. Buhle, Paul: DARE's Struggles in Rhode Island
    Against The Current vol. 110

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Let's start in a scene from last summer that will be familiar, not exactly but approximately, to many older readers: the labor awards banquet. The setting is a "casino"— in the 1880s sense of a banquet hall, used for wedding receptions and assorted fraternal functions for six generations — set in a venerable public park in a working-class neighborhood, long ago designed by Frederick Law Olmstead.
  1247. Buhle, Paul: The Ecosocialism of Joel Kovel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Joel Kovel has been a prestigious and best-selling writer on psychotherapy, a militant left activist from the middle 1960s onward, an eco-theorist and an explorer of the world just beyond our sense perceptions.
  1248. Buhle, Paul: Tim Hector
    A Caribbean Radical's Story

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector.
  1249. Buhle, Paul: Labor at War or in the Tank?
    Against The Current vol. 145

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Steve Early is one of a small handful of extraordinarily keen-eyed observers who see things from within the shrinking world of U.S. organized labor — and who hold nothing back from readers.
  1250. Buhle, Paul: Madison Revisited
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993
    Published in Radical History Review, 57 (1993)
  1251. Buhle, Paul: Melville and A Lot More
    Against The Current vol. 122

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    More than a decade ago, an unpublished manuscript began filtering its contents into the minds of a fairly wide circle of erstwhile New Left intellectuals. It was fascinating, like no other theorizing on the text of Moby Dick and its significance; or rather, resembling many others in some of its evidence but ranging far beyond them in its implications.
  1252. Buhle, Paul: Memories of [my] Syndicalism
    Against The Current vol. 155

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    A handful of friends, old and new, have asked me about the path that my ideas and activities have taken me, some 50 years after I happened across a civil rights picket line in my hometown of Champaign, Illinois in the summer of 1960. The following is a radical memory unusual in some ways, but with many similarities to the memories of my New Left contemporaries in the outcome.
  1253. Buhle, Paul: A Radical Vision for Victory
    A Freedom Budget for All Americans

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    This remarkable book brings back into view a radical vision for victory within the mainstream, armed with the kind of expectation glimpsed briefly in the 2008 election race but this time without the support of a grassroots movement long since vanished.
  1254. Buhle, Paul: The Rawick File: How Do People Revolt?
    Against The Current vol. 148

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    George Rawick (1929-1990) was a powerful socialist scholar in the C.L.R. James tradition, sometimes an equally powerful mentor for young radicals, and also a tortured soul. He is largely forgotten today, because he did not write easily or found a “school” with his methods — or even get along with his friends and allies very well.
  1255. Buhle, Paul: Remembering E.P. Thompson
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    An article about E.P. Thompson
  1256. Buhle, Paul: Response
    Against The Current vol. 146

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Oldtimers, across geographical space and chronological time, tend to swat at each other, responding to insults both real and imagined, long past and present. I know that in my family, Ma and Pa did it with increasing vigor over the years. Probably not all of the swatting within the greatly diminished U.S., UK or any other Left can be attributed to political disappointment.
  1257. Buhle, Paul: Scottish Workers in History
    Against The Current vol. 144

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    So much has happened to the world’s working class in the last 30 years that we oldtimers may, perhaps, be forgiven for losing focus on the deeper histories of industrial life and struggle. Thanks to the publish-or-perish academic reality, ever more studies in social history actually appear, but fewer treat the labor movement as an important part of that history. Working people are more often seen as victims, too often self-victimized in myriad ways.
  1258. Buhle, Paul: See You at the Barricades! Three Books That Revive the Memory of the Paris Commune
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    For socialists and communists of over a century, the Paris Commune was a defining event. From March 18 to May 28 in 1871, following the collapse of the French Republic and the Prussian siege of the capital, the Communards swore to defend Paris until they were overwhelmed by the French army itself. Karl Marx himself called the temporary self-government of the population the "dictatorship of the proletariat."
  1259. Buhle, Paul: Studying Marx
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Buhle discusses how often participants in "The Movement" were not formally educated in Marxism but rather held self-studies conducted individually and in groups.
  1260. Buhle, Paul: Who Would Believe It? Annals of the New Left Era
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    A review of "You Say You Want a Revolution" a collection of memoirs of the Progressive Labor Party.
  1261. Buhle, Paul: The Wobblies Heritage
    Against The Current vol. 115

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    The cover of this Against the Current issue features something new that is also a century old: a Wobbly icon. This one is an image, on a banner (one of twelve made by labor muralist Mike Alewitz), foregrounding the old “Sabo-Tabby” of sabotage, backgounding the striking coal miners’ tactic of putting nails in the path of cars and trucks bringing scabs to work.
  1262. Buhle, Paul; Hudson, Alec: Rosa Lives
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The revolutionary thought of Rosa Luxemburg continues to inform and inspire anticapitalist movements today.
  1263. Buhle, Paul; Jones, Sabrina; Dumm, Gary; Thorkelson, Nick: Radical Jesus: A Graphic History of Faith 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Radical Jesus is arguably the first modern effort to convey through comic art the meaning of Jesus and his social message, not just in his own time, but also in the Radical Reformation, recent centuries, and in our own time.
  1264. Buick, Adam: The Role of the Soviets in Russia's Bourgeois Revolution: The Point of View of Julius Martov
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    An essay on Russian revolution.
  1265. Bukharin, Nikolai: Nikolai Bukharin Archive - index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Nikolai Bukharin
  1266. Bukharin, Nikolai: Imperialism and World Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1915   Published: 1929
    Bukharin's 1929 anticipation of the growth of the internationalization of capital.
  1267. Bukharin, Preobrazhensky; (edited by Carr, E. H.): The ABC of Communism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1920
    Written as a commentary on the Bolshevik Party program, combining a vision of communist society with a program for practical action.
  1268. Bulard, Martine: China's villages revive
    A few migrants have begun to return from China's cities to its neglected countryside, and have been joined by artists and advocates of

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A look at a movement towards rural reconstruction in China, which has gained fresh impetus from an economic slowdown as well as poorer urban living conditions and pollution.
  1269. Bulhak, Andrew C.: Postmodernism Generator 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2000
    A computer program written by Andrew. C. Bulhak using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text. Each time you click on the page, it generates a brand-new postmodernist essay, completely meaningless, but superficially plausible, just like 'real' postmodernist essays.
  1270. Bullard, Robert, ed: Confronting Environmental Racism
    Voices from the Grassroots

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  1271. Bullen, John: The Ontario Waffle and the Struggle for an Independent and Socialist Canada: Conflict within the NDP
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1983
    Published in Canadian Historical Review, 83.2 (June 1983)
  1272. Bullied, George J.: People of the Valley
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    An account of a spiritually-based educational commune in Ontario.
  1273. Bullough, Oliver: Butler to the World
    How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kelptocrats and criminals

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2022
    Butler to the World reveals how Britain came to assume its role as the center of the offshore economy. Written polemically, but studded with witty references to the butlers of popular fiction, it demonstrates how so many elements of modern Britain have been put at the service of the world's oligarchs.
  1274. Bunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne: An Indigenous People's History of the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    Historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.
  1275. Buncombe, Andrew: Israeli intervention in US elections overwhelms anything Russia has done, claims Chomsky
    The 89-year-old said the media was largely ignoring vital issues such as climate change

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Chomsky on the brazen interference of Israel in US politics to which supposed Russian meddling in the US election pales in comparison.
  1276. Bunsha, Dionne: Modi in Canada
    What Canadians Should Know About Harper's New Guest

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    When Stephen Harper hosts Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his visit to Canada this week, they will be greeted with both adoring fans and with protests. Modi, an extremist Hindu nationalist, has a strong support base within a section of the Indian community. But his past comes back to haunt him. A human rights organization called Sikhs for Justice has appealed to the Canadian government to prosecute Modi for the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat.
  1277. Buras, Kristen: Lessons from New Orleans 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Interview with author Kristen Buras.
  1278. Burch, Brian: 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.
  1279. Burch, Brian: 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.
  1280. Burch, Mark: Voluntary Simplicity And The Steady-State Economy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Voluntary simplicity is most basically characterized by the practices of mindfulness and material sufficiency. Through bringing mindfulness to our daily lives, we seek the maximum of well-being achievable through the minimum of material consumption. Well-being applies to all life forms on Earth, not just people.
  1281. Burcher, Betty; Donner, Lissa: The Winter of our Discontent
    Experiences Organizing Nursing Homes

    Resource Type: Pamphlet
    First Published: 1973
    An account by two nursing home workers describing their jobs and their successful efforts to organize unions at their workplaces.
    Published in Issue #2 (1973) on the New Tendency newsletter.
  1282. Burchett, Wilfred; Roebuck, Derek: The Whores of War
    Resource Type: Book
  1283. Burenhult, Goran (ed.): Traditional Peoples Today
    Continuity and Change in the Modern World

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Volume 5 of The Illustrated History of Humankind. Essays on the peoples and cultures of existing traditional societies.
  1284. Burge, Stuart; Elliot, John: Fall of Eagles: Lenin and Trotsky in London
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1974
  1285. Burger, Julian: The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Entries on indigenous peoples from around the globe, focusing on three main areas: their way of life, the present crisis, and the future.
  1286. Burgin, Andrew: In or out of the European Union? A tale of two referenda
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Andrew Burgin argues for a 'Remain' vote in the Brexit referendum.
  1287. Burgis, Ben: Please Stop Chanting That 'We' Won the Popular Vote!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    "We" didn’t win the popular vote, because we weren't on the ballot. We are the ninety-nine percent.
  1288. Burgis, Tome: The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa's Wealth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    Augustin Katumba Mwanke was a young banker in South Africa when persuaded to return home to help rebuild the Democratic republic of the Congo by the new government of Laurent Kabila. A year later he got a call from the president, a fellow Katangan, and was stunned to be appointed governor of an area the size of France, with control over some of the world's most valuable mineral seams.
  1289. Burke, Clifford: Type from the Desktop
    Designing with Type and Your Computer

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  1290. Burke, Edmund; Paine, Thomas: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the Rights of Man
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1961
  1291. Burke, James; Ironstand, Lyle; Cameron, Louis: Occupation of Anicinabe park
    The Occupation of Anicinabe Park 1974; Two Interviews

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    These interviews with Lyle Ironstand and Louis Cameron have been reprinted from Paper Tomahawks: From Red Tape to Red Power by James Burke, published in 1976 by Queenston House Publishing.
  1292. Burke, Jason; Sahariah, Sutirtha: India's acid attack victims unite against the horror of their past
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Last year, 349 people in India, mostly women, had acid thrown on them in deliberate assaults. A groundbreaking cafe allows some of them a new start. Sheroes (run by an NGO in the city of Agra, home of the Taj Mahal) is a rare beacon of hope where the aim is to help change perceptions of the survivors of acid attacks and to allow them to regain some confidence.
  1293. Burkett, Paul: 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.
  1294. Burkett, Paul: Marxism and Ecological Economics
    Towards a Red and Green Political Economy

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    A general assessment of ecological economics from Marxist point of view, demonstrating the potential contributions of Marxist political economy to ecological economical theory.
  1295. Burkett, Paul: Transformation Problem Unraveled
    Book Review

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Review of "Money and Totality: A Macro-Monetary Interpretation of Marx’s Logic in Capital
    and the End of the 'Transformation Problem'" by Fred Moseley. Burkett provides a summary of the details of Moseley's theory.
  1296. Burkett, Paul; Foster, John Bellamy: Marx and the Earth
    An Anti-Critique

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016   Published: 2017
    John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett respond to recent ecosocialist criticisms of Marx, offering a full-fledged anti-critique. They thus extend their earlier pioneering work on Marx’s ecology, providing the basis for a new red-green synthesis.
  1297. Burkholder, Susan: A Look at Skid Row 1976 - Where is it Going?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    A final report to the Non-Medical Use of Drugs Directorate on trends in Skid-Row movement.
  1298. Burnat, Iyad: Bil'in and the Nonviolent Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
    Tells how the farming village in Bil'in, located in Palestine's West Bank, has been facing its occupier, Israel, head-on. Side by side with Israeli and civil rights activists the world over, the people of Bil'in and their protests have been standing against the injustices imposed by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) since 2004. That was when the IOF's raids began to uproot the village's ancient olive trees and confiscate its farmlands, the main sources of its livelihood. All of it to build their separation wall and illegal settlements.
  1299. Burnat, Iyad: To end the occupation, dissolve the Palestinian Authority
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Palestinians will not gain their freedom except through popular resistance, in which all segments of the Palestinian people are unified against the occupation, in an organized popular intifada. There will not be a popular intifada before the Palestinian Authority is dissolved, and a unified, principles-centered national leadership is formed.
  1300. Burnett, Patrick: South Africa: Redouble Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Maternal health has been under the spotlight in South Africa after an analysis of maternal deaths was released in July showing an increase in the country's maternal mortality rate. Researchers found that nearly four out of every 10 deaths (38.4 percent) were avoidable. They identified non-attendance and delayed attendance as common problems, together with poor transport facilities, lack of health care facilities and lack of appropriately trained staff.
  1301. Burnheim, John: Is Democracy Possible?
    The Alternative to Electoral Politics

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    In this provocative book, John Burnheim argues that there is an alternative to our current political and economic structure. In a bold discussion of how and why the present system fails and what we might do to bring about genuine democracy, Burnheim offers the outline of a new kind of society, forcing us to reexamine our assumptions about the limits and possibilities of modern political systems.
  1302. Burns, Joe: Labor Law Won't Save Us
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The strike is still labour's strongest weapon.
  1303. Burns, Rick: Marx and Keynes: The Limits of Mixed Economy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    A look back at Paul Mattick's book Marx and Keynes, ten years after its original publication.
  1304. Burrill, Gary; McKay, Ian: People, Resources and Power
    Critical Perspectives on Underdevelopment and Primary Industries in the Atlantic Region.

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    This book is about resources and the reasons why the working people of the Atlantic region have derived so little benefit from the natural wealth which surrounds them.
  1305. Burrough, Bryan: Days of Rage
    America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
    An account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements in the United States in the 1970s.
  1306. Burrow, Sharan: A fossil free world must be founded on a Just Transition for workers and their communities
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Climate impacts hit working people first and with extreme weather events, changing seasons and rising sea levels, whole communities stand on the frontlines. The challenge of industrial transformation is both an imperative and an opportunity. We know there are jobs in action on climate, millions of jobs. With infrastructure investment projected to be up to US$90 trillion by 2030. This means jobs.
  1307. Burrowes, Robert J: Why Are All Those Racists So Terrified?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Past efforts, whatever personnel, resources and strategies have been devoted to them, have done nothing to address the underlying cause of racism and so their impact must be superficial and temporary. As the record demonstrates.
  1308. Burrowes, Robert J: Why Are Police In The USA So Terrified?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The routine killing of innocent civilians by the police has become a national crisis despite concerted attempts by political and legal authorities and the corporate media to obscure what is happening.
  1309. Burrowes, Robert J.: Lobbying Elites: The Fast Track To Extinction 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    As we evaluate the outcomes of the recent UN climate negotiations in Warsaw, one lesson that we are invited to learn, again, relates to our strategy for getting effective action taken on the ongoing climate catastrophe and other critical environmental.
  1310. Burrowes, Robert J.: Minimising the Risk of Police Violence
    Resource Type: Article
    Police may be violent at nonviolent actions for various reasons. In my experience, the most important ones are because police are directed to use violence as a form of political repression and because police are afraid of what to expect. Thus, in addition to considering the many other aspects of any nonviolent strategy, the planning process might consider ways in which any action can be made less vulnerable to police repression (or, for that
    matter, violence by provocateurs).
  1311. Burrowes, Robert J.: A Nonviolent Strategy to Defeat the US Coup Attempt in Venezuela 
    To the People of Venezuela

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    An open letter to the people of Venezuela regarding the US coup and with support for how they can resist.
  1312. Burrowes, Robert J.: Starving and Bombed Children of Yemen Seek Entrapment in Flooded Thai Cave
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    While the world was gripped by media coverage of trapped Thai boys in a flooded cave, hundreds of thousands of children were killed and suffering in other parts of the world -- yet received little or no attention. This article examines what this tells us about ourselves and geopolitics.
  1313. Burrowes, Robert J.: Violence Against Women: Why The UN Secretary-General Got It Wrong
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Burrowes argues that efforts to resolve violence aganist women are futile unless the focus shifts to preventing emotional and physical violence against children, with particular emphasis on boys.
  1314. Burrowes, Robert J.: Why Activists Fail
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Describes why activists have historically failed to make a real difference - they don't know how the world works. Describes how the world works and explains some components of nonviolent strategy for change.
  1315. Burrows, Gideon: The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    A review of the increasingly prolific global arms trade and its economic, political and social impact on exploited and vulnerable nations.
  1316. Burrows, Gideon: Trigger Issues: Kalashnikov AK47
    One Small Item, One Giant Impact

    Resource Type: Book
  1317. Burrows, Sandra; Gaudet, Franceen: Checklist of Indexes to Canadian Newspapers/Liste de Controle des Index de Journaux Canadiens
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  1318. Burstyn, Varda: The left and the Porn Wars
    A Case Study in Sexual Politics

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Published in Who's on Top?: The Politics of Heterosexuality, edited by H. Buchbinder et al. Toronto: Garamond Press, 1987
  1319. Burstyn, Varda: The Waffle and the Women's Movements
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    Published in Studies in Political Economy, 33 (Autumn 1990)
  1320. Burstyn, Varda: Women Against Censorship
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    Essays which argue that women have nothing to gain by allying themselves with anti-feminist forces and mainstream politicians. The contributors say that censorhip will be used against feminists who seek deep and permanent changes in the status quo.
  1321. Burt, Dave: Resistance After Foreclosure
    Against The Current vol. 158

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    In 1973, in the class- and race-polarized city of Boston, City Life began as a socialist collective fighting against evictions and gentrification in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Over the years, it has evolved into a radical non-profit organization with a long history of doing tenant organizing and tenants’ rights work all across the city. City Life was able to avoid sectarian debates to maintain itself as a radical center for housing organizing.
  1322. Burtenshaw, Ronan: The Media Against Jeremy Corbyn
    The British media has launched an unprecedented campaign of disinformation against Jeremy Corbyn

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The British media has never had much time for Jeremy Corbyn. Within a week of his election as Labour Party leader in September, it was engaging in a campaign the Media Reform Coalition characterized as an attempt to "systematically undermine" his position. In an avalanche of negative coverage 60 percent of all articles which appeared in the mainstream press about Corbyn were negative with only 13 percent positive. The newsroom, ostensibly the objective arm of the media, had an even worse record: 62 percent negative with only 9 percent positive.
  1323. Burtenshaw, Ronan; Byers, Sean: Ireland's Unfinished Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The revolutionary period sparked by the 1916 Easter Rising offered a vision of a truly democratic Ireland.
  1324. Burton, Elizabeth: The Patriarchal Stranglehold
    Book review

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A review of the book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne.
  1325. Burton, Nancy: Thoreau at 200
    Don't Let Bill Gates Ban the Hoe

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    In support of the so-called 'Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa,' Bill Gates is telling African women in remote villages to put down their hand-held hoes.
  1326. Burton, Orisanmi: Resisting State Violence
    Justice Or Just Us

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    None of the ambiguities that surrounded Mike Brown’s killing are present in the grotesque spectacle of Eric Garner’s murder. By now the whole world has watched the man die at the hands of police without betraying a trace of belligerence. The failure to indict Pantaleo and the officers who pinned Garner down as he repeatedly yelled, “I can’t breathe” is a reminder that antiblackness is not a technical problem and therefore cannot be remedied with a technical solution.
  1327. Buruma, Ian: Progressive virtue, performed in public
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2023
    Wokeness, however it is defined, has more in common with a religious mindset than a political project, says Ian Buruma.
  1328. Busby, Chris: Secrets of the UK Nuclear Bomb Tests Revealed
    The "Forgotten" Uranium Isotope

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Secret documents released reveal valuable evidence about uranium in fallout.The documents show that fallout from atmospheric nuclear testing contains enormous amounts of uranium. This should be no surprise as nuclear bombs contain a lot of uranium, and most of it remains unfissioned after a nuclear explosion.
  1329. Busgh, Perry: Rust Belt Resistance
    How a Small Community Took on Big Oil and Won

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    Led by an unlikely cast of characters -- an uncommonly stubborn set of civic leaders, a conservative local newspaper publisher, and the city’s determined and progressive mayor—Lima refused to take its place quietly on the industrial scrap heap.
  1330. Bush, David: Debating Syria Productively
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A collection of remarks on how the debate, within the left, over the Syrian conflict has been lacking and could be made more productive.
  1331. Busia, Abena: Testimonies of Exile
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Abena Busia's poetry examines the pain of exile and the power of family, memory and the spiritual and practical will to survive.
  1332. Buss, Helen M.: Canadian Women's Autobiography in English
    An Introductory Guide for Researchers and Teachers

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  1333. Bussey, John: If This Story Needs Fixing, Don't Call Us - Just Call THEM
    Resource Type: Article
    The Department of Corrections.
  1334. Bustelo, Joaquin: Immigration Reform: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
    Against The Current vol. 163

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The introduction of “immigration reform” legislation is a tribute first and foremost to the heroic activism of proud “Undocumented and Afraid” youth coming forward to demand their rights and refusing to live in the shadows.
  1335. Bustelo, Joaquín: A View from the Base
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    In Atlanta there was a very serious discussion both in meetings and on the Spanish-language talk radio station beginning a week ago over whether we should continue to call on the Senators to vote yes. And at least for the Senate, we stuck with calling for a yes vote.
  1336. Bustillo, Fred: Rejecting the "Vanguard" Party
    Against The Current vol. 86

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    In the September-October, 1999 issue of Against the Current (#82), Sam Farber's review of Daniel Singer's book Whose Millennium? deserves a few comments. Like Farber, Singer and numerous other revolutionaries, I also reject the Leninist concept of the "vanguard party." As you probably know, it was not Lenin who authored the concept that working people can attain only trade union consciousness as a result of their own practical activity, the material basis of the vanguard concept as defined in What Is To Be Done?
  1337. Butler, Jon: The Huguenots in America
    A Refugee People in New World Society

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    The story of Huguenot exiles and their failure to maintain religious and social distinctiveness in the diaspora.
  1338. Butler, Judith: Frames of War
    When Is Life Grievable?

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Butler explores the media's portrayal of war and its effect on audiences' understandings of human life. Such portrayals, Butler argues lead to the rationalization of modern warfare and state violence.
  1339. Butler, Nancy: Mother Russia and the Soviet Fatherland: Canadian Women and the Communist Party of Canada,1929-1939
    PhD. Thesis, Queen's University, 2010

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
  1340. Butler, Patrick: 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.
  1341. Butler, Simon: Climate politics must be as radical as the climate crisis 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    If the climate action movement allows its goals to be shaped by what is permissible in a capitalist economy then it has already failed. To respond to the climate emergency, our politics must be as radical as our reality. Revolutionary changes needed for humankind to survive and thrive.
  1342. Butler, Simon: Corporations profiting out of food crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The small group of food multinationals that monopolise the world food market are positioning themselves to take full advantage of the crisis: the latest food price hikes threaten to drive more people back into hunger.
  1343. Butler, Simon: The great 'success' of a carbon trading failure
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The right to pollute has never been more affordable. Energy companies and market speculators can buy a tonne of carbon for less than the cost of a cup of coffee. The low cost gives an incentive for companies to pollute more in the short-term and prices renewable energy alternatives out of the market.
  1344. Butler, Simon: Marxism as if the planet mattered 
    A Return to Marx's Ecological Critique

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels held that capitalism inevitably tears apart the natural conditions that sustain life. They argued capitalism's exploitation of working people, and the unsustainable exploitation of nature, were linked and part of the same process.
  1345. Butler, Simon: A Marxist view of ecology and human history
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A review on Martin Empson's "Land & Labour: Marxism, Ecology and Human History."
  1346. Butterly, Luke: 'If I don't come back, call my lawyer': Practical solidarity for people
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A recommendation of practical steps to help people facing the threat of detention, and the importance of standing in solidarity with others who are dealing with a hostile environment.
  1347. Button, Gregory: The Flint Water Crisis is Not Without Parallel in Michigan History
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    In the days, weeks, and months following a disaster people feel uncertain about real and perceived risks. The parties directly involved a disaster as well as other organizations such as public agencies, governmental bodies, corporations, the media, and environmental groups release a cacophony of information and disputations that the affected population and the general public see as conflicting and confusing. In the process victims and the general public struggle to gain credible sources of information in an attempt to make sense of an event and unpack the truth in order to assign, meaning, blame, and responsibility as well as develop coping strategies and effective remedies. This informational uncertainty can also result in the lack of an effective response between responding governmental agencies on all levels as witnessed in the ongoing crisis in Flint, Michigan.
  1348. Buttrick, Ann: Class Bias in Toronto Schools
    Downtown Kids Aren't Dumb: They Need A Better Program

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
    A brief by the Park School community council addressing the streaming of poor and working class children into the bottom levels of the school system. These children, the brief says, have badly developed basic skills, particularly in reading and writing. Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 4, Fall/Winter 1971.
  1349. Butts, Edward: Wartime
    The First World War in a Canadian Town

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2017
    What World War I meant to daily life in a Canadian community becomes clear in this book about the war years in Guelph, Ontario.
  1350. Buxbaum, Jessica: Censoring Palestine: Swarms of Israeli Bots Are Crippling Pro-Palestinian Twitter Account
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    The Israeli government's targeting of Palestinian digital content is well-documented. According to 7amleh, The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, the Israeli Ministry of Justice Cyber Unit sends content-removal requests aimed at Palestinian content to social media companies such as Facebook, Google, and YouTube. The Justice Ministry has boasted these corporations comply with 95% of their requests. And Israeli governmental organizations and NGOs also encourage their citizens to flag Palestinian content for removal.
  1351. Buxbaum, Jessica: Israel experiments on Palestinians with AI-powered guns at checkpoints
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    Discusses the ways Israeli weapons development efforts uses Palestinians as guinea pigs to be able to market their military technology as field-tested to foreign governments.
  1352. Buxton, Nick; Brennan, Brid; Tognoni, Andrea; Aguiar, Diana: Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim and El Salvador's struggle against corporate impunity
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The controversial legal case that Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim has launched against El Salvador has added fuel to the growing international debate on the balance of corporate rights and responsibilities and the need for new legal international frameworks to address corporate impunity.
  1353. Buzzanco, Bob; Parkin, Scott: Jeremy Brecher on How Labor and Climate Movements Build Power from Below
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2024
    Author, labour historian and activist Jeremy Brecher has been engaged at the intersection of labour, the environment, and the climate for decades. We talk with Jeremy about strikes, unions, and union leadership, the labour-climate movements and much more.
  1354. Byars, David Garrett: We The Power - The Future of Energy is Community Owned
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2021
    A journey into the citizen-led community-energy movement in Europe. An exploration of divesting power from large energy companies and placing that power of electricity in the hands of local communities. How can local activists create more financially empowering, environmentally beneficial, and healthier communities?
  1355. Byler, Eric; Park, Annabel: 9500 Liberty
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 2009
    Prince William County, Virginia becomes ground zero in America's explosive battle over immigration policy when elected officials adopt a law requiring police officers to question people they have "probable cause" to suspect are undocumented immigrants.
  1356. Bylsma, Klass: A Manual for Tenant Organizers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    This manual examines the problems of evictions, rent increases, reduction of services and lack of repairs encountered by Montrealers and provides information on possible recourses and action.
  1357. Bynum, Victoria E.: The Free State of Jones
    Mississippi's Longest Civil War

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Newt Knight was a man who defied social rules by deserting from the Confederacy, hiding in the swamp with runaway slaves and other deserters to fight the Rebels and declare Jones County, Mississippi as the Free State of Jones.
  1358. Byrnes, Brian: Saving the Countryside
    Conserving Rural Character in the Countryside of Southern Ontario

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    An overview of the issues and politics of preserving the rural nature of the countryside. Byrne outlines the problems facing rural communities: rapid pace of changge, not having access to the information necessary to cope with change and thirdly the failure to believe that individuals can make a difference. Includes has an extenisve list of resources including newsletters, government publications and academic papers to help promote community discussion.
  1359. Byron, Lord: Lord Byron Quotes
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  1360. Byron, William J.: Strong Words: Ten Building Blocks of Catholic Social Teaching
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
  1361. Bywater, Jim; Ismail, Sacha: No "Respect" for Class
    Against The Current vol. 113

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    In his article on Britain’s ‘Respect Coalition’ in ATC 111 (July-August 2004), Liam MacUaid used the indisputably anti-working class record of the Blair government to justify the highly disputable claim that Respect is a supportable alternative. We want to reply.
  1362. Báez, Antonio Camona: Boricua's Revolutionary Inspiration
    Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico 1897-1921 (Book Review)

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Book review of Kirwin R. Shaffer's Black Flag Boricuas: Anarchism, Antiauthoritarianism, and the Left in Puerto Rico 1897-1921.
  1363. Báez, Antonio Carmona: A Fifty-year Old Process
    Against The Current vol. 142

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    To go beyond the debate concerning whether to characterise Cuba as socialist, state capitalist or simply an anti-imperialist state framed by Cold War logic, I propose that instead of defining socialism as a state or a place, we regard it as a process. In today’s Cuba, internal contradictions can no longer be hidden, nor can those who believe in radically transforming our world ignore the resilience of the Cuban people; there is something still going on there.
  1364. Bøhn, Thomas; Cuhra, Marek: How "Extreme Levels" of Roundup in Food Became the Industry Norm
    Roundup Contamination of GMO Soybeans

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Surprisingly, almost no data exist in the scientific literature on herbicide residues in herbicide tolerant genetically modified (GM) plants, even after nearly 20 years on the market. The authors' research, however, demonstrates that roundup Ready GM-soy accumulates herbicide ingredient residues and also differs markedly in nutritional composition compared to soybeans from other agricultural practices, while organic soybean samples show a more healthy nutritional profile than both industrial conventional and GM soybeans.