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- D'Agostino, Anthony: Marxism and the Russian Anarchists
Resource Type: Book
Studies of the ideas of Russian anarchists, including anarcho-syndicalists, anarchist-communists, Makheavists, council anarchists, Makhnovism, and soviet anarchists.
- D'Amato, David S.: The Corporate Welfare Bank of the United States
The Elites and the Ex-Im Bank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Over the past few weeks, the American business lobby and in particular the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have come out in force to support the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. These groups and their puppets in Washington insist that the Ex-Im Bank is good for American small businesses and supports job growth, that failing to reauthorize will harm the overall economy. Conscious of the political atmosphere, the Bank’s supporters have carefully avoided some ugly facts about this vehicle for corporatist cooperation.
- D'Amato, Paul: Anarchism: How Not to Make a Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1997
Some see anarchims as the most radical of doctrines. Lenin called it "the politics of despair." Who is rights? Paul D'Amato looks at anarchism -- its theory and practice -- and finds that it falls far short of its professed ideals.
- D'Archy, Stephen; Black, Toban; Weis, Tony; Russel, Joshua Kahn: Drawing a line in the tar sands
A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The fight over the tar sands is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time. The very active tar sands struggle is no less than a life-and-death battle for the future of the planet. It is a battle that pits these peoples' movement against the largest and most destructive industrial project -- a project driven by the big the most profitable and powerful transnational energy corporations.
- D'Arcy, Steve: Rosa Luxemburg on the Socialist Civic Virtues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
One of Rosa Luxemburg's most striking and least well-understood contributions was to draw on the classical "republican" notion of "civic virtue," as a vital part of her analysis of working-class democracy.
- D'Arcy, Steve: Six Questions About Your Class Location that EverydayFeminism.com Isn't Asking You to Think About
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2015
Solidarity doesn’t exist, like a material object, the way tables and chairs do. Solidarity is the confidence we can sometimes have that others, sharing with us a common enemy and a core of overlapping aspirations, will have our back when we find ourselves under attack, or when we need their support to win a crucial struggle. We don't stumble upon solidarity when poring over statistics; we won't find it by comparing our pay stubs with that of the worker down the street. We forge it in common struggle
- D'Arcy, Steve; Canyon, Syrah: The Fire This Time: Burning Bridges
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Some activists hold back from condemning tactics that are politically stupid and destructive, like the recent Ottawa arson attack by an anarchist group, because of a commitment to the doctrine of a 'diversity of tactics'. However, the original idea behind a diversity of tactics, that is, a variety of approaches to organizing for change, has been appropriated by activists devoted to property destruction as a media spectacle, who feel that they should be exempted from criticism by other activists, no matter how much their tactics serve to undermine the building of a broad-based movement against capitalism.
- d'Basum, Lille: Nuclear Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
A well-documented account of the nuclear industry in Canada illustrated with lively cartoons.
- D'Emilio, John: Making Trouble
Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- D, Davey: The Copyright Police
First They Came for the Hip Hop Sites ...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Understand this: the seizure of websites without due process, corporate interests lobbying and then writing laws that allow them to be the police and t personally enforce, the battle over net neutrality is all about concentrating power in the hands of a few. This is about controlling the flow of information and being a gate keeper in the communications arena. Its the first step in moving a democracy toward a dictatorship.
- D. Yates, Michael: Teaching Workers
Education in the Name of Social Transformation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Karl Marx’s famous dictum sums up my teaching philosophy: “The philosophers of the world have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.” As I came to see it, Marx had uncovered the inner workings of our society, showing both how it functioned and why it had to be transcended if human beings were to gain control over their lives and labour.
- da Silva, Issa Sikiti: West Africa's Fine Line Between Cultural Norms and Child Trafficking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Human traficking in West Africa is difficult to deal with as it has become entrenched in the culture of people living in extreme poverty.
- da Silva, Valter Israel; Martín, Facundo: Food sovereignty and climate change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Climate change has become, in a short time, one of the "global affairs" of critical importance in our times. It has now penetrated every sphere of our social and political life to the point of acquiring a centrality that dangerously makes it seem natural.
- da Vinci, Leonardo: Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Daalder, Marc: Israel's Occupation Continues Because Economic and Political Elites Around the World Benefit From It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
American-Israeli scholar and activist Jeff Halper, co-founder of The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, sought to discover the source of Israel's seeming immunity. He focused on Israel's arms trade, and argues that it was "parlaying its military prowess into political clout," as he writes in a book entitled War Against The People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification. Halper spoke with In These Times about the book.
- Dabashi, Hamid: Why Chomsky and Zizek are wrong on the US Elections
Chomsky and Zizek clashed on voting in the US elections, but the views of both are critically flawed.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Noam Chomsky and Slavoj Zizek, while both critical of Hillary Clinton, are opposed on whom they declare to vote for in the 2016 US election. In opting for Clinton or Trump, Chomsky and Zizek both avoid the crucial question of actual voters and how and why they voted the way they did, and are fixated on the abstract illusion of being on the left or right side of a vacuous argument.
- Dadge, David: Silenced
International Journalists Expose Media Censorship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005 Published: 2008
What happens to journalists who expose uncomfortable truths? How far are journalists prepared to go in order to report a difficult story? Silenced provides answers to these questions with the stories of journalists who risked their careers so that the public might be informed.
- Dagdalen, Sevim: German Parliamentarian in Washington Says No to NATO - Yes to Peace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
NATO’s myths are losing their luster. The Alliance’s strategies are succumbing to their own imperial overextension. What we need now is an immediate end to arms deliveries to Ukraine and, at long last, a ceasefire there. Those who seek peace and security for their own populations must halt the aggressive policy of expansion into Asia. We need peace instead of NATO.
- Dagen, Philippe: Death Train: the earliest art to expose horror of concentration camps
The Mexican art collective Taller de Gráfica Popular used lino prints to transmit an explicit, committed political message
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The Mexican art collective Taller de Gráfica Popular used lino prints to transmit an explicit, committed political message. A member of the collective, Leopoldo Mendez, working in 1943, was probably the first to depict the Holocaust.
- Daher, Joseph: The Kurdish Crisis in Iraq and Syria
Against the Current vol. 192
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
In discussion of right of self-determination for the between 28 and 35 million Kurdish people in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran, the author considers the current polticial landscape.
- Daher, Joseph: Marxism, the Arab Spring, and Islamic fundamentalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
While Islamic fundamentalists are united by a reactionary worldview, the movements are not the same and must be approached differently. The Left must stake out an independent view based on democracy, social justice, equality, and liberation and freedom from oppression.
- Daher, Joseph: Syria's Disaster, and What's Next
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Detailed description of Syrian crisis as of July 2018.
- Dale Scott, Peter: The American Deep State
Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Scott makes a compelling case for a hidden "deep state," a second order of government behind the public or constitutional state, that influences and often opposes official U.S. policies.
- Dale, Gareth: Engineering the climate could cost us the earth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Political scientist Gareth Dale takes a look at Geoengineering as a "political technology" and institutional apparatus that is preventing effective climate action, and actually serves to reduce the sense of urgency needed for genuine and more effective structural change.
- Dale, Stephen: McLuhan's Children
The Greenpeace Message and the Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Looks at Greenpeace's rise to global prominence through its savvy use of mass media. Traces the evolution of Greenpeace's relations with the media.
- Dall, Nick: 'I am prepared to die': Mandela's speech which shook apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Sixty years ago during the Rivonia Trial in South Africa, Nelson Mandela delivered one of the most famous speeches of the 20th century. He expected to be sentenced to death but instead lived to see his dream ‘of a democratic and free society’ realised.
- Daly, Herman: Open Borders and the Tragedy of Open Access Commons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
“Open borders” refers to a policy of unlimited or free immigration. I argue here that it is a bad policy. If you are poor and your country provides no social safety net, you move to one that does. If you are rich and your country makes you pay your taxes, you move (or at least move your money) to one that doesn’t. Thus safety nets, and public goods in general, disappear as they become both overloaded and underfunded. That is the “world without borders,” and without community. That is the tragedy of open access commons.
- Daly, Herman: Wealth, Illth, And Net Welfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Wellbeing should be counted in net terms -- that is to say we should consider not only the accumulated stock of wealth but also that of "illth;" and not only the annual flow of goods but also that of "bads." The fact that we have to stretch English usage to find words like illth and bads with which to name the negative consequences of production that should be subtracted from the positive consequences, is indicative of our having ignored the realities for which these words are the necessary names.
- Daly, Herman E: Beyond Growth
The Economics of Sustainable Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
- Daly, Herman E. and Jr. Cobb , John B: For the Common Good
Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
The authors argue that America's growth-oriented, industrial economy has led to environmental problems and propose an alternative economic paradigm.
- Daly, Margaret: The Revolution Game
The Short Unhappy Life of the Company of Young Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
A historical overview of the Company of Young Canadians.
- Damon, Andre: The return of the "grand narrative"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Throughout the world, a rising tide of social struggle is upending the proclamations by anti-Marxist intellectuals that the "grand narratives" of working-class struggle and socialist revolution have been superseded.
- Damon, Andre: War, lies and censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Damon cautions news consumers that there is precedent for dissemination of government propaganda in the Anglo-American mainstream media when leaders are preparing to take part in military action.
- Damon, Andre; North, David: Google's new search protocol is restricting access to 13 leading socialist, progressive and anti-war web sites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
New data suggests that the implementation of changes in Google's search evaluation protocols resulted in a massive loss of readership of socialist, anti-war and progressive web sites.
- Dana Silk: Report on the Potential of Consumer Animation for Energy Conservation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Danaher, Kevin; Benjamin, Medea; Berryman, Philip (eds): Help or Hindrance?
United States Economic Aid in Central America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Help or Hindrance? uncovers why the economic crisis in Central America has worsened as U.S. aid has skyrocketed in the 1980s. This report shows how security and military related aid, hidden under the rubric "economic aid," has far surpassed assistance for economic development, and argues that the positions of the fiscal conservatives, seeking to save U.S. taxpayers' money, and humanitarians, seeking to help the poor, are not necessarily in opposition.
- Dancis, Bruce: Resister
A Story of Protest and Prison during the Vietnam War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
An insider's account of the antiwar and student protest movements of the sixties and a look at the prison experiences of Vietnam-era draft resisters.
- Dangel, Benjamin: The Politics of Pachamama
Natural Resource Extraction vs. Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
While many economies and citizens have benefitted from the state’s larger involvement in the extraction of these resources, extractivism under progressive governments, as it had under neoliberalism, still displaces rural communities, poisons water sources, kills the soil, and undermines indigenous territorial autonomy.
- Dangl, Benjamin: Bolivians Demand Justice for 2003 Gas War Massacre
Thousands March in El Alto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Thousands of people marched in El Alto, Bolivia on October 17th, 2014 to demand justice for the 2003 massacre of over 60 people during the country’s Gas War under the Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada (Goni) administration. Sanchez de Lozada is currently living freely in the US, and marchers demanded he and others in his government be brought to Bolivia to be tried for ordering the violence.
- Dangl, Benjamin: Chile's Student Movement Leads the Way
Progressive Prospects for Michelle Bachelet's Second Term
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
“I want to pay special homage to my father and to all those who gave their lives in the fight to recover democracy,” an emotional Isabel Allende said upon taking office as the Senate President.
- Dangl, Benjamin: New Report Shows Corporations and Western Governments Continue to Profit from Looting of Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A recent report published by a coalition of African and British social justice organizations indicate that foreign corporations and governments continue to exploit the world's most impoverished continent.
- Dangl, Benjamin: A Step Toward Justice in the Long "War on Terror": Uruguay Offers to Welcome Guantanamo Detainees
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Under the Presidency of José “Pepe” Mujica, Uruguay has made a number of international headlines in recent years for progressive moves such as legalizing same sex marriage, abortion and marijuana cultivation and trade, as well as withdrawing its troops from Haiti.
- Dangl, Benjamin: Uruguay's legalization of marijuana leads the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Next year Uruguay will create a state marijuana monopoly. Supplying high quality product in limited per person quantities, and at controlled prices that undercut the black market, the initiative will safeguard public health, cut off funds from criminals, and finance social programs. So why don't we all do it?
- Daniel, Jamie Owen: Chicago's Public Housing: Willful Neglect
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Just a few days before Christmas, the Chicago Tribune ran an article under the whimsical title, "Another Can of Worms for CHA." (CT 12/23/99) This report described how, in its rush to force a group of recalcitrant residents to move from one poorly maintained building in the Robert Taylor Homes public housing complex to another before the holidays, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) had cut off power to the building.
- Daniels, Robert V. (ed.): A Documentary History of Communism, Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960
- Dankelman, Irene; Davidson, Jaon: Women and Environment in the Third World
Alliance for the Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
An account of the problems faced by women in the management of land, water, forests, energy and human settlements. The autors describe ways in which women can organized to meet environmental, social and economic challenges.
- Dankelman, Irene; Davidson, Joan: Women and the Environment in the Third World
Alliance for the Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
This book contains well documented case studies and interviews with leading women conservationists from the Third World, and gives a clear account of women's problems in relation to land, water, forests, energy and human settlements. It also looks at the lack of response from international organizations and at ways in which women can organize to meet environmental, social and economic challenges.
- Dann, Christine: Letter - Canadas pride
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
One of the nicest things about my brief visit to Canada was finding Red Menace.
- Dann, Jim: Challenging the Mississippi Fire Bombers
Memories of Mississippi 1964-65
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
With a firsthand account of the details and thoughtful descriptions of key people on the front lines, author Jim Dann brings the historic period, the June 1964 civil rights struggle to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, back to life. He places those 15 months in Mississippi in the overall history of the struggle of African Americans for freedom, equality, and democratic rights in the South, the country, and throughout the world.
- Danna and Clement: North of Niagara
Impressions Along the Bruce Trail
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1995
- Dannoritzer, Cosima (director): The E-Waste Tragedy
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
The E-Waste Tragedy takes the viewer on a journey to Europe, China, Africa and the US, revealing a toxic global trade of electronic waste that makes its way illegally into lower income countries, destroying landscapes and endangering lives.
- Darabya, Ghaleb: The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Book review.
- Darby, Megan: UN aviation body blocks critics online
The UN’s aviation body is blocking climate critics on Twitter, accusing them of 'fake news' and 'spam'.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The International Civil Aviation Organization is blocking people who interact with them on Twitter. They claim their critics' arguments are not 'fact-based.'
- Darcy, Steve: The Intractable Marginality of the Activist Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Strikes are only one form of struggle, and perhaps less and less important as the years pass. But the disappearance of strikes is not an anomaly. It reflects a pattern of diminishing overall levels of oppositional social mobilization. Although there aren't (as far as I know) statistics on it, it is obvious that levels of social struggle generally, in the Canadian state, are lower now than at any time since written records have been kept.
- Dardar, T. Mayheart: The Persecuted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Fundamentalist Christians maintaining that they are persecuted may not make sense given the prevalence of sympathetic and Christian-owned media and businesses. Listening to a sermon reveals they see the inability to impose their views in society as persecution.
- Darrow, Clarence: Crime and Criminals
Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1902
So long as big criminals can get the coal fields, so long as the big criminals have control of the city council and get the public streets for street cars and gas rights, this is bound to send thousands of poor people to jail. So long as men are allowed to monopolize all the earth, and compel others to live on such terms as these men see fit to make, then you are bound to get into jail.
- Dartnell, Michael Y.: Insurgency Online
Web Activism and Global Conflict
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005 Published: 2006
Explores the nature of the web and its potential for facilitating participation in political debate.
- Darweish, Marwan; Rigsby, Andrew: Popular Protest in Palestine
The History and Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Popular Protest in Palestine provides an overview and analysis of the role and significance of unarmed civil (popular) resistance in the Palestinian national movement. The main focus is on the contemporary popular resistance movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), but it is prefaced by a historical review of the thread of unarmed civil resistance that has run throughout the history of the Palestinian liberation struggle.
- Darwish, Amy; Latham, Graham: Outsourcing racism: Bill C-31, Prison Expansion, and the Detention of Immigrants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, CBSA may arrest and detain a foreign national or permanent resident they deem a threat to public safety, a potential flight risk, unable to substantiate their identity, or a threat to “national security.” Despite the regular invocation of migrants as potentially dangerous and as “criminal,” in reality the overwhelming majority of detainees (94.2%) are held for reasons entirely unrelated to questions of security. Indeed, entire families, including young children, are currently imprisoned in Canadian detention centers.
- Das, Raju: Ecological Sustainability, Inequality and Social Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Raju Das connect sustainability to metabolism, reproduction, and value of labour power.
- Das, Raju J.: Revolutionary theory, academia and Marxist political parties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
According to Lenin, revolutionary work has four parts: theoretical work, propaganda, agitation and organization.
- Daschuk, James: Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
The problem with secrets is that they are eventually unearthed, resulting in uncomfortable revelations about the past. This is particularly upsetting when violence, abuse, and murder are involved -- but it's a necessary step in facing the truths of the present.
- Dasmann, Raymond F.: No Futher Retreat
The Fight to Save Florida
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
- Daum, Walter: Baran & Sweezy versus Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
In response to the editors' question 'Where was Marx in 1968?," Daum chooses to comment briefly on one topic: the anti-Marxist influence of Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy’s book Monopoly Capital.
- Daum, Walter: The Life and Death of Stalinism
A Resurrection of Marxist Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A leftwing analysis of Stalinism.
- Dauncey, Guy: After the Crash
The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy
Resource Type: Book
- Dauve, Gilles: Notes on Trotsky, Pannekoek, Bordiga - Gilles Dauvé (Jean Barrot) (1972)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
An examination on the standpoints of Trotsky, Pannekoek and Bordiga.
- Dauvé, Gilles: Capitalism and communism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972 Published: 1997
Gilles Dauvé outlines the development of capitalism, and communism as the real movement in everyday life which tends towards the abolition of wage labour.
- Davenellos, Antonis: No surrender in Greece
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
A member of International Workers Left (DEA), reports from Athens on the May 20 general strike and workers' growing radicalization.
- Davenport, Nicholas: Debate: Two tactics in the fight against climate change
Should climate activists limit their demands to what's possible under capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The question of what demands ecosocialists should put forward in response to the climate crisis is a pressing one. The climate justice movement should demand a cap-and-trade policy, abandoning its traditional stance against carbon trading.
- Davenport, Nicholas: A Marxist Ecological Vision
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The questions facing environmental activists, and socialists in particular, range from the sheer scale of the environmental disasters already underway to the problems of beginning a transition from a system organized around massive consumption of fossil fuels, vast megacities and global agribusiness.
- Davenport, Nick: "Climate Justice" and the Left: The Necessity of a Mass Movement
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The climate crisis -- a crisis not of civilization, as some commentators would have it, but of capitalist production -- requires a political response that is long overdue, and is finally stirring. Now that the movement against global warming is brewing, socialists must get involved.
- Davetian, Benet: Civility
A Cultural History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Through a historical, social, and psychological discussion of the civility practices in 3 nations - England, France and the United States, Davetian addresses major topics in public discourse today regarding the ideas and practices of civility and the possibility of a future civility ethic capable of inspiring cooperation across cultural and national boundaries.
- David Gilbert: No Surrender
Writings from An Anti-Imperialist Political Prisoner
Resource Type: Book
- David, Benjamin: Dancing with Dynamite
Social Movements and States in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
The complex ways in which grassroots movements work for, with, against, and independently of national governments in Latin America.
- David, Merrly Wn; Sardar, Zia: The No-Nonsense Guide to Islam
Resource Type: Book
- Davidi, Guy; Burnat, Emad: 5 Broken Cameras
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
A deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank whose lands are being systematically seized to make room for illegal Israeli settlements. Structured around the violent destruction of each one of Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat's cameras, the low-cost film documents Bil'in's weekly protests against land seizures by Israeli forces and Jewish settlers. Neighbors are killed in the protests and demolition equipment mars the landscape while the filmmaker captures his infant son's rapid loss of innocence, heralded by his first words: "wall" and "army."
- Davidson, Adam: Why Is Allergan Partnering with the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe?
Inside the bizarre world of patent law.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe has invested in a portfolio of patents, their status as a sovereign-entity allows the holder to circumvent the "inter partes review" if a patent dispute is raised, increasing the value of their holdings.
- Davidson, Alastair: Antonio Gramsci
Towards an Intellectual Biography
Resource Type: Book
This biography lifts the study of Gramsci out of the sterile search for orthodoxy or heresy and instead examines Gramsci's personality in its full moral and intellectual complexity. Davidson has succeeded in integrating the circumstances of Gramsci's life: the childhood in Sardinia, the politics of the Italian left in the 1920s, the years of exile and prison - with his developing political and philosophical ideas.
- Davidson, Carl: Strategy, Hegemony and the Long March
Gramsci's Lessons for the Antiwar Movement
Resource Type: Article
- Davidson, Jaime: Red Terror: Anti-Corbynism and Double Standards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A defence oif Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the British Labour party.
- Davidson, Jamie: The Realpolitik of President Jimmy Carter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
- Davidson, Lawrence: America's Repugnant Republicans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
There is a qualitative difference between today’s Democrats and Republicans. That difference does not lie in the potential to pursue policies that negatively impact the world. The difference is in their attitude toward policy and action as such. While both parties are often dangerously wrong, the Republicans are wrong in a demented ideological fashion. As such, they really are more repugnant than the Democrats.
- Davidson, Lawrence: BDS in the Crosshairs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
That project in dispute is BDS, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, promoted by civil society throughout the Western world. BDS is directed at Israel due to its illegal colonization of the Occupied Territories and its general apartheid-style discrimination against non-Jews in general and Palestinians in particular.
- Davidson, Lawrence: A Case of Decency Deficit
Eden's Photoshoot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
According to the Israeli human rights group Breaking the Silence, taking humiliating trophy pictures of Palestinian prisoners are such a "widespread phenomenon" that taking them constitutes "a norm." Why so? Because it is the "necessary result of a long term military control of a civilian population."
- Davidson, Lawrence: The Growing Boycott of Israel
A Force for Good
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
To join the boycott is good for the world's future in general. It is certainly good for the Palestinians, and yes, it is good for the Jews too.
- Davidson, Lawrence: In Defense of Amira Hass
Claiming the Right of Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Amira Hass is a reporter for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. She reports on Palestinian affairs in the occupied territories and, over the years, has come to understand the Palestinians’ plight from their own point of view.
- Davidson, Lawrence: Israel: Are democracy and despotic racism compatible?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A criticism of Zionism as a "melding of an elitist pseudo-democracy with racist despotism."
- Davidson, Lawrence: Israel divides the Jews
Reform Judaism vs Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Something significant recently happened in the ongoing political-ethical drama that grips Israel. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism publicly broke with Israel's political and religious leadership.
- Davidson, Lawrence: Muslims, Jews and Christians imposing an imagined past, with disastrous results
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The truth is that there are millions of people – Muslims, Jews and Christians and others – who not only still idealise a religiously imagined past, but want, in one way or another, to import that past into the present – and not only their present but everyone else's as well. Whatever one might think of the teachings of the Bible and Quran, this is a highly problematic desire. In fact, it is downright dangerous.
- Davidson, Lawrence: On Hidden Cultural Corruptors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The educational institution and military institution both purport to be a source of the nation's highest values, yet they often corrupt and bring out the worst qualities in American citizens.
- Davidson, Lawrence: Roadblocks to Climate Activism
The Problem of Natural Localism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The consequences of global warming. The evidence for the evolving dire effects of building CO2 and other greenhouse gases is getting increasingly conclusive. We are a species influenced by natural localism, and therefore the majority of Americans, and others in the West as well, are not going to abandon a present full of profit and relative comfort as long as the sky is clear in their own local place and time. As to the future beyond their grandchildren, it simply does not seem real.
- Davidson, Lawrence: Seven Forbidden Words: On the Uses of Censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
In December 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) moved to take ideological control of the agency's budget-writing process. A Trump appointed official presented a directive to the agency's departments listing seven words that were not to be used in budget preparation.
- Davidson, Lawrence: Tunisia, Then Egypt
Why Now?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Under what circumstances does passivity turn into revolt?
- Davidson, Lawrence: What the Attack on Marc Lamont Hill Tells Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Destruction is the Zionists' strategic goal and the attack on Marc Lamont Hill and others like him is dictated by the tactics they have chosen to use toward that end.
- Davidson, Neil: Neoliberalism against capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Neil Davidson on how the current neo-liberal project has been almost too successful as a ruling class strategy, creating a form of capitalism which endangers the long-term security of capital itself and edges society ever closer to barbarism.
- Davidson, Osha Gray: The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
The story of how C.P. Ellis, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and Ann Atwater, an African American civil rights activist, overcame racial divisions to forge a strong friendship.
- Davidson, Steven: 'Death to Christians': Violence steps up under new Israeli government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Christian leaders in Jerusalem say never have Israeli attackers felt more emboldened than under the far-right ruling coalition.
- Davidson-Harden, Adam: 'Diversity of tactics' as a justification for violent tactics - a debate, part 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- Davidson-Harden, Adam: The futility of activism using violence as catharsis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The anarchist practitioners of violence are fundamentally elitist. They do violence because it makes them feel good, and they don't care about the fact that it undermines the real work for social change that movement activists are doing.
- Davidson-Harden, Adam: How the 'black bloc' protected the G20
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The black-clad mob in Toronto has left a lot of people not only in the general public but in the wider nonviolent social/global justice movements in Canada feeling disgusted, demoralized and dispirited. Just the result you want if your goal is to marginalize and stifle dissent. The blocistes, in other words, are the most effective tool on the ground for silencing the valid concerns of the broad social movements.
- Davies, Bembo; Piper, John; Sopher, Shelly: Nuclear Dragons Attack
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
- Davies, Ioan: Writers in Prison
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
An analysis of the work of imprisoned writers.
- Davies, Jessica: Mitziton: A community in Chiapas resisting the government road
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- Davies, Miranda: Third World - Second Sex 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
This sequal to Miranda Davies' successful book Third World, Second Sex, presents first-hand accounts from the 1980's of the concerns and activities of individual women and women's organizations in the Third World, covering fifteen more countries, plus new issues and experiences not previously featured. The final section highlights the value of international communications and solidarity - so often emphasized by Third World women struggling for change.
- Davies, Miranda (ed.): Third World - Second Sex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Gripping first-hand accounts of the concerns and activities of individual women and of women's organizations in the Third World. The book also includes a list of addresses of publications and support groups.
- Davies, Nancy: Citizens Protest Lack of Consultation about Canadian Mine in San Jose del Progresso
Popular Forces Occupy City Hall and Threaten to Incinerate Hostages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Inhabitants of San José del Progresso, in the district of Ocotlán, affiliated with the Assembly of People United for the Valley of Ocotlán in Defense of Nature and Popular Autonomy, and opposed to the operation of the Canadian owned mine La Trinidad, escalated their battle with the assistance of the Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca, the APPO.
- Davies, Nancy: Two Years Later in Oaxaca
Commentary from Oaxaca
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
A sketch of what has changed since the brutal repression of the 2006 social movement’s five month control of the city of Oaxaca.
- Davies, Nicolas J S: How Many Millions Have Been Killed in America's Post-9/11 Wars? Part 3
Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Davies investigates the death toll of U.S. covert and proxy wars in Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen and underscores the importance of comprehensive war mortality studies.
- Davies, Peter and The Board of Church and Society: The Truth About Kent State
A Challenge to the American Conscience
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
An account of the murder of four students at Kent State University by National Guard troops.
- Davies, Phyl: Women on "Skid Row"
A Proposal for a Shelter for Alcoholic and Homeless Women in Montreal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
A proposal written to funding bodies requesting financial assistance in setting up a women's shelter in Montreal.
- Davies, R; Dlamini, S; O'Meara, D: The Struggle for South Africa: Volume 1
A Reference Guide to Movements, Organizations and Institutions in the 80's
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984 Published: 1988
This updated new editon of Zed Books' two-volume reference guide on South Africa covers events since 1984 during which the low-intensity armed struggle has grown into a national insurrection. Volume 1 focusses on the capitalist class, its allies, policies and state structures.
- Davies, R; Dlamini, S; O'Meara, D: The Struggle for South Africa: Volume 2
A Reference Guide to Movements, Organizations and Institutions in the 80's
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Volume 2 of this valuable reference guide examines the forces making up and supporting the national liberation sturggle and organized opposition to the regime.
- Davin, Eric Leif: Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914-1960
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Working people created a new America in the 1930s and 1940s which was a fundamental departure from the feudalistic and hierarchical America which existed before. In the process, class politics re-defined the political agenda of America as for the first and time in American history the political universe polarized along class lines. The author explores the meaning of the new deal political mobilization by ordinary people by examining the changes it brought to the local, county, and state levels in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and Pennsylvania as a whole.
- Davis Bob; Lynd, Barbara; Karpinski, Kathi; et al: Where's the School?
Everdale Goes to Milwaukee
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Following the indictment of twelve people for burning thousands of Selective Service files, ten students and two staff from Everdale Place School attended the trial in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- Davis, Angela Y.: Lectures on Liberation
Resource Type: Pamphlet
- Davis, Bob: Skills Mania
Snake Oil in Our Schools?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Davis argues that the purpose of education should not be primarily that of teaching skills useful in the job market.
- Davis, Bob: What Our High Schools Could Be...
A Teacher's Reflection from the 60's to the 90's
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Davis, a teacher, activist, reformer, and critic, considers changes that have occurred in the school system in Canada and the U.S., and asks how these changes hurt or help students and society.
- Davis, Bob: Whatever Happened to High School History?
Burying the Political Memory of Youth, Ontario: 1945-1995
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
A look at how high school history was taught between the 1940's and 1990's, and subsequent decline iof the discipline that used to be a core subject in Canadian secondary education.
- Davis, Chandler: Choosing Our Future
Dr. Zofia Pakula Spring 2015 Lecture Series
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
- Davis, Chandler: From an Exile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1960
Ten distinguished members of my faculty convened and unanimously declared me guilty of "deviousness, artfulness, and indirection hardly to be expected of a University colleague." I had refused, first before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and then before these juries of professors, to answer yes or no to the question, was I a Communist. The juries could assume (with that background and in the year 1954) that their recommendation that I be fired would mean my complete expulsion from the profession.
- Davis, Chandler: The Purge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Between 1947 and 1960 it was even harder than usual for left-wingers in the United States to get by. If you were active on the left, or were thought to be, there were more ways then than now that you could be arrested or threatened with arrest, or have civil rights such as the right to travel abroad withdrawn.
- Davis, Charles: Why Pro-War Pundits Are Always Wrong
Always Erasing the Victims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
There is no shortage of men and women – but mostly men, typically white – willing to write 800- to 1,000-word editorials on the need for Decisive Action or Continued Resolve in Whereverthehellistan. Some of these people are historians, some are journalists, but all have attained material success in the field of arguing about war without ever once having to go through the trouble of being right.
- Davis, Daryl: I wanted to understand why racists hated me. So I befriended Klansmen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Daryl Davis befriended Ku Klux Klan members in order to gain some understanding of the organization, their beliefs and hatred.
- Davis, Daryl: Klan-destine Relationships
A Black Man's Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
A professional musician recounts his courageous, lifelong confrontations and conversations with members of the Ku Klux Klan in an attempt to unearth the roots of bigotry and foster harmony between black and white, often using music to bridge the divide.
- Davis, David Brion: Inhuman Bondage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Looks at slavery in the American South, desribing black slaveholding planters, the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, the daily life of ordinary slaves, the highly destructive slave trade, the sexual exploitation of slaves, the emergence of an African-American culture, and much more.
- Davis, Gode; Asen, Peter Ian: Mixing Metaphors and Diluting Memory: Lynching - The Reality
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
On October 9, 2005, U.S. Senator Arlen Specter appeared on ABC's "This Week" to defend Harriet Miers, President Bush's confidante whose nomination to the Supreme Court had evoked howls of protest, particularly from the Christian Right. Specter told George Stephanopoulos that Miers' verbal critics made up "one of the toughest lynch mobs ever assembled in Washington, DC, and we assemble some tough lynch mobs." In claiming Washington's penchant for "tough lynch mobs," Senator Specter was not speaking literally—though he could have been. It is unlikely that Specter meant to evoke the actual lynch mobs roaming the streets of Washington D.C. for four days during the "Red Summer" of 1919, attacking African-Americans in a frenzy whipped up by racism, anti-communism, fears of joblessness, and post-war jingoism.
- Davis, Jo: Spirit of the Wolf
The Environment and Canada's Future: Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Davis, Jo (ed): Not a Sentimental Journey
What's Behind the VIA Rail Cuts, What YOU Can Do About It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A response to the attack on passenger rail service in Canada.
- Davis, John: The Rewilding of Humanity?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
John Davis looks back at the exploitation of the wilderness, where urban dwellers are now alienated from the natural world that once surrounded them, and wonders whether we can ever return and live in a more natural and balanced state.
- Davis, Julie (ed.): It's Our Own Knowledge
Labour, Public Education, and Skills Training
Resource Type: Book
- Davis, Mike: The Archipelago of Horror
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Laupahoehoe in Hawaiian means “foot of lava.” Thousands of years ago, lava cascaded down a steep canyon on the side of mighty Mauna Kea and created a flat shelf between the towering cliffs of the Hamakua Coast on the eastern shore of the island of Hawaii. Laupahoehoe Point became a ceremonial center of great importance to native Hawaiians as well as the only canoe landing along fifty miles of rugged coast.
- Davis, Mike: Buda's Wagon
A Brief History of the Car Bomb
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development. In his analysis, he also exposes the role of state intelligence agencies - particularly those of the United States, Israel, India, and Pakistan - in globalizing urban terrorist techniques
- Davis, Mike: Carl Oglesby: A Mentor & Leader
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In my lifetime I’ve heard two speakers whose unadorned eloquence and moral clarity pulled my heart right out of my chest. One was Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, speaking from the roof of the Busy Bee Market in Andersonstown in Belfast the apocalyptic day that hunger striker Bobby Sands died.
- Davis, Mike: The Coming Plague of Slums
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Mass death may be coming to a neighborhood near you, and the Department of Homeland Security will be helpless to prevent it. The terrorist in this case will be a mutant offspring of influenza A subtype H5N1: the explosively spreading avian virus that the World Health Organization (WHO) worries will be the progenitor of a deadly global plague.
- Davis, Mike: Remembering Milt Zaslow
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Milt disdained inflated revolutionary bravado, but time and again his group were the first to put themselves in harm's way when activists in Southcentral or the Eastside of Los Angeles were under attack.
- Davis, Mike: A Test of Our Courage
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Mike Davis was interviewed by Jon Wiener on KPFK, Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles, on March 29, 2006. The interview has been slightly abridged for publication.
- Davis, Mike: Vigilante Man, 2005 Style
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The vigilantes are back. In the 1850s they lynched Irishmen in San Francisco; in the 1870s they terrorized the Chinese throughout the West; in the 1910s they murdered striking Wobblies in California, Washington and Montana; in the 1920s they organized “Bash a Jap” campaigns; and in the 1930s they greeted the Joads and other Dust Bowl refugees to California with teargas and buckshot.
- Davis, Natalie Zemon: How the FBI Turned Me On to Rare Books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
I have wanted to be a historian of hope. We can take heart from the fact that no matter how dire the situation, some will find means to resist, some will find means to cope, and some will remember and tell stories about what happened.
- Davis, Uri: Israel
An Apartheid State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
In this book, Dr. Uri Davis examines those legal and constitutional structures of the Israeli state that define the national status and rights of its population. He focuses especially on the Jewish National Fund and the Israel Lands Administration, illustrating the legal provisions in their charters which institutionalize discrimination in Israel.
- Davis, Wade: Shadows in the Sun
Essays on the Spirit of Place
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Dawkins, Richard: The God Delusion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Dawkins' basic argument is that the collective irrational belief in "The God Hypothesis" is not only wrong ("intellectual high treason"), but pernicious.
- Dawkins, Richard: Postmodern Disrobed
Review of Intellectual Impostures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
An admirable job of exposing the daffy absurdity of postmodernism intellectuals.
- Dawson, Ashley: Extinction
A Radical History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and armadillos the size of automobiles, these spectacular creatures roamed freely. Then human beings arrived. Devouring their way down the food chain as they spread across the planet, they began a process of voracious extinction that has continued to the present. This relentless extinction, Ashley Dawson contends in a primer that combines vast scope with elegant precision, is the product of a global attack on the commons, the great trove of air, water, plants and creatures, as well as collectively created cultural forms such as language, that have been regarded traditionally as the inheritance of humanity as a whole.
- Dawson, Gloria: Poor fetishes, poor critiques: gentrification as violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Hating on hipsters is not the answer to gentrification. If we want to reclaim our cities, we should organize for genuinely affordable housing in common, argues Gloria Dawson.
- Dawson, Kipp: The Power of Women United
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Interview with Kipp Dawson.
- Dawson, Ryan: The CIA in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Edited excerpt from "The CIA as Organized Crime", by Douglas Valentine, detailing the CIA's activities in Ukraine and influence on political movements there.
- Day, Chris: The Historical Failure of Anarchism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1996
Day examines anarchism's failure to genuinely critique itself, understand history or theory, and grasp the conditions in the world today. "Anti-capitalism doesn't do the victims of capitalism any good if you don't actually destroy capitalism," Day writes. 'Anti-statism' doesn't do the victims of the state any good if you don't actually smash the state. Anarchism has been very good at putting forth visions of a free society and that is for the good. But it is worthless if we don't develop an actual strategy for realizing those visions.
- Day, David: Conquest
How Societies Overwhelm Others
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Tells the gripping history of conquest, illuminating the ways in which invaders have justified their conquests, highlighting a bloody and often prolonged process that can last centuries. He argues that while each individual conquest in ultimately unique, they nevertheless often share a number of qualities.
- Day, Dorothy: Loaves and Fishes
The Inspiring Story of the Catholic Worker Movement
Resource Type: Book
- Day, Dorothy: The Long Loneliness
Resource Type: Book
- Day, Meagan: We Didn't Start the Fire
Class conflict isn't something we choose to engage in. It's just how capitalism works.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Day urges the historically Liberal US Democratic party to turn to the left, embracing class conflict as an integral component of left-wing politics.
- Day, Susie: Trump, the NYPD and the People We Call 'Animals'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at the reckless use and dissemination of de-humanizing pejorative language, notably by President Donald Trump and some police agencies in the United States, which has consequences for the public who interact with police and for society as a whole.
- Dayen, David: Chain of Title
How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
The account of how a car dealership worker, a nurse, and a forensic expert discovered the foreclosure fraud perpetrated by America's biggest banks.
- Dayen, David: Foreclosure Fraud Is Supposed to Be a Thing of the Past, But It Happens Every Day 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Recruiters are hiring for a job that shouldn't exist: finding "missing" documents required to "complete" broken chains of title on mortgages entering foreclosure. Since all assignments of mortgage should have been prepared and recorded within days of the transfer or sale -- and the failure to do so irreparably ruptures chain of title -- the companies would seem to be looking for time travelers or magicians. Or maybe they want to manufacture false evidence to introduce into courts as a means to take away people's homes.
- Dayen, David: Foreclosure Fraud Is Supposed to Be a Thing of the Past, But It Happens Every Day 2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Every day in America, people continue to be kicked out of their homes based on false documents. The settlements over allegations of robosigning, faulty paperwork, and illegal mortgage servicing didn’t end the misconduct. And law enforcement, along with most judges and politicians, have looked away in the mistaken belief that they wrapped up a scandal that just goes on and on.
- Dayen, David: Google Is So Big, It Is Now Shaping Policy to Combat the Opioid Epidemic. And It's Screwing It Up.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A snap decision by Google has begun to reshape the drug treatment industry, tilting the playing field toward large conglomerates-- the precise opposite outcome Google had hoped to achieve.
- Dayen, David: An Idiot's Guide to Prosecuting Corporate Fraud
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A new group called Bank Whistleblowers United have just pushed out a comprehensive plan they think would put the executive branch in the United States back in the business of enthusiastically identifying, indicting, and convicting financial fraudsters -- restoring accountability while protecting the public.
- Dayen, David: Mortgage Companies Seek Time Travelers to Find Missing Documents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Recruiters are hiring for a job that shouldn’t exist: finding "missing" documents required to "complete" broken chains of title on mortgages entering foreclosure. Since all assignments of mortgage should have been prepared and recorded within days of the transfer or sale -- and the failure to do so irreparably ruptures chain of title -- the companies would seem to be looking for time travelers or magicians.
- Dayen, David: SEC Admits It’s Not Monitoring Stock Buybacks to Prevent Market Manipulation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
- Dayen, David: TPP Trade Pact Would Give Wall Street a Trump Card to Block Regulations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Banks and other financial institutions would be able to use provisions in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership to block new regulations that cut into their profits, according to the text of the trade pact released this week.
- Dayfoot, Tim: Immigration Act Repressive in The Canadian Student
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Dayton, Tim: American Literature and the First World War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Given that the United States entered the First World War much later than any other major belligerent, declaring war on Germany in April, 1917 - over two and a half years after the war began - one might expect that the war had less impact here than on other countries. American literature, however, argues otherwise.
- Dayton, Tim: Reclaiming Utopia: The Legacy of Ernst Bloch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Bloch's Marxism was from the start unorthodox as the result of his abiding interest in the notion of utopia. This notion was held in disdain by many orthodox Marxists.
- de Assis, Carolina: Argentine Newspapers Recuperated by Workers' Cooperatives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
An economic recession in Argentina that culminated in intense protests and the resignation of then-president Fernando de la Rua, also fostered the phenomenon of companies being recuperated by its workers as a cooperatives. In the last two years the majority of companies recuperated have been media outlets, which opens up new possibilities for journalism in the country.
- de B'beri, Boulou Ebanda (editor): The Promised Land
History and Historiography of the Black Experience in Chatham-Kent's Settlements and Beyond
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
The Promised Land presents the everyday lives of individuals and families in the Chatham-Kent area of Ontario and highlights early cross-border activism to end slavery in the United States.
- de Beauvoir, Simone: Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- de Beer, Cedric: The South African Disease
Apartheid Health and Health Services
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
This book shows that disease in South Africa is connected at every turn with the unequal distribution of the country's resources. Case studies reveal how South African society has created disease among its black population, and explain why the country has no national health service. It concludes that effective health care in South Africa can only become a reality through pressure from trade unions, community organizations and women's organizations.
- de Brie, Christian: Shadow boxing in the drug ring
Resource Type: Article
The "war on drugs" and its simplistic nature.
- de Brie, Christian: World evil with its roots in the North
Resource Type: Article
Good drugs and bad drugs: the evolution of drugs and government, and implications for those suffering as a result of unfair trade policy.
- de Cleyre, Voltairine: Crime and Punishment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1903
Let us have done with this savage idea of punishment, which is without wisdom. Let us work for the freedom of man from the oppressions which make criminals, and for the enlightened treatment of all the sick.
- De Felitta, Raymond: Booker's Place
A Mississippi Story
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
In 1965, African-American waiter Booker Wright spoke out in a television documentary, outraging many white Southerners and resulting in his murder. Years later, the filmmaker's son returns to examine the repercussions of the interview on Wright's family and the community as a whole.
- de Grazia, Edward: Girls Lean Back Everywhere
The Law Of Obscenity And The Assault On Genius
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
De Grazia, an attorney and defender of First Amendment rights, chronicles the conflict between artistic expression and censorship. Details the struggles of authors, booksellers and publishers.
- de Groot, Scott Frederick: Out of the Closet and Into Print: Gay Liberation Across the Anglo-American World
PhD Thesis, Queen's University, 2015
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
- de Jong, Alex: The Forgotten Massacres
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Fifty years ago, in 1965, hundreds of thousands of Indonesian communists were slaughtered -- all with the support of the US. For decades, this version of the mass killings of 1965–66 has been reinforced by state propaganda and parroted by Western experts who saw the "spontaneous" eruption in murderous violence as confirmation of pre-existing racist ideas about fanatical and irrational "orientals."
- de Jong, Alex: Islamophobia Sets the Terms
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The Dutch government didn’t fall in February over involvement in Afghanistan, the unstable governing coalition stumbled over it. But the Islamophobic right wing might be the beneficiary.
- De Jong, Alex: The Philipinnes: War Against the Poor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte is responsible for a so-called "war on drugs" that is costing thousands of lives and is increasingly concentrating power in his own hands.
- De Jong, Alex: Trump and Duterte
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Philippines President Duterte presents himself as a nationalist who is especially opposed to the continuing strong influence of the former colonial power, the United States.
- De Jong, Rudolf: Provos and Kabouters
Resource Type: Pamphlet
- De Krey, Gary: Following the Levellers, volume One
Political and Religious Radicals in the English Civil War and Revolution, 1645–1649
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
This book reinterprets the Leveller authorships of John Lilburne, Richard Overton and William Walwyn, and foregrounds the role of ordinary people in petitioning and protest during an era of civil war and revolution.
- De Krey,Gary: Following the Levellers, Volume Two
English Political and Religious Radicals from the Commonwealth to the Glorious Revolution, 1649–1688
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
The Levellers sought to restructure the state in 1647-9 around popular consent and liberty for conscience, especially in their Agreement of the People. Following the Levellers, Volume Two examines the later political efforts of Leveller spokesmen like John Lilburne, John Wildman, and Richard Overton, and their followers.
- de la Court, Thijs: Beyond Brundtland
Green Development in the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- De Leon, Daniel: Daniel De Leon Internet Archive
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Daniel De Leon.
- De Lisio, Amanda: How Brazil's Sex Workers Have Been Organized and Politically Effective for 30 Years
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Sex workers in Brazil have been organizing for 30 years and have influenced politics to the extent that the government recognizes sex-work as an official occupation. They are celebrating the anniversary in part with an exhibit of photographs taken by sex-workers.
- De Lisio, Amanda: How Brazil’s Sex Workers Have Been Organized and Politically Effective for 30 Years
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
In Brazil, sex work remains politically and socially contentious. But thanks to a staunch sex worker movement in the country, the people who actually do the work have made themselves key contributors to the debate.
- De Roo, Remi J. Bishop: Cries of Victims - Voice Of God
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
- de Rooij, Paul: Amnesty International: Trumpeting for War… Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
One would expect a human rights organisation to be intrinsically opposed to war, but AI is a cheerleader of so-called humanitarian intervention, and even "humanitarian bombing".
- De Santos, Raphie; Husson, Michel; Katz, Claudio; Mandel, Ernest; et al: Socialists and the Capitalist Recession
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Anyone seeking to understand the ABCs of the meltdown would benefit greatly from reading this collection.
- de Sousa Santos, Boaventura: The Rise of the Global Left
World Social Forum and Beyond
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
The author makes an impassioned case for the politicisation of the World Social Forum, arguing that that the Forum can only realise its full potential as a force for social, economic and political change, by taking a directly political stand against the evils of neo-liberal globalization, war, famine and corruption.
- De Sousa Santos, Boaventura: Voices of the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Voices of the World is a collection of life stories from activists in the global justice movement.
- de Witte, Ludo: A Revolutionary Speech: Patrice Lumumba and the Birth of the Republic of Congo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese independence leader and first democratically elected Prime Minister, was executed on 17th January, 1961. He had been beated and tortured in a culmination of two assassination plots by the Belgian government and the CIA, ordered directly by President Dwight Eisenhower to 'eliminate' the charismatic leader, with the cooperation of British intelligence and Katangan authorities.
- Deacove, Jim; Rosen, Allen: Freedom Not Licence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
The staging of a question and answer scenario between puzzled parents and the director of an imagined free school, Mr. Oh Yes Zeal.
- Dean, Jodi: Crowds and Party
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Dean argues that class struggle and the party form are not obsolete, and this renewal has caused great enthusiasm in left politics.
- Dear, John: A Dweller in Peace
The Life and Times of Daniel Berrigan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Rev. Daniel Berrigan, the renowned anti-war activist, award-winning poet, author and Jesuit priest, who inspired religious opposition to the Vietnam war and later the U.S. nuclear weapons industry, died at age 94.
- Dear, John: A Persistent Peace
One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007 Published: 2008
Jesuit priest John Dear ministers to the needy at the margins of society. He is a pacifist and anti-war activist who has spoken out against the Pentagon and the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq. His views about Christ's teachings on nonviolence have also made him a rebel in the Catholic Church.
- Dearden, Nick: Mike Marqusee's columns: a look back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
As we remember Mike Marqusee, Nick Dearden highlights some of Mike's most timeless writing in Red Pepper
- Deasy, Jeff: The FDA and Frankenfoods
Will the Agency Protect Consumers or the Profits of a Few Corporations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent enforcement letters warning food makers that they cannot label their products as free of genetically modified or genetically engineered ingredients.
- Deaton, Richard: Facts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
This newsletter is designed to inform persons of the involvements and activities of the Canadian Union of public Employees (CUPE)
- Deaton, Richard Lee: The Political Economy of Pensions
Power, Politics and Social Change in Canada, Britain and the U.S.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Deb, Debal: Valuing Folk Crop Varieties for Agroecology and Food Security
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Agricultural sustainability consists of long-term productivity, not short-term increase of yield. Ecological agriculture, which seeks to understand and apply ecological principles to farm ecosystems, is the future of modern agriculture.
- Debney, Ben: A Faustian Bargain with the Climate Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Take as our inspiration the temptations of capitalist individualism set before us, we make the exact same bargain. The difference in this case however is that we know the disaster is coming; we don't even need to worry about what our spidey senses say, 97% of all climate scientists agree that the capitalist mentality that sees the world as an infinite resource and infinite garbage dump is warming the atmosphere. We have even less excuse.
- Deboer, Fredrik: 1953 - 2002 - 2016: Syria and the Reemergence of McCarthyism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A history of McCarthyism, or red-baiting, in US politics to justify or bolster foreign war efforts, and how the recent Syrian involvement has brought about a revival of McCarthyist discourse and tactics in the political and social realms.
- deBoer, Fredrik: Think the Left Won the Culture War? Think Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
With the recent AshleyMadison leak and Gawker.com's notorious naming and shaming of an obscure, married publishing executive, deBoer questions who really won in this culture war.
- Debord, Guy: Perspectives for Conscious Change in Everyday Life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1961
Guy Debord says that to study everyday life would be a completely absurd undertaking, unable even to grasp anything of its object, if this study was not expressly for the purpose of transforming everyday life.
- Debord, Guy: Preliminaries Toward Defining a Unitary Revolutionary Program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1960
Written as a platform for discussion within the Situationist International, and for its linkup with revolutionary militants of the workers movement.
- Debord, Guy: Report on the Construction of Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency's Conditions of Organization and Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1957
Founding manifesto of the Situationist International.
- Debord, Guy: Society of the Spectacle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 2005
An analysis of modern society and how it can be changed, written in the form of 221 theses. The first thesis reads: "In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation." Translator Ken Knabb describes the book as "an effort to clarify the nature of the society in which we find ourselves and the advantages and drawbacks of various methods for changing it. Every single thesis has a direct or indirect bearing on issues that are matters of life and death."
- Debord, Guy (writer-director): Society of the Spectacle (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1973
"The Society of the Spectacle" is Guy Debord's film adaptation of his own 1967
book of the same name (see http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/CX6572.htm and http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord/index.htm)
- Debord, Guy; Kotányi, Attila; Vaneigem, Raoul: Theses on the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1962
- Debord, Guy; Sanguinetti, Gianfranco: The Veritable Split in the International
Public Circular of the Situationist International
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972 Published: 1974
What are called "situationist ideas" are nothing other than the first ideas of the period of reappearance of the modern revolutionary movement.
- Debord, Guy; Wolman, Gil J: A User's Guide to Détournement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1956
Détournement means deflection, diversion, rerouting, distortion, misuse, misappropriation, hijacking, or otherwise turning something aside from its normal course or purpose.
- Debray, Regis: Conversation with Allende
Socialism in Chile
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
- Debray, Regis: Latin America Revolution
Resource Type: Book
- Debray, Regis: Revolution in the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
- DeBresson, Chris; Lowe Benston, Margaret; Vorst, Jesse: Work and New Technologies
Other Perspectives (Volume 3)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Essays covering health hazards, labour concerns, and issues of deskilling related to new technologies in the workplace.
- Debs, Eugene: Class Unionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905 Published: 1909
- Debs, Eugene: Craft Unionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905
The old form of trade unionism no longer meets the demands of the working class. The old trade union has not only fulfilled its mission and outlived its usefulness, but that it is now positively reactionary.
- Debs, Eugene: Eugene Debs Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Debs, Eugene: Eugene V. Debs Internet Archive
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926).
- Debs, Eugene: Industrial Unionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905
In capitalist society you are the lower class; the capitalists are the upper class-because they are on your backs; if they were not on your backs they could not be above you.
- Debs, Eugene: Political Appeal to American Workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1912
There is but one issue that appeals to this army the unconditional surrender of the capitalist class. To be sure this cannot be achieved in a day and in the meantime the party enforces to the extent of its power its immediate demands and presses steadily onward toward the goal. It has its constructive program by means of which it develops its power and its capacity, step by step, seizing upon every bit of vantage to advance and strengthen its position, but never for a moment mistaking reform for revolution and never losing eight of the ultimate goal. Socialist reform must not be confounded with so-called capitalist reform. The latter is shrewdly designed to buttress capitalism; the former to overthrow it. Socialist reform vitalizes and promotes the social revolution.
- Debs, Eugene: Revolution
Resource Type: Article
- Debs, Eugene: Revolutionary Unionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905
Speech at Chicago, November 25, 1905
- Debs, Eugene: The Socialist Party's Appeal
Candidate of the Socialist Party for the Presidency of the United States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1912
The Socialist party challenges the right of capitalism to longer exist, and proclaims the program of socialism as the legitimate successor of the present order.
- Debs, Eugene: Speech at the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905
I realize that I stand in the presence of those who in the past have fought, are fighting, and will continue to fight the battles of the working class economically and politically, until the capitalist class is overthrown and the working class are emancipated from all of the degrading thralldom of the ages. In this great struggle the working class are often defeated, but never vanquished.
- Debs, Eugene: Unionism and Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1907
The labor movement of modrn times is the product of past ages. It has come down to us for the impetus of our day, in pursuit of its world-wide mission of emancipation.
- Debs, Eugene Victor: Never Be A Soldier
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
[This classic, written in 1915, was one of numerous leaflets by Socialist Party leader Debs opposing World War I. His opponents sent co pies of this and other antiwar statements by Debs to the U.S. Attorney General. See Eugene Debs. Spokesman for Labor and Socialism, by Bernard Brommel (Charles H. Kerr, 1978), 117, and Tim Dayton's review of "We Called Each Other Comrade" in this issue of ATC.]
WORKING MEN ARE forced into war as working women are forced into prostitution.
- deBuys, William: A Great Aridness
Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest might look like when the heat turns up and the water runs out. This semi-arid land, vulnerable to water shortages, rising temperatures, wildfires, and a host of other environmental challenges, is poised to bear the heaviest consequences of global environmental change in the United States.
- Deck, Martin: Read before attacking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Letter: too quick to attack.
- Decker, Kris De: Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
We are being told to eat local and seasonal food, either because other crops have been tranported over long distances, or because they are grown in energy-intensive greenhouses. But it wasn't always like that. From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, urban farmers grew Mediterranean fruits and vegetables as far north as England and the Netherlands, using only renewable energy.
- Deen, Thalif: Independent Groups Debunk Israeli War Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
As the Israelis try to justify the massive loss of civilian life in Gaza, their arguments and counter-charges continue to be shot down either by the United Nations or by international human rights organizations.
- Dehr, Roma and Bazar, Ronald M.: Good Planets Are Hard to Find!
An Environmental Information Guide, Dictionary and Action Book for Kids (and Adults)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Deibert, Ron; Palfrey, John; Rohozinski, Rafal; Zittrain, Jonathan (eds.): Access Denied
The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information -- often about politics, but also relating to sexuality, culture, or religion -- that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in over three dozen countries.
- Dekker, Stefanie: The other side of Gaza: Swimming, canoeing and 'trying' to be a child
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Here in Gaza, I want to tell this story. To show our audience a piece of a normal life, away from Hamas, or Israel's "terror" rhetoric, away from the diplomatic efforts, the political bargaining, away from the weekly Friday protests. Just show you something normal.
- del Bene, Daniela; Deniau, Yannick; Saes, Beatriz: Brazilian dam disaster 'is part of a pattern'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A team of Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) academics is marking the international day of action for rivers by hanging out the dirty laundry of a very dirty company.
- Del Duca, Robert; Seltzer, Leo: Worker's Newsreel Unemployment Special, 1931
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 1931 Published: 1982
WFPL footage of the first mass demonstration against unemployment and hunger in Union Square, New York City on March 6, 1930.
- Del Gandio, Jason: Rhetoric for Radicals
A Handbook for Twenty-first Century Activists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Activists often suffer from a credibility gap because of their lack of coherent message and strategic delivery. Rhetoric for Radicals addresses and helps solve these problems. It provides the tools to develop the all-important communication skills necessary to be effectively heard.
- Del Tredici, Robert: At Work In the Fields of the Bomb
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
A collection of photographs, interviews and comments aimed at making the secretive nuclear arms industry visible to the general public.
- Del Vayo, J. Alvarez: The March of Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
A view of the history of socialism.
- Delacoste, Frederique; Alexander, Priscilla: Sex Work
Writings by Women in the Sex Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- Delaloye, Jean-Cosme: La Prenda
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Documentary. Every day, a child is abducted in Guatemala, a country with a rate of impunity of 98%. Female victims and survivors hope to stem the tide of forced emigration from Guatemala, a country where too many women are still seen as "prendas." Also Known As: The Pawn.
- Delaunay, David (Project Ploughshares Sudbury): The Peace Petition Caravan Campaign: The View From Sudbury
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
- DeLeon, Daniel: Reform or Revolution?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1896
Socialism knows that revolutionary upheavals and transformations proceed from the rock bed of material needs.
- DeLeon, Daniel: Socialist Reconstruction of Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905
Without political organization, the labor movement cannot triumph; without economic organization, the day of its political triumph would be the day of its defeat.
- Delespesse, Max; Renshaw, Dick (ed.): Interactions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
These are nots of remarks made at an all-day consultation between New Communities and representatives of the Churches of Toronto.
- Delfattore, Joan: What Johnny Shouldn't Read
Textbook Censorship in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- Delgado, Gary: Beyond the Politics of Place: New Directions in Community Organizing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
A look at community organizing and its evolution with a focus on groups comprised of people of colour.
- Delisle, Esther: Myths, Memory & Lies
Quebec's Intelligentsia and the Fascist Temptation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- Delisle, Esther: The Traitor And The Jew
Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Dellheim, Judith; Prince, Jason (eds.): Free Public Transit: And Why We Don't Pay to Ride Elevators
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
In an age of increasing inequalities and ecological crisis, movements for free public transit are proposing a profound rethinking of urban transit as a fundamental human right and public good. Research shows that, if the bus were free, people would ride it as much as 50% more in the first year, dramatically reducing car use, traffic, and pollution, while redistributing wealth and increasing social inclusion for poor and working people. But free public transit alone is not enough; it must also be combined with much better service and reserve bus lanes to be effective. In its twenty chapters, this book explores the winning strategies and pitfalls of case studies ranging across fourteen countries: the United States, Canada, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico, Poland, China, France, Belgium, Germany, and Australia.
- Dellinger, Dave: Revolutionary Nonviolence
Essays by Dave Dellinger
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970 Published: 1971
Dellinger says that "those of us who oppose the violence of the status quo and reject the violence of armed revolt and class hatred bear a heavy responsibility to struggle existentially to provdew nonviolent alternatives." Dellinger's essays attempt to explore those alternatives.
- Dellinger, David: From Yale to Jail
The life story of a moral dissenter
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
A memoir of David Dellinger, a social activist best known as one of the Chicago Seven.
- Delobel, Robin: Is renewable energy really environmentally friendly?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Renewable energy sources may have low CO2 emissions at the point of use, but the mines that make the technology possible are often environmentally destructive.
- Delofski, Maree (Director): Tanaka-san will not do Calisthenics
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2008
Filmed in Japan, this film follows Tanaka-san who was let go from his job at Oki Electric Manufacturing Company 25 years ago when he refused to conform to militaristic working expectations. Tanaka-san sings in front of his old office each day.
- Demby, Samantha: On the Coast of Oaxaca, Afro and Indigenous Tribes Fight for Water Autonomy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
In southern Mexico, a multi-ethnic network of towns has halted the construction of a mega-dam. Now they are organizing to manage their own natural resources and revitalize their culture as native water protectors.
- Democratic Left Front: Beyond capitalist green economy: In defence of Mother Earth and the commons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The Democratic Left Front calls for action against destructive corporate interests that are driving the commercialisation and commodification of the natural environment.
- Demosthenes: Demosthenes Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Dempsey,Jessica: The tragedy of liberal environmentalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The tragedy of liberal environmentalism is that it occupies the political discourse as the most pragmatic, the most possible way to a better future, but implementing this watered down, technical environmental politics is not at all smooth, or easy. It is rather Sisyphean. This is the tragic political circumstance of our times: What is framed as easy, as the most compatible with the status quo, is actually so very, very hard.
- Denby, Charles: The todayness of Selma, USA, 1965
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1965 Published: 2015
The arrest of over 3,500 Negroes in Selma, Ala., in three weeks just because they tried to vote, the sight of a Negro woman pinned to the ground by three fat deputies of Sheriff James Clark while Clark beat her face in with his billy club, the sight of a long line of Negro high school and grade school boys and girls who demonstrated in support of their parents' right to register and then were forced to run three miles with police billy clubs and electric cattle prods jabbed into their backs and ribs -- these things expose the great lie of President Johnson’s Great Society for all the world to see.
- Denby, Charles: Workers Battle Automation
A News & Letters Pamphlet
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1960 Published: 1971
In the mine, mill or factory, Automation has not reduced the drudgery of labor. The very opposite is the truth. The factory clock is now geared to the pace of the monster machine. The auto worker, the steel worker, the miner -- all workers who battle against Automation know its life-and-death meaning -- its speedup, its inhuman way of work, its death by overwork, its unemployment, its permanently depressed areas, its ghost towns.
- Denis, Jacques: A century of sugar and tears
Guadeloupe has bulit a slavery memorial centre on the site of a gigantic sugar refinery, believing it's necessary to acknowledge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Present day Guadeloupei s coming to terms with a grim past through the Caribbean Centre of Expression and Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade (MACTe), a new museum and memorial built symbolically on a waterfront site associated with slavery, segregation and conflict.
- Denvir, Daniel: The Silencing Act and Mumia Abu-Jamal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The Revictimization Relief Act, which my lawyers at the Pennsylvania ACLU have appropriately dubbed the "Silencing Act," allows victims of personal injury crimes (and family members or prosecutors acting on their behalf) to petition a judge to stop criminal offenders from speaking or acting if their speech or action "perpetuates the continuing effect of" that crime, including by causing "mental anguish."
- Denyer, Simon: In China's Inner Mongolia, mining spells misery for traditional herders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
China's relentless drive for minerals is wreaking havoc on pastoral lifestyles.
- Deranger, Eriel: The fight again tar sands is about more than the environment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Indigenous rights defender Eriel Deranger explains how the struggle against tar sands mining is about protecting her people's rights and culture.
- Derawi, Basman: I see Gaza in Beirut
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
- Derber, Charles: Corporation Nation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Derber writes that undemocratic corporations, not governments, are controlling society.
- Derfner, Larry: Our exclusive right to self-defense
Rattling the Cage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
This is the Israeli notion of a fair deal: We're entitled to do whatever the hell we want to the Palestinians because, by definition, whatever we do to them is self-defense. They, however, are not entitled to lift a finger against us because, by definition, whatever they do to us is terrorism. And there are no limits on our right to self-defense. There is no such thing as "disproportionate."
- Derienzo, Paul: Three Years Since the Kitty Litter Disaster at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
There is a place in the United States, almost half-a-mile underground, in a salt mine, where radioactive waste leftover from the production of tens of thousands of nuclear bombs was to be held separate from all contact with humanity for 10,000 years, equivalent to the entire history of civilization. This separation of civilization from the byproduct of its folly had lasted one-tenth of one percent of that immense time when on Valentine's Day, three years ago, an explosion sent the deadly contamination back to the world of humans.
- Dermansky, Julie: TransCanada Keystone 1 Pipeline Suffered Major Corrosion Only Two Years In Operation, 95% Worn In One Spot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Documents obtained by DeSmogBlog reveal an alarming rate of corrosion to parts of TransCanada's Keystone 1 pipeline. A mandatory inspection test revealed a section of the pipeline's wall had corroded 95%, leaving it paper-thin in one area (one-third the thickness of a dime) and dangerously thin in three other places, leading TransCanada to immediately shut it down.
- Desai, Ashwin: Nelson Mandela's Long Walk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A look at Nelson Mandela's book, "Long Walk to Freedom" in the context of the apartheid regime in South Africa in the 1980s.
- Desai, Ashwin: We Are the Poors
Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Follows the growth of the most unexpected community movements, beginning in one township of Durban, linking up with community and labor struggles in other parts of the country, and coming together in massive anti-government protests at the time of the UN World Conference Against Racism in 2001.
- Desai, Ashwin; Bond, Patrick: World Cup Woes for South Africa
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The overspending, crony capitalism and increased poverty the majority of South Africans now suffer are taking the fun out of the beautiful game, soccer. According to leading researcher Udesh Pillay of the SA Human Sciences Research Council, in 2005 one in three South Africans hoped to personally benefit from the World Cup, but this fell to one in five in 2009, and 1 in 100 today.
- Desai, Manan: Afro-Asian Collaborations
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
At a moment when the national media are abuzz with predictions of a new era of post-racial politics, Fred Ho and Bill Mullen’s anthology on the intersections of African and Asian Americans remind us of the complex ways that race has shaped and continues to shape our lives in this country. Afro Asia compiles a diverse set of essays that illuminate a repressed tradition, spanning the early 19th century onwards, of “creative political and cultural resistance grounded in Afro-Asian collaboration and connectivity.”
- Desai, Radhika: Marx's Capital at 150
History in Capital, Capital in History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A look at Karl Marx's historic book 'Capital' Volume 1 on the 150th anniversary of publication, its historical significance and influence, and what it means for those who read the book today.
- Descarries-Belanger, Francine; Roy, Shirley: The Women's Movement and Its Currents of Thought
A Typological Essay
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Descartes, Rene: Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and seeking Truth in the Sciences
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1635
- Deschner, Gunther: The Warsaw rising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
- Deseriis, Marco; Dean, Jodi: A Movement Without Demands?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
We claim that far from being a strength, the lack of demands reflects the weak ideological core of the movement. We also claim that demands should not be approached tactically but strategically, that is, they should be grounded in a long-term view of the political goals of the movement, a view that is currently lacking. Accordingly, in the second part of this text, we argue that this strategic view should be grounded in a politics of the commons.
- Desimone, Arturo: The War on Memory Begins in Argentina
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Within less than a month of the inauguration of the new Macri/Cambiemos government in Argentina, the new leadership, or gestión (management) as they prefer to be called, acted in a great sweeping hurry. Argentine congress, full of opposition parliamentarians from the Frente Para la Victoria Party that lost the presidential race by 2% of the vote, was closed for the summer holidays that take place in the ardent month of December, as much of the urban population of Argentina seeks to carelessly flock to the seaside.
- Desimone. Arturo: How a Selective Boycott Can Boost External Support for Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The pro-Palestine solidarity movement could enlarge its following, convince more influential supporters, and get past trivial, harmful and sectarian disputes -- if it wants to. A boycott must be humanist, as is the cause of supporting Palestinian self-determination. Boycotting humanism allows the cynical internal corrosion of any political movement of the left.
- Desmond, Adrian; Moore, James: Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
An analysis on the formation of Charles Darwins' views on slavery and the impact of those views on his theories and publications.
- Desmond, Matthew: Evicted
Poverty and Profit in the American City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Matthew Desmond examines the impact on the poor in the United States of rising housing costs and declining/stagnating incomes in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crash. Many tenants in the U.S. now pay more than 50 per cent of their incomes in rent -- over 70 per cent with the soaring costs of utilities included -- challenging their ability to survive on a daily basis.
- Desroches, Leonard: Allow the Water
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
The author shares his Christian vision of radical social transformation to develop a society based on the gospels of Jesus. Included are the stories of famous others who have also gone through social transformation, such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., J.S. Woodsworth, Jim and Shirley Douglas and members of the White Rose Movement.
- Detroit Solidarity: Glenn Shelton
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Glenn Shelton, a retired president of Michigan Mailhandlers Local 307 who never stopped fighting for the rights of working people, and a member of Solidarity, died March 24, 2016, after a battle with cancer.
- Dettlinger, Madison: Detroit celebrates Grace Lee Boggs' 100th birthday
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
About the weeklong celebration of the life of Grace Lee Boggs, radical activist, political theorist, and revolutionary.
- Deuscher, Isaac: The Prophet Unarmed
Trotsky: 1921-1929, Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
The second volume of Deutscher's three-volume of Leon Trotsky, covering the years 1912-1929.
- Deutsch, Judith: Gaza: Who or What Has a Right to Exist?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at Norman Finkelstein's book "Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom", which investigates the Israeli attacks on Gaza such as Operation Cast Lead (2008-09), the Mavi Marmara (2010), and Operation Protective Edge (2014).
- Deutsch, Judith: Grieve the Beloved Children: Israel and the War on Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A discussion of Israel's tactics in its campaign against Palestinians, which includes the use of deliberate provocation to incite retaliation, and the disturbing reality that results in large numbers of children's deaths.
- Deutsch, Judith: Justice for Hassan Diab and the Unbearable Banality of Evil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Deutsch examines the case of Dr. Hassan Diab - a sociology professor and Canadian citizen who was accused of bombing the Rue Copernic Synagogue - and uses it to critique international and domestic justice systems.
- Deutsch, Judith: The Ordeal of Hassan Diab
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Sociology professor and Canadian citizen Hassan Diab was wrongfully arrested and extradiated to France in 2008. To this day the Canadian government is silent on the events.
- Deutsch, Judith: Siloed Thinking, Climate, and Disposable People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Judith Deutch takes a look at the human side of the climate disaster and the constricted way of thinking about it, as even those who do recognize anthropogenic climate change still do not examine a range of critical interactions.
- Deutsch, Judith: A Tale of Two Toilets: Profiting from Necessity?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
As indoor plumbing arrived in the U.S. in the 1840s and Dr. John Snow’s treatise on sewage-contaminated water causing cholera came out in 1855, the current global toilet situation cannot be attributed to lack of knowledge, technology, or resources.
- Deutsch, Judith: Wealth and the Invisibility of Human Life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Review of the book "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism" by Quinn Slobodian.
- Deutsch, Rachel (director): Conversations with Lee Lorch
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Interviews with mathematician and civil rights activist Lee Lorch.
- Deutscher, Isaac: The Age of Permanent Revolution
A Trotsky Anthology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
A collection of writings by Leon Trotsky.
- Deutscher, Isaac: Deutscher, Isaac - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
- Deutscher, Isaac: Heretics and Renegades
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955 Published: 1969
Essasy on the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc.
- Deutscher, Isaac: The Prophet Armed
Trotsky: 1879-1921, Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1954 Published: 1965
Volume 1 of Deutscher's three-volume biography of Leon Trotsky, covering the period to 1921.
- Deutscher, Isaac: The Prophet Outcast
Trotsky: 1929-1940, Volume 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
The final volume of Deutscher's three-volume biography of Leon Trotsky.
- Deutscher, Isaac: Roots of Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
- Deutscher, Isaac: Russia, China and the West 1953-1966
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Essays on the history of the Soviet Union and its role in the world from the death of Stalin to Khrushchev's fall and the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
- Deutscher, Isaac: The Unfinished Revolution Russia 1917-1967
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 1969
On the signficance of the Russian Revolution.
- Deutscher, Issac: Ironies of History
Essays on Contemporary Communism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957 Published: 1966
A series of essays by Deutscher examinig the evolution of the so-called Communist world after Stalin.
- Deutscher, Issac: Message of the Non-Jewish Jew
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1958
The Jewish heretic who transcends Jewry belongs to a Jewish tradition.
- Devall, Bill & Sessions, George: Deep Ecology
Living as if Nature Mattered
Resource Type: Book
- Devall, Bill (ed.): Clearcut
The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Deveaux, Bert (Director): Poor No More
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
In the present economic crisis, many Canadians are destititute and many others are on the brink. Against this climate, a couple of Canadians go on a road trip to Ireland and Sweden, with comedian Mary Walsh as their guide, and get a chance to see how other countries have helped people like themselves.
- Devereaux, Ryan: "Do Not Resist": The Police Militarization Documentary Everyone Should See
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
On a sunny afternoon last summer, Craig Atkinson, a New York City-based filmmaker, stood in a front yard in South Carolina surrounded by several heavily armed police officers. Inside, they found a terrified family of four, including an infant. As the family members were pulled outside, Atkinson's camera captured a scene that plays out with startling regularity in cities and towns across the country, one of many included in his new documentary, "Do Not Resist," an examination of police militarization in the United States.
- Devereaux, Ryan: Manhunting in the Hindu Kush
Civilian casualties and strategic failures in America's longest war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
U.S. military forces set out to destroy the Taliban and al Qaeda forces that remained hidden in Hindu Kush. Dubbed Operation Haymaker, the campaign has been described as a potential model for the future of American warfare. Devereaux explains how this looks.
- Devereaux, Ryan: Surprise: U.S. Drug War In Afghanistan Not Going Well
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A new report has found the war on drugs in Afghanistan remains colossally expensive, largely ineffective and likely to get worse. This is particularly true in the case of opium production, says the U.S. Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
- Devereaux, Ryan; Shults, Robert: The Unclaimed Dead
In Texas, the Bodies of Migrants Who Perished in the Desert Provide Clues to the Living
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Operation Identification, a program began in 2013 amid a swirl of grassroots organizing, lead the exhumation of more than 50 unidentified human remains from a rural graveyard named Sacred Heart.
- Devlin-McAliskey, Bernadette: Left Behind by Good Friday
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
In 1969 Bernadette Devlin traveled to the United States on a fundraising tour. At age twenty-two, she was the youngest woman ever elected to Westminster and already a veteran of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement and the radical student group People's Democracy.
- Devon, Alexandra: Es kommt nicht auf das Meeting an, sondern auf die Bewegung
Resource Type: Article
- Devon, Alexandra: It Ain't the Meeting Its The Motion
Resource Type: Article
A guide to conducting productive and inclusive meetings in the context of social change.
- Devon, Alexandra: Response from Alexandra Devon
Resource Type: Article
- Devon, Alexandra; Hayley, Ron: KIO-Evolution of a Journal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
The current Kick It Over editors reprint an article written two years prior for readers interested in knowing how the original editors were motivated to start Kick It Over.
- DeWalt, Dan: Too Big to Jail
Not Too Big to Resist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
US rich evade punishment while the poor are criminalized in the two-tier justice system.
- Dewey, John: Democracy and Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1916 Published: 1997
John Dewey's classic work on the nature of education, and the ideal ways in which children should be educated.
- Dewey, Myron: Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock captures the story of Native-led defiance that forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet.
- Dews, Peter: Logics of Disintegration
Post-Structuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Essays summarizing and critiquing post-structuralism. According to Dews, for all its posture of radicality, post-structuralist thought is itself bound to certain vulnerable assumptions. Dews argues that the fatal philosophical fault of post-structuralism is its failure to preserve the proper dialectical distinction between the subject and the object.
- Dhansay, Sayed: Take Israel To International Criminal Court
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
It is imperative that the international community view the Israeli response to the Goldstone report as a blatant attempt to whitewash its crimes in Gaza, and refer the matter to the ICC without further delay. To do otherwise will only continue to encourage Israeli intransigence.
- Dharmarajah, Sindhu: #KMFace photos mock Kinder Morgan claim that facial expressions are a form of "assault"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Anti-pipeline protestors took to social media to post their best #KMFace, following Kinder Morgan's court case against residents this week, where the company's lawyer stated that the protestors' angry snarls are "not just intimidation," but "actually assault."
- Dhruvarajan, Vanaja (ed): Women and Well-Being/Les Femmes et le Mieux-Etre
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Di Maggio, Anthony: Confronting the Cult of Objectivity
Education in Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
As the end of the semester draws near on campuses across the country, I thought I’d reflect on one of the largest threats to academic freedom in this country. I’ve long labeled this threat the “cult of objectivity,” represented in a variety of different pathologies that afflict students, faculty, and administrators.
- di Tresca, Fantasma: The assassination of the Rosselli brothers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A summary of the ideology and actions of Carlo and Nello Rosselli, highlighting what led up to their assassinations and its aftermath.
- Diab, Robert: Guantanamo North
Terrorism and the Administration of Justice in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
After September 11, 2001, Canadian governments made significant changes to the law so that non-citizens with suspected links to terrorism could be held indefinitely with no due process. The Courts held that these and other changes including "judicial interrogations" and "convictions for terrorism without intent" are consistent with the Charter of Rights. The range of state secrecy extends now to everything related to national security. Diab contends that these measures are unnecessary and contrary to human rights and freedom.
- Diabo, Russell; Pasternak, Shiri: First Nations Under Surveillance
Harper Government Prepares for First Nations "Unrest"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
There needs to be unity on the ground with coordinated political actions between First Nations Peoples in order to protect, defend and advance First Nation pre-existing sovereignty, and First Nation Aboriginal and Treaty rights to lands and resources. Divide and conquer tactics can only be met with new strategies of alliance-building, and by bringing the leadership back down to the land.
- Diamond, Jared: Guns, Germs and Steel
A Short History of Everybody for the Last 10,000 Years
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
- Diamond, Norm: Chinese Workers' Resistance
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Norm Diamond interviews Tim Pringle, who lives in Hong Kong, where he participates as an observer and also as a member of the editorial board of the Chinese-language magazine Globalization Monitor.
- Diamond, Norm: Occupy the Workplace - review
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A review of 'Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present', edited by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini.
- Diamond, Sara: Not by Politics Alone
The Enduring Influence of the Christian Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
An informative study on the Christian Right, this book addresses how politics and culture converge. Diamond provides an analysis of how "family values" are infused with evangelical beliefs on a number of societal issues.
- Diamond, Sara: Spiritual Warfare
The Politics of the Christion Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Sara Diamond ponders the threat the Christian Right poses to our society, the damage already done, and the extent of this evangelical religion's enduring political clout.
- Diana, Block: Arm the Sprit
A Women's Journey Underground and Back
Resource Type: Book
- Diaz, Gloria: From Academic to Assembly Line Worker: My Life of Precarity in Middle America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A non-tenured academic's story of trying to make ends meet in Indiana.
- Diaz, Harry: A Case Study on the Interaction of Immigrant-Canadians in Their Work
and the Influence of this Interaction on the Resocialization of the Immigrant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
A sociological analysis done from the perspective of participant observation including theological reflections.
- Diaz, Philippe: The End of Poverty?
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2008
Today, global poverty has reached new levels because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies -- in other words, wealthy countries exploiting the weaknesses of poor, developing countries.
- Diaz-Polanco, Hector: Autonomy vs. the Mexican Party-State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
The development of autonomous local governments in Mexico.
- Diaz-Struck, Emilia: ICIJ Releases Paradise Papers Data From Appleby
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A look at data released from the Paradise Papers investigation, a global journalistic collaboration that exposed offshore deals of political players and corporate giants. A team of journalists explored a trove of 13.4 million records from two offshore firms and 19 secret jurisdictions.
- Dick, Adam: Depraved Treatment of Drug War Captives on US Coast Guard Ships
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Wessler provides details in an interview transcript on how the United States Coast Guard routinely subjects individuals alleged to be involved in the transport of cocaine between South America and Central America to such conditions.
- Dick, Kirby: The Invisible War
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
An investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape of soldiers within the US military.
- Dick, Leonard G.: Broken Spirit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Dickens, Amy: Selling Modernity: How Global Greenwashing is Destroying Tribal People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport (APECO) in Casiguran, the Philippines, is a 12,923 hectare area currently being developed into a self-sufficient commercial hub and special economic zone.If completed, APECO will strip 3,000 small farms and indigenous Agta households of their land.
- Dickerson, Debra: Black Immigrants, 'Model' Minority? Plus: Don Imus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
'Black' is a label which obscures more than it illuminates.
- Dickinson, Emily: Emily Dickinson Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Dickinson, Michael: Istanbul's Shameful May Day
Silencing the Masses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
"I was walking through the streets of Istanbul. Smoke and tear-gas bombs were exploding everywhere and people were running, pursued by police in riot gear". I lay for a while analysing my dream. It was May the first – International Workers’ Day.
- Dickinson, Pete: Why Can't Capitalism Go Green?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
It is more than a quarter of a century since the ruling classes of the world began serious discussions on global warming, in preparation for the 1992 UN-sponsored ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio. Yet no meaningful steps have been taken to tackle the problem, even though the majority of the capitalist establishment has come to understand that something needs to be done. The Paris summit looks very unlikely to break from this pattern. So how can the lack of action be explained?
- Dickman, Mark: The Prophet: Deutscher's Trotsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The Old Testament prophets belonged to a religious order devoted to the study of sacred texts, which they interpreted, and from which they proclaimed the obligations of the leaders of their nation to the people. From these scriptures they envisioned the coming of the Messiah, who would usher in an era of justice and goodwill toward men.
- Diemer, Ulli: A co teraz?
Kasa Oszczednosciowa nastepstwem Wolnego Handlu
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Diemer, Ulli: Abandonando el Interés Público
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Las sociedades industriales aprendieron, en el curso de décadas, que los intereses privados no pueden ser usados para salvaguardar el interés público cuando entran en conflicto con sus propios intereses. Fue una lección dura, aprendida con el costo de muchas vidas, pero el resultado fue que gradualmente, pieza por pieza, país a país, una infraestructura pública de regulaciones y agencias y procedimientos fue obtenida para proteger la salud pública y la seguridad. Esa infraestructura está siendo minimizada ahora, no sólo por fuera, sino por dentro de las propias instituciones gubernamentales.
- Diemer, Ulli: Abandonando o interesse público
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
- Diemer, Ulli: Abandoning the Public Interest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000 Published: 2001
The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
- Diemer, Ulli: Abandoning the Public Interest - Bulgarian text
Resource Type: Article
- Diemer, Ulli: Abandoning the Public Interest - Chinese (Simplified) Text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
- Diemer, Ulli: Abandoning the Public Interest - Chinese (Traditional) Text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
- Diemer, Ulli: Abandoning the Public Interest - Farsi Text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Diemer, Ulli: Abandoning the Public Interest - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Diemer, Ulli: Abandonner l'intérêt publique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Les sociétés industrielles ont appris au cour de décennies, que les intérêts privées ne peuvent être fait confiance de sauvegarder l'intérêt publique si il y à conflit avec leurs intérêts. C'étais une dure leçon apprie aux coûts de plusieurs vies, mais le résultat à été graduellement, pièce par pièce, pays par pays, une infrastructure de régulations publiques et d'agences et procédés mis sur pied pour protéger la santé publique et la sécurité. L'infrastructure est maintenant sapée pas seulement de l'extérieur, mais du gouvernement même.
- Diemer, Ulli: L'abbandono dell'interesse pubblico
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Diemer, Ulli: Adding up to Zero
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
I just learned that Canada's biggest meat company is now proclaiming itself both "carbon neutral" and "carbon zero."
- Diemer, Ulli: After Typhoon Haiyan: The true face of the capitalist state
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
In times of disaster, the capitalist state shows its true face. In the Philippines, in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, thousands are dead, bodies lie uncollected in the streets, tens of thousands of homes and buildings have been destroyed, and survivors are without food, water, shelter, medical care, or essential supplies. Meanwhile the police and the military are guarding stores "to prevent people from hauling off food, water" and other supplies.
- Diemer, Ulli: Against All Odds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
- Diemer, Ulli: Against Censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Some of us would rather not have customs officials and cops deciding what we can read or look at.
- Diemer, Ulli: An alternative media list
Getting the news - and getting behind the news
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014 Published: 2017
A selective list of English-language alternative media.
- Diemer, Ulli: Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Anarchist critiques of Marxism typically reveal a lack of knowledge of what Karl Marx actually wrote, resulting in sterile denunciations of a straw-man opponent.
- Diemer, Ulli: L'anarchisme par rapport au marxisme
Quelques notes sur un vieux thème
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Plus de cent ans après que le mouvement socialiste soit divisé en factions marxistes et anarchistes, il y a des signes, au moins sur une petite échelle, que les gens, s’appellant des anarchistes, des marxistes ou « des socialistes libertaires », trouvent des moyens pour travailler fructueusement ensemble.
- Diemer, Ulli: Anarquismo vs. Marxismo
Algunas notas sobre un tema antiguo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Un movimiento que desdeña la teoría y adora las acciones sin crítica, el anarquismo sigue siendo un edificio tambaleante consistente de varios pedazos de análisis marxista, reforzando unos preceptos tácticos inflexibles.
- Diemer, Ulli: Anti-Chomsky Fictions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Exposing right-wing lies about Noam Chomsky.
- Diemer, Ulli: Arrêtons de se faire des illusions
Le magazine Canadien Dimensions discute du Nouveau Parti Démocratique Canadien
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Si nous devons plus que jamais avancer, nous devons y faire face : Le NPD n'est pas un parti socialiste. Le NPD n'a jamais été un parti socialiste. Le NPD ne sera jamais un parti socialiste.
- Diemer, Ulli: Att överge allmänintresset
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Diemer, Ulli: Auto worker says automation creates worker alienation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
It is only struggle, says Martin Glaberman, that creates an awareness of collective strength.
- Diemer, Ulli: Auto-Determinación para Quién?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
- Diemer, Ulli: L’autodétermination pour qui ?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
- Diemer, Ulli: Bad news: Unemployment is down and wages are up
Resource Type: Article
Normally, the corporate media are violently allergic to any suggestion that class conflict exists at all, let alone that it is fundamental to our capitalist economic system. However, in the business news one is more likely to encounter plain speaking. A case in point is the Globe and Mail’s report on the fears and upset that October's economic data have sparked among economic forecasters and currency traders. The reasons for their worries? A fall in the unemployment rate, and an increase in real wages.
- Diemer, Ulli: Bailando con la culpa: Los hombres hablando de la violencia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Diemer, Ulli: Bain Avenue controversy - Ulli Diemer replies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
There is no dispute about the importance and validity of economic demands, whether in the workplace or in the community. What is under dispute is Wages for Housework's insistence that money is the only thing around which it is permissible to organize.
- Diemer, Ulli: Bain Co-op hit by rent strike
Rents up 18%
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Minority of residents launch rent strike while majority pursues co-op ownership.
- Diemer, Ulli: Bain Co-op Meets Wages for Housework
A political thriller
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
The story of the struggle that gave birth to a housing co-operative and destroyed the credibility of the 'Wages for Housework' sect.
- Diemer, Ulli: Bain Co-op OK's evictions
Eviction notices sent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Bain residents refusing to pay their full rent are to be served eviction notices.
- Diemer, Ulli: Bakounine contre Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Je vous propose d’analyser quelques unes des critiques anarchistes les plus courantes contre le marxisme.
- Diemer, Ulli: Bakunin vs. Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions.
- Diemer, Ulli: Bakunin vs. Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
El movimiento anarquista que apadrinó ha sido plagado por la misma polaridad, por la tensión entre el liberalismo real en un lado y algunas veces la irresistible atracción del anti-intelectualismo, terrorismo y conspiración en el otro.
- Diemer, Ulli: Begegnung mit dem Schuldbewusstsein
Eine Beobachtung von Männern, die sich mit Gewalt auseinandersetzen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Neulich nahm ich an einem Treffen einer zwanzigköpfigen Männergruppe teil, die über das Problem der Gewalt gegen Frauen und was Männer zur Verhinderung von Gewaltsübergriffen beitragen können, diskutierte.
- Diemer, Ulli: The Bomb won't go away on its own
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Our task is to break out of this closed self-justifying system by depriving governments of the passive populations they need, by refusing to accept the choices we are offered and instead becoming active participants pressuring them to accept our proposals.
- Diemer, Ulli: Broadcast Licenses for Religious Groups
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Religious freedom does not imply the right of any group to use the public airwaves to promulgate their own religious views while excluding all conflicting points of view.
- Diemer, Ulli: The Buzz Hargrove election controversy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
We aren't obligated to vote NDP no matter what the circumstances.
- Diemer, Ulli: The Canada Metals story: A chronology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
The ongoing struggle against lead pollution in South Riverdale.
- Diemer, Ulli: Canada's Distorted Electoral System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
- Diemer, Ulli: The Capital Punishment Debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
The death penalty make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society.
- Diemer, Ulli: The Capital Punishment Debate - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- Diemer, Ulli: The Capital Punishment Debate - Korean text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- Diemer, Ulli: The Case for Grassroots Archives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
- Diemer, Ulli: The Case for Grassroots Archives - Farsi text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
- Diemer, Ulli: Chemicals in your water: A little is too much
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
There is reason to be concerned about the increasing amounts of chemicals in our water.
- Diemer, Ulli: Noam Chomsky turns 70
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Chomsky's immense contributions have helped me feel more optimistic and helped me keep my energies focused on activism.
- Diemer, Ulli: Ciência e seus inimigos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
- Diemer, Ulli: Circle in the Darkness Book Review
Review of Diana Johnstone's memoir Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Johnstone says: "If I must claim a label, it owuld be that of an independent truth-seeker."
- Diemer, Ulli: La clase trabajadora y el cambio social
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
- Diemer, Ulli: Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Introduction to the December 17, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memories and the past. That's the nature of capitalism, especially the speeded-up hypercapitalism of today. The past is useless: profits are made by getting rid of the old and replacing it with something new.
- Diemer, Ulli: Communicating Effectively Through Your Newsletter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Some pointers about how to produce a newsletter that communicates effectively with its readers
- Diemer, Ulli: Como Comunicarse De Manera Efectiva A Través De Un Boletín Informativo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Diemer, Ulli: The Connexions Annual: An Introduction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society’s grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems. We hope that by providing this information we will be making it easier for those already active to find out about and contact each other and to do their work more effectively and co-operatively. We hope that those individuals who are thinking about or looking for ways to become active will be able to use the information to find like-minded people to work with. We hope, too, that this book will help to get out the message that there are viable alternatives to destructive and exploitative institutions and structures, and that there are people organizing to build those alternatives.
- Diemer, Ulli: The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society's grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems.
- Diemer, Ulli: Constructive criticism can be a good thing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
It's counterproductive to say that for the sake of 'unity' we shouldn't criticize others in the environmental movement. Principled debate and critcism when it is called for helps us clarify issues and move forward.
- Diemer, Ulli: Contaminación: El envenenante legado de los recortes ambientales de Ontario
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Diemer, Ulli: Contaminated Meat, Contaminated Water: From Walkerton to Listeria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The current listeria outbreak has the feel of deja vu all over again. Once again, we are hearing about companies and industry associations lobbying for fewer inspections and less 'interference', and about a compliant right-wing government only too eager to give them what they want.
- Diemer, Ulli: Contamination: L'Héritage Vénéneux des coupures écologiques de l'Ontario
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Diemer, Ulli: Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
The story of Ontario's right-wing Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
- Diemer, Ulli: Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Diemer, Ulli: Contest: Guess the date of Harper's next 'terrorist plot'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
What are the odds that a 'terrorist plot' will be 'uncovered' in the late stages of the election campaign, so that Harper can spend the final days of the campaign talking about terrorism, terrorism, and more terrorism?
- Diemer, Ulli: The Continuing Debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
We should subject both Marxism and anarchism to a critical analysis, and thereby start to provide the basis for a libertarian revolutionary movement that relates adequately to the needs and problems of today.
- Diemer, Ulli: Contra Todos los Pronósticos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
La creencia que la sociedad oficial es tan abrumadora que no se puede hacer nada al respecto está muy cerca de la idea que no puede hacer nada. La idea que las cosas se volverán a hacer si la gente se une para hacerlo ellos mismos contiene la semilla de la idea que la gente tiene el poder para hacer todo.
- Diemer, Ulli: Contre vents et marées
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- Diemer, Ulli: La contribution de Rosa Luxembourg envers le Marxisme
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Luxembourg était l'interprète principale du Marxisme dans l'esprit de Marx. Une indication de ceci, paradoxal à première vue, fut qu'elle était une des rares Marxiste principale qui ne traita pas les écritures de Marx comme assignation sainte.
- Diemer, Ulli: Il contributo al marxismo di Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Vedo Rosa Luxemburg come la marxista che fece il massimo per progredire le teorie rivoluzionarie di Karl Marx nel periodo successivo alla morte di Marx ed Engels.
- Diemer, Ulli: O Contributo de Rosa Luxemburg ao Marxismo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Num momento em que o movimento socialista estava evoluindo em direçoes cada vez mais distantes das posiçoes de Marx o reformismo social democrata, por um lado, e o centralismo burocrático Leninista, por outro Luxemburg foi a principal representante do marxismo no espírito de Marx.
- Diemer, Ulli: La Cooperativa Bain se enfrenta al Grupo de Remuneración por el Trabajo Doméstico
Una espeluznante historia sobre política.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Diemer, Ulli: La coopérative de Bain rencontre 'Salaires pour les travaux domestiques'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Diemer, Ulli: The cost of software piracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The enormous dollar amounts the software industry throws around in its PR campaigns about software 'piracy' are purely imaginary.
- Diemer, Ulli: Creeping contradictions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
News tidbits.
- Diemer, Ulli: La crise Iraquienne en context
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Un état solitaire, lourdement armé avec des armes de destruction massives, ouvertement méprisant des lois internationales et des Nations Unies et avec une réputation menaçante d'invader d'autres pays et à plonger le monde dans une crise.
Comment le monde doit il réagir à cette menace? Que peut ont faire à propos des États Unies et leurs ambitions ouvertement impérialistiques?
- Diemer, Ulli: La crisis de Irak en contexto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Un estado sin control, pesadamente provisto con armas de destrucción masiva, abiertamente despectivo de la ley internacional y de las Naciones Unidas, y con un record de extensión en aterrorizar e invadir otros países, ha hundido el mundo en crisis.
Como debería el mundo responder a esta amenaza? Que podemos nosotros hacer respecto a los Estados Unidos y sus obvias ambiciones imperialistas?
- Diemer, Ulli: A crisis manufactured by the Harris government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Moving at breakneck speed to ram through ill-conceived ideologically driven schemes with mindless arrogance.
- Diemer, Ulli: Cuba's Invasion Fears
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
There is nothing irrational about Cuba's fears of being invaded by the United States.
- Diemer, Ulli: Czym jest wolnosciowy socjalizm?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Diemer, Ulli: Danças com Culpa
Um olhar sobre os homens que olham para a violência
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Diemer, Ulli: Dances with Guilt: Looking at Men Looking at Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Why are some men violent?
- Diemer, Ulli: El Debate de la Pena Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- Diemer, Ulli: Debating the NDP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Activists seeking radical change need to understand that it is fruitless to base their strategies on the assumption that the NDP can be the vehicle for achieving their goals.
- Diemer, Ulli: Dejemos de engañarnos a nosotros mismos sobre el NDP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Si alguna vez vamos a seguir adelante, tenemos que enfrentarlo: El NDP no es un partido socialista. El NDP nunca ha sido un partido socialista. Y el NDP nunca será un partido socialista.
- Diemer, Ulli: Democracy loses out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
The people can say what they want, they can vote how they want, but the bureaucrats make the decisions.
- Diemer, Ulli: Derechos y Libertades
Introduccion al Volumen 9, Número 2 del Sumario de Connexions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- Diemer, Ulli: Desintresse am Öffentlichen Intresse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
In den Industrienationen haben die Menschen über Jahrzehnte hinweg gelernt, dass man privaten Unternehmen nicht trauen kann, wenn es um Sachen der öffentlichen Sicherheit geht.
- Diemer, Ulli: Ulli Diemer Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Diemer, Ulli: Diez Mitos del Cuidado de la Salud
Entendiendo el Debate del Servicio Medico en Canadá
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
- Diemer, Ulli: 10 mythes des soins de sante
Comprendre le debat de l'Assistance Medicale Canadienne
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Un guide concis expliquant les 10 mythes regardant les Soins de Sant.
- Diemer, Ulli: Don't Forget to Write
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Writing letters to the editor is an effective way of getting publicity for your point of view.
- Diemer, Ulli: Droits et Libertés
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Les libertés civiles et les droits de l'homme font partis clés dans presque chaque autre aspect de la justice et des changements sociaux.
- Diemer, Ulli: Drowning in a Sea of Lies
Introduction to the March 3, 2024 edition of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Lies are the lifeblood of the world we live in. The American-dominated international order is rooted in violence and exploitation, but lies are its language, its public face, and its spiritual essence.
- Diemer, Ulli: Eine Stimme für die Demokratie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
In vielen “Konsensgruppen“ findet man ein immer wiederkehrendes Muster: Einige wenige haben das Sagen, während der Rest schweigt. Diejenigen, die einen Job oder Kinder haben oder einfach keine “Meeting-Junkies“ sind, gehen frühzeitig. Die Gruppe fällt auseinander und die Übriggebliebenen zwingen ihr wunderbares Modell der nächsten Gruppe auf.
- Diemer, Ulli: El Trotskismo y el Partido de Vanguardia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974 Published: 2010
- Diemer, Ulli: Enseñando a adultos a leer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- Diemer, Ulli: Everything is under control. Until it isn't.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
In the nuclear age, a miscalculation can result in unspeakable catastrophe, but nonetheless, decision-makers continue to take risky actions which they calculate will bring them an advantage. They assume that they can to push forward and ‘show strength’ and then push some more, while reserving the option of showing restraint if the other side pushes back too vigorously. The world now finds itself in probably the most dangerous situation since the Cuban Missile Crisis. All it will take is one misstep, one miscalculation, one reckless action by a mid-level military officer acting without orders – and the missiles will start flying. And it will be game over for the human race.
- Diemer, Ulli: Faith, Hope and Persistence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
When we look at what is happening in our world, it can be difficult to believe that there are grounds for hope, let alone faith. And yet we – we humans – continue to live and act in ways that testify to our hopes, and to our faith in the possibility of a better future.
- Diemer, Ulli: Faith, Hope and Persistence - Vietnamese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
- Diemer, Ulli: Fé, Esperança e Persistência
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
- Diemer, Ulli: A few decide where we live
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
We have to abolish a system whereby a tiny handful with a lot of money can decide how thousands of other people are going to live, how thin their walls are going to be, how much sunshine they'll be able to get, where their children will play.
- Diemer, Ulli: Flatly Outrageous
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The flat earth society is not the equivalent of the Fraser Institute.
- Diemer, Ulli: Following the Science?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
"Following the science" has been the mantra of public officials from the very beginning of the pandemic. But what does "following the science" actually mean? When we as a society are faced with difficult policy choices, can science tell us what choices we should make?
- Diemer, Ulli: Food Fanatics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Ill-informed dogmatism has no place in a healthy lifestyle.
- Diemer, Ulli: Foreign funding for Canadian political parties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Why are some types of foreign political funding of interest to CSIS, while it ignores the more prevalent types?
- Diemer, Ulli: 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression: they are for it - in principle - but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e. who gets to censor who.
- Diemer, Ulli: Free speech for me - you shut up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
- Diemer, Ulli: "Free Trade:" Look at the Contents, Not Just the Label
Response to comments in Green Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
I do not accept the idea that there should be no restrictions on trade or the market. If a particular economic activity is environmentally or socially harmful, why shouldn't we restrict it? If the so-called "free market" (i.e. an economic system where nothing is allowed to interfere with the freedom to make profits) results in economic activity that destroys the environment, or dumps people on the streets, then why shouldn't society be able to intervene?
- Diemer, Ulli: Miriam Garfinkle 1954 - 2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Obituary for Miriam Garfinkle, who died on September 15, 2018.
- Diemer, Ulli: Gedanken über Selbstbestimmung
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Bei der Unterstützung für die Unabhängigkeit handelt es sich bei ein großen Teilen der Linken um nicht mehr als kleinbürgerlichen Nationalismus. Im Gegensatz dazu hielten es Karl Marx und Rosa Luxemburg für wichtig zu analysieren und nur die progressiven Bewegungen zu unterstützen.
- Diemer, Ulli: Get the Internet working for you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
A Web site works best when it is integrated into a co-ordinated communications strategy.
- Diemer, Ulli: Grassroots Cells, Devil's Architects Defend Communities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973 Published: 1989
Organizational principles and campaign tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
- Diemer, Ulli: Grassroots media relations
A short introduction to media relations strategies for activist groups
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2010 Published: 2017
A media relations guide for organizers and activists.
- Diemer, Ulli: Green Municipalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
A green municipalist analysis offers valuable perspectives but can become a straightjacket if it is seen as 'the' answer.
- Diemer, Ulli: He who pays the piper...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Community groups have become dependent on government money resulting in an erosion of their community base and their independence.
- Diemer, Ulli: Health care monopoly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Rather than advocating the destruction of Canada's public health care system, critics should be speaking out against the government's strategy of running the system into the ground by mismanagement and underfunding.
- Diemer, Ulli: Health News Briefs 1987 - 1991
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
A round-up of health care in the news, 1987 - 1991.
- Diemer, Ulli: Health News Briefs 1992- 1994
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
A round-up of health care in the news, 1992 - 1994.
- Diemer, Ulli: Heat Wave
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Like COVID-19 and much else, extreme heat disproportionately affects the poor and the elderly. They are the ones who often don’t have air conditioning, and often they live alone with no support networks.
- Diemer, Ulli: Helicoptering to the cottage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Using the company helicopter to fly to and from the cottage.
- Diemer, Ulli: Het publieke belang negeren
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Diemer, Ulli: The Householder's Guide to Community Defence Against Bureaucratic Aggression - Review
A report on Britain's Government Machine
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972 Published: 1989
Organizational tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
- Diemer, Ulli: How they shot those campus bums
Review of The Truth About Kent State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
How Ohio National Guard troops out to "get" campus radicals and teach them "what law and order is all about" shot down students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others.
- Diemer, Ulli: Hungary 1956: A workers' revolt crushed by the "workers' state"
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
The Hungarian revolution, brief though it was, did as much as a century of socialist theorizing to show what a united and determined people could do to transform their society.
- Diemer, Ulli: I was a psychic for the FBI
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Para-review investigates parapathology
- Diemer, Ulli: Il danse avec la Culpabilité
Un regard sur les hommes qui regardent la violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Des théories simplistiques qui sont reliées à la violence à un facteur et seulement un facteur, la masculinité qui sert à décourager un examen sérieux sur la cause qui mène certains hommes et aussi certaines femmes a devenir violents.
- Diemer, Ulli: Inclusao ou Exclusao?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Enqanto isso acontece, nós vamos preferir acreditar que as "comunidades étnicas" nao tem interesse nenhum em tais assuntos e nenhuma posiçao na luta que está sendo travada em volta deles?
- Diemer, Ulli: Inclusión o exclusion?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Diemer, Ulli: Inclusion or exclusion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
- Diemer, Ulli: Inclusion or Exclusion - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Diemer, Ulli: Inclusion or Exclusion - Chinese Text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Diemer, Ulli: Inclusion or Exclusion? - Farsi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
- Diemer, Ulli: Inclusion or Exclusion - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Diemer, Ulli: Inclusione o Esclusione?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Diemer, Ulli: Integracja czy wykluczenie?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Diemer, Ulli: Integration oder Ausgrenzung?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Diemer, Ulli: Intégration ou Marginalisation?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Diemer, Ulli: The intelligence of ravens and the foolishness of (some) humans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
The problem with studies that continue to propagate the idea that intelligence is a single quantity, a thing that can be measured and quantified.
- Diemer, Ulli: Interview with Ulli Diemer - Japanese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Diemer, Ulli: Introducción al Directorio de Conexiones
Una Guía de Alternativas Sociales y Ambientales
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- Diemer, Ulli: Introducción al Directorio de Conexiones: Una Guía de Alternativas Sociales y Ambientales
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Este Anuario está dedicado a la idea que el cambio es ambos, posible y necesario. Su propósito principal es práctico: proveer la información sobre grupos en Canadá que están trabajando al ras del césped social para crear soluciones positivas a los problemas sociales, ambientales, económicos e internacionales.
- Diemer, Ulli: Introduction de l'Annuaire Connexions
Un livre d'origine sur les alternatives sociaux et environnementaux
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- Diemer, Ulli: Introduction to the Connexions Annual - Japanese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
- Diemer, Ulli: Die Irak-Krise im Kontext
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
- Diemer, Ulli: The Iraq Crisis in Context
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
A rogue state, heavily armed with weapons of mass destruction, openly contempuous of international law and the United Nations, plunges the world into crisis.
- Diemer, Ulli: Iraq Crisis in Context - Greek text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
- Diemer, Ulli: Is this how it all ends?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
- Diemer, Ulli: Island Airport Insanity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Airports don't belong in the middle of downtown.
- Diemer, Ulli: Israel and the Arabs: the good guys don't always wear white hats
Review of Israel: A Colonial-Settler State, by Maxime Rodinson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
The tragedy of two peoples brought into conflict by forces largely outside of their control.
- Diemer, Ulli: Israel's attack on the UN post in Lebanon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Israel's leaders could care less about world outrage. Israel's superpower patron, the United States, supports everything Israel does and keeps supplying money and arms, while the U.S. and Canadian media provide uncritical support.
- Diemer, Ulli: Jeden Glos na Demokracje
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
- Diemer, Ulli: Un journaliste du National Post traumatisé d'avoir à attendre son tour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Jonathan Kay retourne à l'hôpital pour un traitement de suivi, et - horreur - il doit s'asseoir et attendre avant d'être vu. En fait, il nous dit « tous les cas sauf les plus graves » doivent s'asseoir et attendre leur tour. Il n'y a pas - c'est dur à croire mais c'est vrai - de file spéciale pour les nantis et les privilégiés, même s'ils sont journalistes au National Post.
- Diemer, Ulli: Journaux radicaux
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Diemer, Ulli: Justification pour des archives locales
Resource Type: Article
Ce document décrit la raison d’être de Connexions Archive & Library, un projet basé à Toronto qui voit à la préservation et au partage d’informations et documents en lien avec les mouvements populaires pour un changement social. Connexions possède sur le site www.connexions.org des archives physiques documentaires, ainsi qu’une vaste bibliothèque.
- Diemer, Ulli: Kara Smierci
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Celowe, prawnie sankcjonowane odbieranie z.ycia ludzkiego, jest silnym emocjonalnym totemem, czynem, przez który symbolicznie uczestniczymy w zakazanym akcie zabijania. Nic dziwnego wie;c, z.e debata na temat kary s'mierci budzi tyle emocji, jest tak kategoryczna, uboga w analize; na temat tego, czy kara s'mierci w?as'ciwie ma jakis' sens.
- Diemer, Ulli: Keep raising the issue of democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Socialists should keep hammering away at the issue of democracy.
- Diemer, Ulli: Kontaminiert: Das giftige Erbe der Kürzungen in Ontario's Umweltpolitik
Ein Artikel über Katastrophe für die Umwelt in Kanada.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Diemer, Ulli: A közérdek mellozésre kerül
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Diemer, Ulli: Kryzys w Iraku - podsumowanie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
- Diemer, Ulli: Kyrgyzstan's dubious success
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
In Kyrgyzstan, everyone is better off - except for the vast majority of the population.
- Diemer, Ulli: La Moralidad en un Mundo Inmoral
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
- Diemer, Ulli: The last word (Diemer)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
The movement has no need of self-appointed or any other kind of saviours, not even well-intentioned anarchist ones.
- Diemer, Ulli: The law-breaking MLA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Alberta MLA plans to break the law.
- Diemer, Ulli: Legal decisions threaten press freedom
Minus Five
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Diemer, Ulli: Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
- Diemer, Ulli: Liberal Condescension
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. election, a debate has erupted on the liberal left about the best way to deal with working class people who voted for Trump. The disagreement, for many of the participants, appears to revolve around whether liberals ought to spend their time giving patronizing lectures about white privilege, or patronizing lectures about other aspects of reality. What people on both sides of the debate seem to share is the assumption that the job of middle-class liberals is to lecture the working class.
- Diemer, Ulli: La "libertad de expresión", siempre y cuando no ofenda a nadie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Diemer, Ulli: "Liberté de parole" - aussi longtemps que cela n'offense personne
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
- Diemer, Ulli: Local schools perpetuate social inequality says survey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
The more money your parents earn, the better you are likely to do in school. This is the conclusion of a massive study of the Toronto school population just released by the Board of Education.
- Diemer, Ulli: Looking for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Instead of sitting on the sidelines congratulating ourselves on how wonderfully free and democratic we are, we should be pressing for a radical democratization of our own society.
- Diemer, Ulli: Rosa Luxemburg
A letter about Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
In a time when the socialist movement was evolving in directions increasingly removed from Marx's positions -- Social Democratic reformism on the one hand, and Leninist bureaucratic centralism on the other -- Luxemburg was the leading exponent of a Marxism in the spirit of Marx.
- Diemer, Ulli: The main enemy is at home
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
The outbreak of war is always a human disaster with unforeseeable consequences. The 'fog of war,' incessant propaganda, rapidly changing events, our own confused thoughts and emotions, all make it exceedingly difficult to know how to react.
- Diemer, Ulli: Maintenant qu'est ce qu'on fait?
Établir un mouvement social suite aux conséquences du libre échange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Nous savons que l'accord du libre échange va éroder l'indépendance Canadienne qui est déjà limitée. Ce qui rendra encore plus difficile de résister la croisade néo conservatrice qui tien à éliminer tout ce qui se tient devant un profit sur le marché.
- Diemer, Ulli: Make the Don a Museum of Horrors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
A museum depicting what prison is really like might motivate us to demand radical changes to the way we deal with offenders.
- Diemer, Ulli: Marcus Gee's Confusion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
The United States didn't 'fail to intervene' in East Timor -- it intervened massively, on the side of the Indonesian invaders.
- Diemer, Ulli: Martin Glaberman: La Classe Ouvrière - Préambule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
- Diemer, Ulli: Massacres and Morality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
What can one say about the morality of Israeli soldiers who shoot unarmed protestors, and then are caught on camera cheering their kills? And how do we judge the civilian population of Israel, many of whom openly support and cheer their soldiers as they go about their work of killing Palestinians? And what can we say about the political leaders of other countries, Canada say, who sit down and smile and make deals with officials of the Israeli government at the very moment that the killing is going on?
- Diemer, Ulli: May 5, 1818: Birth of Karl Marx
Seeds of Fire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Marx breathes dialectics and revolution. For Marx, radicalism means going to the root, and Marx's radicalism seeks to go to the root of capitalism, to comprehend its essence dialectically, to understand its inherent contradictions - and the seeds of revolution it contains.
- Diemer, Ulli: The Meaning of Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Our democratic system: a safe election every four years or so in which voters choose between corporate-dominated parties whose policies are virtually indistinguishable on all fundamental issues.
- Diemer, Ulli: Medicare Myths and Realities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Since medicare is an extremely popular social program, the media and right-wing politicians have learned that it is unwise to attack it directly. Instead, they propagate myths designed to undermine public support for, and confidence in, the health care system, with the goal of gradually undermining and dismantling it.
- Diemer, Ulli: Mr. Bush's truthfulness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The truthfulness-challenged President.
- Diemer, Ulli: Monogamous Voles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Vole reversal.
- Diemer, Ulli: Moralidade em um Mundo Amoral
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
- Diemer, Ulli: Morality in an Amoral World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
A crisis is a mirror. It shows us - if we have the courage to see - who we are as individuals and as a society. The self-congratulatory poses of governments, politicians, and state institutions are confronted with the harsh test of reality. Each of us - as individuals, friends, families, neighbours, communities - face new and sometimes difficult challenges. The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is such a crisis.
- Diemer, Ulli: Morality in an Amoral World - Bulgarian text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
- Diemer, Ulli: Morality in an Amoral World - Vietnamese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
- Diemer, Ulli: More than one way to strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Rather than simply walk away from their vehicles, drivers could keep driving, but refuse to collect fares. This puts pressure on the employer without inconveniencing riders.
- Diemer, Ulli: The myth of a free market in publishing and high-tech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
The high-tech industries, in the U.S. in particular, owe their very existence to massive levels of government subsidies and intervention.
- Diemer, Ulli: Na przekór wszystkim przeciwnoscia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
- Diemer, Ulli: National Post columnist traumatized by having to wait his turn
Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006 Published: 2012
Columnist thinks people with money should get quicker treatment in emergency rooms than people who are poor.
- Diemer, Ulli: Nature: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article
- Diemer, Ulli: Nauka i jej wrogowie
Polish translation of Science and its Enemies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
- Diemer, Ulli: Neocon con game: First deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
Margaret Wente's Chutzpah
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The neocon con game: first deprive public institutions of their ability to act, then blame them for not acting
- Diemer, Ulli: New Hogtown Press
After Retrenchment, A Few Steps Forward
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
A profile of New Hogtown Press, a radical book and pamphlet publisher and distributor.
- Diemer, Ulli: No olvides escribir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
- Diemer, Ulli: Nothing personal, just business
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
"A street entrepreneur or a life-destroying psychopath?" asks a review of the film American Gangster, which portrays the life of drug kingpin Frank Lucas.
How is that an either-or choice?
- Diemer, Ulli: N'oubliez pas d'écrire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
- Diemer, Ulli: Now they're going to ruin the economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
The geniuses who brought us the constitutional debacle are turning their energies to the economy.
- Diemer, Ulli: O Caso dos Arquivos de Movimentos de Raiz
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
- Diemer, Ulli: Obscenity exposed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
The police definition of 'obscenity' gets right to the crux of the question.
- Diemer, Ulli: 150 years of dirty water
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Toronto's water has been polluted pretty much since the city was founded - but that doesn't mean we should put up with it.
- Diemer, Ulli: One-sided discussion of free trade avoids key issues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
'Business' is also about the people who actually work in the offices, factories, and farms, who are so profoundly affected by what happens in the world of capital.
- Diemer, Ulli: One Vote for Democracy
Consensus vs. democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
- Diemer, Ulli: One Vote for Democracy - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
- Diemer, Ulli: One Vote for Democracy - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
- Diemer, Ulli: One Vote for Democracy - Korean text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
- Diemer, Ulli: Opposing Censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
According to Ulli Diemer, it is dangerous to think that liberation - in this case, sexual liberation - can be promoted by repressive legislation and censorship.
- Diemer, Ulli: Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
- Diemer, Ulli: Other Voices Introductions
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2014 Published: 2021
Introductions to the Other Voices newsletters from July 2014 through to the end of 2021.
- Diemer, Ulli: Our job is to oppose the U.S.-NATO Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
The U.S.-NATO empire is the main enemy for those of us who live in that empire. That empire is far and away the main enemy of peace, and of working people, in the world today.
- Diemer, Ulli: La Peine Capitale
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Malgr# les croyances # base #motionnelle, la peine de mort ne dissuade pas. D'un pays # autre, on a pu trouver que l'existence, l'abolition, ou la re-application de la peine capitale n'avait aucune influence visible sur la fr#quence de meurtres.
- Diemer, Ulli: Pensando en la Auto-determinación
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Un buen lugar para empezar seria preguntarse si el familiar principio de la Izquierda, "el derecho de auto-determinacion" realmente significa algo o si es otro eslogan vacio cuyo principal uso es que la Izquierda lo puede repetir como mantra y asi salvarse de tener que pensar de manera critica.
- Diemer, Ulli: Pensando sobre Autodeterminaçao
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
O significado oculto, a essência real, desse slogan, é a crença de que nao é possível ou desejável por dois ou mais grupos étnicos ou de linguagem viver juntos em um país. Nao consigo imaginar um momento mais pessimista e menos socialista do ponto de vista.
- Diemer, Ulli: The people who are preparing for war, and the lies they tell
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The double standards, hypocrisy, and dishonesty of the media are absolutely breathtaking.
- Diemer, Ulli: Perché tante storie per l'omicidio di una ragazza musulmana dalla pelle scura?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Diemer, Ulli: Periódicos Radicales
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Diemer, Ulli: The police vs. the law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
One of the main differences between a democratic society and a police state is that in a democracy, the police are supposed to obey the law. In a police state, they don't.
- Diemer, Ulli: Politics of Illusion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Elections have become a contest to determine who is the best actor.
- Diemer, Ulli: Polluted Logic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
The business of allowing polluters to buy their way out of complying with the law is an innovation with vast untapped potential.
- Diemer, Ulli: Por que fazer um alarido sobre o assassinato de uma garota muçulmana morena?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Diemer, Ulli: Por qué protestar por el asesinato de una chica musulmana de piel oscura?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Diemer, Ulli: Pourquoi faire toute une histoire a propos du meurtre d'une musulmane a peau mate?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
L'Histoire donne de nombreux exemples de mouvements sociaux qui avec le temps adoptent des positions directement opposées aux principes sur lesquels ils ont été fondés.
- Diemer, Ulli: Preface to Martin Glaberman's Four Essays on the Working Class
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1975
Glaberman insists that the working class is not merely a victim of capitalism. Working people are active participants in creating their own consciousness, their methods of struggle and their own history.
- Diemer, Ulli: Pro-Israel stance reeks of double standards and historical amnesia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Israel bombs, terrorizes and kills as it pleases, on a daily basis, and the media praise it for its restraint.
- Diemer, Ulli: Progressives shouldn't be begging the police to take more power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
The last thing we need is to hand the police even more power to decide what we are allowed to see or read.
- Diemer, Ulli: Przemyslenia o samostanowieniu i niepodleglosci
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
- Diemer, Ulli: Psychotherapist out of touch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Touching and hugging are natural behaviour all over the world among people who like or love each other.
- Diemer, Ulli: Public Housing Redesign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
The solution to the specific problems of illegal drug dealing and prostitution is decriminalization.
- Diemer, Ulli: Que es el Socialismo Libertario?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Diemer, Ulli: Que hacemos ahora? Construir un Movimiento Social en el Resultado del Libre Tratado
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Cuando creamos un movimiento para cambiar la sociedad, nos cambiamos a nosotros mismos, y al cambiarnos a nosotros mismos, hacemos que los cambios sociales sean posibles.
- Diemer, Ulli: Qu'est ce que le socialisme libertaire?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
L'idée que le socialisme est avant tout à propos de liberté et donc sur le dépassement de la domination, de la répression, et de l'aliénation qui bloquent la libre circulation de la créativité humaine, de la pensée et de l'action.
- Diemer, Ulli: Questions about Israel's attack on Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Why do these terrible outbreaks of violence keep happening? Written during the Israeli attack on Gaza in July 2014.
- Diemer, Ulli: A quick note on neoliberalism and state capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The key to understanding neo-liberalism, in my opinion, is power, not ideology.
- Diemer, Ulli: Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2006 Published: 2017
Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
- Diemer, Ulli: Radical Digressions 1
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1973 Published: 1979
- Diemer, Ulli: Radical Digressions 2
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1981 Published: 2000
- Diemer, Ulli: Radical Digressions 3
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2001 Published: 2006
- Diemer, Ulli: Radical Digressions 4
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2006 Published: 2008
- Diemer, Ulli: Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2008
- Diemer, Ulli: Radical Digressions 6
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
- Diemer, Ulli: Radical Digressions 7
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2014 Published: 2017
- Diemer, Ulli: Radical Digressions RSS Feed
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
New and interesting items from Radical Digressions, featuring progressive comment and analysis from a libertarian socialist perspective.
- Diemer, Ulli: Radical Newspapers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
- Diemer, Ulli: Rechte und Freiheiten
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Keiner ist Frei, wenn wir nicht alle Frei sind. Jegliche Einschränkung der Rechte und Freiheiten ist gleichzeitig eine Stärkung der Macht des Staates darüber zu entscheiden, welche Rechte in Zukunft ausgeübt werden dürfen und welche nicht.
- Diemer, Ulli: Réflections sur l'autodétermination
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Pour Panitch et ses compagnons l'autodétermination n'a qu'un seul sens: celui de la sécession. Ils disent aux Quebécois: "Vous avez le droit de partir. Alors dépêchez-vous!" Il ne leur passe pas par la tête que les Quebécois peuvent choisir une option différente de celle de la sécession.
- Diemer, Ulli: Reformism - Social Democracy: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article
- Diemer, Ulli: The reliable tyrant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
The solution to the Iraq debacle is within the Americans' grasp.
- Diemer, Ulli: Review falsifies history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
It is only because Canada's electoral system is profoundly undemocratic that it was possible for the Mulroney Tories to form a majority government with only 43 per cent of the votes. They then used that majority to force through the free trade deal even though a majority of the electorate had voted against it.
- Diemer, Ulli: Review of the Press: Portugal 1974
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
The subtext of mainstream media coverage of social upheavals in post-fascist Portugal is that a return to dictatorship is necessary and inevitable to preserve the social order.
- Diemer, Ulli: Rights and Liberties - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- Diemer, Ulli: Rights and Liberties - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- Diemer, Ulli: Rights and Liberties
Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Civil liberties and human rights appear as a key dimension in almost every other field of social justice and social change, but those who seek a freer and more just society cannot rely on the state to achieve their goals.
- Diemer, Ulli: Rosa Luxemburg's contribucion al Marxismo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Yo veo a Rosa Luxemburg como la marxista quien hizo lo mas que pudo para mostrar la teorua-revolucionaria de Karl Marxs en el periodo despues de la muerte de Marx y Engels.
- Diemer, Ulli: Saddam's Alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
If Saddam Hussein really had weapons of mass destruction, he would certainly use them now with the U.S. poised to invade.
- Diemer, Ulli: Science and its enemies - Farsi text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
- Diemer, Ulli: Science and its enemies - Vietnamese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
- Diemer, Ulli: La science et ses ennemis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
- Diemer, Ulli: Science and its enemies
Introduction to the April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
- Diemer, Ulli: Science and its enemies - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
- Diemer, Ulli: Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
A two-tier system means better care for the affluent, and worse or no care for the rest.
- Diemer, Ulli: Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012 Published: 2022
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
- Diemer, Ulli: Self-Determination for Whom?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Pierre Bourgault could set us an example by speaking out himself in support of the right of self-determination for all the people of Quebec, including those who don't want to be part of an independent Quebec.
- Diemer, Ulli: The single-state solution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Bringing about a single secular state in which Jews and Palestinians have equal rights will not be easy, but ultimately it is the only solution to the conflict. A state based on respect for the human rights of all its citizens is a better safeguard against anti-Semitism and racism than one based on ethnic nationalism and inequality.
- Diemer, Ulli: Slucaj za arhivsku osnovu
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Ovaj dokument ocrtava razlog za Connexions-ovu arhivu i knjižnicu, projekt baziran u Torontu koji cuva i dijeli informacije i dokumente vezano za osnovne pokrete za društvene promjene. Connexions sadržava fizicku arhivu materijala, kao i opsežnu online knjižnicu na www.connexions.org.
- Diemer, Ulli: Smearing Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
The deliberate use of outrageous lies to smear others is a favourite tactic of hate propagandists.
- Diemer, Ulli: Soil removal a possibility
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
The soil in the South Riverdale area is so contaminated with lead that it may be necessary to remove it.
- Diemer, Ulli: Some of my best comrades are friends
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
The left's sloppy use of language indicates sloppy thinking.
- Diemer, Ulli: Something has to give
Emotional issues are potent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
One of the things that the recent civic election made clear is that left-leaning and reform candidates can be very vulnerable if right-wing groups are able to seize on emotional questions and make them issues during the an election campaign.
- Diemer, Ulli: The Star's biased reporting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
The Star's Orwellian journalism.
- Diemer, Ulli: STOL lands again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
The proposal for a major commerical airport on the Toronto Islands appears to be back on the agenda.
- Diemer, Ulli: Supremacy, oppression, and power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
It is the structures of domination and power, that create racism, sexism, etc., in order to justify the existence of unequal wealth, power and the oppression that goes with them. Racism didn't create slavery and the slave trade; racism was created to justify slavery. US/NATO aggression against the Middle East and the Islamic-majority countries aren't a result of Islamophobia; Islamophobia was born out of the need to justify imperialist aggression.
- Diemer, Ulli: Le système électoral faux du Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Diemer, Ulli: Tácticas desesperadas: Acusaciones falsas de "antisemitismo" para silenciar reproches a la conducta de Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
- Diemer, Ulli: Tactics of Desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-Semitism' - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
- Diemer, Ulli: Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
- Diemer, Ulli: La tactique du désespoir : Utilisant de fausses accusations de l'antisémitisme comme arme pour faire taire toute critique sur le comportement d'Israël.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
- Diemer, Ulli: Taktyki Desperacji: Uzywanie falszywych oskarzen antysemityzmu jako broni uciszajacej krytyke zachowania Izraela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
- Diemer, Ulli: Taniec z Wina: Jak mezczyzni patrza na przemoc
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Diemer, Ulli: Teaching adults to read
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Becoming literate is an important way for people to gain more control and power over their lives.
- Diemer, Ulli: Ten Health Care Myths
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1995
Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
- Diemer, Ulli: 10 Health Care Myths - Chinese Text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
- Diemer, Ulli: 10 Health Care Myths - Vietnamese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
- Diemer, Ulli: Their Internet or Ours? - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
- Diemer, Ulli: Their Internet or Ours?
Introduction to the April 21, 2018 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
What happened to the Internet? The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
- Diemer, Ulli: Thinking About Self-Determination
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Does that familiar canon of the left, 'the right to self-determination', actually mean anything, or is it an empty slogan whose main utility is that it relieves us of the trouble of thinking critically?
- Diemer, Ulli: Thinking Clearly in a Time of Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
A crisis like this pandemic is not a time to stop thinking. It is a time when critical thinking and public discussion are more important than ever. A small number of officials and politicians are taking decisions with enormous and far-reaching implications for the lives of many people, not just for the duration of this pandemic, but far into the future. The time to have serious discussions about what they are doing, and the direction we are heading in, is now, not some day in the future when it will be difficult, or too late, to change course.
- Diemer, Ulli: This book explains how things don't work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
There a lots of guides explaining how things work. This one explains how they don't -- and why they don't.
- Diemer, Ulli: Toronto Ravines - Ours to Preserve
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Toronto's ravines are a treasure; it's up to us to preserve them.
- Diemer, Ulli: Toronto's Finest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
Too many cops seem to enjoy intimidating people and smashing things.
- Diemer, Ulli: Trotskyism and the vanguard party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
One of the most consistent achievements of the Trotskyists over the years has been to drive people away from radical politics. The number of burned-out and alienated ex-Trotskyists greatly exceeds the number of active Trotskyists. Their transparently manipulative tactics in the organizations they infiltrate tend to drive ordinary members away, forever wary of anyone identified as a Trotskyist.
- Diemer, Ulli: Um Voto Para a Democracia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
- Diemer, Ulli: Un vote pour la démocratie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
Les groupes démocratiques sont mieux équipés pour traiter les problèmes de procédés. Ceci est parce que la démocratie permet un groupe pour procéder avec ce qu'il veut faire devant les gens qui sont peu coopératif, odieux ou insensible.
- Diemer, Ulli: Un Voto a favore della Democrazia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
- Diemer, Ulli: Un Voto por la Democracia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
- Diemer, Ulli: Valuable Clues to Finding What You Need to Know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Review of books about online research.
- Diemer, Ulli: Viet Peace will come with victory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
The burning determination of the Vietnamese to control their own future deserves our full support.
- Diemer, Ulli: War in the Gulf
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
The U.S. and its allies are launching themselves into an unnecessary but potentially calamitous war.
- Diemer, Ulli: "A warm reminder of humanity's less barbaric traits"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
- Diemer, Ulli: Watching The News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Watching "The National" on CBC, as well as some local news programs, is proving to be an interesting experience. I haven't lived in a house with TV for more than 15 years, and hadn't watched TV news for many more years before that, so I come to this experience as a more-or-less naive outsider.
- Diemer, Ulli: Were Marx's principles only skin deep?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
A British dermatologist has managed to get himself worldwide publicity with an article suggesting that Karl Marx’s painful skin condition may have caused him to say all those mean things about capitalism.
- Diemer, Ulli: What are we eating?
Introduction to Other Voices, January 21, 2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else. For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished. How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
- Diemer, Ulli: What are we eating? - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
- Diemer, Ulli: What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1989
We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
- Diemer, Ulli: What is Libertarian Socialism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Revolution is a collective process of self-liberation: people and societies are transformed through their struggles for freedom and for a better world.
- Diemer, Ulli: What's Wrong With Front Yard Parking?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
The negative effects of front yard parking are significant, and affect us all. The benefits are small, and go only to a few.
- Diemer, Ulli: Why does the CBC invariably turn to American experts to explain any issue?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Based on what we hear on the CBC, we can only assume that there is an internal policy manual which mandates that all discussions on issues of more than strictly local importance must include at least one American expert.
- Diemer, Ulli: Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Diemer, Ulli: Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Chinese version
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Diemer, Ulli: Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Diemer, Ulli: Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Korean version
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Diemer, Ulli: Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
History gives us numerous examples of social movements which come, over time, to adopt positions directly opposed to the principles on which they were founded. It appears this has happened to the 'feminists' who seek to silence those who speak out about violence against Muslim women.
- Diemer, Ulli: Wiara, Nadzieja i Wytrwalosc
Faith, Hope and Persistence - Polish translation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
- Diemer, Ulli: Wklad Rózy Luksemburg do marksizmu.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Diemer, Ulli: Worthington provokes election controversy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
The Committee to Defeat Peter Worthington stirs things up in the Broadview-Greenwood election campaign.
- Diemer, Ulli: Yes Means No?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
The anti-sex moralists say one thing but mean another.
- Diemer, Ulli: Yes to life in spite of everything: Children and Israel's war on Gaza 2006 - 2024
Connexions Other Voices May 25, 2024
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2024
For most of us our natural instinct is to protect children, nurture them, teach them, answer their questions, help them understand, help them find their way.
But sometimes we can't protect them.
And we have no answers to their questions.
We can’t explain why this is happening or why the world is letting it go on.
- Diemer, Ulli: Yetiskinlere okumayi ogretmek
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Fakat Ontario nun bir gercegi bir milyonu askin fonksiyonel cahil insani olmasidir - Bunlar geri kalmis okuma becerieri oldugundan ciddi problemler yasamaktadirlar, ornegin gazette okuyamayan insanlar.
- Diemer, Ulli: Zehn Mythen über das Gesundheitssystem
Hintergründe über die gesetzliche Krankenversicherung in Kanada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995 Published: 2009
Eine Übersicht über das kanadische Gesundheitssystem im Vergleich mit dem der USA.
- Diemer, Ulli (author); Lightstone, Emma (illustrator): M is for Miriam
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
An illustrated children's book about the Canadian physician and activist Miriam Garfinkle. Each page is devoted to some page of her life: C is for Community, D is for Doctor, G is for Garden, L is for Laughter, N is for Nature, P is for Piano, Q is for Questions, S is for Solidarity, W is for Waffles....
Identifiers: Canadiana 20190236663 - ISBN: 9781927470077
Subjects: LCSH: English language - Alphabet - Juvenile literature - LCSH Alphabet books. - LCSH: Garfinkle, Miriam, 1954-2018.
Classification: LCC PE1155.D54 2020 - DDC j421--dc23
- Diemer, Ulli (ed): The Connexions Annual 1989: A Social Change Sourcebook
Information and Ideas About Social and Environmental Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
The 1989 edition of the Canadian directory of grassroots groups working for social and environmental alternatives.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Connexions Annual 1989
A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
The Connexions Annual is simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Connexions Annual 1994
A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Connexions Quotations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013 Published: 2017
A selection of quotations about social change, resistance, solidarity, and many other topics. Compiled by Ulli Diemer. Each quote has been turned into an image file.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2006 Published: 2014
A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Israel/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2015
Corporate rights treaties
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Our focus is on the corporate rights treaties that are misleadingly sold as trade agreements. In particular, the spotlight is on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, negotiated in secret, and now scheduled to be rubber-stamped by national governments on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. The TPP is best understood as a major milestone in the long-term war waged by the corporate elite against any form of democracy.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 4, 2023
Gaza: Dehumanization and humanity
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2023
On Israel's genocidal attack on Gaza, October-November 2023.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 7, 2024
Bearing witness
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2024
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 3, 2024
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2024
Lies are the lifeblood of the world we live in. The American-dominated international order is rooted in violence and exploitation, but lies are its language, its public face, and its spiritual essence.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 5, 2024
Everything is Under Control. Until it Isn't.
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2024
In the nuclear age, a miscalculation can result in unspeakable catastrophe, but nonetheless, decision-makers continue to take risky actions which they calculate will bring them an advantage. They assume that they can to push forward and ‘show strength’ and then push some more, while reserving the option of showing restraint if the other side pushes back too vigorously. The world now finds itself in probably the most dangerous situation since the Cuban Missile Crisis. All it will take is one misstep, one miscalculation, one reckless action by a mid-level military officer acting without orders – and the missiles will start flying. And it will be game over for the human race.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 9, 2024
This Moment
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2024
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 2, 2023
Toward the light
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2023
Most of us no longer celebrate the ancient festivals, but many of us - countless thousands - have been asserting our own desire and determination to create light in the darkness by going out into the streets and making our voices heard. This issue of Other Voices looks at challenges we face, asks questions about what we should do, and looks to the past, as well as what is happening now, for ideas about how to move forward.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 14, 2023
Fading to Silence?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2023
Fading to silence, as well as the more active and deliberate silencing of dissenting views, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 24, 2015
Whistleblowers and national security
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
This issue sheds light whistleblowers and the murky world of national security. Governments may often pay lip service to the importance of protecting whistleblowers, but in reality they are almost always persecuted. Repercussions can range from being fired to being imprisoned.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015
Climate Change and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a product of an economic system whose driving force is the need to grow and accumulate. Nor does it affect everyone equally: those with wealth and power can buy themselves what they need to continue living comfortably for years to come - everything from air conditioning to food to police and soldiers to protect their secure bubbles - while those who are poor and powerless find their lives increasingly impossible. A serious effort to address climate change therefore means social change and economic change.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 5, 2015
Ecosocialism, environment, and urban gardening
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices covers a wide range of issues, from the climate crisis and the ecosocialist response, to terrorism and the struggle against religious fundamentalism, as well as items on urban gardening, the destruction of olive trees, and how the police are able to use Google's timeline feature to track you every move, now and years into the past.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 19, 2015
Utopia
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Utopian visions, be they practical or not, free our imaginations, if only for a little while, from the daily grind of struggle and worry, and allow us to dream about the kind of world we would hope to live in. Such dreams can inspire us and guide us, even if they are not always quite practical. This issue of Other Voices peers into the world of utopian visions, practical or otherwise.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016
Working class organizing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. In this issue, we pay special attention to working class organizing. There can be no meaningful change without the active participation of the majority of the population: working people. Yet much activism ignores this obvious reality, while the organized labour union movement has put much of its reliance on 'professionals' who see organizing as a top-down technique rather than a grassroots movement. Several articles in this issue look at aspects of these issues. We also delve into the relationship between feminism and socialism, and look at the so-called 'sharing economy,' which produces increasingly exploited and precarious work, and immense profits for super-rich corporate owners.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 30, 2016
Conflict of interest
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
This issue of Other Voices shines a light on the murky world of conflict of interest, the hidden reality that often underlies appearances of neutrality, objectivity, and due process. Conflicts of interest are inherent in capitalism, a system founded on the premise that the state and society should be subordinated to economic self-interest and the accumulation of private wealth. Scientists who are supposed to be studying the effects of GMOs are funded by agribusiness corporations. Doctors who receive money from pharmaceutical companies write articles promoting the drugs produced by those companies. Decisions about pipelines are made by regulators who have spent years working in the oil industry, and who will be heading back to jobs in the industry after their stint 'regulating' it. Politicians receive campaign funds from corporate lobbyists.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 20, 2016
Connexions Enters Its Fifth Decade
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
This issue of Connexions Other Voices falls on the 40th anniversary of the publication of the very first Connexions newsletter, which was published in February 1976. That first issue carried the title "Canadian Information Sharing Service", which was also the name of the collective which compiled it, from submissions from across Canada. Within a couple of years, the name of the publication became "Connexions" and then, a little later, "The Connexions Digest".
In addition to our own history, in this issue we spotlight black history as our topic of the week. We look at the Haitian revolution, when slaves confronted the French empire and won; black resistance against the Ku Klux Klan in the American South, and the meaning and limits of anti-racism. We also look at the Kurdish liberation movement in Rojava, the dangers posed by geoengineering, and we mark the publication of the Communist Manifesto on February 21, 1848.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 5, 2016
International Women's Day
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
In this issue of Other Voices, we mark International Women's Day. An article written by Alexandra Kollontai in 1920 talks about the early history of this event, which grew out of a proposal put forward by Clara Zetkin at the 1910 International Conference of Working Women. A key focus at that time was winning the vote for women, with the slogan "The vote for women will unite our strength in the struggle for socialism". The link between women's rights and socialism became even clearer a few years later, in 1917, when a Women's Day march in St. Petersburg turned into a revolutionary uprising which led to the overthrow of the Czar and the Russian Revolution.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2016
Forests and trees
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
For countless centuries, forests, and the trees in them, have been seen as sources of life, livelihood, and spiritual meaning. For capitalism, however, forests are sites of extraction and profit-making, or obstacles in the way of 'development.' In this issue, we look at some of the threats to forests worldwide, and the ways in which people are resisting and defending the forests.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 9, 2016
Corporate Crime
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Corporations have increasingly become legally unaccountable for their behaviour. Yet all too often corporations break the law and engage in criminals acts which would be severely punished if they were committed by ordinary individuals. These illegal acts range from deliberate health and safety violations that cost lives, to land seizures, to environmental negligence that contaminates lands and waters. Most of these illegal acts are never prosecuted, and those that are, are usually dealt with by a fine that corporations can treat as a cost of doing business.
There are movements demanding that corporations be held accountable for their crimes in a serious way, and, specifically, that corporate executives should face jail time when the corporation they are in charge of engage in behaviour that causes death, injury, and illness. Our topic of the week for this issue of Other Voices is Corporate Crime, and a number articles, as well as a book, a film, and a website, explore aspects of the problem.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2016
Science and its enemies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
Destabilization and Regime Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
When governments get too far out of line -- the most outrageous offence, from the point of view of imperial power, is pursuing policies that help ordinary people at the expense of transnational corporations and local elites -- then they have to be overthrown. The preferred method is a destabilization campaign followed by a coup. This issue of Other Voices focuses destabilization and regime change.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
Tax Evasion
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1% have become extremely adept at evading even the low rates of taxation they are subjected to.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appearance of democratic legitimacy for the profoundly undemocratic structures of the EU. The gambit turned out to be a spectacular miscalculation, as millions of people turned out to express their opposition to a state of affairs that is leaving the majority worse off while enriching a small minority. This issue of Other Voices looks at the Brexit referendum, elite loathing for democracy, and the related attempt to get rid of Labour's leftwing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 23, 2016
Workers and Climate Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Working people -- and most of us are workers -- are affected by climate change in every aspect of our lives. As climate change worsens, our lives will worsen. If we are successful in bringing about the needed rapid change away from a fossil fuel based economy, working people are the ones who stand to bear most of the costs, including the cost, for millions of workers and their families, of losing their jobs.
Many elements of the environmental movement have been guilty of ignoring working people, while others actually blame ordinary working people for climate change and the injustices associated with it. Yet it is working people who are dying, in many places, even now, from excessive heat in factories, fields, construction sites, and homes. And million of working people stand to lose their jobs, homes, and communities in the transition to a low-carbon or no-carbon economy.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 13, 2016
Sports and Politics
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Sports and politics have always been intertwined, though perhaps never as much so as in the current era. In the modern sports era, survival and success depend largely on the favour of corporations, whose power to provide or withhold funding and sponsorships now shape every aspect of sport, including athletes' incomes and lifestyles. It is now difficult to remember that only a few decades ago, corporate logos were strictly forbidden at Olympic events, while athletes were prohibited from accepting any kind of payment for their involvement in sports. The corporate conquest of sports closely parallels the corporate colonization of nearly all aspects of modern life. Accompanying this in recent years has been the increasing injection of militaristic content into sports spectacles. In Canada, hockey games are now commonly preceded by rituals honouring militarism. In the United States, similar spectacles have been staged for years. In this issue, we feature resources which remind us that resistance to the commercialization, corporatization, and militarization of sports is also part of our heritage.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016
Back to School
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which education and educational institutions are changing. We also look at ways in which education is used to bring about change.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016
Depression and Joy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence that this is a social problem, and not merely an individual misfortune, the solutions and escapes on offer are almost all individual: pharmaceuticals and therapy, on the one hand; self-medication with alcohol, streets drugs, television, etc., on the other. Certainly there are individual circumstances and individual causes, but when millions of people are experiencing the same thing, we need to be looking not only at the individual, but also at the society.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2016
Alternative Media
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
A special issue on alternative media.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
Fake News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
"Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news." Since we don't like to be left out when a new fad comes on the scene, Other Voices is jumping on the bandwagon too, with this, our last issue of 2016, devoted to "fake news." Our focus, however, is not so much on the crackpots and trolls making mischief on the fringes, but on the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 22, 2017
Disobedience
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey. Disobedience is the theme of this issue.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2017
Race and Class
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Class conflict - first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race. The relationship between race and class, in particular, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017
Public Transit
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many of these struggles is the idea that transit should be free, that is, paid for not by fares, but out of general revenues. This is how roads are normally funded: their construction and maintenance are paid for by taxes, rarely by user fees. Free public transit by itself would not be enough, however. We also need good transit, transit that runs frequently and goes where people want to go.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017
April 1 issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critically - and enjoy.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017
Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
Resisting Injustice
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017
Public Safety
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017
Secrecy and Power
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
Official Enemies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 9, 2017
Meeting the Challenge of the Right
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Challenging the Right requires not only anti-fascist actions in the street, but organizing to reach those who may be attracted the the appeal of the Right and offering an alternative social vision. This issue of Other Voices offers a number of articles, books, and films offering different perspectives on meeting the challenge of the right.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 11, 2017
Left Parties
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
In recent years, there have been repeated attempts to build left political parties and coalitions, i.e. parties to the left of the established social democratic parties which have long become part of the neoliberal capitalist mainstream. Left parties have emerged out of mass movements in countries like Spain (Podemos), Germany (Die Linke), and Greece (Syriza). In Latin America, in the last two decades, left movements or parties have formed governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, and Uruguay. What these new left parties/movements have in common is a strategy of engaging in grassroots organizing and also running in elections. They all describe themselves as socialist, though in many cases their programs are more reminiscent of what social democrats used to advocate decades ago: reforms that would tame and manage capitalism rather than abolish it. Their ultimate vision may be a world without capitalism, but their immediate proposals are more modest and incremental, though still significantly to the left of the neo-liberal consensus.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
What are we eating?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018
Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
Their Interent or Ours?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 10, 2018
Massacres and Morality
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
In the wake of Israel's brutal massacres of Palestinian protestors in Gaza in May and June 2018, Other Voices looks at the ways in which state terrorism is used to keep subjugated populations in line, at home or abroad. The issue also questions the morality of those who either support, or keep silent about, the violence of the oppressor.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 27, 2019
What Next?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2019
Millions of us, in many different countries, came out in late September to demand action on the climate crisis. Around the world, in diverse ways, we are working to keep up the pressure. Time is short, and the tasks are huge. In the midst of our activism and organizing, we need to keep asking ourselves some important questions: What are our goals? And what should we do to reach our goals?
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 19, 2020
Taking a Stand
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2020
Psychologists call it cognitive dissonance. George Orwell called it double-think. Some of us might call it organized hypocrisy. Call it what you will, it surrounds us. The government proclaims its commitment to 'reconciliation' with indigenous people, and says that its relationship with them is its most important relationship. At the same time the RCMP, following an order by a colonial court, invades unceded indigenous land and arrests people for occupying their own land. Governments mouth platitudes about the importance they place on dealing with the climate emergency while at the same time they build new pipelines and approve massive new tarsands projects. The biggest polluter on the planet - the U.S. military - meanwhile receives constant increases in its budget, even while it pursues demented schemes to take us to the edge of war, mostly recently by deploying a new generation of "low-yield" thermonuclear weapons on submarines. All this is business as usual. Fortunately many people across the country, and around the world, are saying no to business as usual. They are taking a stand and disrupting business as usual.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 19, 2020
Morality in an Amoral World
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2020
A crisis is a mirror. It shows us - if we have the courage to see - who we are as individuals and as a society. The self-congratulatory poses of governments, politicians, and state institutions are confronted with the harsh test of reality. Each of us - as individuals, friends, families, neighbours, communities - face new and sometimes difficult challenges. The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is such a crisis.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 14, 2021
Beyond the Walls
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2021
From Gaza to Kashmir, people continue to meet life's challenges, and to love, laugh, and live.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 13, 2021
Light and darkness
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2021
The more we learn, the more we realize how little we know. Each question we answer opens the door to more questions, because there are always more questions than answers. We are called upon to attempt to answer at least a few of the questions that seem important to us, but we do well to keep in mind that our answers are tentative and incomplete, always subject to revision in the light of further investigation. It can be difficult to remain critical, and self-critical, but self-righteousness and absolute certainty, no matter how emotionally satisfying they may be, only do harm, to ourselves, and to those we interact with. This issue of Other Voices offers some fragments of knowledge and insight, and it also raises questions.
- Diemer, Ulli (ed.): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2021
Following the science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
When we as a society are faced with difficult policy choices, can science tell us what choices we should make? We should be sceptical of anyone who says that it can, because that isn’t actually what science does. It can certainly provide information we need to take into account when making choices and trade-offs, but choices don’t automatically follow from science.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 14, 2020
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our world. Many of us feel some degree of disorientation and uncertainty about when and how we will return to some kind of ‘normal’ and what that new normal will look like. Important choices lie ahead, so it is vital that we think clearly, ask questions, discuss with others, and make our voices heard.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 3, 2014
Surveillance
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
The first issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter. Topic of the week is Surveillance. Articles on climate politics, 21st-century land grabs, and the destruction of Canada's science libraries. Plus items from the Connexions Calendar and Seeds of Fire.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 17, 2014
Gaza
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Topic of the week is Gaza, which was under attack by Israel as this issue appeared. Articles on surveillance capitalism, the tactics and successes of the movement for same-sex marriage in the United States, and profiles of alternative archives. Website of the week is Democracy Now!
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 31, 2014
Truth, justice and reconciliation
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Articles on truth, justice and reconciliation efforts in countries affected by civil war or internal conflict; Bone Collectors: the fate of the remains of Australian aboriginal people stolen from their burial grounds and dispersed to museums; the Galway children's mass grave; and Which came first: Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence? The topic of the week is the Israeli military.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2014
Killings by Police
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Topic of the week is Killings by Police. Articles on the way the Ebola crisis illuminates the moral bankruptcy of capitalism; Responding the capitalist crisis, in 1914 and 2014; Globaling Gaza: Israel's leading role in undemining international law; and Marinaleda, a town in Spain attempting to create alternatives based on democracy, co-operation, and mutual aid. Group of the Week is Librarians and Archivists with Palestine.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 4, 2014
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Information about the Connexions Alternative Media List and the Labor Film Archive. Articles on corporations spying on non-profits, workplace deaths, Monsanto and Ukraine, and liberal environmentalism. Topic of the week is Violence Against Journalists. Book of the week is Bold Scientists.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 19 2014
Spying, terrorism, and protest
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Coverage of spying, terrorism, and protest. Articles on how the ISIS (Islamic State group) comes to be using American weapons; the U.S. government's secret plans to spy for American corporations; the insidious power of propaganda; how to spot and defeat disruption on the Internet, and steps to sustainable livestock production. Topic of the week is War Crimes; book for the week is Berkeley: The New Student Revolt, and website of the week is LabourStart.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 2, 2014
Climate Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
This issue of Other Voices looks at why so many people deny or ignore the very real and very near threat of climate change. We also look into the ways on how NGOs tame and undermine grassroots movements. Other Voices also shares an article detailing how a $182 billion bail-out of tax-payer money was not enough for one bank. Finally, in this issue, we look into the horrors of American slavery and how it shaped the United States into the economic power it is today.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 16, 2014
Arms Trade
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Topic of the week is the Arms Trade. Featured resources include The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade, an article on Israel's War Business, and the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. A new feature in Other Voices is the Film of the Week: to start off, we spotlight The Corporation, an exploration of the dominant institution of our time. Plus: Lying to ourselves about the air war, Karl Marx's critique of modern agriculture, and a challenge to Montreal's anti-protest bylaw.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 30, 2014
Refugees
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Topic of the week is Refugees. Featured articles look at migration, counter-surveillance resources, farmers in Ghana fighting to retain the freedom to save their own seeds, and rebuilding communities faced with mining companies in Ecuador. The website of the week is Mediamatters. From the archives we've got Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2014
Libertarian Socialism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
The topic of the week is Libertarian Socialism. Articles on no-state solutions in Kurdistan; right-wing dirty tricks used to attack labour and environmental groups; scientists unravelling the risks of new pesticides; the terrors faced by fishermen in Gaza; and bringing books and seeking peace in Colombia. Film of the week is Even the Rain, and book of the week is Adolph Reed's Class Notes.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2014
Climate Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
The theme for this issue, and the topic of the week, is Climate Change. Groups and websites engaged in the fight for action on global warming and climate justice are featured. Book of the week is Magdoff and Foster's "What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism." In addition to articles on climate change, there are articles on Ebola, corporate tax evasion, and state terrorism, as well as a 1971 interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 18, 2014
The Commons
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
From its beginnings, one of capitalism's prime imperatives has been an all-out and never-ceasing assault on the Commons in all its manifestations. Common land, common water, public ownership -- anything rooted in the ancient human traditions of sharing and cooperation is anathema to an economic system that seeks to turn everything that exists into private property that can be exploited for profit. This issue of the Connexions Newsletter focuses on the Commons.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 15, 2015
Workers' Health and Safety
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
The topic of the week is Workers' Health and Safety. Articles on why environmentalists should support working class struggles; whistleblowers; the appalling death rate from U.S. drone strikes; the murderous attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris; and what humanity could learn from Bonobos. The feature from the archives is Traces of Magma. The International Labor Rights Forum is the group of the week, and Silkwood is the film of the week.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015
Land seizures and land take-overs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a Syrizia government. From the archives, there are interviews about the 1974 occupation of Anicinabe Park, an article about anti-dicrimination fighter Viola Desmond, and the publication, in 1929, of All Quiet on the Western Front.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2015
SYRIZA
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
This week we're featuring the 40-point program which SYRIZA, the Greek coalition of the radical left, put forward to win the Greek election. Oliver Tickell writes about the mass media's latest campaign of pro-war propaganda, this time revolving around supposed "Russian aggression" in Ukraine, while Paul Edwards looks at another form of war propaganda, Clint Eastwood's 'American Sniper'. The Topic of the Week is Water Rights. Related items include the film "Blue Gold: World Water Wars," the featured website International Rivers, and articles on water-related struggles, past and present, including articles on the Walkerton water disaster and the Cochabamba water war.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
Ukraine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
Organizing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work toward common goals, collectively. That requires organizing. Power gives way only when it is challenged by powerful movements for change, and movements grow out of organizing. In this newsletter, we feature a number of articles, books, and other organizing resources.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015
Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issues, "Blue Betrayal," the film "The Future of Food," the Independent Science News website, which focuses on the science of food and agriculture, and the memoir "Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist" by Brewster Kneen, a former farmer and long-time critic of corporate agriculture.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 9, 2015
Resisting Neoliberalism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Resisting neoliberalism: "free markets" and "free trade" are an ideological cover for what is actually a form of state capitalism in which working people subsidize and bail out corporations and the rich. In this edition of Other Voices, and more extensively on the Connexions website, we look at both neoliberalism and the resistance to it. The version of capitalism which became dominant by the 1980s has been given the name neoliberalism. The term refers to the global economic restructuring which has taken place, and to the accompanying shifts in the structures of power under which local and national governments have seen their ability to act independently curtailed by international treaties and by institutions which owe their ultimate allegiance to corporate capital. The essence of neoliberalism has been an unending campaign of class struggle by the rich against the rest. Yet resistance continues, and indeed continues to grow.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Richwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2015
Corruption
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Corruption - or at least some types of corruption - are much in the news, with the ongoing scandals in the Canadian Senate and the recent U.S. targeting of the Swiss-based football federation FIFA for alleged bribery. In this issue, we look at these and other forms of corruption. Diana Johnstone writes about the double standards displayed by U.S. institutions, which happily target enemies and rivals, while ignoring the much greater corruption that underlies the power structures in Washington. We feature an article detailing how much money U.S. Senators received from corporations prior to their vote on the TPP negotiations, as well as materials on criminal conduct by some of the world's biggest banks, and an article on the work of investigative journalists in exposing corruption.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Richwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015
Elections
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Elections are the topic of the week, with items related to the October 19 Canadian federal election, and also to broader issues of parliamentary democracy, voting and whether voting can bring about change, and the neo-liberal attack on democracy. Articles look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the financial takeovers of Ukraine and Greece, and debt bondage. Also: a discussion of James Hansen's fossil fuel exit strategy, and a critique of Alinsky-style organizing.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
A Healthier Planet
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2015
Eduardo Galeano, Latin America, the Vietnam War
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
In this issue of Other Voices, we mark the death of Eduardo Galeano by featuring two of his books, as well as an article about his life and work. Galeano once wrote that he was "obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." In his writing, especially Open Veins of Latin America and the mesmerizing Memory of Fire trilogy, Galeano contributed enormously to bringing alive, and keeping alive, the memories of Latin America, and especially of those whom he called the "nobodies" -- the people "who do not appear in the history of the world." Next week also marks the 40th anniversary of the final victory of the Vietnamese war of resistance against the American invasion and occupation.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
Urban agriculture and local food production
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015
Residential schools
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices focuses on residential schools. As documented by the just-released report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, residential schools were set up to forcibly 'assimilate' Native children by taking them away from their parents and communities, and depriving them of their language, culture, history, and emotional supports. Based as they were on a system of arbitrary power and cruelty, it is not surprising that they also fostered physical and sexual abuse of the children forced into the schools. We spotlight the report and the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as films, books, and survivor stories. Also in this issue: the Orwellian language and tactics being used to sell 'anti-terrorist' legislation, mind-boggling subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, and, on the other side of the ledger, stories of courage and resistance.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 3, 2015
Greece and thd debt crisis
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Our spotlight this issue is on the debt crisis facing Greece. To understand the crisis, one has to look beyond the mainstream media to alternative sources of information. We've done that, with articles that set out to analyze the nature of the debt burden that has been imposed on the citizens of so many countries, not just Greece. Also: celebrating Grace Lee Bogg’s 100th birthday.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2015
Labour Day issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Labour Day issue, with articles examining the relentless pressure put on workers to work ever longer hours, at the cost of their health and family life; anti-worker legislation, Zapatista popular education, and the Greek crisis.
- Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production): Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 24, 2015
Voter Suppression
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Featuring information and articles related to the October 19, 2015 Canadian election. The topic of the week is Voter Suppression, with articles about voter suppression in Canada and the United States.
- Diemer, Ulli; Orchard, Jeff: Entrevista con Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Diemer, Ulli; Orchard, Jeff: Entrevue avec Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Diemer, Ulli; Orchard, Jeff: Interview mit Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Diemer, Ulli; Orchard, Jeff: Interview with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
- Diemer, Ulli; Orchard, Jeff: Interview with Ulli Diemer - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Diemer, Ulli; Riordon, Michael: Collective Memory, Archives, and the Connexions project
Michael Riordon interviews Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2012
An interview with Ulli Diemer about the Connexions project, collective memory, and the importance of archives and the challenges faced by those who work to preserve them.
- Diepen, Maria Van (ed.): The National Question in South Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
The national question in South Africa is a complex and controversial one. Who comprises the nation? Are there not, in fact, two nations? Does South Africa constitue a special form of colonialism? What place in a future South Africa ruled by the majority Africans would there be for the other minority groups? A new generation of South African scholars and activists re-open the debate.
- Dillard, Angela: Race, Politics and Christianity in America
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
11:00AM on Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in American life, and the implications of this stubborn fact have been known to unexpectedly erupt into our national political culture. In the invocation at the presidential inaugural, Pastor Rick Warren reminded us that we are not a nation united by race, or blood or religion — but he left our divisions on these grounds unarticulated, despite the role he has played in helping to generate them.
- Dillard, Angela D.: Still Lonely on the Right
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A review of 3 books about Black Republicans.
- Dillard, Angela D.: When the Alt-Right Hits Campus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Under the auspices of the "Alt Right" and its wannabe hipster version of white nationalism, the University of Michigan community was subjected to a bombardment of racist hate that many of us thought relegated to the pre-Obama past.
- DiMaggio, Anthony: Academic Fraud and the Ponzi Scheme of 'Higher Learning'
Higher Education in Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
It’s sad to say, but U.S. higher education increasingly resembles a pyramid scheme. The schools at the top continue to compete for elite students, by appealing to prospective applicants via the creation of a slew of amenities (the "climbing wall" phenomenon) and offering a unique college "experience." Non-elite colleges and universities are the losers in this process, fighting with each other for a dwindling number of state tax dollars amidst huge increases in tuition costs.
- DiMaggio, Anthony: Bias in the Eye of the Beholder
"Liberal Media" Misperceptions in the American Mind
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In a time of economic instability, growing poverty, and chronic income and financial insecurity, Americans are increasingly critical of a governing system that they feel has failed in providing for their basic needs. This general distrust, however, can at times manifest itself in ignorant and destructive ways. So it is with the “liberal bias” claims, which misdirect public attention away from the very real bi-partisan, official source bias of the media, and toward some mythic media conspiracy to marginalize conservatives in favor of an “elite liberal agenda.” We should be careful to acknowledge this reality next time we hear friends, family, or acquaintances lamenting the “liberal media elite.”
- DiMaggio, Anthony: A Citizen's Guide to Combating Election Propaganda: Debunking Anti-Welfare Myths
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The goal moving forward must be to create a critical citizen consciousness, so the masses don't simply "accept what they're told" once every four years by the pretty faces running for office. What follows is a primer for readers to help in their conversations with friends, neighbors, acquaintances, and family, to fight back against the racist, classist propaganda so often employed against disadvantaged groups in the U.S.
- DiMaggio, Anthony: Conspiracy, Inc.
Wild Tales From the Reactionary Right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Increasingly, reactionary media pundits and much of the rank-and-file of the Republican Party are taking the American right down a dangerous path, marked most ominously by the abundance of conspiracy theories directed against the Democratic Party and mainstream liberals.
- Dimaggio, Anthony: Election Con 2016: New Evidence Demolishes the Myth of Trump's "Blue-Collar" Populism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Evidence indicates that Donald Trump's popularity among working class voters had less to do with economic insecurity and more to do with embracing support for elitist, pro-corporate, and reactionary social agendas.
- DiMaggio, Anthony: Free Speech for the Right? A Primer on Key Legal Questions and Principles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The rise in national attention to the "alt-right" and fascist-white supremacist protesters has raised questions about the parameters of free speech in America. When can free speech be limited, if ever? What are the implications of attempting to limit controversial speech? And what precedents has the Supreme Court set regarding free speech?
- Dimaggio, Anthony: How Did We Get Here? What Lies Ahead?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
We need to understand the reasons why Trump won the 2016 U.S. election. This requires recognizing the uniqueness of this election on multiple fronts. Trump’s victory was just as much about the Democratic Party's implosion as it was about the triumph of Trump's "outsider" political campaign. The Republican victory was not driven by the party's ascendance among the public at large. If anything, the party is in big trouble looking ahead.
- Dimaggio, Anthony: On the Cowardice & Irrelevance of Social Science Scholars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The stakes are too high for scholars to continue down this path of irrelevance.
- Dimaggio, Anthony: Reflections on DC: Promises and Pitfalls in the Anti-Trump Uprising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The first mass protests of President Donald Trump represent a historic moment – one worth reflecting on so we can understand where we are and where we're going as a nation.
- DiMaggio, Anthony: Responding to Antifa and Riseup
On Revolutionary Politics and Non-Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
"The left" of contemporary 2017 America is deeply divided and fractured, and it is a shadow of its former self, considering the decline of organized labor, and the disappearance of left-public intellectuals in higher education. In this environment, what remains of "the left" desperately needs to reach out to the masses of Americans, including liberals, moderates, and political independents, and to pull them further to the left, if there is to be any chance of meaningful change. And berating anyone who is not perceived to be on the far left, rather than patiently working to bring these individuals into a broader left movement, is a recipe for irrelevance.
- DiMaggio, Anthony: Rightwing Manipulation of the Wisconsin Revolt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Manipulation of opinion surveys is easy enough for those seeking to muddy the waters of political debate regarding the current war on unions.
- DiMaggio, Anthony: The Rise of the Tea Party
Political Discontent and Corporate Media in the Age of Obama
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
A socio-political analysis of the Tea Party that probes its history, organizational structure, membership, ideological coherence, and relationship to the mass media.
- DiMaggio, Anthony: Who Are the "Alt-Right"? On the Rise of Reactionary Hatred and How to Fight it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
With much of the public discussing strategies for how best to fight right-wing extremism, the need for constructive solutions is greater than ever. First and foremost, it’s important to point out that public support for far-right extremists is miniscule. The vast majority of Americans reject this movement's violence and hatred. According to a Marist survey from the summer of 2017, just 4 percent of Americans said they support "white supremacy movement" or "white nationalism." Similarly, just 6 percent embraced the term "alt-right" Still, there is a legitimate concern that support for right-wing bigotry may grow in the future if left unchecked.
- DiMaggio, Dan: Call Center Unions Build International Connections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
One big issue in the three-day strike by 38,000 AT&T workers was the company's offshoring of jobs. To shine a spotlight on the issue and strengthen international solidarity, a group of union members visited the Dominican Republic a couple of weeks before the strike to meet the call center workers on the other end of that offshoring.
- Dineen, Janice: The Trouble With Co-ops
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
The story of a pioneer co-operative housing project in downtown Toronto: Down Area Co-operative Homes, inc. (DACHI).
- Dingake, Michael: My Fight Against Apartheid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Imprisoned for 15 years on Robben Island in 1965, Michael Dingake's autobiography clearly reveals how his whole life has been bound up with the struggle for liberation in South Africa. His story, full of humour as well as political insight, takes us from his childhood days in Botswana to his recruitment into the ANC during the mass struggles of the 1950s, from his underground work in the 1960s to his kidnapping and imprisonment in 1965.
- Dingwall, Edward: Practical Approaches to Non-violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The Quaker group Turning the Tide works with communities in the UK and Kenya to help different groups and organizations develop their own nonviolent approaches to radical change and social justice. Edward Dingwall catches up with staff member Steve Whiting on the Turning the Tide's aims and methods.
- Dinh, Linh: Burning Truth
Invisible Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Make no mistake about this: Hoang Hung was killed as a warning to other journalists. Make too much noise and you will be roasted alive like this man.
- Dinh, Linh: Deranging America
Drugged, Indebted, Armed-to-the-Teeth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A question worth asking: Who benefit from a more compulsive, hence more violent, population? Well, if you’re pushing eternal warfare, which we are, you’ll need a pool of nutcases who are willing to shoot anyone for any reason, or none at all, and more deranged oafs at home to go “Rah! Rah!” over any bombing run or drone hit. Are we going into Mali next? Why not? Where is it, by the way? There has never been a country fighting so many wars without a serious debate about any of them. And if you want people to buy first, think later, to rack up life-wrecking debts to satiate all ephemeral cravings, then you ply them with poison, flickering television and thumping music. You don’t want a population capable of deliberating, reflecting, thinking clearly or even listening attentively, much less reading, but one that can be jerked around by any sexy come-on or dumbed down slogan.
- Dinh, Linh: Eyes With Legs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
In the last decade, 11 journalists have been murdered by Israeli forces, including Cevdet Kiliclar, a Turkish who was shot in the head, last week, as he photographed Israeli commandos attacking peace activists on the Freedom Flotilla. The U.S. never condemns these crimes because it's Israel's biggest supporter, and also because it does the same.
- Dion, Robert: Crimes of the Secret Police
Bombers, Burglars, Bullies, Barn-Burners And Dynamite Thieves
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
An account of crimes committed by the RCMP security service in the name of national security.
- Dirr, Susan; Echeverria, Tessa: How Laws Assault Queer People (book review)
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Queer (In)Justice is authored by Joey Mogul, a partner at the People’s Law Office in Chicago and director of DePaul University’s Civil Rights Clinic; Andrea Ritchie, an attorney and organizer who works on issues of police misconduct; and Kay Whitlock, an organizer and writer around structural injustices.
- DiSilvestro, Roger L.: The Endangered Kingdom
The Struggle to Save America's Wildlife
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- DiSilvestro, Roger L.: Reclaming the last wild places
A New Agenda for Biodiversity
Resource Type: Book
Why do we spend millions of dollars a year to save the California condor while doing little to spare the habitats that countless other species need to survive? By emphasizing the protection of biodiversity - rather than crisis management techniques - Roger DiSilvestro argues we can ensure a brighter future for all species.
- Disobedient Productions LLC: Disobedience
The rise of the global fossil fuel resistance
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Disobedience is a film about a new phase of the climate movement: courageous action that is being taken on the front lines of the climate crisis on every continent, led by regular people fed up with the power and pollution of the fossil fuel industry.
- Ditz, Jason: Amid Censorship, Israel's Media Does Its Part
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Israel's media has once again chosen the low road, the one carefully couched in patriotism and praise for the right-far-right coalition government.
- Ditz, Jason: In Blow to 'No Fly' List, US Judge Rules Air Travel Is a Right
Precedent Could Allow Fliers to Contest Travel Bans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
US District Judge Anna Brown ruled that the ability to travel internationally by airplane is a constitutionally protected right.
- Ditz, Jason: ISIS Church Bombings Kill 47 in Egypt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Ditz details two recent ISIS attacks in Egypt targeting Christian churches and followers.
- Ditz, Jason: Israeli Army Admits Tweeted Hezbollah Map Actually Fake
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The Israeli media has been forced to admit a map purported to contain information on Hezbollah positions, distributed to foreign diplomats and on twitter, is a fabrication.
- Ditz, Jason: Israeli Military Censor Seeks to Expand Control to 'Prominent' Facebook Users
High-Profile Critic Ordered to Submit All Writing to Censors in Advance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The Israeli military censor usually tries to stay out of the headlines. It's not always easy, as several times high-profile Israel-related stories have broken in the US media first, and aren’t "allowed" in Israeli papers for days after.
- Ditz, Jason: Made in the USA: Report Shows ISIS Using US Arms from 'Syria Rebels'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
From the moment the US began sending lethal arms to Syrian rebel factions, there was a chorus of people expressing fears that those arms would end up in the “wrong hands,” and US officials insisted they were going to carefully vet everyone who got those weapons.
- Ditz, Jason: Medic Who Killed Palestinian Being Portrayed as 'National Hero'
DM Slams Coalition Members for Backing Execution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Tensions within Israel's extremely narrow right-far-right coalition continue to grow, as the military's investigation into an Israeli medic who shot and killed an already wounded and disarmed Palestinian has become a cause célèbre for the settler movement and for hawks in general.
- Ditz, jason: Pentagon Hypes 'Surging Sales' for US Missile Makers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The massive US military industrial complex is struggling to keep up, according to officials, with ever-escalating attacks on various targets across the planet, and growing demands from its various customers looking to build up their assorted missile arsenals for assorted wars.
- Ditz, Jason: Pentagon Spent Over $500 Million Making Fake Al-Qaeda Videos
Troops Would Litter Videos Around Sites of Raids
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
It has already been well-documented that the Pentagon spent a substantial amount of money on propaganda during the occupation of Iraq, running pro-occupation commercials and also covertly getting pro-occupation news stories into the media around the region. It turns out that was just the tip of the iceberg. It has now been revealed that there was a third program ongoing, in which a London-based PR agency was paid $540 million to make fake al-Qaeda propaganda videos for Pentagon use.
- Ditz, Jason: Senators 'Stunned' to Learn US Has 1,000 Troops in Niger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee members recently confirmed they were "stunned" by the revelation that the US had upwards of 1,000 ground troops operating inside the country of Niger, sparking new questions about war authorization.
- Ditz, Jason: Study: NSA Surveillance Has Chilling Effort on Internet Browsing
Users Feared Reading About 'Sensitive' Topics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A new study in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal found that traffic on Wikipedia articles considered "sensitive" or terror-related plummeted drastically in the immediate wake of revelations about broad NSA surveillance of Internet use.
- Ditz, Jason: UN Security Council Rejects Proposal for Investigation Into Syria Chemical Allegations
Russian envoy urges US, allies to refrain from attacking Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A UN Security Council resolution proposed by Russia has been voted down, with Western nations fighting against it. The resolution would've called for a formal investigation into the alleged Syrian chemical weapons attack on Saturday.
- Ditz, Jason: US-Funded NGO in Syria Uses Old Photo to Claim Civilian Death in Russian Airstrikes
Group Lashes Russian Official on Twitter for Noting Picture Wasn't Real
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The "White Helmets" organization, heavily funded by the US State Department, has claimed that Russia killed 33 civilians in its attacks. The NGO attached a photo to the story which was pointed out to be from an incident five days prior and not related to Russia.
- Ditz, Jason: US Lost Track of Nearly a Million Guns in Iraq, Afghanistan
Officials: Records Remain for Only 48% of the Guns Sent to Warzones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Early in the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, the go-to policy for the US in trying to prop up new allied security forces was to dump weapons, en masse, into the countries. It's only now that people are really starting to ask what happened to the 1.45 million guns shipped into those countries.
- Ditz, Jason: US Spy Chief Presents Third-Party Debates as Proof RT Is Anti-US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s latest report on the alleged "election hacking" by Russia includes a substantial section focused around the idea that Russian government-funded channel RT is overtly anti-American.
- Ditz, Jason: Yemen Doctors: Hundreds Will Die Within a Week to Saudi Blockade
Key Medicines Have Run Out in Yemeni Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
In the past month, Saudi Arabia's naval blockade of Yemen, has tightened dramatically, and even vital medications and food are virtually impossible to import.
- Diwakar, Amar: In Myanmar, Anti-Terrorism Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A brutal crackdown in Myanmar under the guise of anti-terrorism is really ethnic cleansing against a long-persecuted Rohingya minority.
- Dixon, Bruce A.: Intersectionality is a Hole. Afro-Pessimism is a Shovel. We Need to Stop Digging, Part 1 of 2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Dixon argues that intersectionality - or, rather, its interpretation by the so-called "US left" - decenters class struggle in its effort to equalize oppressions.
- Dixon, Cassandra: Homes Demolished in the South Hebron Hills
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Israeli authorities have destroyed 24 homes in the South Hebron Hills. The homes lie within an area which Israel claims as Firing Zone 918, in which approximately 1000 Palestinian civilians live in 8 villages.
- Dixon, Chris: Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Dixon examines the trajectory of efforts that contributed to the radicalism of Occupy Wall Street and other recent movement upsurges. He presents the histories and principles that shape many contemporary struggles.
- Dixon, Chris: Finding Hope After Seattle
Rethinking Radical Activism and Building a Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Direct action, as many anarchists tend to define it, can be deeply exclusionary. While it undeniably empowers some — mainly white and middle-class — it disempowers others. Used as a central tactic of mass mobilizations, direct action can in fact implicitly assume a certain degree of privilege, with dire consequences.
- Dixon, Chris: Five Days in Seattle: A View from the Ground
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
About the 1999 protests in Seattle.
- Dixon, John A et al: Economic Analysis of the Environmental Impacts of Development Projects
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
In this book, a group of analysts from the Asian Development Bank and from the East West Center propose a means of constructing useful economic evaluations of the impacts of development projects on the environments in which they are constructed. This study demands the systemic evaluation of all the intentional and unintentional consequences of development initiatives before they are enacted.
- Dixon, Marlene: The Rise and Demise of Women's Liberation:
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Dixon uses a Marxist analysis to try to explain the decline of the women's liberation movement in the 1970's.
- Dixon, Patrick: Playing Chicken: Discovering a Diverse Working Class in Trump Country
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Since the election of 2016, much has been written about rural working-class voters who helped elect Donald J. Trump to the presidency. Most of those stories have assumed that the rural working class is overwhelmingly white. But if we look at one of the most significant parts of the rural economy – the poultry industry – we get a different picture. Not only do we see more workers of color, we also see more exploitation and greater potential for resistance.
- Djurasovic, Milan: The Disneyfied Narrative of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Pinocchio and Little Red Riding Hood still believe in the impartiality of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). I have yet to meet either a partial or an impartial Serb that shares their sentiments. Toward the political bazaar in Hague the Serbs feel what has been hurled at them by the institution’s creators since the early 1990s -- disdain, occasional profanity, and boiling resentment. Those are the only self-defense tools available to the tired citizens of a small, impoverished country.
- Djuric, Rajko: Victims of the European revolutions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
European gypsy communities have historically been, and remain, the most marginalized social group.
- Dmitry, Baxter: Iceland Jail Top Bankers For 46 Years, Europe 'Outraged'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Iceland has differed from the rest of Europe and the US by allowing bankers to be prosecuted as criminals, rather than treating them as a protected species.
- DMOB: Marxism and the Petition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Many petitions operate only on the reformist appeal to authority (this is especially true of the many online petitions from sites like Change.org), which fits perfectly within the liberal democratic framework. But the petition can operate on more than one level. Its dual nature means that it is often an indispensable tool in building collective power for more radical ends.
- Dobb, Maurice M.A.: Studies in the Development of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947 Published: 1968
A Marxist interpretation of economic development in the period of modern capitalism. Starting with the decline of serfdom, the book deals with the beginnings of the bourgeoisie in the rising urban communities of Europe, with the growth of industrial investment, and with monopoloy in its various forms as a crucial instrument in the growth of capitalism.
- Dobbin, Murray: Are There Lessons for Canada's Elites in the US Election?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
In the aftermath of the results of the US election the mix of emotions and analysis spans the spectrum from feeling sorry for the irrational and politically illiterate American voter to fear about the consequences of the election of a thuggish buffoon as president. But common to all reactions is a smugness rooted in our sense of superiority -- as if our elites are somehow more attentive to the public interest and the lives of ordinary Canadians.
- Dobbin, Murray: Big Oil's Chokehold on Canadian Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The fight against Big Oil corporatism may be the most important one you ever support.
- Dobbin, Murray: Can You Say "Conflict of Interest"? Not at the UN
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Exposing the ways that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) allows oil giants to shape negotiations.
- Dobbin, Murray: The Coming Humiliation of Stephen Harper?
A Political Psychopath
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The federal government, that is Stephen Harper, is expected to announce its long anticipated decision on Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline sometime in June. The decision could well determine whether or not the Conservatives can win the 2015 election.
The momentum of opposition to the pipeline – and perhaps more importantly to the hundreds of supertankers that would move tar sands bitumen to Asia – is clearly growing in both B.C. and the rest of Canada.
- Dobbin, Murray: Dobbin replies to Green Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Murray Dobbin replies to the Green party.
- Dobbin, Murray: From Israel to ISIS
Harper's 'Orwellian' Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
It’s getting difficult to remember a time when the Canadian Parliament actually tried to make principled decisions regarding foreign policy and our place in the community of nations.
- Dobbin, Murray: Give Us Our Money Back!
How Harper Protects Canada's Tax Cheats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
There is a class of people and corporations in this country whose illicit financial practices have an enormous negative impact on the country and its citizens. Yet the law and order regime of Stephen Harper barely plays lip service to the issue of tax evasion through tax havens. While Harper cuts billions from government programs in the name of deficit reduction, he refuses to go after billions of dollars in revenue lost to tax evasion and avoidance every year.
- Dobbin, Murray: Harper: the Grim Reaper of Canadian politics
Resource Type: Article
Harper as Prime Minister would be a disaster for Canada.
- Dobbin, Murray: How the Left Should Frame Issues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
The art and science of strategic frame analysis -- issue framing -- is relatively new in Canada, though the concept of framing is not. The right has been framing its issues carefully for years while the left has been oddly complacent about re-framing issues from their perspective.
- Dobbin, Murray: Is this what a police state looks like?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The corporate security state is not static - it will keep filling more and more space to the extent that they are allowed to by civil society. The police actions in Toronto are one of those key moments, one that we will look back on as a time when the authoritarian governments we now endure tested our resolve. They know exactly what they are doing. There was no spontaneous 'over-reaction.' There were no cops 'out of control' - the obvious fact is they were always in control. The decision to allow the Black Bloc to do its destructive work without any intervention at all was strategic. They were assisted in their work by the Black Bloc, some of them agents provocatuers, all of them enemies of social change.
- Dobbin, Murray: Israel's Apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Blacks in South Africa never faced a 20-foot wall dividing their communities. Palestinians' land is still being seized, their orchards bulldozed.
- Dobbin, Murray: Left Needs Soul Searching
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The left fears that the people it is trying to persuade and mobilize aren't capable of imagining or accepting a truly radical vision of the future.
- Dobbin, Murray: Libya's Hell, Enabled by Canadian Humanitarians
Who Will Protect Libyans Now?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
One of the darkest and most shameful chapters in Western military intervention continues to play out in spades in Libya. Recent news from Benghazi revealed that one of the (literally hundreds) of murderous militias opened fire on peaceful, white-flag-bearing protesters (protesting militias), killing at least 20 and wounding over 130.
- Dobbin, Murray: The most outrageous fraud ever perpetrated on the Canadian people
Can the Courts Liberate the Bank of Canada?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
You know the old aphorism -- "If a tree falls in the forest….?" Well, how about this one: if citizens win a significant victory in court against an autocratic government involving the fleecing of Canadians of billions of their hard-earned tax dollars and no one in the media actually covers it, did it really happen?
- Dobbin, Murray: The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen
Democracy Under the Rule of Big Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Dobbin argues that transnational corporations (TNG's) have power over every nation's government; they are not the good citizens they claim to be.
- Dobbin, Murray: Neo-liberalism and the ongoing economic assault on ordinary Canadians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Two recent stories out of Ottawa underline the ongoing political and economic assault on ordinary Canadians. More Canadians are now working for low wages than at any time in decades, continuing a trend that began in the early 1990s, and Stephen Harper has announced major changes to retirement benefits -- including delaying Old Age Security(OAS) eligibility to age 67. What kind of society beggars those of its citizens who worked all their lives and now want to retire in dignity while privileging the rich and super-rich?
- Dobbin, Murray: Poisoning the Democratic Well
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Opponents of so-called free trade deals have always struggled with the question of why these international treaties don't generate more alarm and vocal opposition from Canadians. These treaties, after all, trump all other Canadian authority to make laws -- provincial legislatures, Parliament, the courts and even the Constitution.
- Dobbin, Murray: The Power of Idle No More
A Resurgent Radicalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The remarkable Idle No More movement is the biggest and most important national outpouring of grass roots aboriginal anger ever seen in Canada.
- Dobbin, Murray: Preston Manning and the Reform Party
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A profile of Preston Manning and his right-wing agenda.
- Dobbin, Murray: They're Recharging Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- Dobbin, Murray: Voter Suppression in Canada
Harper's (Un)Fair Elections Act Could Spark Voter Surge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The Harper government seems intent on proving to its detractors that things can always get worse. They’ve one-upped themselves with the farce called the Fair Elections Act.
- Dobbin, Murray et. al: If Pigs Could Fly
The Hard Truth About the 'Economic Miracle' that Ruined New Zealand
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1994
It would be a miracle if pigs could fly. It would be a miracle if the New Zealand economic quick-fix worked. But pigs can't fly. And the New Zealand economic quick-fix doesn't work. Never has. Never will. The only miracle is why anyone believes it does.
- Dobbs, Farrell: Teamster Rebellion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972 Published: 2004
The first of four volumes on the Minnesota Teamsters: Teamster Rebellion, Teamster Power, Teamster Politics and Teamster Bureaucracy.
- Dobchuk, Victor (Director): Six Weeks of Solidarity
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1995
A look at the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, 75 years later.
- Doblin, Alfred: Karl and Rosa
November 1918: A German Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
A novel about the German Revolution of 1918, focusing on Karl Liebknect and Rosa Luxemburg.
- Dobson, Andrew: Green Political Thought
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Dobson, Ross: Parcel of Rogues
Resource Type: Article
A review of the book 'Parcel of Rogues.'
- Dobson, Ross V G: Bringing the Economy Home from the Market
Resource Type: Book
- Doctorow, Cory: Adversarial Interoperability
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A round-up of the EFF's writing on 'adverserial interoperabillity' which is necessary for creating a decentralized internet free from corporate monopolies.
- Doctorow, Cory: Yes Men punk TPP and US Trade Ambassador with fake "Corporate Power Tool Award"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
US Trade Ambassador Ron Kirk was in Dallas to kick off a corporate power-event to drum up support for the foundering, secretive Transpacific Partnership, a secret treaty that builds on the work of ACTA to establishing punishing copyright laws that include mandatory surveillance and censorship. The Yes Men crashed the gala, taking the podium to present Kirk with a "Corporate Power Tool Award."
- Doe, Phillip: Gassing the American People
Fracking Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Last year the World Health Organization said over 7 million people died from air pollution, making it the largest killer on the planet – killing almost 80 times more people in one year than died of poison gas over the 4 years of WWI.
- Doebbler, Curtis FJ: Paris Climate Deal: How Could They Do This to Us?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
On Sunday morning, 13 December 2015, the 2015 Paris Climate Summit (COP21) finally wound to close as the last decisions were agreed. At almost 1 a.m. observers representing youth, women, labour unions, research centers, indigenous peoples, and business were asked their opinion. Most media had already left COP21. Cleaners were dismantling the massive structures that had been erected to house thousands of conference participants for two weeks plus two overrun days. The Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change had finished their work, late as usual and with an usual outcome.
- Doherty, Shaun: "All changed, changed utterly": The historical significance of the Irish Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The problem with political anniversaries is that they often focus on specific dates in the past without any recognition that they are part of a longer process. Easter Monday 1916 is an iconic date in Irish history that all and sundry seek to appropriate, but it can only be understood by what preceded and followed it.
- Doherty-Delorme, Denise; Shaker, Erika: Missing Pieces II
An Alternative Guide to Canadian Post-Secondary Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
- Doidge, Norman: The Brain That Changes Itself
Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Doidge explains neuroplasticity and shows that the brain is not a collection of specialized parts but a dynamic organ and can rewire and rearrange itself as the need arises.
- Dolack , Pete: Laws Unto Themselves
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A frequent criticism of “free trade” agreements is that corporations are elevated to the level of a country. It might be more accurate to say that corporations are elevated above countries.
- Dolack, Pete: Analyzing the Failures of Syriza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Examines the failture of Syriza, The Coalition of the Radical Left, since their election in Greece.
- Dolack, Pete: The Bait and Switch of Public-Private Partnerships
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
This being the age of public relations, the genteel term "public-private partnership" is used instead of corporate plunder. A "partnership" such deals may be, but it isn't the public who gets the benefits.
- Dolack, Pete: Claims that the 'NAFTA 2' Agreement is Better are a Macabre Joke
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Although Democrats and public pressure forced through some improvements, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), or NAFTA 2, isn't substantially different and remains a document of corporate domination. It would appear that appearances, not substance, drove Democrats in the House of Representatives to approve the deal.
- Dolack, Pete: Colonialism and Nationalism in the Building of Liberation Movements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
This is an excerpt from It's Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment.
- Dolack, Pete: Global pitbulls: the US military mission to support corporate colonialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
With its 800 bases in 80 countries, the US's global military domination is often seen as an altruistic exercise to ensure world peace and harmony. It is, of course, the opposite: the essential underpinning of the US's predatory economic power, always ready to strike down any challenge to the rights and privileges of its corporate conquerors and financial oligarchy.
- Dolack, Pete: Goodbye to democracy if TTIP is passed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The leaked chapters of the EU-US TTIP 'free trade' deal reveal a shredding of health, environmental and other protections for consumers and citizens. It's a wet dream for corporate monopolists and profiteers, and the elite bureaucrats that serve them. But for civil society it represents an irreversible destruction of democracy itself.
- Dolack, Pete: It's Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
The path to a better world can't be found without knowledge of history. "It's Not Over" analyzes attempts to supplant capitalism in the past in order to draw lessons for emerging and future movements that seek to overcome the political and economic crises of today. This history is presented through the words and actions of the men and women who made these revolutions, and the everyday experiences of the millions of people who put new revolutionary ideas into practice under the pressures of enormous internal and external forces. This is history that can be applied to today's struggles to shape our world, in which new ideas are emerging to bring about the economic democracy that is indispensable to a rational and sustainable future.
- Dolack, Pete: Military Spending is the Capitalist World's Fuel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
It is common for activists to decry the enormous sums of money spent on the military. Any number of social programs, or schools, or other public benefits could instead be funded. Not least is this the case with the United States, which by far spends the most of any country on its military. The official Pentagon budget for 2015 was $596 billion, but actual spending is far higher. (Figures for 2015 will be used because that is the latest year for which data is available to make international comparisons.) If we add military spending parked in other portions of the U.S. federal government budget, we’re up to $786 billion, according to a study by the War Resisters League. Veterans benefits add another $157 billion. WRL also assigns 80 percent of the interest on the budget deficit, and that puts the grand total well above $1 trillion.
- Dolack, Pete: Renewable Energy isn't a Shortcut to Reversing Global Warming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Denmark has distinguished itself as the country moving the fastest toward the eventual replacement of fossil fuels. Its goal of 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 is laudable, but the assumption that this path will reverse global warming while otherwise continuing business as usual, is unrealistic.
- Dolack, Pete: Revised NAFTA Shows Every Sign of Being Another Trump Scam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement between the US and Mexico, a deal intended to force Canada, which has the strongest regulations, into signing on disadvantageous terms. Dolack explains why any new NAFTA will undoubtedly be a windfall for multi-national corporations at public expense.
- Dolack, Pete: State Banks Would Mean Jobs, Credit and Investment
Why Don't We?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
One of the many problems with the current banking system is that your tax money helps fuel speculation. Unless there is a public bank that your local government can place deposits into, revenues are the playthings of big banks.
- Dolack, Pete: Tar sands campaigners are Canada's new 'terrorists'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Canada's Harper government has targeted as a new crime being a member of an 'anti-Canadian petroleum movement', and equating such a stance with terrorism.
- Dolack, Pete: There's No Place for Clean Water Under 'Free Trade'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Yet another standoff between clean drinking water and mining profits has taken shape in Colombia, where two corporations insist their right to pollute trumps human health and the environment. As is customary in these cases, it is clean water that is the underdog here.
- Dolack, Pete: They Throw Us Out of Our Homes But We Get Ice Cream
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
If there were any doubt that gentrification has come to my corner of Brooklyn, that was put to rest last weekend with the appearance of an ice cream truck. An ice cream truck painted with the logo and red color of The Economist. Yes, it was just as this reads. Free scoops of ice cream were being given out as a young woman with a clipboard was attempting to get people to sign up for subscriptions to The Economist.
- Dolack, Pete: TISA 'free trade' deal to force draconian social, environmental, financial deregulation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A leaked text from the 'Trade In Services Agreement' negotiations shows that TISA is set to unleash a massive wave of deregulation affecting social, environmental and financial standards, and force the privatisation of state-run enterprises. So it's not just TTIP, CETA and TPP we have to fight - TISA could be the biggest corporate power grab of them all.
- Dolack, Pete: When Water is a Commodity Instead of a Human Right
The Agony of Detroit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The shutoff of water to thousands of Detroit residents, the proposed privatization of the water system and the diversion of the system’s revenue to banks are possible because the most basic human requirement, water, is becoming nothing more than a commodity.
- Dolack, Pete: Why Green Capitalism Will Fail
Staying in the Environmental Frying Pan Only Gets Us Hotter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Green capitalism is destined to fail: You can’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results. We can’t shop our way out of global warming nor are there technological magic wands that will save us. There is no alternative to a dramatic change in the organization of the global economy and consumption patterns. Such a change will not come without costs — but the costs of doing nothing, of allowing global warming to precede is far greater.
- Dolack, Pete: World Bank claims 'sovereign immunity' to escape liability for its crimes against humanity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
In arguing against the World Bank's attempt to declare itself a sovereign state that is above the law, Dolack brings attention to the large-scale crimes the World Bank has committed or been involved in over many decades.
- Dolack, Peter: Earning a Profit from Global Warming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
As evidence mounts that a warming world is hurtling toward the point of no return, the plan of the world's governments is to make adjustments to the ability of corporations to profit from polluting. Short-term profits continue to be elevated above the long-term health of the environment.
- Dolgoff, Sam: The Anarchist Collectives
Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
- Dolgoff, Sam: Bakunin on Anarchy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
An anthology of Bakunin's writings.
- Dolgoff, Sam: Bakunin vs Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
The debates between Bakunin and Marx transcend petty personal squabbles and embody two diametrically opposed tendencies in the theory and tactics of socialism, the authoritarian and libertarian schools respectively.
- Dolgoff, Sam: A Critique of Marxism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
A critique of a straw-man version of Marxism.
- Dolgoff, Sam: The Relevance of Anarchism to Modern Society
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1970
An attempt to elucidate "classical anarchism," a la Proudhon, Kropotkin, etc., so as to repudiate "neo-anarchism," with its emphasis on "escapist individualism" and "action for the sake of action."
- Dolgoff, Sam: So be it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Rejoinder from Sam Dolgoff.
- Dolinar, Brian: Animating the Great Migration and After
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Brian Dolinar reviews Pioneering Cartoonists of Color by Tim Jackson.
- Dolinar, Brian: Margaret Burroughs
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Margaret Burroughs, longtime Chicago artist and activist, died on November 21, 2010 at age 93. Producing poetry, block prints, paintings, sculptures, and participating in theater, she was a modern day renaissance woman. She leaves behind two major institutions — the Du Sable Museum and the South Side Community Art Center — that are her legacy to a life dedicated to promoting African-American art and culture.
- Dolinar, Brian: A Folklorist of Black America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A review of Beuxw Conforth's book, "African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics:The Larry Gellert Story".
- Dolinar, Brian: Long Before "Boondocks"
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s Black newspapers presented a picture of African-American life rendered invisible by the white media. Like white newspapers, they carried a funnies page where Black readers faithfully followed the foibles of cartoon characters like Ollie Harrington’s “Brother Bootsie,” Samuel Milai’s “Bucky” and Wilbert Holloway’s “Sunny Boy Sam.”
- Dolinar, Brian; Kilgore, James: Mass Incarceration for Profit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
In the face of growing public criticism and improved technologies, companies like Securus search for new ways to remain competitive while marketing themselves as providers of a quality service that keeps the public safe. Yet with the involvement of global financial houses in the prison industrial complex, the pressure mounts to produce value for shareholders. Ultimately, this systematically incentivizes mass incarceration. While we often hear about the activities of private prison providers like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, corporate interests are immersed in every aspect of criminal justice.
- Dollinger, Sol: Flint and the Rewriting of History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
The 1937 sitdown strikes were a thunderbolt shattering minimal labor-management relations. The victory of the Flint auto workers heralded the most profound social changes in the United States since the Civil War.
- Dollinger, Sol; Dollinger, Genora Johnson: Not Automatic
Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers' Union
Resource Type: Book
This story of the birth and infancy of the United Auto Workers, told by two participants, shows how the gains workers made were neither easy nor inevitable - not automatic - but required strategic and tactical sophistication as well as concerted action.
- Domenech, Rocio Perez; Mulholland, Lindsey: Salvadoran Women Respond to Violence with Community Service, Music, and Individual Efforts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Outside of the peace negotiations that resound in the media and governmental organizations, one of the strongest solutions to the scourge of gang violence in El Salvador has come from individual initiatives and groups dedicated to women. This work with female youth and ex-gang members, both in and outside of prison, is part of a movement that seeks to collaborate with peace processes in which women have rarely been taken into account. At the same time, it addresses the social structure that intensifies violence against women.
- Domenico, Kim C.: Me Too's Misguided Pursuit of Equality: Drop the Spirit of Vengeance and Defend Dignity Instead
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
With Me Too’s focus where it is, on man’s injury to woman, the capitalist for-profit system can wash its hands. Eyes glued to salacious details are off the oppressive economic order that has over time erased our cultures, communities and is set to destroy all life on the planet.
- Domhoff, G. William: Wealth, Income, and Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
This document presents details on the wealth and income distributions in the United States, and explains how we can use these two distributions as power indicators.
- Domhoff, G. William: Who Rules America?
Power, Politics, and Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Domhoff analyzes how power operates in U.S. society. He argues that the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant figures in the U.S. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington and their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.
- Domhoff, William G: The Powers That Be
Processes of Ruling Class Domination in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Best known for his Who Rules America? (1967), Domhoff here turns his attention from "who" to "how."
- Dominguez, Francisco: Paraguay: A well-rehearsed coup
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The story behind the overthrow of Paraguayuan President Fernando Lugo.
- Dominique Basi (Director): Bus Driver
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
Follows Karnel Basi, a public transit driver in South Vancouver, along his regular route through the downtown east side to the heart of the city and back again. Along the way he picks up a variety of passengers, struggles to stay on schedule and keep his bus safe.
- Donegan, Connor: Military Emancipation
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A book review of Levine's "The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution that Transformed the South," and Oakes's "Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865."
- Donegan, Connor: Reinterpreting the Cotton Kingdom
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Book review of Walter Johnson's "River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom."
- Dongfang, Han: A Chinese alternative
Social democracy by the union route
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Dongfang discusses how changing undemocratic Chinese business enterprises, through active labour unions, would also change the social structure of the country.
- Donnelly, Michael: The Cowliphate and Poisoned Kids: Twin Assaults on The Commons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
When I opened up my Facebook feed today, 90 percent on the items on my feed were equally divided between the Bundy Cowliphate here in Oregon and the poisoning of the water supply in Flint, my hometown. Given my decades of Public Lands’ Conservation activism, both topics are dear to me.
- Donnelly, Michael: The Meltdown of the Careerist Greens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The wildly, uniquely popular, documentary “Planet of the Humans” has been viewed over 2 million times in less that four days – likely 100s of thousands more by the time you read this.
- Donnelly, Michael: Still Wavy After All These Years: Flower Geezer Turns 80
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
- Donnelly, Richard: Lenin and the Tsarist Duma
A review of August H Nimtz, Lenin’s Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels through the Revolution of 1905: The Ballot, the Streets—or Both
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Donnelly reviews Nimtz's two volume account of Lenin's pre-revolution electoral strategy and summarises the thesis that Lenin's critique of reformism in parliamentary democracy was rooted in the conclusions of Marx and Engels.
- Donovan, Kevin; Nyst, Carly: Privacy for the other five billion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Aadhaar is but one example of the development sector's growing fascination with technologies for registering, identifying, and monitoring citizens
- Donziger, Steven R.: The Real War on Crime
The Report of the National Criminal Justice Commission
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
A thorough examination of the American criminal justice system.
- Dore, Elizabeth: Gender Politics in Latin America
Debates in Theory and Practice
Resource Type: Book
The essays analyze the gendered politics of state power, language, culture, history, social movements, human rights, and knowledge.
- Dore, Mary (director): She's Beautiful When She's Angry
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
She's Beautiful When She's Angry resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women's movement in the United States from 1966 to 1971. She's Beautiful When She's Angry takes us from the founding of NOW, when ladies wore hats and gloves, to the emergence of more radical factions of women's liberation; from intellectuals like Kate Millett to the street theatrics of WITCH (Women's International Conspiracy from Hell!)
- Dorfman, Ariel: Gina Haspel's CIA nomination demands the United States account for its history of torture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
President Trump's nomination of Gina Haspel to head the CIA has stirred objections from many quarters. Dorfman recounts the impact of state sanctioned torture in Chile.
- Dorling, Daniel: Injustice: Why social inequality persists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Dorling examines who is most harmed by social injustices and why, and what happens to those who most benefit.
- Dorling, Danny: No-Nonsense Guide to Equality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
A wide-ranging exploration of why inequality persists and what can be done about it.
- Dorn, Jeff; Bainbridge, Catherine: Smoke Traders
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Smoke Traders tells the story of the contraband tobacco trade and the effect on individual lives and communities from a Native perspective.
- Doss, Martha Merrill (ed.): Women's Organizations: A National Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Dostoevsky, Fydor: Fydor Dostoevsky Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Double Issue of the Tribune: Moving Ahead
A Guide to Selected Themes from the Nairobi Forwardlooking Strategies for the Advancement of Women - Periodical profile published 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
- Dougher, Joe: A Veteran Communist Speaks
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
- Doughty, Arthur: Arthur Doughty Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Douglas, Bruce: Anger rises as Brazilian mine disaster threatens river and sea with toxic mud
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Conservationists and engineers battle to reduce the ecological fallout as mud and iron-ore residue from the BHP Billiton-Vale dam collapse flows down the Rio Doce to the Atlantic.
- Douglas, Lawrence; Mumford, Steve (drawings): A Kangaroo in Obama's Court
Will the Guantánamo Tribunal Execute a Man We Tortured?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Can a tribunal born of an impatient contempt for due process prove itself a legitimate institution of American law? On trial by military commission at Guantánamo's courtroom.
- Douglas, Rachel: Labor Scores at Verizon
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
On August 6 87,000 members of the Communication Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) struck Verizon Communications in twelve states from Maine to Virginia, and the District of Columbia. At the heart of the strike was the unions' attempt to maintain wall to wall unionization in an industry which is rapidly changing, to strengthen job security for workers in the wake of a national merger, and to fight the spread of lean production. The three-year contract we won represents a major victory on all of these issues.
- Douglas, Sean: Putting the Arms Industry on Trial
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Sean Douglas and other activists are prosecuting two companies that promoted torture equipment in the UK.
- Douglas, Susan J.: Killing Granny with the Laziness Bias
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
While it is often the case that the majority of Americans do see the light "about the need for healthcare reform, a new energy policy or affordable, high-quality day care." The dominant journalistic practices, especially in broadcast and cable news, dim the light in favor of noise. Far-right Republicans understand, almost instinctively, this preference for noise. And they appreciate "and know how to cultivate" the greatest bias in electronic journalism right now: the laziness bias. The laziness bias means you feature sensation over substance, provocative sound bites over investigative reporting, misinformation over fact.
- Douglass, Frederick; Jacobs, Harriet; (Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah): Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Two first-person accounts of African-American slavery.
- Doussard, Marc: Degraded Work: The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labor Market
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Doussard demonstrates that the decline in wages and working conditions is anything but the unavoidable result of competitive economic forces. Rather, he makes the case that service sector and other local-serving employers have boosted profit with innovative practices to exploit workers that go far beyond wage cuts.
- Douthwaite, Richard: The Growth Illusion
How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992 Published: 1999
Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
- Douvill, Bruce Michael: The Uncomfortable Pew: Christianity, the New Left, and the Hip counterculture in Toronto, 1965-1975
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011 Published: 2021
- Dowd, Douglas (ed.): Understanding Capitalism
Critical Analysis from Karl Marx to Amartya Sen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Essays by seven leading economists, including Robin Hahnel and John Bellamy Foster, that assess how economic theory has become capitalist ideology.
- Dowie, Mark: Food Among the Ruins
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Detroit, the country's most depressed metropolis, has zero produce-carrying grocery chains. It also has open land, fertile soil, ample water, and the ingredients to reinvent itself from Motor City to urban farm.
- Dowie, Mark: Human Nature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Dowie sympathizes with the view that 'wildenress' is a human creation.
- Downs, Georgina: Expert panel identifies unacceptable toll of food and farming systems on human health
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The UN Committee on World Food Security in Rome has today launched a new report examining the impact of chemical intensive, industrial food system on human health.
- Downs, Georgina: From Hillsborough to pesticides
Establishment cover-ups, lies and corruption
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The British establishment does nothing quite so well as lies, cover-ups and high-level corruption - whether it's the Hillsborough disaster or permitting polluters to poison us. Georgina Downs won her own High Court legal victory protecting rural residents from pesticide exposure as long ago as 2008 - only to have it snatched away as Court of Appeal judges closed ranks.
- Downs, Georgina: Poison in the Fields: Agriculture as Chemical Warfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Highly poisonous chemicals ( that were originally designed as weapons of war) have been allowed for many decades, under successive Government policies, to be sprayed on crop fields all over the UK, and with literally no protection at all for the many millions of rural citizens living or attending schools in the locality of such chemically treated areas. (In fact, there is actually no protection for rural residents and communities in the majority of other countries around the world either!)
- Downs, Peter: How Labor Loses When it "Wins"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
It is time for unions to stop looking for someone else to save them. They need to find ways to save themselves. Mass picket lines, sit-ins, solidarity strikes, secondary boycotts and refusing to handle struck work are weapons that we need to put back in labor's arsenal. Unions must learn to broadly mobilize workers as a class, even if it means violating court orders and injunctions, to regain the initiative for workers' rights.
- Downs, Peter: Jerry Tucker, 1938-2012
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Jerry Tucker died last October 19, 2012 of pancreatic cancer, at age 73. A passionate advocate of workers’ rights, his career in the labor officialdom was hindered by his investing greater loyalty in the workers he represented than in the organizations for which he worked.
- Downs, Peter: Schoolhouse Shams
Myths and Misinformation in School Reform
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Written by a parent and school board member, who first embraced many of the ideas of the modern school reform movement, Schoolhouse Shams lays bare much of the mythology and misinformation that underpin many of the failed school reform policies of the last decade. Many of the top strategies of the highly publicized school reform movement already have been tried out in St. Louis with disastrous results. Along with demonstrating the failure of school reform prescriptions to improve education, the experience of St. Louis demonstrates that the ideological premise of the reform movement, that a focus on providing opportunities for private profit-taking will necessarily improve schools, is both wrong and conflicts with the ideals of democracy, accountability, and justice.
- Downs, Steve: NY Public Workers Under Attack
Enough Blame to Go Around: The Labor Pains of New York City's Public Employee Unions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Book review of Richard Steier's Enough Blame to Go Around: The Labor Pains of New York City's Public Employee Unions.
- Downs, Steve: New York Transit Between Old and New Directions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
IN ATC 74 ("Transit Workers Try a New Direction"), Marian Swerdlow described the fight taking place in Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) between the entrenched Willie James bureaucracy and the reformers in New Directions. Local 100 represents New York City's bus and subway workers. Written earlier this year, Swerdlow's article concluded as the stage was being set for the rerun election ordered when the International TWU was forced to admit that the narrow victory by the...
- Downs, Steve: The Nine Worst Lawfare Injustices in the US and What They Tell Us About Ourselves
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
"Lawfare" is when the law is weoponized and directed against a group of people declared to be an enemy. This is a brief history with nine examples.
- Downs, Steve: Raising Hell for Labor
Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Book review of Jane McAlevey's Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement.
- Downs, Steve: Three Questions of Political Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
As I read contributions to The Call and Jacobin, and from Solidarity members, I wonder if that doesn't explain some of the disagreements about "reform or revolution" that have come up between some Solidarity members and some members of DSA’s Bread and Roses caucus. Framing these disagreements as a set of questions has helped me better understand the contending views.
- Downs, Steve: Transit Union Shuts NYC Down: Standing Up for Our Rights
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
What do you get when you mix 35,000 angry workers, an arrogant management, a union leadership under pressure from its membership, a decades-long drive to shrink the public sector, a racial divide between bosses and workers, and miscalculations?
- Downs, Steve: What Happened - and Didn't: Behind New York's Transit Strike
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Early on December 20, 2005, Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100, representing some 33,000 of New York City's subway and bus workers, called a strike. When dawn broke, there was no public transportation in NYC and millions of people walked, hitched rides, rode their bikes, or stayed home.
- Downs, Steve: Workers' Revolts of the 1970s
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In my world as a teenager becoming politically aware in Detroit in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the issues that mattered most were the war in Vietnam and race relations at my school. The events that shaped my high school years included fights between Black and white students, watching the families of white friends leave the city for Ferndale and Oak Park, the racially charged mayoral race in 1969, the election of the city’s first Black mayor in 1973, and my own increasing involvement in the movement to end the war in Southeast Asia.
- Dowson, Ross: Dear Comrades
Letter, October 18, 1965
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1965
Published in Ross Dowson Resources Website
- Doyal, Lesley: The Political Economy of Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979 Published: 1889
- Doyle, Chris: The Marxist and the Gamers: Reading, Fortnite, and My Students' Identities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A school teacher reflects on the differences he sees in his students from past generations, notably the many young people who are avid online gamers.
- Doyle, Michael: How to Make Meetings Work
The New Interaction Method
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
- Doyle, Robert; Visano, Livy: A Summary Of Actions
Access To Health and Social Services For Members of Diverse Cultural And Racial Groups in Metropolitan Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
- Dr. Robert Hill: Comments on Unemployment Insurance in the 1980's A Report of the Task Force on Unemployment Prepared For
The Minister Of Employment And Immigration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
In July, 1981, the Report of the Federal Task Force was made public.
- Drache, Arthur B.C.: Taxation and the Arts
A Practical Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- Drache, Daniel: Defiant Publics
The Unprecedented Reach of the Global Citizen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Drache says that the new communications technologies of the contemporary information revolution are permitting new forms of transnational communication that are creating global consciousness and global citizenship.
- Drache, Daniel; Glasbeek, Harry: The Changing Workplace
Reshaping Canada's Industrial Relations System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Describes how business, labour and government have organized the production of goods and services in Canada since 1945. Focusing on the industrial relations system and how it works, the authors call for fresh thinking on the economy and offer proposals for the reorganization of production.
- Drache, Daniel; Lidman, Sara (interviewers); Larsson, Rose-Marie (translator): Two Miners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
An interview with two miners, one in Sudbury, Canada, and one in Sweden.
- Drache, Daniel; Perin, Roberto: Negotiating with a Sovereign Quebec
Resource Type: Book
- Draffan, George: The Corporate Consensus
A Guide to the Institutions of Global Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
A detailed guide to the institutions and corporations which occupy the commanding heights of corporate power in the world today.
- Dragu, Margaret, and Harrison, A.S.A.: Revelations
Essays on Striptease and Sexuality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
A sympathetic look at a much-maligned art form.
- Draitser, Eric: Dark Humor: Western Media Makes Light of Political Repression in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Political repression and violence are allegedly incompatible with Western liberal democratic values. Respect for human rights, freedom of expression, and protection of the rights of minorities are all purportedly the hallmarks of "free societies," the goals toward which all nations should be striving. And yet, such standards of freedom and democracy are only selectively applied, and only when beneficial to the Western (US-UK-EU-NATO) agenda.
- Draitser, Eric: Debunking Obama's Chemical Weapons Case Against the Syrian Government
Fact and Fiction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The "U.S. Government Assessment of the Syrian Government's Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013" is a poorly constructed attempt to justify the politically, militarily, and morally unjustifiable war against Syria.
- Draitser, Eric: The NSA and the Infrastructure of the Surveillance State
In Search of Real Liberty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The NSA’s surveillance and data-gathering activities illustrate the extent to which US intelligence seeks “full-spectrum dominance” in cyberspace.
- Draitser, Eric: Syria and the Left: Time to Break the Silence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The cold, hard reality of the war in Syria is that the violence, bloodshed, and chaos continues unabated while the Left, such as it is, continues on in a state of schizophrenic madness. Different points of view, conflicting ideological tendencies, and a misunderstanding of the reality of the conflict are all relevant issues to be interrogated, with civility and reasoned debate in short supply. The Left does need to seriously self-reflect though about just how it responds to crises of imperialism and issues of war and peace.
- Draitser, Eric: Ukraine, Intervention, and America's Doublethink
High-Motor Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
With the deployment of Russian forces into Crimea and eastern Ukraine, the US-NATO propaganda machine has kicked into high gear. Putin has been portrayed as a tyrannical aggressor, while the Obama administration and its European allies have attempted to stake out the moral high ground, declaring that peace, respect for sovereignty and international law should be the guiding principles. Naturally, such rhetoric warrants closer analysis.
- Draitser, Eric: Ukraine and the Rebirth of Fascism
The Menace Across the European Continent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The violence on the streets of Ukraine is far more than an expression of popular anger against a government. Instead, it is merely the latest example of the rise of the most insidious form of fascism that Europe has seen since the fall of the Third Reich.
- Draitser, Eric: Venezuela's Opposition: Attacking Its Own People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The corporate media would have you believe that Venezuela is a dictatorship on the verge of political and economic collapse; a country where human rights crusaders and anti-government, democracy-seeking activists are routinely rounded up and thrown in jail. Indeed, the picture from both private media in Venezuela, as well as the mainstream press in the US, is one of a corrupt and tyrannical government desperately trying to maintain its grip on power while the opposition seeks much-needed reforms. In fact, the opposite is true.
- Draitser, Eric; Funez, Ramiro S.: Honduras Bleeding
The Coup and Its Aftermath
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
June 28 marked the six year anniversary of the military coup in Honduras -- the day that a democratically elected left wing government was ousted by a US-backed, US-trained cabal of generals and right wing politicians and landowners.
- Dransfeld, Rosie: Who Cares?
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Rosie Dranfeld captures the gritty and dangerous world of Edmonton's sex-trade workers. In this post-Pickton era where the unthinkable is now a gruesome reality, women voluntarily provide police with DNA samples for future identification.
- Draper, Hal: The ABC of National Liberation Movements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
A war is politics continued by other, that is forcible, means. Our attitude toward a war must be congruent with our attitude toward the politics of which it is the continuation. This determines our principled position on the question of whether to support or oppose a given war - not primarily our opinion of the men, the government or the class leading the war, not our opinion of their past or present crimes. The latter considerations will be very relevant to how we support or oppose a war, but not to whether we do.
- Draper, Hal: Adventures of the Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
Draper offers a comprehensive overview of the whole intellectual history of the Manifesto, combined with a new, strictly literal English-language translation. This translation is a major contribution, and the book as a whole is a gem.
- Draper, Hal: Anatomy of the Micro-Sect
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Is there an alternative to the sect mode of organization which dominates the whole history of American socialism, past and present?
- Draper, Hal: Berkeley: The New Student Revolt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
This story of the “free speech” uprising on the Berkeley campus of the University of California was begun in the conviction that an extraordinary event, in an historical sense, had taken place before our startled citizenry; and that it should be described for history as it was.
- Draper, Hal: Civil Liberties in the Fight Against Fascism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1945
Fighting against an evil, like anti-Semitism or racial hatred, does not mean calling on the state to suppress the evil.
- Draper, Hal: The Death of the State in Marx and Engels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Surveys the thinking of Marx and Engels on the 'dying-away' of the state in socialist (communist) society.
- Draper, Hal: The 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' in Marx and Engels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
What did the phrase 'dictatorship of the proletariat' mean to Marx and to his contemporaneous readers?
- Draper, Hal: Hal Draper Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Draper, Hal: How to Defend Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1948
Out of the night of national hatred in Palestine, from the ranks of the working class there, there can arise a real Zion, a Middle East in which Jew and Arab build together a workers, a world without exploitation and oppression.
- Draper, Hal: The 'Inevitability of Socialism'
The Meaning of a Much Abused Formula
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1947
It is our conviction that the socialist revolution will triumph. There is no question of 'equal possibility.' But this conviction is based on an examination of evidence - in the first place, upon our Marxist analysis of the social forces at work, the truth of which, like all human truth, is tested and confirmed only in practice (in struggle). It is not the same as saying that the socialist revolution is inevitable.
- Draper, Hal: Israel's Arab Minority: The Beginning of a Tragedy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1956
Excerpt:
Without in the least derogating this moral indignation at the treatment of the Arab minority, which is richly justified, one aspect of the denunciation misses the mark. The moral indignation should not be visited in the first place against the miserable, harassed, driven Jewish DPs from Europe who, in their fear and need, were used as pawns to grab the land and property of the dispossessed Arabs. They were steered and pushed into this position by those who knew what they were doing - Zionist arms like the Jewish Agency, Zionist authorities in the armed forces and government, both by design and by toleration.
Zionism - the ideology of Jewish chauvinism - showed that it was and is one of the deeply reactionary conceptions of the political world. The child of anti-Semitism, it became the father of another form of ethnic oppression; if genocide means the murder of a people as such, then there should be a word for the robbery of a people as such.
What Zionism created in Palestine in 1948 was the first act of a tragedy.
- Draper, Hal: Israel's Arab Minority: The Great Land Robbery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1957
Something that is disturbing about those Israeli liberals who do tell the truth about the Arab minority is that they tend to pass the guilt off onto the backs of "the Jewish people." They ask how could "the Jewish people" do this to "a helpless minority" when it has itself been the victim of robbery and exploitation and has so often vowed itself to righteousness and justice? One must respect the motives of this breast-beating, but the content is distressing. It was not "the Jewish people" who did this but the Zionist authorities, the Zionist movement, and the Zionist government that bear the responsibility; and the difference is enormous.
- Draper, Hal: Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- Draper, Hal: Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
- Draper, Hal: Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
- Draper, Hal: Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Much of Karl Marx's most important work came out of his critique of other thinkers, including many socialists who differed significantly in their conceptions of socialism. Draper looks at these critiques to illuminate what Marx's socialism was, as well as what it was not.
- Draper, Hal: Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
The real Jewish question in Marx's time was: For or against the political emancipation of the Jews? For or against equal rights for Jews?
- Draper, Hal: Marx-Engels Chronicle, The
A Day-by-Day Chronology of Marx and Engels' Life and Activity. Vol. 1 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
- Draper, Hal: Marx-Engels Glossary, The
Glossary to the Chronicle & Register, & Index to the Glossary. Vol. 2 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
- Draper, Hal: Marx-Engels Register, The
A Complete Bibliography of Marx Engels' Individual Writings. Vol. 3 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
The Marx-Engels Register contains a detailed bibliographical listing of all the individual writings of Marx and Engels. Each entry in the Register gives all the basic data about a given work: English-language title, language of the original text, original-language title (if not English), date and circumstances of writing, date and circumstances of publication, reprints or republications of the original text, etc. The volume alsp provides "Sources and Translations" lists and some appendiices. An inclusive title index provides access to the Register by title alone.
- Draper, Hal: Marx on Democratic Forms of Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Marx's socialism (communism) as a political programme may be most quickly defined, from the Marxist standpoint, as the complete democratization of society, not merely of political forms. For Marx, the fight for democratic forms of government - democratization in the state - was a leading edge of the socialist effort; not its be-all and end-all but an integral part of it all.
- Draper, Hal: Marxism and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
- Draper, Hal: The Myth of Lenin's 'Concept of The Party'
What They Did to What Is To Be Done?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Lenin protested more than once that his initial formulations in WITBD were being distorted and misinterpreted by opponents, after which he went on to clarify and modify. If we want to know Lenin's 'concept of the party' we must look at the formulations he came to, after there had been discussions and attacks.
- Draper, Hal: The Myth of Lenin's 'Revolutionary Defeatism'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1954
Lenin discovered in practice that the defeat-slogan was incompatible with a living Marxist approach to the problem of the defense of the nation, conceived not in the social-patriotic sense of the 'defense of the fatherland' but in the light of a Marxist class understanding of, and a dynamically revolutionary program for, the nation.
- Draper, Hal: The Principle of Self-Emancipation in Marx and Engels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
For Marx and Engels, there was a direct relationship between the revolutionary (literally subversive) nature of their socialism and the principle of emancipation-from-below, the principle that, as Engels wrote, "there is no concern for ... gracious patronage from above."
Marxism, as the theory and practice of the proletarian revolution, therefore also had to be the theory and practice of the self-emancipation of the proletariat. Its essential originality flows from this source.
- Draper, Hal: Socialism from Below
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Essays by Hal Draper on Marxism, democracy, and revolution.
- Draper, Hal: Statement of Principles of the Independent Socialist Club
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1964
Our view of socialism is both democratic and revolutionary, both humanist and working class; and it is only as a revolutionary-democratic movement of opposition to the Establishments that socialism can present a third choice for the world, a choice for a new world of freedom, peace and security.
- Draper, Hal: The Student Movement of the Thirties
A Political History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1965
Most of the references one hears to the student movement of the thirties, and most published references too, are quite wrong in one basic respect: they speak as if 'the thirties' represented a single, homogeneous period for the student movement. But the biggest single fact about the history of this movement is that it went through a sweeping change in spirit, methods, and politics, which changed its face completely in mid-course.
- Draper, Hal: Toward a New Beginning - On Another Road
The Alternative to the Micro-Sect
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
To Marx, any organization was a sect if it set up any special set of view (including Marx's views) as its organizational boundary; if it made this special set of views the determinant of its organizational form.
Neither Marx nor Engels ever formed or wanted to form a Marxist group of any kind - that is, a membership group based on an exclusively Marxist program. All of their organizational activity was pointed along a different road.
- Draper, Hal: The Two Souls of Socialism
Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1960 Published: 1970
It was Marx who finally brought the two ideas of socialism and democracy together, because he developed a theory which made the synthesis possible for the first time. The heart of the theory is this proposition: that there is a social majority which has the interest and motivation to change the system, and that the aim of socialism can be the education and mobilization of this mass-majority. This is the exploited class, the working class, from which comes the eventual motive-force of revolution. Hence, a socialism-from-below is possible, on the basis of a theory that sees the revolutionary potentialities in the broad masses, even if they seem backward at a given time and place. Marxism came into being in self-conscious struggle against the advocates of the Educational Dictatorship, the Savior-Dictators, the revolutionary elitists, the communist authoritarians, as well as the philanthropic dogooders and bourgeois liberals.
- Draper, Hal: Women and Class
Towards a Socialist Feminism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Draper situates the origins of the modern feminist movement in the revolutionary movements of the nineteenth century.
- Draper, Hal: Zionism, Israel, & the Arabs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Essays by Hal Draper on Israel/Palestine, some of them dating to the period before the founding of the state of Israel. Draper argues that only a binational state that recognizes the rights of both peoples can resolve the conflict.
- Draper, Hal; Diamond, Stephen F.: The Hidden History of the Equal Rights Amendment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Origins and history of the debate over the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Feminist supporters of the ERA had been divided over the issue of whether this legislation should be extended to men as part of the ERA or whether a "pure" ERA should be the goal of the feminist movement.
- Draper, Hal; Haberkern, E.: Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume 5: War & Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
The subject of this volume is Marx and Engels' views on the relation between war and revolution. Its thesis is that, over the course of decades, their views on this question changed -- evolved is a better word -- although, in this case as in others, they wrote no definitive statement of their views. Instead, we have a considerable corpus of ad hoc responses to the events of the hour, many of them politically explosive, from which we have to reconstruct, not a line, but an approach. To complicate things further, many of these crises, while they were the news of the day at the time, have since faded from memory.
- Draper, Hal; Lipow, Anne G.: Marxist Women versus Bourgeois Feminism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
The texts presented here are intended to revive acquaintance with a revolutionary women's movement, which was undoubtedly the most important one of its kind that has yet been seen. Yet it has been so thoroughly dropped down the memory hole that even mention of its existence is hard to find.
- Draper, Theodore: American Communism and Soviet Russia
The Formative Period
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1960 Published: 1986
A history of the formative peirod of the American Communist Party.
- Drayden, Dave: WTO Ruling on Dolphin-Safe Tuna Labeling Illustrates Supremacy of Trade Agreements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
International trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) need to be carefully examined piece by piece because they can take precedence over a country's own laws.
- Dreazen, Yochi: Here's what war with North Korea would look like
A full-blown war with North Korea wouldn't be as bad as you think. It would be much, much worse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at the chilling logistics and devastating loss of life a full-blown war between the USA and North Korea would cause.
- Dreier, Christoph: German police declare parts of Hamburg "no-go zone"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Early Saturday morning, police in the northern German city of Hamburg declared the entire district of St. Pauli and large parts of Altona, Eimsbuettel and Sternschanze to be a "no-go zone." The announcement of such a broad "no-go area" is unprecedented in German post-war history. In such areas police officers are entitled to arbitrarily check and search any individual and demand they leave the zone.
- Dreifus, Claudia (ed.): Seizing Our Bodies
The Politics of Women's Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
- Dresser, Sam: The voice of Hobsbawm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at how the work and ideas of influential British Historian Eric Hobsbawm made an entry into the Indian intellectual scene, as well as his involvement in two crucial political and intellectual debates in Brazil that cemented his reputation there.
- Drew, Allison: South Africa's Radical Tradition: A Documentary History, Volume I
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
- Drews, Richard; Kantorowicz Alfred: Verboten und Verbrannt
Deutsche Literatur - 12 Jahre unterdrükt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947
Some of the German writers banned by the Nazis and detailed descriptions of their work.
- Driedger, Diane; Gray, Susan: Imprinting Our Image
An International Anthology by Women with Disabilities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Driedger, Nick: The problem with 1199's 'Advice to Rookie Organizers'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
One of the most widely-circulated statements on organizing is SEIU 1199’s “Advice to rookie organizers,” popularized most recently by Jane McAlevey but originally drafted in 1985 at an SEIU organizing conference. It’s good advice — it’s actually excellent advice for the most part — and I think anyone who takes a hard look at almost any organizing can spot where things went right by how closely it followed this advice and where things went wrong by where it deviated from it.
- Drimonis, Toula: Public transit is a women's issue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Drimonis highlights the problem of sexual harrassment of female passengers and the failure of transit officials to address this problem.
- Drinnon, Richard: Facing West: the Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire Building
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
From John Endicott's war on the Niantics and Pequots, to the horrors of the My Lai massacre, Drinnon illustrates how Indian-hating in the Americas became a national pastime, and how that same hate was turned against the native populations of the Phillipines and Southeast Asia.
- Driver, Alice: US Civil Rights-Era Leader Mary King Says Successful Social Movements Expand Space for Other Struggles
Paper Penned by King Helped to Spark Modern Women's Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Mary King played an important role in helping to advance the struggle for women's rights.
- Droeber, Julia: Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, by Karima Bennoune (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Karima Bennoune, a US-based law scholar raised in Algeria, has written an account of the stories of numerous people whose lives have been scarred by Islamic fundamentalism and who decided, using a variety of means, to put up a fight.
- Dronkers, Pete: What the Catastrophic Aliso Canyon Methane Leak Teaches Us About Our Addiction to Fossil Fuels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
It’s early December, and I'm sitting in a mega-church packed with more than 500 people. They're here to listen to an update on the efforts to contain an enormous natural gas blowout that occurred more than a month before. Gas from the leak is being blown by prevailing winds right into their community of Porter Ranch, in Los Angeles County, CA.
People are mad.
- Drucker, Ernest: A Plague of Prisons
The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Drucker sees prisons as the problem, not the solution.
- Drucker, Peter: Arab Sexualities
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The issue of same-sex sexualities in the Arab world is a political and intellectual minefield, and more so since 9/11 than before. In a bizarre twist, neoconservatives and other rightists who were hostile for decades to the lesbian/gay movement have repackaged themselves as defenders of oppressed Arab women and gays. Responses from the left have been divided.
- Drucker, Peter: Europe's Political Turmoil (Part I)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Far-right parties are gaining ground all over Europe scapegoating immigrants and people of colour. The radical left has not come up with a competitive strategy for winning people over.
- Drucker, Peter: Europe's Political Turmoil -- Part II
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Could the rise of the far right across Europe actually lead to establishing fascist regimes? Overemphasis on this fear may divert attention from where it is needed.
- Drucker, Peter: Europe's Political Turmoil and the Rise of the Far Right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at the recent rise of far-right governments all over Europe and the failure of the left to effectively counter this.
- Drucker, Peter: Gays and the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
The contemporary movement for lesbian/gay liberation was born out of the ferment of the New Left. Its leftist roots were openly acknowledged. Leading theorists identified with one socialist or communist current or another. They acknowledged their debt to Marxism as well as feminism and psychoanalysis. Times have obviously changed. While lesbian/gay movements have grown and won some significant victories in the past quarter-century, the socialist left has shrunk to a shadow of what it was. Unsurprisingly, lesbian/gay spokespeople and theorists are less likely to identify with the anti- capitalist left than they used to be.
- Drucker, Peter: Homonationalism and Queer Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
For most young queers today, still, the image of a "worker" is white, male and straight. You can't understand the realities of class without an intersectional approach - an intersectional approach fused with some of the key insights of contemporary radical queer theory.
- Drucker, Peter: Marxism and the Fate of the European Jews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Enzo Traverso's The Marxists and the Jewish Question; is valuable not only for what it says about Jews in one region or one period, though it is particularly strong on Eastern European Jews and their role in the workers movement in the early 20th century.
- Drucker, Peter: The New Sexual Radicalism
Socialist Feminist Questions About Queer Activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
What are the social origins of queer? Does this current have a vision - whether implicit or explicit - of sexual liberation, and if so, what is it? What is its relationship to such emancipatory projects as feminism, antiracism, global justice and socialism?
- Drucker, Peter: The New Sexual Radicalism
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
From its beginning in the 1990s in the United States, a “queer” activist current has gradually spread to other countries, including in recent years in Western Europe. In decades when the prevailing trend in LGBT movements has been to orient to legal reforms by parliamentary means, queer activism has constituted a third wave of sexual radicalism, emphasizing visibility, difference, direct action, refusal to assimilate to the dominant culture, and the fluidity and diversity of sexual desire.
- Drucker, Peter: Palestinians and the Queer Left
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A book review of Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman.
- Drucker, Peter: Paul Levi: A Luxemburgist Alternative?
A review of In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings of Paul Levi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Among the adversaries of capitalism, some have argued that a revolution could have been achieved differently and better in the spirit of Rosa Luxemburg, who wrote a critique of the Bolsheviks’ undemocratic policies as early as 1918. Paul Levi, Luxemburg’s lawyer, briefly her lover, her follower, and from 1919 to 1921 her successor at the head of German Communism, was the first to defend a Luxemburgist alternative to Bolshevism.
- Drucker, Peter: The Politics of Some Bodies
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Holly Lewis' The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection.
- Drucker, Peter: Remembering the War and the Movement
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
February 28, 1991. Thinking that weeks of war and antiwar organizing were still ahead (not my only mistake during those months!), I took a Canadian vacation at the end of February 1991 with my lover Christopher. On the morning of February 28 I got up in Vancouver in the friend's house where we were staying and went to collect the Globe and Mail from the front stoop.
- Drucker, Peter: Review: The Politics of Some Bodies - On "Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
At a time when Marxist politics is struggling more than ever against the current, queer Marxist scholarship is enjoying a slight, startling, heartening resurgence. Holly Lewis' The Politics of Everybody is a major contribution to the trend.
- Drucker, Peter: Sex and the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The philosophy of the October Revolution contained radical ideas around sexual politics which have been forgotten today. Drawing parallels to today's issues on gender and sexuality could help a new generation get into radical labour politics.
- Drucker, Peter: Toward A Queer Marxism?
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Scholarly approaches to sexuality since the 1980s have become increasingly divorced from practical sexual politics, and both have largely given up on earlier attempts to engage with Marxism. Now this may be changing. A stimulating new book by Kevin Floyd maintains that people in queer studies are paying more attention to Marxism’s “explanatory power.” From the activist side, Sherry Wolf of the International Socialist Organization (ISO) has made an impressive effort to sum up LGBT (lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender) theory and practice from a Marxist perspective.
- Drucker, Peter: Warped
Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Recent victories for LGBT rights have gone faster than most people imagined possible. Yet the accompanying rise of gay 'normality' has been disconcerting for activists with radical sympathies. This book shows how the successive 'same-sex formations' of the past century and a half have led both to the emergence of today's 'homonormativity' and 'homonationalism' and to ongoing queer resistance.
- Drucker, Steven M.: Altered Genes, Twisted Truth
How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Drucker elucidates the scientific facts about genetically engineered foods that the PR myths have been obscuring.
- Druker, Steven M.: The GMO Dark Act Cannot Survive the Light
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
An ardent attempt is afoot on Capitol Hill to prevent states from requiring the labeling of genetically engineered foods – made especially urgent by the fact that Vermont’s labeling bill is set to take effect July 1st.
- Du Bois, W.E.B.: Black Reconstruction
An essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1935
On the role of black Americans during reconstruction.
- Du Bois, W.E.B.: The Education of Black People
Ten Critiques, 1906-1960
Resource Type: Book
Calls for great energy and initiative; for African Americans controlling their own lives, and for continued experimentation and innovation, while keeping education#s fundamentally radical nature in view.
- Du Bois, W.E.B.: The Souls of Black Folk
Essays and Sketches
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1903 Published:
A collection of essays on race which constitutes a seminal work in the history of sociology and a cornerstone of African-American literature.
- Duany, Andres; Plater-Zyberk; Elizabeth, Speck, Jeff: The Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
- Duberman, M.B.; Vicinus, M.; George, C. Jr. (eds): Hidden from History
Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Eessays analyzing the political, philosophical, and social history of homosexuality from the ancient world to the postwar era.
- Duberman, Martin: Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
A history of Black Mountain College (1933-57), an experimental school which pioneered many educational, cultural, and artistic innovations.
- Dubinsky, Joanna: Bush to New Orleans Survivors: "You're On Your Own"
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Like everyone who "got out" before Katrina hit, my exit was a private one. My partner and I took heed of the voluntary evacuation because we had the means to do so. We packed three changes of clothes and our passports, got in our trusty 1998 Ford Escort station wagon with some friends, and left our green-shuttered 100-year-old Victorian shotgun house in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans.
- Dubinsky, Joanna: The Movement Comes to Jena
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
The humid air felt electric as the sun ascended over the hundreds of buses idling a 20-mile stretch of Louisiana Route 49, the gateway to the rural hometown of the Jena 6. It was 6 AM, September 20, 2007 — the day Mychal Bell was initially scheduled to be sentenced for his role in the beating of a white classmate — and northeast central Louisiana, on the border of Mississippi, was looking anything but sleepy.
- Dubinsky, Joanna: An Unfragmented Movement: The People are the City
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Joanna Dubinsky Interviews Shana Griffin. "I'm not interested in developing an action plan to rebuild/organize a people's agenda in New Orleans without a gender analysis and a demand for community accountability."
- Dubinsky, Karen: Lament For a Patriarchy Lost? Anti-Feminism, Anti-Abortion and R.E.A.L. Women in Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
Author Karen Dubinsky, a graduate student of women's studies at Carleton University, focues on the beliefs and rise of the Anti-feminist, anti-abortion new right in Canada.
- Dubinsky, Karen; Krull, Catherine; Lord, Susan; Mills, Sean; Rutherford, Scott: New World Coming
The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
- Dubofsky, Melvyn: We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
A history of the militant labour organization founded in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World.
- Dubos, Rene: Mirage of Health
Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959 Published: 1979
Dubos attempts to show that while it may be comforting to imagine a life free of stresses and strains in a carefree world, this will remain an idle dream. Humans cannot hope to find another Paradise on earth, because paradise is a static concept while human life is a dynamic process.
- Duffy, Ann; Pupo, Norene: Part-time Paradox: Connecting Gender, Work and Family
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Tthe authors discuss whether the over-representation of women in part-time labour is exploitive or liberating. They present interviews and original research to describe the ways in which alternative work forms simultaneously challenge and reinforce traditional gender roles.
- Duffy, Sean (ed.): The Macmillian Atlas of Irish History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
A full-colour atlas of Irish history.
- Dufresne, Michael: Let's Not Be Cremated Equal
The combined Universites Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1959 - 1967
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published in The Sixties in Canada: A Turbulent and Creative Decade, M. Athena Palaeologu ed. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2009
- Dugard, John: Israel's Crimes, America's Silence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
To date, too little mention has been made of investigations that show there is sufficient evidence to bring charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Israel's political and military leadership for their actions in Gaza. Recently, two comprehensive independent reports have been published on Gaza, and earlier this month a mission mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, and chaired by South African Richard Goldstone, visited Gaza to conduct a further investigation into Israel's offensive....
- Duhamel, Phillippe: The Whole World Stopped Watching
"Diversity of Tactics", Repression, and the RNC protests in St. Paul, Minnesota (Part I)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
I must engage those of my activist friends who believe in the "Diversity of Tactics" framework, the now established modus operandi of summit and convention protests. I have come to believe a sorry record of repeated protest failures must be laid squarely at the foot of this ideologically tainted utopia.
- Dujon, Veronica: Women and Global Capitalism
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Women are affected in unique ways by current forms of global economic integration. Their experiences, concerns and needs must be a central part of the groundwork for understanding and transforming this global economy.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: "Culture", Science and State-Capitalism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
Neither culture nor science can lead lives separate from the economic realities of the societies which nurture them. Science and culture, even as they are procliamed to be the harbingers of revolutionary change, are being used today by the existing social order to preserve itself.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: The Double Tragedy of Che Cuevara
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1967
To prepare themselves for the uphill struggle on two fronts it becomes necessary to also have a clear head, that is to say, a revolutionary theory, fully integrated with the self-activity of the masses. It is for this reason that we must not blind ourselves to the double tragedy of Guevara's death. Bravely he lived and bravely he died, but he did not do in Bolivia what he had done in Cuba: relate himself to the masses. Guevara's isolation from the mass movement arose from a certain concept of guerrilla warfare as a substitute for social revolution.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: Dunayevskaya, Raya - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-1987).
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: Economic reality and dialectics of liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
To work out a NEW relationship between theory and practice, a methodology is needed which is independent of existing state powers but rather flows from THE greatest "energizing principle" - the mass quest for universality, the Third World fight for freedom, TOTAL freedom, [which] refuses to subordinate the fight against class structure WITHIN a country to any "two camp theory" as if the struggle between the "East" and the "West" is the one that will liberate "The Wretched of the Earth."
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: The Free Speech Movement and the Negro Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1965
It is, of course, true that it was contact with the Negro people that inspired the Berkeley revolt. It is, however, also true that the Berkeley revolt, followed by the teach-ins, in turn, changed the climate for free speech on the pivotal question of war and peace for the whole country.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya: Miners inspired Marxist-Humanism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The dialectic of the 1949-50 Miners' General Strike, as it transformed from a Lewis-authorized strike that already had lasted some six months into a challenge to John L. Lewis himself, laid the ground for new ways of thinking.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: Grave contradictions of 1979 Iranian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
In what proletarian revolution, exactly, was the taking of hostages, and not the rulers, but some fairly low embassy personnel, held to be a revolutionary tactic? Since when has war and revolution been made synonymous? Isn't it about time that Marxist revolutionaries labeled Khomeini's endless repetition of "we are men of war" "looking forward to martyrdom" for what it is by citing Marx, who wrote that Napoleon, the ultimate COUNTER-revolutionary, "substituted permanent war for permanent revolution"?
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: Marxism and Freedom
From 1776 to Today
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958 Published: 2000
Dunayevskaya argues that Marx's theory is the generalisation of the instinctive striving of the proletariat for a new social order, a truly human society.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: Marxist-Humanism's concept of 'Subject'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Transcendence has, in academia, both a theological and philosophic meaning far removed from practice. But transcendence as a historic category means people abolishing the old, creating the new; indeed it is the only real transcendence; all else is hogwash.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: Marxs Humanism Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1965
The 1844 Manuscripts didn't just pave the way for scientific socialism. Humanism wasn't just a stage Marx passed through on his voyage of discovery to scientific economics or real revolutionary politics. Humanist philosophy is the very foundation of the integral unity of Marxian theory, which cannot be fragmented into economics, politics, sociology, much less identified with the Stalinist monolithic creation.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: Marx's unchaining of the dialectic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: On the anniversary of the birth of Erich Fromm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
The many articles that poured forth in 1980 when Erich Fromm died on March 18 all praised him only as a "famous psychoanalyst." The press, by no accident at all, failed to mention that he was a Socialist Humanist. Moreover, in writing MARX'S CONCEPT OF MAN (which succeeded in introducing Marx's Humanist Essays to a wide American public), and in editing the first international symposium on SOCIALIST HUMANISM, he did so, not as an academician, but as an activist.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: Outline of Marx's Capital Volume I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Marxism is wrongly considered to be a new "political economy." It is true that, loosely speaking, even Marxists refer to Marx's analysis of capitalist production as Marxian political economy But Marxian political economy is, in reality, a critique of the very foundations of political economy, which is nothing else than the bourgeois mode of thought of the bourgeois mode of production.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: Philosophy and Revolution
From Hegel to Sartre, and from Marx to Mao
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973 Published: 1989
Dunayevskaya argues in favour of a re-evaluation of the theoretical philosophy of Hegel and its application by Marx and the later Lenin to the history of mankind.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection: Marxist-Humanist Archives
Resource Type: Website
The papers of Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-1987), a Marxist theoretician know for her contributions to Marxist-Humanism.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: Revisiting 'Black Power,' Race and Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1967
There is no such suprahistorical abstraction as racism. In each historical period it was something different. It was one thing during slavery, another during Reconstruction, and quite something else today. To further insist that "Whatever their political persuasion," "All Whites" are "part of the collective white America" so that the U.S. has "180 million racists" is to blur the class line which cuts across the race divisions as well as to muffle the philosophy of total freedom which has created a second America.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: The roots of anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1960
There are reasons why the discrimination against a certain race suddenly bursts forth into the lynching of an individual Negro. There are reasons why discrimination against another race takes the form, in late 19th century France, of a single wronged individual as happened in the military conspiracy against Dreyfus, whereas in another country, like Tsarist Russia, it took the form of anti-Jewish pogroms.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981 Published: 1982
Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: Rough Notes on Hegel's Science of Logic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1961
Completed by Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-1987) on Jan. 26, 1961, these Notes comprise one of the few studies by a Marxist covering the whole of Hegel's Logic.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: State-Capitalism and Marx's Humanism or Philosophy and Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1967
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: The Theory of Alienation: Marx's Debt to Hegel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1965
One hundred years before Hiroshima, Marx wrote, "To have one basis for science and other for life is a priori, a lie." We have lived this lie for so long that the fate of civilization, not merely rhetorically, but literally, is within orbit of a nuclear ICBM. Since the very survival of mankind hangs in the balance between the East's and the West's nuclear terror, we must, this time, under the penalty of death, unite theory and practice in the struggle for freedom, thereby abolishing the division between philosophy and reality and giving ear to the urgency of "realizing" philosophy, i.e., of making freedom a reality.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: Today's Epigones Who Try to Truncate Marx's Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Far from 'ownership' alone determining the class relationship, Marx, from his first break with bourgeois society in 1843, through his leadership in the Workingmen's (First) International Association in 1864, to his death in 1883, never varied from 'dead labor dominating living labor' as the determinant of capitalism.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a Capitalist Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1941
To prove that the particular state-monopoly capitalism existing in Russia did not come about through state trustification but by methods of social revolution explains its historic origin but does not prove that its economic law of motion differs from that analyzed by Karl Marx, Engels and Lenin. It is high time to evaluate "the economic law of motion of modem society" as it applies to the Soviet Union and not merely to retain for statified property the same "superstitious reverence" the opportunists entertained for the bourgeois state.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: The uniqueness of Marxist-Humanism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1963
The uniqueness of Marxist-Humanism lies also in this: that despite all theoretic contributions and singleness of purpose in achieving total freedom, it asks to be "taken over" by the masses, to be subjected to the daily and long-range tests, so long only as the UNITY of theory and practice, worker and intellectual, technologically backward and technologically advanced economies, all merge in order never to stop short of "the ultimate": the new society, the new human dimension, the incorporation within the individual of all of his mental and manual talents.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: What has happened to the Iranian revolution?
Has it already run its course into its opposite, counter-revolution? Or can it be saved and deepened?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
The Iranian Revolution has not yet run its course. The Iranian masses have not had their last word.
- Dunayevskaya, Raya: Women's liberation, then and now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
- Dunayevskaya, Raya [F. Forest]: Luxemburg's Theory of Accumulation
How it Differed with Marx and Lenin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1946
Dunayevskaya argues that Luxemburg was on the wrong track in her attempt to revise the conclusions of Marx's Capital.
- Dunbar Ortiz, Rosana: Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, Blood on the Border is Dunbar-Ortiz's firsthand account of the decade-long dirty war pursued by the Contras and the United States against the people of Nicaragua.
- Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne: The Grid of History: Cowboys and Indians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
"American" supremacy and populist imperialism are inseparable from the content of the U.S. origin story and the definition of patriotism in the United States today.
- Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Dunbar-Ortiz challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them.
- Duncan, Brad: Fred Ho, Presente!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A tribute to saxophonist, composer, and revolutionary Marxist activist Fred Ho, who was an active member of the Jazz and radical left-movements.
- Duncan, Brad: The H-Block Struggle - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Book review of "Smashing H Block: The Rise and Fall of the Popular Campaign Against Criminalization, 1976-1982" by F. Stuart Ross.
- Duncan, Brad: Incarceration and Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Book reviews of Dan Berger's two works Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era and The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States.
- Duncan, Brad: New Fight to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
In 2011, after years of international protest, Mumia's 1981 death sentence (following his wrongful conviction for killing a Philadelphia police officer) was rescinded allowing him to enter the general prison population. Although this was a major victory for the movement to win his freedom, it brought its own set of issues.
- Duncan, Brad: Utah Phillips 1935-2008
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Bruce “Utah" Phillips, who died in May 2008, was a living, singing museum of radical working-class culture. Through his songs and stories he connected three generations to the living memory of class struggle martyrs, hobo lore and life, and the pacifists and anarchists of the early 20th century. In addition to being a world beloved folksinger and performer, Phillips spent time as a peace campaigner, a freight train hopper, and a union organizer. Phillips will be best remembered for his countless renditions of the songs of Joe Hill and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the Wobblies.
- Duncan, Brad: Portrait of an Icon
Review of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A review of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public Radical by Judith E. Smith.
- Duncan, Brad: Turbulent 1970s Revisited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Book reviews of Michael Simanga's Amiri Baraka and the Congress of African People: History and Memory, and Aaron J. Leonard's and Conor A. Gallagher's Heavy Radicals:
The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists: The Revolutionary Union/
Revolutionary Communist Party, 1968-1980.
- Duncan, Brad; Williams, Charles: The 1970s: Finally Got the News!
Charles Williams interviews Brad Duncan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Interview with Brad Duncan, editor of Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979.
- Duncan, Don: Shooting Back
Young Palestinians With Cameras
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
For the past three years, Btselem, the Israeli human rights NGO, has provided cameras and training to young Palestinians as part of its camera distribution project, to collect video evidence of abuses and misconduct by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
- Duncan, Norman & Coldwell Adams, John (ed): Selected Stories of Norman Duncan
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
- Duncombe, Stephen: Cultural Resistance
A Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
From the retributive fantasies of Robin Hoods to those of gangsta rappers, culture has long been used as a political weapon.This reader brings together many of the classic texts that help to define culture as a tool of resistance.
- Dunham, Barrows: Thinkers and Treasurers
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1955 Published: 1960
- Dunk, Thomas; McBride, Stephen; Nelsen, Randle W.: The Training Trap
Ideology, Training and the Labour Market
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
A collection of essays examines changes in the Canadian labour market with respect to education, training, and unemployment.
- Dunnington, C.: Why the Leninists will lose
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
The Leninist groups may still have the ability to disrupt the left, but they are long past the point of being able to achieve any kind of success in their own right.
- Dunt, Ian: The evidence that Israel deliberately targeted hospitals and ambulances
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Amnesty International has published evidence that Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) specifically targeted hospitals, health workers and ambulance personnel during the attack on Gaza.
- Duran, Franci; Gibson, Hugh; Betswoth, Marc; Van Borek, Aaron: Doctors with Borders
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2005
The story of four foreign trained doctors who are struggling to become licensed to practise medicine in Ontario.
- Duran, Raul Garcia: Marx is dead, long live Marx!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Duran describes 1968 as an an "ideological revolution which unquestionably affected the dominant revolutionary ideology, Marxism, and here begins my contribution, which I will divide into two large sections: an account of the situation in Spain, and then the rebirth of
Marxism, and why we can say: 'Long live Marx!'"
- Durel, Steven: Chomsky on Civil Liberties, Obama and the Future of Progressive Politics
Left of Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Interview with America's premier political dissident Noam Chomsky.
- Durgan, Andy & Sans, Joel: "No one represents us": the 15 May movement in the Spanish state
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
On 15 May 2011 thousands of people, mainly young, demonstrated all over the Spanish state under the slogans "For real democracy now" and "We are not commodities in the hands of politicians and bankers". The demonstrations explicitly rejected the participation of political parties or trade unions.
- Durning, Alan: Safe streets
Not pedaling can kill you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Not pedaling can kill you.
- Dutt, Saurav: Remembering the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look back at the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of April 13, 1919, where British colonial forces opened fire on peaceful Indian protesters. The massacre stands as a pivotal moment in Indian history that laid bare the true face of British Imperialism.
- Dutt, Srikant: India and the Third World
Altruism or Hegemony?
Resource Type: Book
A study of Indian foreign policy concentrating on the political and economic forces which shaped the country's external relations.
- Dutton, Geoff: Cutting Cords to Kurds: Facebook's Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The recent deletion and suspension of Facebook accounts of Kurdish supporters provides further troubling evidence that the popular social media company has been censoring the Kurdish resistance for the past five years.
- Dutton, Geoff: Talking Trash: Unfortunate Truths About Recycling
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A deep dive into the mechanics of recycling and why it isn't a panacea for our environmental problems.
- Dutton, William H.: Fake news, echo chambers and filter bubbles: Underresearched and overhyped
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
In the early years of the internet, it was revolutionary to have a world of information just a click away from anyone, anywhere, anytime. Many hoped this inherently democratic technology could lead to better-informed citizens more easily participating in debate, elections and public discourse.
- DuVernay, Ava (director): Selma (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
A 2014 historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay, based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by James Bevel, Hosea Williams, and Martin Luther King, Jr. of SCLC and John Lewis of SNCC.
- Dwyer, Peter; Zeilig, Leo: Marxism, class and revolution in Africa: the legacy of the 1917 Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
This article assesses the influence of 1917 on African liberation movements and explains how it influenced struggles against and beyond colonialism.
- Dyakonova, Daria: The dawn of our liberation: The early days of the International Communist Women's Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
An examination of the early days of the international Communist Women's Movement (CWM). The article focuses on three points in particular: the CWM's ideas on women's emancipation, the relationship with non-communist women's movements and the problematic relationship with male comrades.
- Dyer, Herb: Florida Sheriff Tells Drivers to Run over Street Protesters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Sheriff of Florida's Palm Beach County tells residents to use their vehicles as weapons against protesters who may be blocking their path.
- Dyke, James; Watson, Robert; Knorr, Wolfgang: Climate Scientists: 'Net Zero' is a dangerous trap
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
The only way to keep humanity safe is by immediately and radically cutting emissions in a socially just way.
- Dyson, Nancy; Ruberstein, Dan: St. Michael's Residential School: Lament and Legacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
St. Michael’s Residential School: Lament and Legacy is a moving narrative -- told by two caregivers who experienced on a daily basis the degradation of Indigenous children.
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