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- Maass, Alan: The Case for Socialism
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2005 Published: 2010 An argument for socialism: a society built from the bottom up through the struggles of ordinary people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice -- one in which people come before profit. A society based on the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.
- Maass, Peter: Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2009 Investigation of oil as major driver in the power dynamics of the world, and of the 'oil curse', which seems to make the countries that export it poorer, not richer.
- Maass, Peter: Destroyed by the Espionage Act
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Story of why Stephen Kim, former U.S. State Department expert, was imprisoned for an Espionage Act charge.
- Maass, Peter: Inside NSA, Officials Privately Criticize 'Collect It All' Surveillance
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 As Members of Congress struggle to agree on which surveillance programs to re-authorize before the Patriot Act expires, they might consider the unusual advice of an intelligence analyst at the National Security Agency who warned about the danger of collecting too much data.
- Maass, Peter: Petraeus Plea Deal Reveals Two-Tier Justice System for Leaks
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 David Petraeus, the former Army general and CIA director, admitted today that he gave highly-classified journals to his onetime lover and that he lied to the FBI about it. But he only has to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor that will not involve a jail sentence thanks to a deal with federal prosecutors.
- Maass, Peter: The Whistleblower's Tale
How Jeffrey Sterling Took on the CIA — and Lost Everything Resource Type: Article A CIA officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for whistleblowing and filing lawsuits of racial discrimination against the CIA. This is a story of a man who was beaten down and stood back up just to be beaten down again.
- Maass, Peter: The Whistleblower's Tale
How Jeffrey Sterling Took on the CIA-- and Lost Everything Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 This is how it ended for Jeffrey Sterling. A former covert officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, Sterling sat down in a federal courtroom with a lawyer on either side, looking up at a judge who would announce in a few moments whether he would go to prison for the next 20 years.
- Maass, Peter; Poitras, Laura: Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 The National Security Agency has had agents in China, Germany, and South Korea working on programs that use “physical subversion” to infiltrate and compromise networks and devices, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.
- Maathai, Wangari: Wangari Maathai Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Mabie, Nora: Rural Americans and the Language Too Many People Use to Talk About Them
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 With the rural-urban divide more pronounced now than it has been in generations, the author takes a closer look at the derogatory language too many people use, as well their meaning and contradictions.
- Mac Uaid, Liam: Muslims in Britain: After the London Bombs
Against The Current vol. 118 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2005 Whitechapel Market is in the heart of George Galloway’s Bethnal Green (London) constituency, packed every Saturday wiith traders selling low priced fruit, unreliable electrical goods and cheap cigarettes.
- Mac Uaid, Liam: A Rejoinder on Respect
Against The Current vol. 113 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2004 Respect has provided a place in the political ecosystem for those with an inclination to substitute anecdote and slander for an analysis of what’s happening in British politics today. Bywater and Ismail have chosen to make this their habitat.
- MacAdam, Murray: Faith in Action: The Canadian Churches' Ecumenical Coalitions for Social Justice
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1995 Sponsored by the major Canadian churches and working in areas ranging from international development, refugees and human rights issues abroad, to native concerns and poverty in Canada, the ecumenical coalitions working on social justice issues are a remarkable example of faith in action, faith which has made mission real for thousands of Canadians.
- MacAdam, Murray: From Corporate Greed to Common Good
Canadian Churches and Community Economic Development Resource Type: Book First Published: 1998 Provides suggestions for individuals or groups who wish to sponsor and participate in community economic initiatives such as self-employment training and co-operatively-owned business.
- MacAdam, Murray: Making Waves
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1984 Making Waves tells the history of Grindstone Island, first as an active summer home, then as a peace education centre run by the Quakers, and finally the present co-operative centre.
- MacAdam, Murray: Making Waves: The Grindstone Story
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1984
- Macaray, David: America Soon to Become a Corporate North Korea?
Stacking the Deck Against Working People Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Given the power American corporations have, anyone who believes he couldn’t be turned into a North Korean is lying to himself.
- Macaray, David: Are These the Keystone Cops?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 The CIA owes its vaunted reputation to one source: Hollywood’s movie studios. The way the movies portray America's clandestine services goes so far beyond mere "exaggeration" or embellishment, it verges on outright hero worship, stubbornly confusing James Woolsey with James Bond. Alas, if our intel-gathering networks were a fraction as accomplished as Hollywood portrays them to be, we wouldn’t have been mired in Vietnam or Iraq.
- Macaray, David: The Art of Lying
"Yes, That Was My Penis" and Other Ticklish PR Challenges Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 People in the public eye should have learned enough from past blunders to come up with a different strategy when asked potentially damaging questions.
- Macaray, David: Disenfranchisement as Political Repression
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 In the U.S., if you're caught boosting cars, robbing liquor stores, or attempting to escape reality by injecting heroin into your veins, you not only go to jail, but you lose your right to vote. And you don't just lose it for the time you're incarcerated; it's still gone when you get out.
- Macaray, David: Eat Pray Love Strike
The Law of the Bargaining Table Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 We admire underdogs, yet we do not rejoice when underdogs go on strike against corporate fat cats. We admire hard-workers, yet we do not embrace those who are, arguably, the hardest-workers among us - the stoop laborers who pick our lettuce and strawberries.
- Macaray, David: Fear and Trembling in the Workplace
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Organized labour is desperately in need of a major facelift. The AFL-CIO needs to hire the best public relations firm in the land, pay them what they ask, do exactly as they say, and get busy educating the American public.
- Macaray, David: Goodbye "Norma Rae"
Eulogy for Crystal Lee Sutton, Labor Hero Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Crystal Lee Sutton was a genuine hero. She will forever be remembered as one of the champions of organized labor, right up there with the Joe Hills, Bill Haywoods and Emma Goldmans.
- Macaray, David: Idiot Bosses and Valiant Women
Labor and Capital in Actual Practice Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 "No matter what the enterprise, most employees know who the hard workers are, even though it's not their job to know. They know who hustles, pitches in and lends a hand, who goofs off and avoids work, and who strives to keep the operation going by performing those thankless little tasks that don't necessarily get noticed by management." This piece looks at a specific case of a boss benifting from the hard work of their employees who gained nothing.
- Macaray, David: In Ten Years, We Will Have Zero Privacy
Spying on Consumers Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 When we consider the “progress” that has been made in the ability to delve into the private lives of consumers, it’s terrifying. They know where we shop, where we vacation, what we buy, what we read, what we watch on television, and what we visit on the Internet.
- Macaray, David: India's Autoworkers Behaving Like the Old UAW
The Real Deal Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 While it's true that international banks and corporations have their slimy tentacles in everything from foreign governments to foreign armies, the world's workers have two weapons of their own. One is the crippling, paralyzing effect of no-go dockworkers. The other is the logistical potential of the Internet.
- Macaray, David: It's Never Been Easy
Essays on Modern Labor Resource Type: Book First Published: 2009 Most of the labor essays included here were written over the last seven years and appeared originally in various publications, including CounterPunch, The Exception Magazine, Liberalati, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, State of Nature, and Synthesis/Regeneration. This book is dedicated to working men and women everywhere, but particularly to the members of America's labor unions' those individuals who carry out the work, solve the problems, make it happen, but who, alas, rarely share in the treasure or glory.
- Macaray, David: Mental Illness in the Workplace
It Still Haunts Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013
- Macaray, David: On a Cross of Coal
How Massey Crucified Miners Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 Federal investigators investigated the Massey mine disaster in which 29 miners died discovered that Massey Energy was keeping two sets of books (safety logs). One log reflected actual mine conditions, which, alas, were demonstrably unsafe, and the other log was a fictionalized showpiece, a veritable Potemkin village, used to mislead government safety inspectors.
- Macaray, David: On the Nature of Police
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Having a group of reluctant citizens charged with the enormous responsibility that came with being a cop was preferable.
- Macaray, David: The Passing of Ronnie Gilbert
A Great Woman Has Died Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Ronnie Gilbert, an original member of the legendary folk group, the Weavers, has died .
- Macaray, David: They Are Still Killing Trade Union Leaders
Global Capital's Death Squads and Night-Riders Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 Question: So what happens these days in developing countries when a prominent, charismatic union activist - with the courage to stand up to sinister, government-supported business groups who have, on more than one occasion, already threatened his life - attempts to get the country’s underpaid, under-benefited workers to join a labor union? Answer: They kill him.
- Macaray, David: Three Ways Labor Can Fight Back
Time to Declare War Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 Unions need to streamline their message, make it less cerebral and more visceral.
- Macaray, David: The UAW vs. Indian Casinos
Which Side Are You On Boys Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 The issues raised by Indian gambling casinos and their opposition to labour unions.
- Macaray, David: Unless Union Workers Can Strike, They're Dead
Level the Playing Field Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 The strike is workers' only viable weapon. Why? Because it, and it alone, immediately affects the company’s profits. Without labour, they're crippled.
- Macaray, David: Where It All Began: The Dawn of 'Fake News'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 While today's political smear campaigns and propaganda have gotten more sophisticated and subtle, the underlying ethics remain as maggoty as ever.
- Macaray, David: The Whistle-Blower as Deep Mole
Spying on Malfeasance Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 There’s an intriguing idea based loosely on the turn-of-the-century union practice of "salting" a workplace. Salting consists of union activists secretly hiring into an anti-union shop in order to promote unionism from within.
- Macaray, David: Why Workplace "Accidents" Happen
Safety Costs Money Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Many industrial and manufacturing companies resort to almost any means (some of them not entirely legal) to dissuade employees from joining a union because besides having to offer higher wages and improved benefits (and giving employees a voice in how they’re treated by management), they are required to provide a safe work environment. Safety costs money and every company is interested in saving money.
- Macdonald, Alex: Alex in Wonderland
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1993
- Macdonald, Barbara; Rich, Cynthia: Look Me in the Eye
Old Woman, Aging, and Ageism Resource Type: Book First Published: 1985 About ageism, aging, and the inevitability and imminence of death.
- MacDonald, Bryan: Confessions of a (verified) Russia-linked Twitter Bot
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Twitter's defines any user who has "ever logged in, at any time, from Russia" as being "Russia-linked." This is taking the new McCarthyism to ridiculous levels.
- Macdonald, David: Tim's + BK = $ for Canada right? Wrong! (in one table)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Big news today that Burger King, a US company, is planning to buy Tim Horton's, a Canadian one. This is another in a string of 'tax inversion' deals where US corporations move their corporate headquarters from the US to elsewhere to avoid US taxation. They don't actually change anything or move anyone outside of their accounting fairyland. Instead, they just check some different boxes on their income tax forms and 'poof' save millions in taxes.
- Macdonald, Dwight: Against the American Grain
Essays on the Effects of Mass Culture Resource Type: Book First Published: 1962 Critical essays on American culture.
- Macdonald, Dwight: Kronstadt Again
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1939 Serge charges that, after the rebels had been disarmed, there was a general massacre of prisoners. And that such as were not shot down on the spot were executed in batches by the Cheka, after secret trials, for some weeks after the uprising had been completely crushed.
- Macdonald, Dwight: Once More: Kronstadt
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1938 I admire Trotsky and accept many of his theories. An article like this - essentially a piece of special pleading, however brilliant - makes it harder to defend Trotsky from the often-made accusation that his thinking is sectarian and inflexible.
- MacDonald, Dwight: Politics
Essays on Political Criticism Resource Type: Book
- Macdonald, Dwight: Politics Past
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1958 Published: 1970 A collection of essays by Dwight Macdonald.
- MacDonald, Heidi: We Shall Persist
Women and the Vote in the Atlantic Provinces Resource Type: Book First Published: 2023
- Macdougal, Charlie: You Need Imagination in the Hole
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1969 An edited transcript of Clay Borris's interview with 18-year-old Charlie Macdougal on his experiences growing up in prison.
- MacDougall, Ian: Empty Suits
Defamation law and the price of dissent Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at lawsuits filed by companies that are intended to censor, intimidate, and silence dissenters by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense- known as SLAPP or strategic lawsuits against public participation.
- MacDougall, Kate: How to Lobby Like a Pro
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1997 To reach government with your message you need to lobby like the professionals do.
- MacEgan, Matthew: Police State: US Government-Funded Database Created to Track "Subversive Propaganda" Online
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 The creation of the Truthy database by Indiana University researchers has drawn sharp criticism from free-speech advocates and others concerned over government censorship of political expression.
- MacEwan, Paul: Miners and Steelworkers
Labour in Cape Breton Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1976
- Machel, Samora: Samora Machel: An African Revolutionary
Selected Speechs and Writings Resource Type: Book First Published: 1987 The first selection in English of Samora Machel's speeches since Mozambique's independence in 1975. Among the themes he addresses in this selection are party-state relations since liberation, economic reconstruction, reorganizing health and education services toe serve the people, and the position of women. Dr. Munslow, the Editor, contributes a biography of President Machel, and highlights his relevance for all African societies.
- Machida, Robert: Eritrea
Struggle for Independence Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989 One of the longest and most bitter nationalist struggles in Africa is being fought in Eritrea. The Horn of Africa has been the scene of tremendous levels of political upheaval, famine and intermittent war. At the centre of these regional problems is the question of the rights of self-determination of various submerged nationalities. The Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict is perhaps the most costly human tragedy to afflict the region in the last quarter century.
- Machover, Moshe: Mainspring of the Arab Revolt
A review of Lineages of Revolt by Adam Hanieh Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 This book ought to be read — or better, studied — by every socialist interested in the Middle East.
- Machover, Moshé: Lineages of the Arab Revolt
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 A review of "Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East" by Adam Hanieh.
- Machover, Moshé: Zionism and Anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 What is the meaning of Zionism today, almost 70 years after the formation of Israel, and why is it such a buzzword? Are we talking here about a particular form of nationalism or is it something a little bit more complex? What is its agenda?
- MacInnis, Joseph (ed.): Saving the Oceans
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1992 This collection of writings from experts from around the world examines how the oceans are necessary to life on Eath, and what is being done by scientists and environmentalists to save them.
- Macintosh, Rob: Education for the TurnAround Decade: The Environmentally Friendly School
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1990
- Macintosh, Rob (ed): Canadian Peace Educators' Directory
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1987
- MacIntyre, Gertrude Anne (ed.): Active Partners
Education and Local Development Resource Type: Book First Published: 1996 Discusses the crucial role of schools as mediators between national and international trends and community initiatives towards sustainable development.
- MacInyre, Gertrude Anne (ed.): Perspectives on Communities
A Community Economic Development Roundtable Resource Type: Book First Published: 1999 Essays describing various aspects of community economic development, including technology, human resources, financing and organizational structure.
- Mackaman, Tom: Slavery and the American Revolution: A Response to the New York Times 1619 Project
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In its insistence that race -- which has no basis in science -- is the determinative category of both the present and past, the 1619 Project shares the most basic premise of the white supremacists and fascists that are being set into motion by the Trump administration.
- Mackaman,Tom: An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York Times' 1619 Project
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 I was surprised, as many other people were, by the scope of this thing, especially since it's going to become the basis for high school education and has the authority of the New York Times behind it, and yet it is so wrong in so many ways.
- Mackay, Anson: The Vanishing of the Aral Sea
From Lake to Wasteland Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 The Aral Sea has reached a new low, literally and figuratively. New satellite images from NASA show that, for the first time in its recorded history, its largest basin has completely dried up.
- MacKay, Claire; Illustrated by Peters, Eric: Pay Cheques & Picket Lines
All About Unions in Canada Resource Type: Book First Published: 1987 A children's book which explains what unions are, how they came to be, and why they exist.
- MacKenzie, Jess; Tate, Ernie: Resistance on the Mexican 'Riviera': The Zapatistas Visit Manzanillo, Colima
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2006
- Mackey, Robert: Images of Militarized Police in Baton Rouge Draw Global Attention
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Photographs and video of heavily armed police officers wearing body armour and helmets arresting protesters in Baton Rouge over the weekend reverberated on social networks and in the world's media, focusing new attention on the militarization of police forces across the United States.
- MacKillop, Barry and Clarke, Michelle: Safer Tommorrows Begin Today
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989
- MacKinnon, Hannah: Lockdown: the end of growth in the tar sands
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Climate change is here and now. And if world leaders had heeded scientific warnings 30 years ago, 20 years ago, 10 years ago, or even as recently as the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 -- it's possible we would be well on our way to securing the decarbonized future that the world desperately needs.
- Mackler, Jeff: Demonizing Edward Snowden
Obama Goes Beyond Orwell Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Edward Snowden’s revelations have gone a long way to lifting the veil of secrecy and foul play that is the norm in capitalist America. He has hastened the time when BIG BROTHER’S rules of engagement — and all forms of ruling-class oppression — are brought to an end forever.
- Mackler, Jeff: The Extraordinary Lynne Stewart
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Remembering Lynne Stewart, who died on March 12, 2017.
- Mackler, Jeff: The National Security State Exposed
Obama v. Snowden Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Snowden disclosed orders demanding that all of the nation’s internet providers allow for secretly conducted, and ongoing government sweep of phone calls, audio and video chats, e-mails, photographs, and other communications used daily by American citizens.
- Mackler, Jeff: Trump's 'No Fly Zone' Escalates U.S. War Against Syria
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The June 18th destruction of a Syrian government aircraft by a U.S. fighter jet underscores the fact that U.S. and its imperial allies in Syria will attack any and all forces that seek to interfere with U.S. imperialist objectives.
- MacLean, Brian K.: Out of Control
Canada in an Unstable Financial World Resource Type: Book First Published: 1999
- MacLean, Eleanor: Between the Lines
How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life Resource Type: Book First Published: 1981 An exploration of medthods of "dec-doing" our daily newspapers and radio/TV news. Examines our predominant sources of information (mass media) and indicates the existence of many alternative sources of informaiton.
- MacLean, James; LePage, Marc: It's a Small World for Noranda
Atlantic Issues Vol.3, No.2 - Periodical profile published 1979 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1979 This "feature" in vol. 3, No. 2 of Atlantic Issues deals with the presence of Noranda in New Brunswick and Chile.
- Maclean, John: The War after the War
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1918 Published: 1973
- Macleod, Alan: As Coronavirus Grips The US, Americans Get A Taste Of Life Under Sanctions
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Across fifty states, Americans are collectively bracing for the incoming COVID-19 pandemic to hit. In the face of the virus, people are resorting to panic buying, stocking up on vital foods and goods, leading to pressing shortages of key products like hand sanitizer and toilet paper.
- Macleod, Alan: Big Tech Firms Are Using Automation To Censor News About Coronvirus
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Big tech is again attempting to define the range of acceptable political discussion on its platforms; this week YouTube announced a number of changes in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, chief among those being that automated systems, rather than humans, will predominantly be authorizing or removing content in the foreseeable future.
- Macleod, Alan: Big Tech Firms are Using Automation to Censor News About the Coronavirus
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Big tech is again attempting to define the range of acceptable political discussion on its platforms; this week YouTube announced a number of changes in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, chief among those being that automated systems, rather than humans, will predominantly be authorizing or removing content in the foreseeable future.
- Macleod, Alan: Corporations and Military Powers Are Selling Phony "Wokeness" on International Women's Day
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 It was a familiar sight March 8, 2020 on International Women’s Day, as military contractors and other giant corporations used the holiday to attempt to associate themselves with progressive causes and agendas.
- MacLeod, Alan: Everyone Washington Supports, by Definition, Is a Moderate Centrist
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Many right-wing movements and leaders are described as moderate or even left-leaning by politicians and corporate media. In these cases the terms no longer have a political definition but is a way to convey approval.
- Macleod, Alan: The Faux Generosity of the Super-Wealthy: Why Bill Gates is a Menace to Society
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 While the media may be full of stories singing Gates' praises, presenting him as a good billionaire (as opposed to the current president), the reality is that one man with that amount of power, be it political (like Trump) or economic (like Gates and Bezos) has a highly corrosive effect on democracy and society more generally.
- Macleod, Alan: The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter Is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2022 Twitter has been on a recruitment drive of late, hiring a host of former feds and spies. Studying a number of employment and recruitment websites, MintPress has ascertained that the social media giant has, in recent years, recruited dozens of individuals from the national security state to work in the fields of security, trust, safety and content.
- Macleod, Alan: Harvesting the Blood of America's Poor: The Latest Stage of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In today’s wretched economy, where around 130 million Americans admit an inability to pay for basic needs like food, housing or healthcare, buying and selling blood is of the few booming industries America has left.
- MacLeod, Alan: The Homeless 8-Year-Old Chess Champion and Other Horrific 'Uplifting' Stories
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Stories in US media of people overcoming adversity are only inspiring if you ignore the unjust systems that create their oppression.
- Macleod, Alan: An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2022 Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
- MacLeod, Alan: Key Assange Witness Recants - With Zero Corporate Media Coverage
Resource Type: Website First Published: 2021 Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson confessed to Icelandic outlet Stundin that he used his position to steal money from Wikileaks and received immunity from the FBI in a quid pro quo. This article critiques the lack of coverage about this in corporate media, and argues thatthe global corporate press long ago decided to side with the US national security state.
- Macleod, Alan: Project Venezuela: Right-Wing Activists Push Wikipedia to Blacklist MintPress, other Alternative Media
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 A group of right-wing Venezuelans has managed to ban the use of a range of alternative media outlets covering Venezuela, including MintPress News.
- MacLeod, Alan: 'Sexy tricks': How journalists demonize Venezuela's socialist government, in their own words
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The United States has labeled Venezuela's government a "dictatorship" and part of a "troika of tyranny," and has sponsored multiple coup attempts there, including one in November. The corporate media has dutifully ignored the US role in the country's economic woes, laying the blame squarely at the feet of Maduro, omitting crucial political context on Venezuela's economic crisis while keeping up a constant flow of content presenting the country as a socialist hellhole.
- Macleod, Alan: Study Reveals How UK Intelligence Works with Media to Smear Jeremy Corbyn
New research from Matt Kennard has shown how the British intelligence establishment works with the UK media to smear Jeremy Corbyn. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Academic studies of the Corbyn coverage have also shown that corporate media have shown a profound hostility to him and his project. One report from the London School of Economics included an entire section called "Delegitimization through Ridicule, Scorn, and Personal Attacks."
- MacLeod, Alan: Worthy & Unworthy Victims: Navalny & Lira
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2024 While Alexey Navalny's death commanded 24-hour news coverage, Gonzalo Lira's death in Ukraine was virtually ignored.
- Macleod, Alan: Worthy vs. unworthy victims: Study reveals media's selective coverage of Navalny and Lira
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2024 A new MintPress News study of media coverage of the deaths of American journalist and commentator Gonzalo Lira and Russian political leader Alexey Navalny has found that the establishment U.S. press overwhelmingly ignored the former and focussed on the latter.
- MacLeod, G.I. (Rev.): The Need for Third Sector Development
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1977 A paper that argues that large centralized government and business enterprises are incapable of responding to the critical needs of small communities.
- MacLeod, Gregory J.: Presentation to Atlantic Provinces Economic Council
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1978
- Macmillen, Daniel: Latin American progressives and environmental duplicity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Left wing governments across the Americas are faced with a dilemma - high social spending programs financed by income from destructive mining and hydrocarbon extraction - or a slower but sustainable development path that puts ecology, equity and justice first. Their answer - a constant pushing back of the resource frontier.
- Macnair, Mike: An Alternative to 'Safe Spaces'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Mike Macnair argues that 'safe spaces' aren't liberating -- and proposes an alternative.
- MacNeill, Jim; Winsemius, Pieter; Yakushiji, Taizo: Beyond Interdependence
The Meshing of the World's Economy and the Earth's Ecology Resource Type: Book First Published: 1992
- MacPhee, Josh: Celebrate People's History
The Poster Book of Resistrance and Revolution Resource Type: Book First Published: 2010 Since 1998, Josh MacPhee has commissioned and produced over 100 posters by over 80 artists that pay tribute to revolution, racial justice, women’s rights, queer liberation, labor struggles, and creative activism and organizing. Celebrate People’s History presents these essential moments — acts of resistance and great events in an often hidden history of human and civil rights struggles — as a visual tour through decades and across continents.
- Macpherson, C.B.: Democracy in Alberta
Social Credit and the Party System Resource Type: Book First Published: 1953 An examination of the development of the party system in Alberta.
- Macpherson, C.B.: Democratic Theory
Essays in Retrieval Resource Type: Book First Published: 1973
- Macpherson, C.B.: The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism
Hobbes to Locke Resource Type: Book First Published: 1970 A fundamental reinterpretation of political theory from Hobbes to Locke which emphasizes the role of liberal political theory in justifying the appropriation of property to private ownership.
- Macpherson, C.B.: The Real World of Democracy
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1965 Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy — the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants — and their impacts on one another.
- MacPherson, Ian: The Co-operative Movement on the Prairies, 1900-1955
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1979
- Macpherson, Kay: When in Doubt, Do Both
The Times of My Life Resource Type: Book First Published: 1994 Macpherson chronicles the stirrings that led to the modern women's movement in Canada, including the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in 1967.
- Macy, Joanna: Coming Back to Life
Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World Resource Type: Book First Published: 1998 A guidebook for dealing with the despair that stands in the way our our changing the world.
- Macy, Joanna: Despair & Personal Power in the Nuclear Age
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1983
- Macy, Joanna: Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1988 A work for overcoming the 'psychic numbing' which prevents us from coming to terms with the real threats of nuclear and ecological disaster. Includes a special section of 'Spiritual Exercises for a Time of Apocalypse.'
- Macy, Joanna: The Great Turning as Compass and Lens
Yes! Magazine Summer 2006 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2006 The Great Turning is a name for the transition from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining society. It identifies the shift from a self-destroying political economy to one in harmony with Earth and enduring for the future. It unites and includes all the actions being taken to honor and preserve life on Earth. It is the essential adventure of our time.
- MADA-Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms: Under Fire: Documentary details attacks on journalists during Gaza offensive
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2015 In the summer of 2014, Israel launched a military operation on Gaza dubbed "Operation Protective Edge". By the time Israeli forces withdrew from the strip, 17 journalists were confirmed dead. No one has been held accountable for their deaths so far.
- Madar, Chase: The Passion of Bradley Manning
The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in U.S. History Resource Type: Book First Published: 2012 In May 2010, an intelligence analyst in the US Army's 10th Mountain Division was arrested on suspicion of leaking nearly half a million classified government documents, including the infamous "Collateral Murder" gunsight video and 260,000 State Department cables. After nine months in solitary confinement, the suspect now awaits court-martial in Fort Leavenworth. He is twenty-four, comes from Crescent, Oklahoma and his name is Bradley Manning. Who is Private First Class Bradley Manning? Why did he allegedly commit the largest security breach in American history? Is Manning a traitor or a whistleblower?
- Madar, Chase: Torturing the Rule of Law at Obama's Gitmo
Obama Bravely Takes on a Tortured Child Soldier Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 Give our government credit for breaking new ground: no nation has tried a child soldier for war crimes since World War II, and the decision to prosecute Khadr has drawn protests from UNICEF, headed by a former U.S. national security adviser, as well as every major human-rights group.
- Madden, Gerald: Defending the Faith
The Catholic Church waged a century-long war against the Irish left. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Ireland's foremost socialist knew that the British Empire and Irish capitalists weren't the only challenge he and his comrades faced. "In dealing with Ireland," James Connolly wrote in 1910, "no one can afford to ignore the question of the attitude to the clergy." Connolly's subject of discussion was a 1830s Owenite cooperative that enjoyed brief success, in large part because nearby clergymen didn't oppose it.
- Madsen, Wayne: Media spies put all journalists in danger
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 The increasing tendency of the Central Intelligence Agency and other U.S. intelligence agencies to disregard previous prohibitions against the use of journalists as agents puts every legitimate reporter around the world in jeopardy.
- Magaia, Lina: Dumba Nengue: Run for Your Life
Peasant Tales of Tragedy in Mozambique Resource Type: Book First Published: 1988 Mozambican writer Lina Magaia tells the stories of her neighbours and friends in rural Gaza province, the human targets of apartheid's proxy terror campaign. This book is a unique resource for communicating the reality of Mozambique's struggle for survival. Magaia's personal account lets us appreciate the harrowing effects caused by the South African backed MNR rebels in Mozambique.
- Magas, Branka: Along NATO's Road to War/Ruin
Against The Current vol. 81 Resource Type: Article First Published: 1999 The war taking place in the so-called Federal Republic of Yugoslavia involves three sides: Serbia, Kosova, and the NATO alliance. War being an extension of politics, it is what the protagonists are trying to achieve that determines whether their war is just or not.
- Magdoff, Fred: Foodies and farmworkers: Allies or enemies?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Fred Magdoff reviews Labor and the Locavore. Can the 'buy local food' movement support both sustainable farming and justice for farmworkers?
- Magdoff, Fred: Twenty-First-Century Land Grabs
Accumulation by Agricultural Dispossession Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Land grabs -- whether initiated by multinational corporations and private investment firms emanating from the capitalist core, sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East, or state entities such as China and India -- are now in the news constantly.
- Magdoff, Fred; Foster, John Bellamy: What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism
A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment Resource Type: Book First Published: 2011 A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power — no matter how “green” — are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
- Magdoff, Fred; Williams, Chris: Creating an Ecological Society
Toward a Revolutionary Transformation Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 Because it aims squarely at replacing capitalism with an ecologically sound and socially just society, Creating an Ecological Society is filled with revolutionary hope. Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, who have devoted their lives to activism, Marxist analysis, and ecological science, provide informed, fascinating accounts of how a new world can be created from the ashes of the old.
- Magdoff, Fred; Yates, Michael D.: The ABCs of the Economic Crisis
What Working People Need to Know Resource Type: Book First Published: 2009 Rich, powerful people created the economic crisis of 2008-09, while hundreds of millions of working people suffer the consequences -- lost homes, lost jobs, rising insecurity, and falling living standards. How could this happen?
- Magdoff, Harry: The Age of Imperialism
The Economics of U.S. Foreign Policy Resource Type: Book First Published: 1966 Published: 1968
- Magdoff, Harry: Imperialism
From the Colonial Age to the Present Resource Type: Book This volume contains a series of essays aimed at illuminating the theory, history, and roots of imperialism
- Magdoff, Harry: Imperialism Without Colonies
Resource Type: Book These essays explain how imperialism works, why it generates ever greater inequality, repression, and militarism, and the essential role it plays in the development of U.S. capitalism.
- Magdoff, Harry; Foster, John Bellamy; Buttel, Frederick H.: Hungry for Profit
The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment Resource Type: Book Presents a historical analysis and an incisive overview of the issues and debates surrounding the global commodification of agriculture.
- Magdoff, Harry; Sweezy, Paul: The Irreversible Crisis
Five Essays Resource Type: Book The economies of the capitalist world have been in an ongoing state of crisis since the early 1970s. This crisis has gone through several phases but has not at any time shown signs of giving way to a renewed long wave of prosperity.
- Magloire, Marina: Book of the Living
House museums of New Orleans Resource Type: Article First Published: 2022
- Magneau, Paulette: Norwood Community Services Association
Organization profile published 1979 Resource Type: Organization First Published: 1979 Norwood community of Edmonton is just north of the inner city area.
- Magnusson, Warren; Doyle, Charles; Walker, R.B.J; DeMareo, John (eds): After Bennet
A New Politics For British Columbia Resource Type: Book First Published: 1986
- Magodff, Fred; Yates, Michael D.: What Needs To Be Done: A Socialist View
Published in Monthly Review, Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 What is worth fighting for? Perhaps this severe recession offers us an opportunity to ask this question. This crisis has revealed the rotten foundation of our economy and called into question the neoliberal policies and ideology that have deepened the rot.
- Magri, Lucio: The May '68 Events and Revolution in the West
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The political explosion fifty years ago in May 1968 in France has become a key historical marker for the Left. In an outburst of political revolt, workers seized factories and students occupied universities bringing France to a halt in a series of massive general strikes.
- Magubane, Bernard; Mandaza, Ibbo: Whither South Africa?
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1988 "The growing disagreements among the rulers, and the mounting resistance of the ruled, creates very favorable objective and subjective conditions for revolution in South Africa," stated Mr. N.M. Sharmuyarira, the then Minister of Information of Zimbabwe. This book contains critical essays examining the socio-political dynamics of the revolutionary situation in South Africa.
- Magubane, Peter (foreword by Desmond Tutu): Soweto
The Fruit of Fear Resource Type: Book First Published: 1987 On June 16,1976, school children in the sprawling townships of Soweto took to the streets in protest. They were met by brute force -- tear gas and bullets. Peter Magubane relates the events surrounding June 16 through his camera lens, giving a poignant eye-witness account in tribute to the fallen, and commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising.
- Maguire, Gil: Obama's role model to journalists — Dorothy Thompson — turned against Zionism and was silenced
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Dorothy Thompson, whose truly stellar career ended in false charges of antisemitism made by Zionists.
- Mahajan, Rahul: The New Crusade
America's War on Terrorism Resource Type: Book Examines the myths that have arisen around the war on terrorism and the ways they are used to benefit a small elite.
- Maher, Stephanie: Leo Panitch and the Socialist Project
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Maher reflects on Leo Panitch's contributions to democratic socialism.
- Maher, Stephen: Crisis of the State, Crisis of the Left
Articulating Socialism After the Anarchist Moment Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 'Augmenting the left' -- that is, finding ways to build new organizational alliances, expand practices of resistance, and culturally envision and collectively build toward a better world -- is not just a worthwhile project, but also an essential one. Human survival may depend upon it. In this regard, it must be recognized that there is also a crisis of the various post-Marxisms, especially to the extent that they tried to replace class as the central structural pivot around which different forms of oppression and counter-hegemonic emancipatory struggles condense.
- Mahieux, Viviane: Brutal, opaque, illegal: the dark side of the Tres Santos 'mindfulness' eco-tourism resort
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 A small fishing community in Mexico's Baja California is playing involuntary host to a gigantic tourism and real estate development. And while the branding of the Tres Santos resort is all about mindfulness, ecology and sustainability, the reality is one of big money, high level politics, and the unaccountable deployment of state violence against those who dare oppose it.
- Mahmood, Mona; O'Kane, Maggie; Madlena, Chavala; Smith, Teresa: Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents.
- Mahon, Karen: In the battle of people vs. pipelines, round one went to the people
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Last Wednesday I was arrested. I crossed a police line intended to mark the area where Kinder Morgan plans to drill into a mountainside as part of the survey work for an expanded Trans Mountain pipeline to carry diluted bitumen from the tar sands to the ocean.
- Maiah, Malik: Making Race Disappear
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Black lives are discounted in the eyes of whites and official arms of the state. It is not conspiracy theory to say this. It is hard fact.
- Maier, Pauline: From Resistance to Revolution
Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1972 Published: 1992 An examination of the step-by-step process through which the extra-legal institutions of the colonial resistance movement assumed authority from the British.
- Mailer, Phil,: Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1977 The story of what happened in Portugal between April 25, 1974 and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a deeply committed participant.
- Mair, Peter: Ruling the Void
The Hollowing of Western Democracy Resource Type: Book First Published: 2009 Analyzes democratic trends over the last few decades in Europe and America.
- Maisano, Chris: Hope in Dark Times
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The most dynamic and emergent forces in U.S. politics today are on our side, and possibilities for a radical transformation of the system have not yet been foreclosed. Whether we make good on them is up to us.
- Maisano, Chris: Letter to the Next Left
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 The problem of agency is especially relevant to what remains of the Left today, and it is the part of C. Wright Mills’ Letter to the New Left that is the most problematic.
- Maisano, Chris: Politics Without Politics
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Jonathan Smucker's recently published book Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals offers a flawed road map for rebuilding the Left.
- Maitree: West Bengal Women Oppose Giant Dam
Against The Current vol. 89 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2000 Maitree is a West Bengal-based network of forty-two women's organizations, NGOs and individual women activists concerned with women's rights. Maitree supports the struggle of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and of the people of the Narmada valley for their right to survive in a manner of their own choosing. Consequently, we express our grave concern at the recent Supreme Court judgment [to permit construction of the Sardar Sarovar dam to proceed], which ignores the problems of rehabilitation and environmental degradation.
- Majedi, Azar: Which side are you on?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 The women's question has haunted the Islamic regime from the start. The Islamic Republic has been in continuous conflict with the women's liberation movement, which has grown considerably in the past decade in opposition to the misogyny and gender apartheid of the Islamists. Despite brutal assaults on this movement, the regime has not succeeded in silencing it.
- Majfud, Jorge: Rescuing Memory: the Humanist Interview with Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016
- Majumdar, Nivedita: Bernie and His Critics
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Bernie Sanders has provided an opening that we can't squander.
- Mak, C K: The World's Most Fashionable Prison
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2012 Fashion designer Puey Quinones works with inmates in a Philipine prison to teach them how to sew, work with fabrics and see their ideas go from sketch to finished product.
- Makdisi, Saree: Dr. Makdisi on a One State Solution
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2007 A video clip featuring Dr. Saree Makdisi presenting the case for a one-state solution in Israel-Palestine - a democratic secular state.
- Makepeace, Anne: Tribal Justice
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2017 Documents an effective criminal justice reform movement in America: the efforts of tribal courts to return to traditional, community-healing concepts of justice.
- Makhijani, Arjun: From Global Capitalism to Economic Justice
An Inquiry into the Elimination of Systemic Poverty, Violence and Environmental Destruction in the World Economy Resource Type: Book First Published: 1992 This book gives a devastating critique of global capitalism and the "end of history" thesis that, with the triumph of capitalism over communism, almost everyone will be better off. It also presents a vision which unites the benefits of individual and local initiative with measures leading to a more equitable distribution of wealth locally and globally.
- Makhno, Nestor: Manifesto of the Makhnovists
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1918 We must win - win not so that we may follow the example of past years and hand over our fate to some new master, but to take it in our own hands and conduct our lives according to our own will and our own conception of truth.
- Makhno; Mett; Arshinov; Valevski; Linski: Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1926 In 1926 a group of exiled Russian anarchists in France, the Delo Truda (Workers' Cause) group, published this pamphlet.
- Makno, Nestor: Platform
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1926
- Makori, Henry: Why we must stop this gay witch-hunt now
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 President Yoweri Museveni has done it. Against widespread expectation raised by his earlier pledge, the Ugandan leader turned around this week and signed into law the contentious Anti-Homosexuality Bill passed last December by a parliament his ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM), controls.
- Makower, Joel: Woodstock
The Oral History Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989
- Malandra, Ocean: The Irish Potato Famine Was Caused by Capitalism, Not a Fungus
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 While the blight did strike and take down most of Ireland’s potatoes, the truth is that Ireland was exporting more than enough food to feed everyone at the same time as the famine was happening.
- Malcolm, Jeremy: All Rights Reserved: Now We Know the Final TTP is Everything We Feared
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 The release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement.
- Malcolm, Jeremy; Sutton, Maira: Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users' Rights
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Trade offices involved in negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement have finally released all 30 chapters of the trade deal today, a month after announcing the conclusion of the deal in Atlanta. Some of the more dangerous threats to the public's rights to free expression, access to knowledge, and privacy online are contained in the copyright provisions in the Intellectual Property (IP) chapter. Now that the entire agreement is published, we can see how other chapters of the agreement contain further harmful rules that undermine our rights online and over our digital devices and content.
- Malcolm, X: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1964 Published: 1965 The personal story of the man who become the most dynamic leader of the Black Revolution in the United States, completed shortly before his assassination.
- Maldo, Teo: The Power Struggle in Catalonia, or the Staging of a Tragicomedy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 One, a consolidated power, is the Spanish state. The other, an emerging power, drives the project to create a state of its own, a project promoted by nationalists and pro-independence currents. These include a fraction of the divided system (PdeCat, erc and cup) and some social organizations (the Catalan National Assembly, Omnium Cultural and some trade unions) -- with the support of an important part of society.
- Malek, Cate; Hoke, Mateo: Palestine Speaks
Narratives of Life Under Occupation Resource Type: Book First Published: 2014 The occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has been one of the world’s most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises for over four decades. In this oral history collection, men and women from Palestine—including a fisherman, a settlement administrator, and a marathon runner—describe in their own words how their lives have been shaped by the historic crisis.
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- Malek, Cate; Hoke, Mateo: 'When I Go to Work, I Expect to Be Killed:' The Terror of Being A Fisherman in Gaza
Palestine Speaks: Voices from the West Bank and Gaza Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Approximately 4,000 Gazan fishermen rely on access to the open waters of the Mediterranean to make a living. Because of punitive restrictions imposed by Israel, the Gazan fishery has virtually collapsed. Over 90 percent of Gazan fishermen are living in poverty and dependent on international aid for survival. To pursue fish beyond the permitted range means to risk arrest, the confiscation of fishing boats, or even shooting by the Israeli navy.
- Malet, Jean-Baptiste: Amazon - the future of retail?
A smile is the logo: we're not smiling Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Amazon's warehouses are run like colonial enterprises - the staff are treated with contempt, paid badly, disciplined brutally, and set in competition against each other, often as temporary workers or on short-term contracts.
- Malhotra, Ravi: Honoring Marta Russell (1951-2013)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 A tribute to the life and work of the late disability rights advocate Marta Russell.
- Malhotra, Ravi: The New Politics of Disablement: The Contribution of Mike Oliver
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Obituary for Mike Oliver, one of the founders of the social model of disability. Includes historical information, his legacy, and suggested reading.
- Malhotra, Ravi: A Novel of Class Struggle & Romance
Book review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 A review of 'The Gleaming Archway' by A.M. Stephen.
- Mali, Malhar: My Stealthy Freedom: The Hijab in Iran and in the West
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An interview with Masih Alinejad, an outspoken critic of the forced hijab policy in Iran, about how the Islamic Revolution affected women, compulsory hijab laws, and her activism.
- Malik Kenan: Blasphermy, Religious and Secular
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An essay on a European Court of Human Rights ruling and on changing forms of blasphemy law.
- Malik, Kenan: Abortion and Conscience
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 I am as in favour of a woman’s right to abortion as I am hostile to Creationism. I recognize, however, a fundamental difference between insisting that all biology teachers teach the theory of evolution and forcing a doctor to perform an abortion against his or her will. I recognize, too, a fundamental difference between defending a woman’s right to choose and insisting that this includes the right to compel a doctor to perform an abortion. Not to recognise such distinctions is to distort the very idea of morality.
- Malik, Kenan: Abortion, Infanticide, Humanity, Free Speech
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 Abortion is right, and infanticide is wrong, because there IS a moral boundary between the fetus and the newborn.
- Malik, Kenan: After Paris
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Some have seen the terrorism as the consequence of French foreign policy in Syria. Yet we should be wary of seeing these attacks as a response, however perverted, to French, or Western, foreign policy. The terrorists did not target symbols of the French state, or of French militarism. They did not even target tourist spots. They targeted, rather, the areas and the places where mainly young, anti-racist, multiethnic Parisians hang out. What the terrorists despised, what they tried to eliminate, were ordinary people, drinking, eating, laughing, mixing. That is what they hated - not so much the French state as the values of diversity and pluralism.
- Malik, Kenan: Against multiculturalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2002 Multiculturalism is an authoritarian, anti-human outlook. True political progress requires not recognition but action, not respect but questioning, not the invocation of the Thought Police but the forging of common bonds and collective struggles.
- Malik, Kenan: Against the Cultural Turn
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 The starting point of this debate is the failure of multiculturalism. It has become fashionable today to criticise multiculturalism. The trouble is, many of the criticisms are as problematic as multiculturalism itself. And I say that as someone who's been a critic of multiculturalism for more than 20 years, from well before it was fashionable to be so.
- Malik, Kenan: All cultures are not equal
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2002 A common thread binds contemporary Western radicalism and fundamentalist Islam. On the surface the two seem poles apart: fundamentalists loathe Western decadence, Western radicals fear Islamic presumptions of certainty. But what unites the two is that both are rooted in contemporary nihilistic multiculturalism; both express, at best, ambivalence about, at worst outright rejection of, the ideas of modernity, universality, and progress; and both see no real alternative to Western power.
- Malik, Kenan: An Annotated Bibliography of Nonsense
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1998 Academic critics today not only question the impact of science upon society, but they also question the very idea of scientific rationality.
- Malik, Kenan: Anti-Muslim Bigotry and Far-Right Terror
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Far-right ideology is fuelled by such a large mishmash of ideas that censoring anti-Muslim rhetoric is futile for stopping attacks.
- Malik, Kenan: Away with the gatekeepers!
The bane of cultural appropriation Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 On the the controversies over 'cultural appropriation' and what they reveal about the degradation of contemporary campaigns for social justice.
- Malik, Kenan: Banned in Pakistan
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Pakistan's decision to censor 'blasphemous' websites provides a new perspective on the attitudes of many Western liberals towards Charlie Hebdo.
- Malik, Kenan: The Battle of Cable Street
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Eighty years ago this week, anti-fascists in East London confronted Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts as they tried to march though what was then a largely Jewish area. Mosley's British Union of Fascists was notorious for using marches and rallies as cover for vicious attacks on Jews. The confrontation has gone down in folklore as 'The Battle of Cable Street'.
- Malik, Kenan: Before Facebook Was The Coffee House
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Kenan Malik writes about the issue of fake news.
- Malik, Kenan: Between Rage and Terror
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 On the nature of comteporary terror.
- Malik, Kenan: Beyond a Boundary - 50th anniversary
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 This year marks the 50th anniversary of CLR James’ wonderful, groundbreaking work Beyond a Boundary. Beyond a Boundary blends politics and memoir, history and journalism, biography and reportage, in a manner that transcends literary, sporting and political boundaries.
- Malik, Kenan: Beyond the brexit debate
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Whatever the result of the Brexit referendum, of one thing we can be sure: Britain will neither be invaded by marauding Turks, as anti-EU campaigners suggest might happen if the country votes 'Yes', nor will Western civilization collapse, as EU president Donald Tusk fears after a 'No' vote. There will undoubtedly be economic and political turbulence, but Britain will not be staring into the abyss, however it votes.
- Malik, Kenan: Beyond the Sacred
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 A transcript on Malik's talk "Beyond the Sacred" at a conference on blasphemy.
- Malik, Kenan: Beyond the Veil
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 The question of the Muslim veil seems never to leave the headlines for long. The latest controversies have erupted in Britain after a defendant in a criminal trial demanded the right to wear a niqab in court and a college attempted to proscribe it.
- Malik, Kenan: Born in Bradford
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2005 Multiculturalism transformed the character of antiracism. By the mid-1980s the focus of antiracist protest in Bradford had shifted from political issues, such as policing and immigration, to religious and cultural issues: a demand for Muslim schools and for separate education for girls, a campaign for halal meat to be served at school, and, most explosively, the confrontation over the publication of The Satanic Verses. Political struggles unite across ethnic or cultural divisions; cultural struggles inevitably fragment.
- Malik, Kenan: Britain, Europe and the Real Crisis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 The decision by British voters last week to leave the European Union has brutally exposed two features of contemporary British politics. The first is the depth of popular disaffection with mainstream political institutions. The second is the paralysis of the political class in the face of this disaffection.
The Brexit victory was buttressed by a coalition of disparate social groups. Traditional Conservative supporters in the shires and the suburbs have long been suspicious of the European project. Few were surprised that they voted in large numbers against EU membership. What shocked many politicians and pundits about the referendum result was the extent of hostility in traditional Labour Party heartlands, in the North of England, in the Midlands and in the Welsh valleys.
- Malik, Kenan: Buddhist Pogropms and Religious Conflicts
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Most observers would, rightly, reject the idea that there is something inherent in Buddhism that has led to the violence. Rather, most would recognize that the anti-Muslim violence in both Myanmar and Sri Lanka has its roots in the political struggles that have engulfed the two nations. The importance of Buddhism in the conflicts in Myanmar and Sri Lanka is not that the tenets of faith are responsible for the pogroms, but that those bent on confrontation have adopted the garb of religion as a means of gaining a constituency and justifying their actions.
- Malik, Kenan: The changing meaning of race
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 2011 If the proverbial anthropologist from Mars were to land in Britain today, he would probably regard us as schizophrenics when it comes to the question of race. He would find a population within which there is a general consensus that racism is morally abhorrent and yet is keen to define itself in terms of its ethnic or racial background.
- Malik, Kenan: CLR James, Frantz Fanon And The Meaning of Liberation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 A look at the Haitan Revolution and its place in history.
- Malik, Kenan: Conforming, Not Transforming
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Brendan Eich, CEO of Mozilla Corporation, the technology company that, among other things, is responsible for the Firefox browser, resigned after it was revealed that in 2008 he had given a $1000 donation to Proposition 8, the Californian campaign against gay marriage.
- Malik, Kenan: Cultural Appropriation and Secular Blasphemy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 On the controversies over 'cultural appropriation'.
- Malik, Kenan: Death of the university?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 As universities have turned into businesses, so students have turned into consumers. There is, however, a fundamental difference between being a student and being a consumer. Education is not a product but a relationship and a process. Once students become consumers, their whole relationship to education changes. They come to look upon ideas, not as ways of understanding the world, but as possessions that they can trade for a better job or greater social prestige.
- Malik, Kenan: Democracy was never intended for degenerates
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 This is not a left vs right debate -- today, as a century ago, the anti-democratic impulse comes from both left and right, from both reactionaries and self-defined progressives.
- Malik, Kenan: The dirty d-word
Resource Type: Article Diversity has become more than simply a way of describing the expansion of our experiences. It has also become a dogma about how we should live that has become as stultifying as old-fashioned racism - and often as divisive.
- Malik, Kenan: Don't Incite Censorship
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2007 Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
- Malik, Kenan: Echoes From the Past: Creating the Underclass
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Kenan Malik explores the late twentieth century 'underclass' debate, and what it tells us about the changing character of the perceptions of race and class.
- Malik, Kenan: Echoes From the Past: the Racial View of Class
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 How the Victorian elite saw class in racial terms. Malik challenges conventional ways of thinking about the historical roots of racial ideas, and demonstrates how much of racial thinking originated not in the context of perceptions of non-Europeans but to a large extent at home out of the relationship between the elite and the masses. And that is what makes this material important in thinking about contemporary discussions of the working class. Today, elite views of the working class are rarely racialized, at least in an overt fashion. Yet, many of the themes, especially about the character of the 'unrespectable' working class, remain, though they necessarily have to be expressed in a different language. What is of interest here is to understand what has changed as well as what remains the same in thinking about democracy and the working class.
- Malik, Kenan: Europe's new faultine
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 The Front National is expected to win next week’s European election in France; UKIP may well do so in Britain. Both parties combine a visceral hostility to immigration with an acerbic loathing of the EU, a virulent nationalism and deeply conservative views on social issues such as gay marriage and women’s rights. The problems that such parties pose for mainstream politics goes, however, far beyond the odiousness of their policies. What their success expresses is the redrawing of the political map in Europe, and in ways in which mainstream parties often do not understand. The new populists seem to thrive on different political rules to mainstream parties.
- Malik, Kenan: An Expression of the Facts
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1998 What the story of Darwin's long-forgotten masterpiece, and the continuing debate about its subject matter, tells us is that the scientific idea of the human is not simply an objective truth, but is shaped by wider issues such as the prevailing ideas of progress, notions of racial difference, and the understanding of the relationship between Man and Nature.
- Malik, Kenan: failing to see the deeper causes of social tragedies
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In both cases, the roots of the tragedies are manifold. But in both cases we seem more interested in laying instant blame than in excavating the wider causes that might help us prevent such catastrophes happening again.
- Malik, Kenan: Fake News and the Gatekeepers of Truth
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at misinformation or 'fake news' and how it has changed from the past; while only governments and prominent figures could once manipulate public opinion, today it is anyone with online access.
- Malik, Kenan: Free Speech in a Plural Society
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2006 The argument against free speech is really an argument in defence of particular sectional interests. And that is the best reason for rejecting restraints on speech. We can build a plural society in which free speech provides the means of engagement and dialogue between different parts of society.
- Malik, Kenan: Free Speech in an Age of Identity Politics
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Transcript of Malik's TB Davie Memorial lecture on academic freedom at the University of Cape Town.
- Malik, Kenan: Free Speech and Unsafe Spaces
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Malik criticizes "the blinkered, self-centred, indeed narcissistic, attitudes that shape much contemporary discussion on speech and its limits. Free speech, from this perspective, requires not a robust exchange of ideas but the validation of my views. I should have the right to denounce anyone I wish, but criticism of my views is a denial of my free speech. Vigorously defending oneself against criticism is to deny safe space for one's critics."
- Malik, Kenan: From Fatwa to Jihad
The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy Resource Type: Book First Published: 2009 Tells the story both of the Rushdie affair and of its transformative impact on cultural and political landscape of the West. The book explores the issues that the Rushide affair raised. in particular the questions of muliculturalism, radical Islam and free speech, and shows how in responding to these issues Western liberals have betrayed the fundamental beliefs of liberalism.
- Malik, Kenan: From Left Radicalism to Radical Islamism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The current preoccupations of Islamic youth in Britian are much different from the anti-racist activism and political radicalism of the author's generation.
- Malik, Kenan: Germany and Britain: Memory and Myopia
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Ernst Barlach was one of Germany's great expressionist artists of the early twentieth century. A virulent nationalist in the run-up to the First World War, Barlach found that his experience of the Western Front stripped him of his jingoism. Much of his subsequent work explored the sorrow and suffering that he saw as the human condition.
- Malik, Kenan: Gilroy and Reed on Race, Class & Culture
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The common theme has been the way that those who call themselves 'progressive' or 'anti-racist' often draw upon ideas that are deeply regressive and rooted in racial ways of thinking; and that the consequences of identity politics and of concepts such as cultural appropriation is to bring about not social justice but the empowerment of those who would act as gatekeeprs to particular communities. The articles have inevitably drawn much hostility, especially from would-be gatekeepers, who insist that to challenge such ideas is to challenge antiracism, even to 'defend white supremacy'.
- Malik, Kenan: Grasping Diversity, Embracing Democracy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Can Diversity Embrace Democracy? Can Democracy Acknowledge Diversity?
- Malik, Kenan: The Great British Empire Debate
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Malik discusses the complex issues of British colonialism, its many painful legacies and how it should be dealt with in such fields as academia and politics.
- Malik, Kenan: Hate speech in a plural society
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 2005 One of the ironies of living in a more inclusive, more diverse society appears to be that the preservation of diversity requires us to leave increasingly to leave less room for a diversity of views. So, it is becoming increasingly common these days for liberals to proclaim that free speech is necessary in principle – but also to argue that in practice we should give up that right.
- Malik, Kenan: Here We Go Again
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 One thing should be clear. The violence across the Muslim world in response to an American anti-Islamic film has nothing to do with that film. Yes, The Inocence of Muslims is a risibly crude diatribe against Islam, but the violence is being driven less by religious fury than by political calculation. In Libya, Egypt and elsewhere, the crisis is being fostered by hardline Islamists in an attempt to seize the political initiative in a period of transition and turmoil. The film is almost incidental to this process. The real struggle is not between Muslims and non-Muslims, but between different shades of Islamists, between hardline factions and more mainstream ones.
- Malik, Kenan: Hollowing out democracy and law
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The recent actions of the Catalan government are not those of politicians respecting democracy. The reaction of the Madrid government, which criminalize political dissent, are equally disturbing.
- Malik, Kenan: How Culture Came to Appropriate Race
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Racism has historically played a major role in shaping adoption practices.
- Malik, Kenan: How green are your ethics?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2007 The assumption that underlies much of the discussion on carbon neutrality is that any activity that emits CO2 - and that means virtually every human activity - is something to apologise for. All human activities must be judged by their carbon content, and the morality of an action gauged principally by its carbon count. Carbon calculators have become the moral barometers of our age.
- Malik, Kenan: How Israel Created Its Monster
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 How and why Israel helped Hamas to power.
- Malik, Kenan: How to Become a Real Muslim
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 When I was growing up in the 1980s the concept of a radical in a Muslim context meant someone who was a militant secularist, someone who challenged not just racism but the power of the mosques too. Someone like me. Today, of course, it means almost the opposite, a radical is a religious fundamentalist.
- Malik, Kenan: I Don't have to be what you want me to be
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 'A strange fate befell Muhammad Ali in the 1990s', Mike Marqusee writes in Redemption Song, his wonderful, illuminating study of 'Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties'. ‘The man who had defied the American establishment was taken into its bosom. There he was lavished with an affection which had been strikingly absent thirty years before, when for several years he reigned unchallenged as the most reviled figure in the history of American sports.' The global outpouring of grief, affection and tribute to Ali this weekend has been moving and heart-warming. Yet, there is a part of me that thinks that, as affection has washed away the old contempt with which he once was greeted by large sections, especially of American society, we have also lost something of the sense of Ali's true greatness.
- Malik, Kenan: 'I KNEW I WAS WITNESSING A TERRIBLE EVIL'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Today marks 50 years since the South African apartheid government declared District Six, in the heart of Cape Town, a 'whites only' area from which all non-whites would be forcibly removed.
- Malik, Kenan: Identity is that which is given
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 In this age of globalisation many people fret about Western culture taking over the world. But the greatest Western export is not Disney or McDonalds or Tom Cruise. It is the very idea of culture.
- Malik, Kenan: Ideological Violence and Sociopathic Rage
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 ‘How can we distinguish violence driven by ideology from sociopathic rage?
- Malik, Kenan: If only we could revive the fruitful tension between Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
Reflections on Dr King’s death have overlooked how his liberal universalism and Malcolm X’s separatism gave each other strength Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Kenan argues that conflict averse approach to activism blunts the edge of contemporary social movements for change.
- Malik, Kenan: Immigration and Cultural Loss
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 While immigration has brought major changes in the physical character of British cities and in the rhythm of social life, it is not alone in driving social changes nor is it even the most important driver of social change.
- Malik, Kenan: In Defence of Democracy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 On Jacques Berlinerblau's book How to Be Secular.
- Malik, Kenan: In Defence of Diversity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 An essay on immigration.
- Malik, Kenan: In Defense of Cultural Appropriation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 It is just as well that I’m a writer, not an editor. Were I editing a newspaper or magazine, I might soon be out of a job. For this is an essay in defense of cultural appropriation. In Canada last month, three editors lost their jobs after making such a defense.
- Malik, Kenan: In search of the common good
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 This essay examines the historical change in the meaning and understanding of the 'common good', particularly between ancient times and the modern world, and also takes a look at the social and political changes of recent decades that have shaped how we look at the issue.
- Malik, Kenan: In the Shadow of the Fatwa
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Twenty five years ago not even death threats, bombings, and murders could not stop the publication of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. Today, all it takes is for one person to shout ‘offence’ for liberals to haul out the metaphorical burqa to protect our sensitivities. But in defending one's right to say what they wish, even if it is deemed by some to be offensive, what we are truly defending is the necessity for a plural world.
- Malik, Kenan: Intellectual Charlatans & Academic Witch-Hunters
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 Butler’s work has always divided critics. While some view her as a courageous and innovative thinker, others view her as an intellectual charlatan.
- Malik, Kenan: The Islamophobia Myth
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2005 Pretending that Muslims have never had it so bad might bolster community leaders and gain votes for politicians, but it does the rest of us, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, no favours at all. The more that the threat of Islamophobia is exaggerated, the more that ordinary Muslims come to accept that theirs is a community under constant attack. It helps create a siege mentality, stoking up anger and resentment, and making Muslim communities more inward looking and more open to religious extremism.
- Malik, Kenan: Je Suis Charlie? It's a Bit Late
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Hardly had news begun filtering out about the Charlie Hebdo shootings, than there were those suggesting that the magazine was a 'racist institution' and that the cartoonists, if not deserving what they got, had nevertheless brought it on themselves through their incessant attacks on Islam. What is really racist is the idea only nice white liberals want to challenge religion or demolish its pretensions or can handle satire and ridicule. Those who claim that it is ‘racist’ or ‘Islamophobic’ to mock the Prophet Mohammad, appear to imagine, with the racists, that all Muslims are reactionaries. It is here that leftwing ‘anti-racism’ joins hands with rightwing anti-Muslim bigotry.
- Malik, Kenan: Just because they hunt witches doesn't mean we have
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 The Big Brother defence of WikiLeaks is that if everyone had a camera upon them, society would be a better place. This is a view that fails to distinguish between the need to control those who possess power, and the need to prevent those who possess power from controlling us.
- Malik, Kenan: Law and the wives of others
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 2008 How does a modern, plural democratic society deal with the desire of some minority groups to observe cultural norms at odds with the law of the land?
- Malik, Kenan: The Lost Revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 A discussion of the Haitian revolution, read through the lens of Julia Gaffield's paper on the lost and found Haitian Declaration of Independence.
- Malik, Kenan: The Making of the Muslim World
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Review of Christopher de Bellaigue's 'The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason', Cemil Aydin's 'The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History' and Tariq Ramadan's 'Islam: The Essentials'.
- Malik, Kenan: Kenan Malik Quotes
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- Malik, Kenan: Man, Beast and Zombie
What Science Can and Cannot Tell Us About Human Nature Resource Type: Book First Published: 2000 Published: 2001 Drawing upon the ideas of evolutionary biology, cognitive science and artificial intelligence, Malik questions many of our assumptions about human nature.
- Malik, Kenan: The many shades of Ukraine
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 When is an invasion not an invasion? When is sovereignty not sovereignty? When is an unelected regime more legitimate than an elected government? The answer, it seems, is when we are discussing Ukraine.
- Malik, Kenan: The Meaning of Heritage in an Age of Identity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A discussion of the meaning of heritage in the current age of identity politics, and why there is a need to reject the nativist, or clash of civilizations, and the multicultural approaches to heritage.
- Malik, Kenan: The Meaning of Race
Race History and Culture in Western Society Resource Type: Book First Published: 1996 The Meaning of Race has two key themes. First it explores the intellectual and philosophical basis of racial thinking, examining the origins and development of the concept of race from the Enlightenment to the present day. Second, it also looks at the way in which recent social and political developments - such as the end of the Cold War, the erosion of the postwar liberal consensus, and the demise of the left - have shaped our ideas about race.
The book argues that much of contemporary antiracism is rooted in the same anti-humanist philosophies of human differences that gave rise to the idea of race in the first place. Only a philosophy based on a universalist and humanist outlook, I suggest, can hope to transcend the discourse of race.
- Malik, Kenan: Merry Christmas from an Atheist
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 2006 I probably represent one of Archbishop John Sentanu's worst nightmares - I am not just an 'aggressive secularist' but a militant atheist to boot. But I have a Christmas tree in the house, I've sent out my Christmas cards, bought my Christmas presents and I will cook goose on Christmas Day. And I will probably listen to Bach's Christmas Oratorio or to Mahalia Jackson's wonderful gospel singing while I am doing so. Yet I don't have a religious bone in my body.
- Malik, Kenan: Migration and Morality
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Paul Collier's book Exodus has been welcomed as a humane and rational intervention in an often toxic debate. It seems to tell us more about the character of the contemporary immigration debate than it does about the merits of Collier’s arguments.
- Malik, Kenan: Mistaken Identity
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 2008 Historically, antiracists challenged both the practice of racism and the process of racialisation; that is, both the practice of discriminating against people by virtue of their race and the insistence that an individual can be defined by the group to which he or she belongs. Today's multiculturalists argue that to fight racism one must celebrate group identity. The consequence has been the resurrection of racial ideas and the imprisonment of people within their cultural identities. Racial theorists and multiculturalists, the French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut observes, have 'conflicting credos but the same vision of the world'. Both fetishise difference. Both seek to 'confine individuals to their group of origin'. Both undermine 'any possibility of natural or cultural community among peoples'. Challenging such a politics of difference has become as important today as challenging racism.
- Malik, Kenan: The Monster That Israel Helped Create
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 There is a terrible irony in Israel’s current assault on Gaza. More than 200 Palestinians have died in an onslaught supposedly aimed at weakening Hamas and degrading its capacity to fire rockets into Israel. It was Israel itself, however, that helped Hamas to power in Gaza.
- Malik, Kenan: Moral Poverty and the Riots
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 Because the right has appropriated the arguments about moral failure, many on the left have rejected moral arguments altogether. The left talks much about the social and economic impact of neoliberal policies. But little about their moral impact. Such willful blindness is dangerous. Morality is as important to the left as it is to the right, though for different reasons. There can be no possibility of a political or economic vision of a different society without a moral vision too. Moral arguments lie at the heart of our understanding of social solidarity, and of the distinction between notions of social solidarity and pious rightwing claims of ‘we’re all in it together’.
- Malik, Kenan: Multiculturalism fans the flames of islamic extremism
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 2005 Multiculturalism as lived experience enriches our lives. But multiculturalism as a political ideology has helped create a tribal Britain with no political or moral centre.
- Malik, Kenan: Natural Pathogens and Social Affliction
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 On how focus on COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a lack of attention and resources to other diseases, particularly in developing nations.
- Malik, Kenan: The new language of diversity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Racial talk today is as likely to come out of the mouths of liberal anti-racists as of reactionary racial scientists.
- Malik, Kenan: No platform or no democracy?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1996 Rather than promoting themselves as vehicles for broadening access to discussion and debate, universities now seek to present themselves as highly regulated institutions in which students will be protected from unsolicited or offensive ideas.
- Malik, Kenan: NO SOCIAL JUSTICE WITHOUT FREE SPEECH
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Fredrik deBoer, who teaches at Purdue University in Indiana, recently wrote a passionate polemic about the way that what he calls the ‘social justice left’ has abandoned the struggle for free speech, and indeed take up the struggle for censorship.
- Malik, Kenan: Not So Black and White
A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics Resource Type: Book First Published: 2023
- Malik, Kenan: The Not-So-Secret History of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 This is a coda to my review of Paul Collier’s book Exodus. I questioned the moral and social arguments that Collier employs to justify his arguments, and suggested that there is often a chasm between that evidence and Collier’s more contentious arguments, while many of his policy prescriptions are morally questionable.
- Malik, Kenan: On Brexit, Borders, Being Offensive (But not being in a Hollywood movie)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Kenan Malik recently gave a long interview to Dutch journalist Marco Visscher about Brexit, migration, democracy, politics, being offensive, growing up in racist Britian, and not being in a Hollywood movie. The interview has been translated from English to Dutch then (roughly) back to English, so may not read very coherently in places. Malik has edited it lightly. It was published in Knack under the headline Het 'Europese migratiebeleid is ten diepste immoreel' (‘European migration policy is deeply immoral’).
- Malik, Kenan: On Democracy As A Good
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Is democracy good in itself? Exploring the impact of democracy during and after the Arab Spring.
- Malik, Kenan: On Describing the Other
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 My criticism is not primarily about Judith Butler’s style; it is principally about the substance of her arguments and, more broadly, of poststructuralist arguments. I am not opposed to ‘difficult’ writing. There are many philosophers with whom it repays to work through the difficulties, the obscurities and the obtuseness; Hegel, for instance, even Heidegger in parts. Butler, in my eyes at least, is not such a philosopher.
- Malik, Kenan: On Justice And Vengeance
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018
- Malik, Kenan: On Morality and Moralism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Comments in a discussion about moralism at the recent Battle of Ideas conference.
- Malik, Kenan: On the degradation of political debate
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Today, political debates have become vacuous and insipid because politicians have become contemptuous of the electorate. Voters, many believe, are ignorant, swayed more by emotion than by reason, happy to accept lies and drawn to politicians with easy answers.
- Malik, Kenan: On the ethics of immigration
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014
- Malik, Kenan: On the Importance of the Right to Offend
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 There is something truly bizarre that someone should become the focus of death threats and an international campaign of vilification for suggesting that an inoffensive cartoon was inoffensive. What gives the reactionaries the room to operate and to flex their muscles is, however, the pusillanimity of many so-called liberals, their unwillingness to stand up for basic liberal principles, their fear of causing offence, and their reluctance to call so-called community leaders to account. Such backsliding liberals need reminding of some basic points about liberalism, free speech and the giving of offence.
- Malik, Kenan: On the Second Coming of Religion
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 The question we should ask is not just: ‘What is it about religion that makes people believe or behave in certain ways?’ It is also: ‘What is it about contemporary societies that draws many people, both religious and non-religious, towards nihilistic, narcissistic, anti-modern forms of belief?’
- Malik, Kenan: Orientalism and ahistoricism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2021 The ahistoricism of Orientalism leads Said to mimic the very discursive structures against which he polemicises. Said creates a “Western tradition” which runs in an unbroken line from the Ancient Greeks, through the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to modernism. It is a tradition which defines a coherent Western identity through a specific set of beliefs and values which remain in their essence unchanged through two millennia of European and Western history. This, of course, is the myth of “Western civilization” propagated by many an advocate of Western superiority.
- Malik, Kenan: Out of Bounds
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 Why do we talk so much about hate speech these days? Largely because hate speech has become a way of rebranding extremist ideas to stress their moral content; in other words, of rebranding obnoxious political claims as immoral arguments. Where once we might have challenged such sentiments politically, today we are more likely to seek criminal sanctions to outlaw them.
- Malik, Kenan: A Policy without a Conscience
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 The tragedy and the horror of Lampedusa did not come out of the blue. Much of the responsibility lies with the policies pursued by European nations. The only policy that could prevent more tragedies like that is that no European politician will countenance: the liberalization of border controls, and the dismantling of Fortress Europe.
- Malik, Kenan: The politics of identity, left and right
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 One of the consequences of the bifurcated debate is historical amnesia about the origins of identity politics. Most people imagine that its roots are on the left. In fact, they lie on the reactionary right, in the counter-Enlightenment of the late 18th century. It wasn’t then called the politics of identity. It was called racism. It is, however, in the concept of race -- the insistence that humans are divided into a number of essential groups, and that one’s group identity determines one’s moral and social place in the world -- that we find the original politics of identity, out of which ideas of white superiority emerged.
- Malik, Kenan: The politics of rebranding
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2021 How politics and social activism have too often become exercises in rebranding not material change.
- Malik, Kenan: Politics without Democracy, Democracy without Politics
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 The aim of the Occupy movement is to create a big tent, to represent the 99%, in the name of democracy. But democracy requires not big tent politics, but the very opposite. It requires the drawing of political lines, the engaging in political conflict, the making of political choices.
- Malik, Kenan: Populism: What, Why, How?
Preface to European Populism and Winning the Immigration Debate Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Preface to a new book on European Populism and Winning the Immigration Debate.
- Malik, Kenan: The problem is more than integration
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Polls show that minorities, and Muslims in particular, have a greater attachment to Britain than does the population at large. They also show that nine out of ten Britons think that their community is cohesive, and local area a place where people from different backgrounds get on well together. According to Casey this figure has increased (from 80 per cent to 89 per cent) since 2003. Britons, in other words, have become more positive about social cohesion in the very period in which ‘uncontrolled immigration’ has supposedly eroded peoples’ sense of community and belonging.
- Malik, Kenan: Protect the Freedom to Shock
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2001 Far from being the cornerstone of a diverse, plural society, the refusal to give offence shows respect neither for oneself nor for others. Respect for oneself requires self-belief, a willingness to take a stand, to be unpopular, to refuse to see oneself as a victim easily disturbed by provocative beliefs. Respecting others means not ignoring them but engaging with them by putting them on their mettle and challenging their ideas and arguments. Without heated, entrenched debate a plural society becomes but a hollow shell.
- Malik, Kenan: Race, Class, and White Privilege: A response
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Underlying the "white privilege" thesis are two basic claims. First, that being "white" is a useful category in which to put everyone from the CEOs of multinational corporations to the cleaners in an Amazon warehouse. And, second, that being in such a category imbues people with privileges denied to those not in that category. Are either of these claims true?
- Malik, Kenan: Race Obsession harms those it is meant to help
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Ethnic monitoring does not just produce misleading data. The process of classification often creates the very problems it is supposed to solve. Local authorities have used ethnic categories not only as a means of collecting data but also as a way of distributing political power - by promoting certain 'community leaders' - and of disbursing public funds through ethnically-based projects. Once the allocation of power, resources and opportunities becomes linked to membership of particular groups, then people inevitably begin to identify themselves in terms of those ethnicities, and only those ethnicities.
- Malik, Kenan: Race, pluralism and the meaning of difference
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1998 Far from establishing a critique of racial thinking, the politics of difference appropriates many of its themes and reproduces the very assumptions upon which racism has historically been based. Most critically, the embrace of difference has undermined the capacity to defend equality.
- Malik, Kenan: Radical Islam, Nihilist Rage
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Muslims are not the only religious group involved in perpetrating horrors. From Christian militias in the Central African Republic reportedly eating their foes to Buddhist monks organizing anti-Muslim pogroms in Myanmar, there is cruelty aplenty in the world. Nor are religious believers alone in committing grotesque acts. We need to ask why political rage against the West takes such nihilistic forms today. And why has radical Islam become its principal vehicle?
- Malik, Kenan: The Real Value of Diversity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2002 The real failure of multiculturalism is its failure to understand what is valuable about cultural diversity. There is nothing good in itself about diversity. It is important because it allows us to compare and contrast different values, beliefs and lifestyles, make judgements upon them, and decide which are better and which worse. It is important, in other words, because it allows us to engage in political dialogue and debate that can help create more universal values and beliefs. But it is precisely such dialogue and debate, and the making of such judgements, that multiculturalism attempts to suppress in the name of 'tolerance' and 'respect'.
- Malik, Kenan: Reasoning about terror
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 The trouble with much of the discussion of terrorism today is that it misses a fundamental point about contemporary terror: its disconnect from social movements and political goals. In the past, an organisation such as the IRA was defined by its political aims. Its members were carefully selected and their activities tightly controlled. However misguided we might think its actions, there was a close relationship between the aims of the organization and the actions of its members. None of this is true when it comes to contemporary terrorism. An act of terror is rarely controlled by an organisation or related to a political demand. That is why it is so difficult to discern the political or religious motivations
- Malik, Kenan: Recolonized by the Past
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 It began as a campaign at the University of Cape Town to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes that stood on the campus. For the protestors, the statue represented everything that Rhodes himself stood for: racism, colonialism, plunder, white supremacy, and the oppression of black people.
- Malik, Kenan: Religous Freedom and Authoritarian Atheists
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 Many contemporary atheists adopt an unpleasantly authoritarian stance. Many now demand, in the name of ‘reason’ or ‘science’, state restrictions or bans on views that might cause ‘harm’. It is a strange attitude for those who supposedly believe in free speech and free thought.
- Malik, Kenan: Rethinking the challenge of anti-Muslim bigotry
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In 1997 the British anti-racist organisation the Runnymede Trust published its highly influential report Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All. Twenty years on, the Runnymede Trust has brought out a follow-up report Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us All, which is a stock-take on current views, and facts, about the issue.
- Malik, Kenan: Rethinking The Idea Of 'Christian Europe'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 Looking to the traditional, moral and identity platform of Christianity in Europe.
- Malik, Kenan: The Revolt of the Fragments
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 It was, without question, a bloody nose for the political establishment, the biggest it has received for decades. And many have read the unexpected success of the Leave camp in the British EU referendum straightforwardly as a revolt against the political class and as a victory for democracy. Yes, it was a revolt against the political class in London and in Brussels. But the referendum result was also far more complicated than that.
- Malik, Kenan: Science, Myth, and History
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 The story of ‘Kennewick Man’ - the debate around a 9000-year old skeleton and what it reveals about current ideas of culture, race and science.
- Malik, Kenan: Socially Polarised, Politically Paralysed
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An essay on the peculiar character of contemporary social polarisation illstrated through the discussion of Brexit.
- Malik, Kenan: Strange Fruit
Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate Resource Type: Book First Published: 2008 Malik makes the case that most anti-racists accept the belief, also held by racialists and outright racists, that differences between groups are of great importance. While racialists attribute the differences to biology, anti-racists attribute them to deep-rooted cultural traditions which are typically seen as inherent in the group. Malik argues that these positions are actually quite similar, and makes the case that racism and racial inequality are best combatted by focusing not on our differences but on what unites us. Malik also strongly criticizes the cultural relativism of many anti-racists, and their increasing tendency to reject science as some kind of western imperialist conspiracy to oppress the rest of the world.
- Malik, Kenan: 'Take me to your leader'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009
- Malik, Kenan: Talking about radicalization
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 One of the problems with discussing the concept of radicalization is that it can mean all things to all people. In one sense it simply means 'the process by which terrorists become terrorists'. But, radicalization, particularly as it is discussed in political and popular discourse, has also come to embody certain ideas about how that process takes place: For instance, that the acceptance of extremist religious ideas is the first step in leading people to violence; that there are certain stages through which people move from belief to terror; that there are certain tell tale signatures of radicalization; and so on.
- Malik, Kenan: The Terrorists that are and the Terrorists that Aren't
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 When is a terrorist not a terrorist? When, apparently, he is 'our' terrorist.
- Malik, Kenan: The Theology of Respect
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2006 What the new theology demands is, in fact, not respect but obedience. 'You will only say or do what we think is acceptable' has become the credo of the multiculturalist censor. It is an attitude that turns the notion of respect on its head.
- Malik, Kenan: Thinking Outside the Box
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2007 Ignoring racism on the grounds that all citizens are equal and hence that racial or cultural differences are immaterial is clearly unacceptable. But so is labelling individuals by race, culture or faith and creating conflicts by institutionalising such differences in public policy.
- Malik, Kenan: To Live in a Plural Society
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2021 No one has a right not to be offended. All of us have a duty to challenge bigotry. These two claims are not just compatible, they are often interconnected. Today, though, many view these as conflicting perspectives. To give offence to other cultures or faiths, they argue, is to foment racism; to challenge racism, one should refrain from giving offence.
- Malik, Kenan: To Name The Unnameable
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 Discussing Salman Rushdie's non-appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
- Malik, Kenan: The Tragic Ironies of Breivik's Terror
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 We need to challenge neo-fascism and anti-Muslim bigotry, just as we need to challenge Islamism. But in both cases we also need to keep a sense of perspective about the nature of the threat.
- Malik, Kenan: Trump, Namazie, Islam, Free Speech and the Left
Resource Type: Article On the odd relationship that many on the left have with Islam. They view all Muslims as helpless victims, and regard any criticism of Islam as a form of bigotry.
- Malik, Kenan: Using diversity to eviscerate diversity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2023 On a controversy over an image depicting Muhammad.
- Malik, Kenan: A Veiled Debate
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 2006 We certainly need to challenge the iniquities of Islam and refuse to bow to Muslim blackmail that certain debates are off-limits. But equally we need to keep the problem of Islam in perspective and not pretend that it is the root cause of every social ill.
- Malik, Kenan: Veiled Values
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 It is important to defend liberal social values, the secular society and the heritage of the Enlightenment. But we cannot do so by promoting illiberal policies.
- Malik, Kenan: Warning: This May Injure Your Modesty
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Ahmed Naji is an Egyptian novelist and journalist who, in February, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for "injuring public modesty". In August 2014, Akhbar al-Adab, a state-funded literary magazine, had published an excerpt from his third novel, Istikhdam al-Hayah (Using Life), which had been previously approved by Egypt's censorship authority. In the excerpt, the narrator smokes hashish, drinks alcohol with his friends, and enjoys a sexual relationship with a woman. Hani Saleh Tawfik, a 65-year-old Egyptian, filed a case against Naji, alleging that reading the excerpt had caused him to experience heart palpitations, sickness, and a drop in blood pressure.
- Malik, Kenan: What Does Science Tell Us About Race?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Six points about the complex relation between scientific research and the reality of human group differences.
- Malik, Kenan: What is education for?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 There is a fundamental difference between being a student and being a consumer. Education is not a product but a relationship and a process, a relationship between student and lecturer, and process by which knowledge transforms the individual. When someone buys a car or a hamburger, he or she is purchasing a pre-packaged, readymade commodity to satisfy a specific need. Education is about creating critical thinkers whose skill is precisely the ability to challenge ideas that are pre-packaged or readymade or designed to satisfy such a need.
- Malik, Kenan: What Is Wrong With Multiculturalism? [Part 1]
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 Thoughts about iimmigration, identity, diversity and multiculturalism.
- Malik, Kenan: What's Wrong With Multiculturalism?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 My view is that both multiculturalists and their critics are wrong. And only by understanding why both sides are wrong will we be able to work our way through the mire in which we find ourselves.
- Malik, Kenan: When Does Criticism of Islam become Islamophobia?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Basic points that undergird about the relationship between criticism, Islam and Islamophobia. We should stop being so obsessed by the distinction between legitimate criticism and Islamophobia, and start thinking about how an obsession with both Islam and Islamophobia distorts our culture and our debates.
- Malik, Kenan: Who is appropriating what?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Last week the novelist Lionel Shriver gave the keynote address at the Brisbane Writers Festival. It did not go well. She addressed the question of 'Fiction and identity politics' (apparently the organizers had originally asked her to talk about 'community and belonging', but she had submitted to them a different topic), providing a robust critique of identity politics and of the idea of ‘cultural appropriation’.
- Malik, Kenan: Who owns knowledge?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2007 The resurgence of a Romantic view of culture poses a real menace to the free flow of knowledge and threatens to corral it into intellectual Bantustans. The ideas of free speech and open debate become meaningless if we fail to defend a universalist concept of knowledge or if we accept the notion of science as but a local view whose factual claims must defer to cultural and political needs. If scientific debate is constrained to express only sentiments with which people feel comfortable, culturally and politically, then science dies as the line between knowledge and myth becomes eroded.
- Malik, Kenan: Who's afraid of the BNP?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 How should a liberal democratic society respond to an organization such as the BNP? Should the political mainstream ostracise the BNP or engage with it? And if engage, how?
- Malik, Kenan: Why both sides are wrong in the race debate
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 2008 For all the talk about culture as fluid and changing, multiculturalism, no less than old-fashioned racism, invariably leads people to think of human groups in fixed terms.
- Malik, Kenan: Why Do Jihadis Seem So Evil?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 The day before the Paris carnage, two suicide bombers killed at least 40 people in a Shia district of Beirut. The week after, two suicide bombings of street markets in Nigeria killed 49 people. Faced with such atrocities, we can often do little but reach for adjectives such as 'barbarous', 'depraved', or even 'evil'. But what is it that makes people act in such depraved, evil ways?
- Malik, Kenan: Why do we still believe in race?
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 2007 Races are difficult to define and there are no objective rules for deciding what constitutes a race or to what race a person belongs. People can belong to many races at the same time.
- Malik, Kenan: The Wrong Solution To The Wrong Problem
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 What is it to have free press?
- Malik, Kenan; Pike, Duncan: Free Speech and Double Standards
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016
- Malik, Kenen: Disagreement is not hatred
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An essay on the transgender debate which argues that debate ends when we label views we simply disagree with as 'hatred''.
- Malina, Judith: Love & Politics
Resource Type: Book Judith Malina and her longtime companion-comrade Julian Beck founded the Living Theatre in New York City in 1947. In these poems Judith shares her anguish at injustices inflicted by bureaucratic authority: the rewards she found in love and collaboration with Julian: her difficulties in making some life-defining choices.
- Malkinson, Trevor: Canada for the People!: A Study of the Social Gospel in Canadian History
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2015 United Church of Canada's relation with the social gospel and the criticisms of the Social Gospel movement
- Mallea, Paula: The Fear Factor
Stephen Harper's "Tough on Crime" Agenda Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 This study analyses the financial and human costs of the Harper government's tough on crime agenda and concludes it is wrong-headed, expensive, and counter-productive. In fact, it will likely lead to more crime and a bigger deficit.
- Malloy, Mary C.; Post, Charlie: A Reply to Robert Brenner
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1999 WHAT HAS ALWAYS distinguished serious economic analysis from mere ideological cheerleading is the effort to understand the general economic laws that govern capitalist societies, and how these laws have manifested themselves through capitalism's historical development.
- Malm, Andreas: Fossil Capital
The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming Resource Type: Book First Published: 2016 The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power.
- Malm, Andreas: How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Learning to fight in a world on fire Resource Type: Book First Published: 2021
- Malm, Andreas: The Progress of This Storm
Nature and Society in a Warming World Resource Type: Book First Published: 2018 An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other.
- Malm, Andreas; Landstrom, Rasmus: Without a Popular Movement We Don't Stand a Chance: Andreas Malm on Climate Change
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An interview with the author of "Fossil Capital and The Progress of This Storm", who says there are reasons to be hopeful but significant progress will require a global movement of unprecedented scale.
- Maloff, Vera: Our Backs Warmed by the Sun
Memories of a Doukhobor Life Resource Type: Book First Published: 2020 When author Vera Maloff set out to find the truth about her family's history, she knew something of the struggles of living a pacifist, agrarian life in a world with opposing values. To find the bones of that history she turned to her mother Elizabeth, who, in her nineties, had forgotten nothing. In Our Backs Warmed by the Sun, the author, through the stories of her mother, describes a wholly activist life. The Doukhobors -- both the Sons of Freedom and moderate sects -- led anti-military protests throughout the early 1900s, harboured draft dodgers in the 60s, and stood up for their beliefs.
- Malone, Barry: Why Al Jazeera will not say Mediterranean 'migrants'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 There is no "migrant" crisis in the Mediterranean. There is a very large number of refugees fleeing unimaginable misery and danger and a smaller number of people trying to escape the sort of poverty that drives some to desperation.
- Maloney, Mike: C.A.R.D.
A Lake Erie group fights for sensible development in a sensitive area Resource Type: Article Maloney details the protests of C.A.R.D., an environmental organization advocating for the sensible and responsible integration of development and environmental issues.
- Maltby, Edward: Waterlogged Wealth
Resource Type: Book The traditional response to swamps, marshes and bogs has been to drain them. But wetlands are not wastelands. Coastal marshes are among the world's most productive ecosystems. Maltby examines the value of swamps and marshes, as well as the threats against them, showing how short-sighted this approach is and indicating that positive alternatives are available.
- Mamdani, Mahmood: Naming the Darfur Crisis
Against The Current vol. 113 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2004 How can we name the Darfur crisis? The U.S. Congress, and now Secretary of State Colin Powell, claim that genocide has occurred in Darfur. The European Union says it is not genocide. And so does the African Union.
- Mamdani, Mahmood: Saviours and Survivors
Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror Resource Type: Book First Published: 2009 Mamadani examines the Darfur crisis within a context that considers Sudan's history. He illuminates the deeply rooted causes of the current conflict by examining its colonial and Cold War origins as well as its escalation during the 1990's. In his analysis, Mamadani is also critical of the world's response to the crisis.
- Mamon, Marcin: The Cross and the Sword: The Making of a Christian Taliban in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 The recruitment point for volunteers in Dmytro Korchynsky's holy war is located in the basement of a building in central Kiev, on Chapaev Street, in what used to be a billiard club. Anyone can sign up, and the location isn't secret -- its address and phone number is on the Internet.
- Mamun Rashid, Mohammed: 'Slaves of the sea'
The long-forgotten Jaladas community and their need for policy inclusion Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Due to socio-econimical, political, and geographical reasons, the Jaladas community has been negelected and they are vulnerable. Relevant sectoral policies enacted by the government of Bangladesh would address these issues.
- Manach, Jean-Marc: Fifteen minutes of online anonymity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Making sure that your communications and data are confidential is not easy. Jean-Marc Manach, a journalist specialized in digital privacy and security, has an interesting alternative – how to have 15 minutes of online anonymity.
- Mance, Henry: Last Frontier
Local communities fight mineral exploration and eviction in the Andes Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Afro-descendant communities in Colombia are fighting to retain control of their ancestral goldmines in the face of pressure from private interests.
- Mancini, Emma: Farming Under the Wall
Stories of Palestinian Farmers in the West Bank Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 The difficulties of Palestinian farmers as their lands are placed behind the Wall.
- Mancini, Matthew J.: One Dies, Get Another
Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1996
- Mandel, Charles: How Big Oil seeps into Canadian academia
Canada's oily universities Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 For years, Royal Dutch Shell has tried to portray itself as one of the good guys in the battle against climate change. It recently completed improvements to an oil upgrader in Fort Saskatchewan, near Edmonton, to capture up to a third of its greenhouse gas emissions - equivalent to removing the annual pollution of about 250,000 cars.
- Mandel, Charles: While you were distracted climate change warning arrived
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 With dire warnings of catastrophic sea level rise and superstorms capable of pitching 1,000 tonne mega-boulders onto shorelines, scientist James Hansen sounded an alarm over continued global warming.
- Mandel, David: The Defeat of Post-USSR Labor
Against The Current vol. 116 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2005 The nascent Soviet labor movement played an important, perhaps crucial, role in shaking the foundations of the Soviet system, which proved remarkably fragile beneath its impressive totalitarian superstructure. But this movement failed to develop the organizational and ideological independence that would have allowed it to influence the subsequent course of events.
- Mandel, David: Economic Power Struggle In The USSR
Soviet Workers Press For Self-Management Resource Type: Article
- Mandel, David: Myths and reality about the Ukraine war
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2023 How one views the war depends very much on the starting point of one's analysis.
- Mandel, David: The October Revolution: Its Necessity & Meaning
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Mandal examines the necessity and meaning of the October Revolution.
- Mandel, David: The Russian Revolution Ninety Years After
Against The Current vol. 131 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2007 The October Revolution of 1917 in Russia was the most influential political event of the 20th century. But since history is written by the victors, it is not well known that October was the opening shot of a vast and powerful challenge to capitalism that swept the industrial world and had strong echoes in colonial countries. Between 1918 and 1921 union membership and days lost in strikes everywhere reached new heights, while the ranks of the revolutionary wing of the socialist movement swelled.
- Mandel, David: The Study of a Russian Factory
Against The Current vol. 130 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2007 This book is a study of the Moscow Hammer and Sickle metallurgical factory between 1905 to 1932, based largely on four factory-specific archives that became available to Western historians after the fall of the Soviet Union. Its main focus, covering two-thirds of the book, is the post-revolutionary, post-civil war period.
- Mandel, David: Ukraine Between 'Popular Uprising for Democracy' (Canadian Government) and 'Fascist Putsch' (Russian Government)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 That movement is characteristic of the present period which has seen a series of similar popular uprisings – in the Arab countries, but also in the former Soviet territory – (Georgia in 2003, Ukraine in 2004, and Kirgizstan 2005). An atomized population is fed up with the political regime. It mobilizes through the social media, but without a clear programme. The fruits of the mass mobilization are then reaped by forces that are organized and that have a clear programme. The lack of a clear analysis and programme explains the role that fascist forces were able to play in the events. These forces rejected any compromise with the contested government, presenting themselves as unyielding adversaries, not only of the current leaders, but of the ‘system’ itself. And they call for a ‘national revolution.’ This intransigent position attracted demonstrators who were aware of the bitter fruits of the Orange Revolution and who did not understand the real meaning of the proposed ‘national revolution.’
- Mandel, Ernest: Decline of the Dollar: A Marxist View of the Monetary Crisis
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1973 Useful for a-deeper understanding of what you read about in the business pages.
- Mandel, Ernest: The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx
1843 to Capital Resource Type: Book First Published: 1971 Mandel discusses the development of Marx's economic ideas from their beginning to the completion of the Grundrisse. He combines a historical retrospective and a review of curent discussions on each of the subjects and problems central to Marxist economic theory.
- Mandel, Ernest: Marxist Economic Theory
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1962 Published: 1971 Marxist Economic Theory is a major intellectual project which adapts Marx's analysis of capitalism to the world of the late 20th century. Mandel examines post-war upheavals in the development of imperialism, monopoly capitalism and the structure of the state-controlled economies.
- Mandel, Ernest (ed.): 50 Years of World Revolution
An International Symposium Resource Type: Book First Published: 1968 Published: 1971 An selection of essays from a Trotksyist perspective.
- Mandel, Kyla: Brussels 'Revolving Door' Keeps Relationship Cozy Between Big Energy and EU Decision Makers
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 The Brussels 'revolving door' has allowed Big Energy to remain close to European climate and energy decision makers ahead of December's Paris COP21 climate talks, a new report shows.
- Mandel, Michael: How America Gets Away With Murder
Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity Resource Type: Book First Published: 2003 Michael Mandel offers a critical account of America's illegal wars and a war crimes system that has granted America's leaders an unjust and dangerous impunity, effectively encouraging their illegal wars and the war crimes that always flow from them.
- Mandel, Michael: Self-Defense Against Peace
Israel's Unjust War on Gaza Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Legally and morally, an aggressor cannot rely upon self-defence to justify violence against resistance to its own aggression. The most plausible reason Israel is fighting Hamas (and the PLO before it) is 'self-defence', not against rockets and mortars, but against having to make peace with the Palestinians on the basis of the pre-1967 borders as required by international law.
- Mandela, Nelson: Address by President Nelson Mandela at the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1997 It behoves all South Africans, themselves erstwhile beneficiaries of generous international support, to stand up and be counted among those contributing actively to the cause of freedom and justice. All of us need to do more in supporting the struggle of the people of Palestine for self-determination; in supporting the quest for peace, security and friendship in this region.
- Mandela, Nelson: Long Walk to Freedom
Resource Type: Book
- Mandela, Nelson: Nelson Mandela Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Mander, Jerry: The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2012 Mander argues that capitalism is no longer a viable system: "What may have worked in 1900 is calamitous in 2010." Capitalism, utterly dependent on never-ending economic growth, is an impossible absurdity on a finite planet with limited resources.
- Mander, Jerry: In the Absence of the Sacred
The Failure of Technology and the Survival of Indian Nations Resource Type: Book First Published: 1991
- Mander, Jerry; Goldsmith, Edward: The Case Against the Global Economy
And for a turn towards the local Resource Type: Book First Published: 1996
- Mandhai, Shafik: Double standards: Do all journalist lives matter?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Little attention is paid to reporters from the Global South who are killed, abused, or left stranded by foreign media.
- Mandhai, Shafik: Trump threat to cut Palestine aid could 'unravel Oslo'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 US President Donald Trump's threat to withdraw aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) would deprive Washington of its influence on the body, and could cause the Oslo accords to unravel, analysts say.
- Manduca, Paola; Chalmers, Iain; Summerfield, Derek; Gilbert, Mads; Ang, Swee: Lancet: an Open Letter for the People of Gaza
The Massacre Must Stop Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 A public letter from doctors and scientists to stop the massacre.
- Manek, Haseena: Tracking Harper's 9-year-long assault on unions
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Stephen Harper has been Prime Minister of Canada for almost a decade. In that time, the system of protections that were put in place by decades of advocacy by labour organizations and unions has been partly dismantled. The attacks have been extremely strategic. Ground Zero for these attacks has been the House of Commons, where piece after piece of legislation has taken aim at unions and collective bargaining.
- Mangla, Ravi: The Secret History of Jaywalking: The Disturbing Reason It Was Outlawed - And Why We Should Lift the Ban
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Mangla narrates the origins of jaywalking and the reason why it was made illegal.
- Manguel, Alberto: A History of Reading
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1996 An exploration of what it means to be a reader of books.
- Manguel, Alberto: The Library at Night
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2006 The Library at Night tells the story of the important role of libraries in human civilization and how books are an essential link between the individual and the world.
- Manguel, Alberto: Throw it in the garbage myself
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1992 I will not have anyone tell me or my children what we can or cannot read.
- Manguel, Alberto (ed.): God's Spies
Stories in Defiance of Oppression Resource Type: Book First Published: 1999 Short stories on the theme of resistance to oppression.
- Manjarrez, Kieran: Hate Speech and Free Speech
The Wrong Kind of Climate Control Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 Laws against sedition, in whatever guise, are an attack on free speech. Unlike laws against those rare instances of incitement which trigger immediate and actual violence against a present target (as in "get him boys!"), laws against sedition are always couched in vague, open ended terms because the real target is not the alleged "dangers" protected against but some political agenda or ideology that is opposed.
- Manji, Firoze; Ekine, Sokari (eds): African Awakening: The Emerging Revolutions
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 An inclusive account of the source of popular discontent and an insight into the struggle for democratization, from the popular uprisings in Northern Africa all the way into the heartland of the African continent.
- Manji, Irshad: Risking Utopia
On the Edge of a New Democracy Resource Type: Book First Published: 1997
- Manly, Paul (Director): You, Me & the SPP: Trading Democracy for Corporate Rule
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2009 What do secrecy, police provocateurs, an assault on democracy and infringements on citizens' rights have in common? The Security and Prosperity Partnership.
- Mann, Charles C.: 1493
Uncovering the New World Columbus Created Resource Type: Book First Published: 2011 Alternate title in the United Kingdom: 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World. A study of the Colombian Exchange -- the biological cross-proliferation between the eastern and western hemispheres and its ripple effects through history.
- Mann, Charles. C.: 1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Resource Type: Book First Published: 2005 A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
- Mann, Edward, & Lee, John Allan: The RCMP vs. the People
Inside Canada's Security Service Resource Type: Book First Published: 1979 An examination of the RCMP's Security Service and its abuses of power.
- Mann, Eric: The Palestinian Resistance is Winning
The Movement Must Expose and Defeat Netanyahu's "Final Solution" to the Palestinian Question Resource Type: Article First Published: 2024 Netanyahu makes his objectives clear. He wants a "final solution" to the Palestinian problem -- the mass annihilation of the Palestinian people. His goal is a Palestine without any Palestinians so Israel can completely occupy all of Palestine once and for all.
- Mann, Eric: Prelude to Paris: Four Tragic Tactics by President Obama and Four Climate Justice Proposals He Must Support
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 In December 2015 the world's governments meet in Paris for a truly historic event -- the United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference. (UNFCCC). The objective of the conference is to protect Mother Earth from the assault of its most ungrateful inhabitants. The challenge is whether Homo sapiens, especially those of the ruling classes of the United States and Europe, can be civilized by the rest of the world before it is too late for all of us.
- Mann, Eric: A Race Struggle, a Class Struggle, A Women's Struggle All at Once
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2001 In Los Angeles, the Labor/Community Strategy Center is carrying out a difficult Left experiment in the age of the omnipresent Right. The center is an explicitly anti-racist, anti-corporate, and anti-imperialist think-tank focusing on 'theory-driven practice'—the generation of mass campaigns of the working class and oppressed nationalities, in particular the black and Latino workers and communities. These campaigns are historically relevant on their own terms, but also have real relevance to any transition to an uncharted socialist future.
- Mann, Jason: Promoting your union
Six strategies to get more organizing leads and union members Resource Type: Book Promoting Your Union is a book to help union organizers get more organizing leads, create outreach plans to bring in new members and build the power of their unions. The ideas in this book are based on actual best practices from union organizers who are using these tactics in the field.
- Mann, K: The People Emerge: The Storming of the Bastille
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A history of the storming of the Bastille emphasizing the revolutionary history that is glossed over in patriotic celebrations.
- Mann, K.: Tribune of the People
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 A book review of "Jean Paul Marat: Tribune of the French Revolution" by Clifford D. Conner.
- Mann, Keith: Remembering the Paris Commune
Against The Current vol. 153 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 Marking the anniversary of the revolt that led to the establishment of the world's first workers’ government, the Paris Commune of 1871. The Paris Commune has always had a special place in the hearts and minds of revolutionaries, and can inspire today’s activist generation with the potential for "power to the people."
- Mann, Keith: An Unrepentant '68er's Life
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Review of an autobiographical book by May 1968 figure Daniel Bensaïd.
- Mann, Michael: Consciousness and Action Among the Western Working Class
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1973 A comparative analysis of working-class consciousness in Britain, France, Italy and the United States which seeks to answer the question of whether the working class today is a potentially revolutionary force.
- Mann, Michael E.: The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
Dispatches from the Front Lines Resource Type: Book First Published: 2012 Michael E. Mann, lead author of the original paper in which the Hockey Stick graph first appeared, shares the story of the science and politics behind the controversy of climate change, and the implied threat to those who oppose governmental regulation and other restraints to protect the environment and planet.
- Mann, Ron: Dream Tower
Resource Type: Film First Published: 1994 Follows the history Rochdale College, a famous experiment in co-operative living and self-directed education in 1960's Toronto.
- Manning, Jeane; Begich, Nick: Angels Don't Play This HAARP
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1995
- Manning, Richard: Bakken Business
The price of North Dakota's fracking boom Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Manning the widespread fracking in the Bakken formation (North Dakota), and the environmental and social repercussions it causes.
- Manning, Richard: Last Stand
A Riveting Expose of Environmental Pillage and a Lone Journalist's Struggle to Keep Faith Resource Type: Book First Published: 1992 The author describes his confrontation with big business, examining the clash between nature and consumer society.
- Manning, Richard: Over the River
Returning home to Flint Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Author Richard Manning returns to his childhood home of Flint, Michigan and recounts the city's decline from thriving industry into an economic depression, from which the city has never recovered. Flint is left with an eroded infrastructure, neighbourhoods rife with crime and public health emergencies, and the decades old question of how will it ever recover.
- Manning, Roger B.: Village Revolts
Social Protest and Popular Disturbances in England, 1509-1640 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1988 Anti-enclosure riots, tenurial and rent disputes, and game poaching are among the many types of 'village revolts' that occurred between the accession of Henry VIII and the meeting of the Short Parliament. Based on case studies from equity court records, this book offers new insight into the impact of agrarian change, demographic expansion, and technological innovation, adding considerably to our knowledge of developments in the law of public order in 16th- and 17th-century England.
- Manouchian, Sarkis: My Interview with Pisstex
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1986 Currently the government is trying to whip up national hysteria over drug consumption. Part of this hysteria is the effort to implement mandatory drug testing for all American workers. The administration's war on drug consumption presumes that drug abuse can be stopped by police and military repression.
- Manson, Bill: The Absurdity of Hi-Tech Servitude
What You Sacrifice to Hold a Job in the New Economy Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 In terms of "jobs," war is evidently a burgeoning growth-industry. Back in the "Homeland," the demands of "internal-security" offer new openings for countless other "surplus-persons" in need of some "employment"—as law-enforcement and anti-terrorism personnel, prison guards—or prison inmates.
- Manson, Katherine; Hackett, Robert: Blindspots in The News
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1995 The filters that determine what gets into the "news" and what doesn't.
- Manson, William: The Enthronment of Illogic
Daring to Know Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 It is not that the average U.S. citizen is incapable of critical thinking, but that there is little incentive to exercise it. He is suppressed, blocked from the free exercise of his principles and values.
- Mantle, Arlene: On the Line!
Songs for Social Change Resource Type: Pamphlet
- Mantsios, Gregory ed.: A New Labor Movement for a New Century
Resource Type: Book Charts the possibilities for a more vibrant, inclusive, and democratic labor movement.
- Manuel, Arthur; Derrickson, Grand Chief Ronald: The Reconciliation Manifesto
Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 A look at the historical and current relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians, and what needs to be done to accomplish true reconciliation.
- Manuel, George: The Fourth World
An Indian Reality Resource Type: Book First Published: 1974 Traces struggle of Canadian Indian to survive as nation, culture and reality. Suggests 'new order' so that original natives and Europeans can co-exist without destroying each other.
- Maphis: Third Annual Directory to Canadian Pagan Resources
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1990
- Marable, Manning: Beyond Black and White
Transforming African-American Politics Resource Type: Book First Published: 1995 Published: 2009 Marable argues for a new "transformationalist" approach in which there is an emergence of a new black cultural identity which also includes all the poor and exploited in united struggle against oppression.
- Marable, Manning: Black Leadership
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1996 A discussion on leadership with a focus on how to lead mass movements concerned with democracy.
- Marable, Manning: The Crisis of Color and Democracy
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1992 Essays attacking racist sterotypes and cynical arguments which America's national leaders use to obscure both the roots of today's social problems and their solutions.
- Maracle, Lee: Sojourner's Truth & Other Stories
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1990
- Maradiaga, Héctor; Ávila, Jennifer: The Attempts to disappear Garifuna people
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Development projects pushed by the government in the Atlantic coast threaten the survival of afro-descendant communities.
- Marantz, Denis: Essays on Human Rights and Democratic Development
People or Peoples; Equality, Autonomy and Self-Determination: The Issues at Stake of the Internation Resource Type: Book First Published: 1996
- Marc Roboy: Future of Montreal and the MCM
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1978
- Marcetic, Branko: Why Is There No 'Saudi-Gate'?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 For decades, the DC establishment has been on the payroll of a foreign terror state. But because it's Saudi Arabia, you won't hear a peep.
- Marche, Stephen: Canada's Impossible Acknowledgment
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its final report in 2015 with ninety-four calls to action, and renewed hope that the nation would finally confront its darkest history with tangible action. This article looks at why this process has yet again stalled, one which repeats the cycle of promises and yet again does not deliver.
- Marchetti, Victor; Marks, John D.: The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1974 Published: 1975
- Marcos, Subcomandante: Of Sowing and Harvests
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Perhaps our word can manage to join forces with others in Mexico and the world and perhaps first it's heard as a murmur, then out loud, and then a scream that they hear in Gaza. We don't know about you, but we Zapatistas from the EZLN, we know how important it is, in the middle of destruction and death, to hear some words of encouragement.
- Marcos, Subcomandante: To Look and Communicate
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 We Zapatistas know that just as there are many worlds in this world that we inhabit, there are also many forms, modes, times, and places to struggle against the beast, without asking, nor hoping, for anything in exchange.
- Marcus, Sara: Students, Labor Getting Together
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1997 The idea that students demanding their rights at work and at school might have a place not just allied with the labor movement, but in the labor movement, is a powerful one that undergraduate activists should examine closely.
- Marcus, Steven: Engels, Manchester and the Working Class
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1974 An account and interpretation of the writing of Friedrich Engels' first major work, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844.
- Marcuse, Herbert: Eros and Civilization
A Philosophical Inquiry Into Freud Resource Type: Book First Published: 1955 Published: 1962
- Marcuse, Herbert: An Essay on Liberation
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1969
- Marcuse, Herbert: Five Lectures
Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia Resource Type: Book First Published: 1970
- Marcuse, Herbert: One-Dimensional Man
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1964 Published: 1966
- Marcuse, Herbert: Reason and Revolution
Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory Resource Type: Book First Published: 1941 Published: 1968
- Marcuse, Herbert: Soviet Marxism
A Critical Analysis Resource Type: Book First Published: 1961
- Marczak, Michal (Director): Fuck for Forest
Resource Type: Film/Video Fuck for Forest want you to get horny, get naked and save the world, selling self-produced erotica online to benefit the environment. But the transition from fund-raisers to activists tests the resolve and motives of these wide-eyed idealists.
- Mare, Gerhard: Ethnicity and Politics in South Africa
Resource Type: Book
- Marglin, Steven: The Dismal Science
How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community Resource Type: Book First Published: 2008
- Margolin, Malcolm: The Earth Manual
How to Work on Wild Land Without Taming It Resource Type: Book First Published: 1985
- Mariam, Alemayehu G.: Chinese neocolonialism in Africa
The Dragon eating the African Lion and Cheetah? (Part I) Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 China has literally invaded Africa with its investors, traders, lenders, builders, developers, labourers and who knows what else. The fancy phrase for that is win-win cooperation. The "cooperation" has opened up Africa as a source of raw materials for China and a dumping ground for cheap Chinese manufactured goods. It is Chinese neocolonialism.
- Marian Swerdlow: Teachers as Change Agents
Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing against the Corporate Juggernaut Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Howard Ryan's Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing against the Corporate Juggernaut.
- MariAnna, Cara: Israel Lobby's Disastrous Domination
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2023 AIPAC has involved the U.S. in a revolting crime against humanity that will almost certainly undermine American security at home and abroad. It must be broken.
- Marie, P.: Algonquins vs. Frontenac Ventures
Against The Current vol. 134 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 I recently returned from a little-publicized “political hotbed” ignited by Frontenac Ventures Corporation (FVC), a private mining company causing grave injustices against the Ardoch First Nation community in Ontario, Canada.
- Marieme, Helie Lucas: New Zealand - Open letter: Betraying women and free thought in the name of Christchurch massacres
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 An open letter questioning shows of solidarity with Muslims after the Christchurch massacre, specifically non-Muslim women wearing head coverings and a Canadian university that disinvited an ex-Muslim atheist speaker.
- Marik, Soma: India's Communalist Violence Against Women
Against The Current vol. 91 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2001 In the colonial and post-colonial periods in India, both the state and the religious communities identified women as a site of concern. Yet at the close of the 20th century, the condition of women in India remains deplorable—a condition that should not be belittled on the ground that colonialism used it in order to discredit India's peoples and achievements.
- Marik, Soma: Reinterrogating the Classical Marxist Discourses of Revolutionary Democracy
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2008 Marik attempts to re-examine the "common sense" claim that Marxism had been an authoritarian political theory and practice.
- Marik, Soma: The Struggle Against Rape and Sexual Assault
Against The Current vol. 163 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Soma Marik discusses how to advance the struggle against sexual assault in the wake of the bus gang rape of last December, which led to massive demonstrations throughout India.
- Marik, Soma: Women's Oppression and Liberation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 On the role of Marxism in the feminist movement in India.
- Mariner, Joanne: One Thousand Years of Solitude
Life in the SHU Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 Indefinite solitary confinement: a large-scale experiment in sensory deprivation and social isolation.
- Mariner, Joanne: When Qaddafi Was Our Friend
The CIA's Libyan Helpers Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 It was counterterrorism cooperation, together with Qaddafi’s abandonment of his nuclear ambitions, that cemented U.S./Libyan ties. Qaddafi’s intelligence services opened their files to the CIA, were given CIA training, and took in the CIA’s prisoners.
- Mariposa Film Group: Word is Out
Stories of Some of Our Lives Resource Type: Film First Published: 1977 Interviews with 26 people, who speak about their experiences as gay men and lesbians.
- Mariscal, Jorge: Neo-Racism in the Southwest
The (Mis)education of the Coming Majority Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 What is taking place in southern Arizona deserves our attention as the most fanatical episode in the war against public education.
- Mark, Monica: The Nigerians Who Dare to Speak of Love as a Tide of Anti-gay Hatred Rises
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 A new crackdown on gender minorities has led to arrests and fears of mob violence. But a brave few are still fighting for sexual freedom.
- Mark, Monica: Slavery still shackles Mauritania, 31 years after its abolition
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 Rigid caste system and ruling elite have enabled a centuries-old practice to continue into the 21st century.
- Marks, Brian: Louisianans, Oil & Petro-Addiction
Against The Current vol. 147 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 The Deepwater Horizon oil horror has again focused the nation on South Louisiana. For the second time in less than five years, we are on the front pages of America’s newspapers. Again, this region is being misunderstood. Easy explanations miss the reasons why this area is so vulnerable, and why we in Louisiana are paying for the American economy’s dependence upon petroleum.
- Markus, Bethania: Media Gets Targeted by Obama, Discovers No One Cares Except the Media
Welcome to the Freakshow Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 The news media has a role to play and it’s not entertainment. Instead of informing people what their government is doing abroad, news organizations are making up fiction about food stamps breaking the budget and digging through Michael Jackson’s grave.
- Marlière, Philippe: Class Struggle at Air France
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 On Monday, about 100 employees stormed an Air France management and union official meeting that was discussing dramatic job cuts. As the negotiations had been making no progress, the staff became angry, and tussled with some company officials.
- Marlière, Philippe: The Radical Left in Europe
An Outline Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 An attempt to understand what unites the organisations of the new left and the nature of its radicalism.
- Marmorek, Jan: "U.S. Discovers Soft Energy Salvation" in Probe Post
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1979 Jan Marmorek suggests that the proposal of the American and Canadian governments to use renewable energy sources to supply a percentage of energy demands are feasible and would bring positive effects to the economy in this article in Probe Post.
- Marmot, Michael; Wilkinson, Richard (eds.): Social Determinants of Health
Resource Type: Book A wide ranging collection providing health records from around the world
- Marom, Yotam: What Really Caused the Implosion of the Occupy Movement - An Insider's View
Taking a hard look at some of the self-sabotaging behaviors of the left Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 It's a cool night in early October of 2011, the height of Occupy Wall Street. Two months ago I had just moved into my parents' basement, feeling deflated after the end of Bloombergville (a two-week street occupation outside city hall to try to stop the massive budget cuts of that same year), convinced this country wasn't ready for movement. Now I'm in this living room with some of the most impressive people I've ever met, at the shaky helm of a movement that has become part of the mainstream's daily consciousness.
- Marosi, Richard: Product of Mexico: Child Labor
In Mexico's fields, children toil to harvest crops that make it to American tables Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 About 100,000 children under 14 pick crops for pay at small- and mid-size farms across Mexico, where child labor is illegal. Some of the produce they harvest reaches American consumers, helping to power an export boom.
- Marosi, Richard: Product of Mexico: Company Stores
Company stores trap Mexican farmworkers in a cycle of debt Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 The company store is supposed to be a lifeline for migrant farm laborers. But inflated prices drive people deep into debt. Many go home penniless, obliged to work off their debts at the next harvest.
- Marosi, Richard: Product of Mexico: Harsh Harvest
Hardship on Mexico's farms, a bounty for U.S. tables Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Farm exports to the U.S. from Mexico have tripled to $7.6 billion in the last decade, enriching agribusinesses, distributors and retailers. But for thousands of farm laborers south of the border, the boom is a story of exploitation and extreme hardship.
- Marosi, Richard: Product of Mexico: No Way Out
Desperate workers on a Mexican mega-farm: 'They treated us like slaves' Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 A raid exposes brutal conditions at Bioparques, one of Mexico's biggest tomato exporters, which was a Wal-Mart supplier. But the effort to hold the grower accountable is looking more like a tale of impunity.
- Marot, John: Building Working-Cass Opposition to Stalin's Dictatorship?
The Trotskyist Opposition, 1927-1940 Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1996 A review of Tony Cliff's book Trotsky, 1927-1940. In Cliff's view, the Trotskyist movement in the USSR was not so much destroyed by Stalin as much as it collapsed under the weight of its own fundamentally faulty assumptions regarding the nature of the enemy--indeed, just who the enemy was.
- Marot, John: Evidence from the Archives
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1996 The Trotskyists' reformist course, their legalism, their "conscious refusal to seek support in the growing workers' movement" significantly "weakened the effectiveness of the 'bolshevik-leninists' and disoriented potential adherents."
- Marot, John Eric: The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2012 The author tracks the development of Bolshevism from its inception in 1904 to the October Revolution in 1917. In the post-October period, the author, drawing on the work of Robert Brenner, shows that any NEP-premised programme of economic advance was destined to fail.
- Marotti, Maria Ornella: Silvia Baraldini Wins Return Home
Against The Current vol. 81 Resource Type: Article First Published: 1999 On June 11 the U.S. government agreed to a longstanding Italian request to allow political prisoner Silvia Baraldini to serve the rest of her term in her native country. The move, announced by U.S. Ambassador to Italy Thomas Foglietta, appeared to be an attempt to appease Italian public opinion about the U.S. army plane that sliced a gondola cable when flying too low and too fast in the Italian Alps on February 3, 1998, killing twenty people. The pilot, Marine Captain Richard Asby, was recently acquitted by a U.S. military tribunal. In that case Italy returned the pilots involved in the Cermis tragedy and allowed them to be tried in their country of origin.
- Marquart, Marie Friedmann; Steigenga; Williams;, Philip J.; Vasquez, Manuel A.: Living "Illegal"
The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration Resource Type: Book First Published: 2011
- Marquis, Moira: Not by Bread Alone
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War focused on people's daily needs--who doesn't love hot, buttered toast? People in Spain were starving--they needed food. People--were homeless and needed homes; people were jobless and needed something to do; people were rejected from their communities needed to be included. Anarchists focused on these practical, attainable and above all human needs. And, these are the basic rights that should undergird all human social organizations.
- Marquis-Boire: Inside the Spyware Campaign Against Argentine Troublemakers
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor known for doggedly investigating a 1994 Buenos Aires bombing, was targeted by invasive spy software downloaded onto his cellular phone shortly before his mysterious death. The software masqueraded as a confidential document and was intended to infect a Windows computer. An investigation by The Intercept indicates that this targeting was likely not an isolated event.
- Marquis-Boire, Morgan; Greenwald, Glenn; Lee, Micah: XKEYSCORE: NSA's Google for the World's Private Communications
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 The NSA's XKEYSCORE program, first revealed by The Guardian, sweeps up countless people's Internet searches, emails, documents, usernames and passwords, and other private communications. XKEYSCORE is fed a constant flow of Internet traffic from fiber optic cables that make up the backbone of the world’s communication network, among other sources, for processing.
- Marquis-Boire, Morgan; Oberlander, Lynn: First Look Media Publishes Warrant 'Canary,' Releases Software for Managing Canaries
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Today The Intercept’s parent company, First Look Media, published a warrant "canary" -- a statement that attempts to assure readers that the company has not been compelled to comply with a secret government order like a National Security Letter. In addition to this, First Look is publishing AutoCanary: simple, free, open-source software to easily create and manage warrant canaries.
- Marqusee, Mike: Held hostage by Big Pharma: a personal experience
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Mike Marqusee looks at how drug firms can make huge profits from their state-enforced monopoly on an essential good.
- Marqusee, Mike: How a London court Repudiated Zionist Abuse of the Anti-Semitism Charge
Tribunal Blow to Israel's Advocates Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Taunting and tainting opponents with the charge of anti-semitism is a long-standing Zionist ploy, familiar to everyone involved in the Israel-Palestine issue.
- Marqusee, Mike: If I Am Not For Myself
Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew Resource Type: Book First Published: 2008 In a journey through family memory and leftwing history, Marqusee introduces us to Jewish heretics and heroes. In proudly reclaiming the Jewish radical tradition, he reminds us that cultures are not the exclusive franchises of nation-states, and that Zionists and anti-semites share the same sinister, racialized concept of group identity.
- Marqusee, Mike: "If not now, when?" On BDS and 'singling out' Israel
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 This is an edited version of a letter I've sent to a relative in the US who's been trying to figure out the BDS issue in the wake of the recent onslaught against the American Studies Association's decision to support the academic boycott.
- Marqusee, Mike: The misbegotten 'war against cancer'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009
- Marqusee, Mike: Tom Paine, restless democrat
Profile of a radical Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Mike Marqusee celebrates the life, work and ideas of the great revolutionary who declared that "my country is the world and my religion is to do good."
- Marqusee, Mike: The Price of Experience
Writings on Living with Cancer Resource Type: Book First Published: 2014 Writer and political activist Mike Marqusee was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, in the summer of 2007. At first, disinclined to share his misery with others, he was reluctant to write about his illness. But he then came to realize that doing so provided a precious continuity with his life as a writer before contracting the disease, and a way of reaching out to a wider world that the illness made physically less accessible. Writing allowed him to address what he saw as a variety of insidious platitudes that surround cancer, often connected to the individualistic idea that the sufferer must be brave in battling the disease, with the inevitable corollary that those who succumb have, in some measure, brought it on themselves. And so Marqusee begins to write about his illness. Not just his own symptoms and feelings, but the responses of friends to the news that he is ill and the way these reflect broader social attitudes towards the sick.
- Marqusee, Mike: Small country, big struggle
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 Swaziland suffers a repressive and corrupt regime.
- Marr, Warren: Why Nonprofits can't lead the 99%
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 A seasoned movement elder examines what happens left organizations are led exclusively by college-educated professionals answerable to self-perpetuating boards and philanthropic funders, what happens when union leaderships free themselves from their memberships, and when community organizations become government contractors. Only membership supported and membership-driven organizations, he suggests, can actually lead the 99%.
- Marriott, James; Minio-Paluello, Mika: The Oil Road
Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London Resource Type: Book First Published: 2012 A look at a particular oil pipeline and its history, both locally and as a part of the global oil industry.
- Marriott, Red: The Monopoly board of the city: Grenfell Tower - where was the HCA, government housing regulator??
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Homes & Community Agency(HCA) is the UK state regulatory body for social housing; its job is to monitor the performance, finances and provision of services of landlords. Missing from the media coverage of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster so far is any discussion of what relation the HCA has to this horror story of corporate murder.
- Marriott, Red: Tailoring to Needs: Garment Worker Struggles in Bangladesh
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 The class struggle in Bangladesh is fought at a consistently high level and concentrated in the ready made garment (RMG) sector, the country’s dominant industry. Mainly unmediated by trade unions, struggles frequently assume an explosive character.
- Marsden, Lorna, R.: Canadian Women & the Struggle for Equality
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2012 When Stella Bliss applied for unemployment insurance in 1976, she found that she would not be entitled to benefits for another six weeks. Bliss had just had a baby and was therefore subject to a different section of the Unemployment Insurance Act than her male counterparts.
- Marsden, Rachel: 'Extremists stoking rage': The German government seeks to downplay protesting workers' plight
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2024 Farmers, truckers, train drivers – numerous workers are making it known that they are fed up, as the chancellor’s approval drops to 20%.
- Marsden, William: Stupid to the Last Drop
How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care) Resource Type: Book First Published: 2007 Published: 2008 As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic climate change, Alberta plunges ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels, levelling its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, and carpet bombing its southern half with tens of thousands of gas wells.
- Marsh, A; Gordon; Pantazis, C; Heslop, P: Home Sweet Home?
The Impact of Poor Housing on Health Resource Type: Book The authors set out to research three topics: the link between overcrowding and respiratory and infectious diseases; how and if housing deprivation impacts on overall health and finally the link between housing and health in the context of the range of other possible influences on health.
- Marsh, Dave: 50 Ways to Fight Censorship
And Important Facts to Know about Censors Resource Type: Book First Published: 1991 A practical guide to generating support and publicity for freedom of speech and how to combat acts of censorship.
- Marsh, John: Class Dismissed
Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality Resource Type: Book First Published: 2011 Argues that poverty and inequality in the United States cannot be solved through education, as it does not address the established social structures that create these conditions.
- Marsh, John: Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2011 John Marsh debunks a myth cherished by journalists, politicians, and economists: that growing poverty and inequality in the United States can be solved through education. Marsh shows that education has little impact on poverty and inequality, and that our mistaken beliefs actively shape the way we structure our schools and what we teach in them.
- Marsh, John: Where Did Our Red Love Go?
Red Love Across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Book review of Paula Rabinowitz's, Ruth Barraclough's, and Heather Bowen-Struyk's Red Love Across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century.
- Marshall, Andrew Gavin: Turkey's Urban Uprising
The Struggle for Democracy against Inequality, Oligarchy, Oppression, and Tyranny Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 In Turkey, a wave of urban uprisings had spread across the country, involving hundreds of thousands of protesters, in dozens of cities, met with massive state repression and violence, resulting in a few deaths and thousands of injuries and arrests.
- Marshall, George: Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2014 A book that tries to understand why people are so prone to deny or ignore the reality of climate change.
- Marshall, George; Linnitt, Carol: Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Is our inability to tackle climate change the fault of politicians? Corporations? Governments? Or is it because that's the way our brains have evolved, able to hold six contradictory ideas at once, and believe them all?
- Marshall, Jonathan: Coal Miners' Futures in Renewable Energy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 If President Trump wants to earn a rare legislative victory and take political credit for reviving hard-hit regions of rural America, he should take a close look at how one Kentucky coal company is creating jobs.
- Marshall, Liz: Midian Farm
Resource Type: Film First Published: 2018 From 1971 - 1977, Midian Farm was a back-to-the-land social experiment created by a community of urban baby boomers from Toronto. Part of the youth counterculture movement during a period of social and political re-imagining, its utopian vision eventually collapsed. More than four decades later, filmmaker Liz Marshall unearths a transformative piece of family and Canadian history.
- Marshall, Peter: Demanding the Impossible
A history of anarchism Resource Type: Book First Published: 1993 Published: 2007 An extensive and inclusive overview of anarchism thought.
- Marszalek, Bernard: The Maypole's Revolutionary Heritage
Time to Replant Trees of Liberty Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014
- Marszalek, Bernard: The Meaning of Mondragon
Fantasties and (Possible) Realities Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 We can apply lessons learned from the extensive experience of worker self-management to encourage their unrealized radicality.
- Martell, George: George Martell Writes
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1969 George Martell responds to Marjaleena Repo's response to his article "What Can I Do Right Now?: Notes from Point Blank School on the Canadian Dilemma".
- Martell, George: What Can I do Right Now?
Notes from Point Blank School on the Canadian Dilemma Resource Type: Article First Published: 1969 Martell is a teacher at Point Blank School, a small free school in the Cabbagetown area of downtown Toronto. Martell discusses the societal dilemma in Canada within the context of his work at the school.
- Martens, Pam: The Koch Empire and Americans for Prosperity
More Tentacles Surface at Rightwing Front Group Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 Tracking to funding of extremist right-wing groups.
- Martens, Pam: Koch Entertained Justice Thomas At His Private Club
Supreme Court Scandal Widens Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011
- Martens, Pam: The Koch Whisperers
Big Brothers Buy in at Big Media Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 A review of documents and tax records for the dizzying, interconnected web of corporate front groups, frequently created, supported and influenced by Charles or David Koch, shows just how dangerous these groups espousing free markets and liberty have become to a free society. The game plan is to devalue the rights of actual citizens by seeking human voices dangling from a corporate marionette string, that might be willing for the right amount of cash incentive to broadcast the Orwellian reverse-speak: liberty means more liberty for corporations (corporate serfdom for real citizens); freedom means corporate freedom to privatize national resources, pollute the environment and fleece the consumer with impunity; free market means the freedom to draw a dark curtain around how the corporations are actually screwing us and stealing our liberty.
- Martens, Pam; Martens, Russ: WikiLeaks Bombshell: Emails Show Citigroup Had Major Role in Shaping and Staffing Obama's First Term
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 According to emails released by WikiLeaks, which came from a hack of the email account of John Podesta, a co-chair of Obama's 2008 Transition Team, we learn that despite the obvious fact that Citigroup was both corrupt and derelict in handling its own financial affairs, Barack Obama gave executives of that bank an outsized role in shaping and staffing his first term.
- Martenson, Chris: The Return of Crisis: Everywhere Banks are in Deep Trouble
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Financial markets the world over are increasingly chaotic; either retreating or plunging. Our view remains that there’s a gigantic market crash in the coming future -- one that has possibly started now.
- Marti, Jose: Our America
Writings on Latin America and the Struggle for Cuban Independence Resource Type: Book Presents the celebrated Cuban revolutionary's thoughts on "Nuestra America," the Latin American Martí fought to make free.
- Martin, Abby: Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Free Information
His Blood is on the Hands of the US Government Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 It’s been just over two years since computer prodigy Aaron Swartz took his own life. He was the target of a merciless witch-hunt by the Department of Justice, ultimately choosing death over 35 years behind bars for the crime of releasing information. As someone who transformed the way we all use and love the internet, Aaron should have gotten a medal of honour, not a death sentence.
- Martin, Abby; Prysner, Mike: Gaza Fights for Freedom
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2019 Filmed during the height of the Great March Of Return protests, it features exclusive footage of demonstrations where 200 unarmed civilians have been killed by Israeli snipers since March 30, 2018.
- Martin, Bill: Bring on the Crackup: Hoping for a Trump - Sanders Election
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 There is every reason to think that electoral "politics" in the United States (and most places) is bullshit. For people who yearn for a very different world to get involved in this "process" -- which is almost entirely scripted by people who absolutely do not yearn for a very different world -- is a big waste of energy and commitment. The arguments here are addressed to the yearners, who I will call "radicals" -- people who recognize that the only real solution to the many problems facing humanity today is a qualitative, even epoch-making, change. When I say "we," I mean those of us who yearn for and work for such a change.
- Martin, Brian: Changing The Cogs
Activists and the Politics of Technology Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1979 What are the best ways to achieve beneficial change in society? Will widespread use of solar energy and other renewable energy sources bring about a good society? What technologies will be promoted by vested interests in government and big business?
- Martin, Brian: Critique of Violent Rationales
A Review Article of Critique of Nonviolent Politics: From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement Resource Type: Article First Published: 1997 Nonviolent activists and scholars will disagree with many of the arguments in the book but there is much that they can gain by examining them closely.
- Martin, D'arcy: Thinking Union
Activism and Education in Canada's Labour Movement Resource Type: Book First Published: 1995 Published: 1999 Examining activism and education in Canadian labour, it's both a personal memoir and a guide to labour education. Martin explores and explains union culture, mergers and internal splits, the mechanics and dynamics of grassroots campaigns and the changes in Canadian unions over two turbulent decades.
- Martin, Gloria: Socialist Feminism: The First Decade, 1966-76
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1978 The forging of the Freedom Socialist Party, which was the first Marxist feminist party in the United States.
- Martin, Jonathan H.: Beyond Bernie: The Hidden Potential of Progressive Third Parties
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 What Bernie no longer articulates, and what relatively few of his new fans may realize, is that left third parties can be effective. Resisting the two-party system, even against the so-called odds, is not futile or irrational. Contrary to popular myth, it is a proven and still relevant method for advancing progressive change in the United States.
- Martin, Lawrence: Pledge of Allegiance
The Americanization of Canada in the Mulroney Years Resource Type: Book
- Martin, Lisa: Ida B. Wells
A Black Woman's Fight Against Lynch Terror Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Born a slave in 1862 in the middle of the Civil War, Ida B. Wells was in the forefront of the fight for black rights in the post-Reconstruction era -- a time of widespread lynch-rope terror when black people, although not returned to slavery, were being solidified as a race-colour caste at the bottom of American society. She refused to accommodate racist reaction in any way and so was anathema to those like Booker T. Washington and his apologists who repudiated militant struggle against the racist status quo.
- Martin, Patrick: The FBI's police state operation against Trump
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The allegations that Trump is a Russian agent lack credibility. The FBI's invesitigation seems more like the agency is attempting to overthrow an elected government - a threat the FBI has posed in the past.
- Martin, Patrick: Lessons of Nashville: The working class and the defense of immigrants
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A recent story about residents of a Nashville neighborhood rallying to protect their neighbors from ICE agents shows the power of class solidarity in the face of attempts at racial division.
- Martin, Patrick: Obama signs police state legislation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 Militarism and aggressive war abroad go hand in hand with authoritarianism and dictatorship at home.
- Martin, Patrick: Time magazine honors journalists facing repression - but snubs Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year' award for 2018, which did not list any journalist who exposed state secrets or government misconduct in the United States, nor whistleblowers from Israel, Egypt, India or any of the NATO countries.
- Martin, Patrick: Top 1 percent own more than half of world's wealth
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 A new report issued by the Swiss bank Credit Suisse finds that global wealth inequality continues to worsen and has reached a new milestone, with the top 1 percent owning more of the world’s assets than the bottom 99 percent combined. Of the estimated $250 trillion in global assets, the top 1 percent owned almost exactly 50 percent, while the bottom 50 percent of humanity owned collectively less than 1 percent. The richest 10 percent owned 87.7 percent of the world's wealth, leaving 12.3 percent for the bottom 90 percent of the population.
- Martin, Patrick: WikiLeaks continues exposure of predatory US foreign policy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 In the face of an unprecedented campaign of US harassment and intimidation, the Internet-based WikiLeaks group is continuing its efforts to expose the predatory role of American foreign policy around the world, releasing secret diplomatic documents every day.
- Martin, Robert: Critical Perspectives on the Constitution
Volume 2 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1985 This collection includes essays on collective rights, resistance to patriation by First Nations chiefs, and Quebec education reform.
- Martin, Stephen: A Biological Walk Down Wall Street
Economics, Symbiosis and Parasitoids Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 2008 Wall Street today, with the collapse of Freddie Mac, Fanny Mae, AIG, Lehmann Brothers, Washington Mutual and the rest as to come, is highly reminiscent of that scene in "Alien" (Ridley Scott, 1979) where the parasite begins to burst out. The host is the free market. Feeding the parasitoid more, in sense of allowing it to nourish on public funds as new host, will have the same denouement, only this time the host will not just be a particular market, but the whole market, and the society reliant upon it.
- Martineau, Barbara; Rasmussen, Lorna; Good News Productions, Inc.: Good Day Care
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 1978
- Martinez, Angel: The Poetry of J. Quinn Brisben
Against The Current vol. 111 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2004 J. Quinn Brisben is known as a retired schoolteacher, civil rights worker, disability rights advocate and former Socialist Party presidential candidate. In publishing a literary historical account in verse, he reveals to us his role of poet.
- Martinez, David: Fighting Back: Sotheby's and OWS
Against The Current vol. 156 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 Forty-two teamster art-handlers at Sotheby’s auction house in New York City have been locked-out of their jobs for more than four months. Against the Current interviewed Sotheby’s shop steward David Martinez about what’s at stake, and how they’ve built links with the Occupy movement to fight back.
- Martinez, Elizabeth "Betita": My Year of Transition
Against The Current vol. 133 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 The year 1968 was a crucial transition for me, from the Black struggle against White Supremacy to the Chicano struggle against White Supremacy. The first struggle began in 1959, when I became involved in the Robert Willliams Defense Committee.
- Martinez, Elizabeth; Garcia, Arnoldo: What is Neoliberalism?
A Brief Definition for Activists Resource Type: Article First Published: 1996 Neo-liberalism is a set of economic policies that have become widespread during the last 25 years or so. Although the word is rarely heard in the United States, you can clearly see the effects of neo-liberalism here as the rich grow richer and the poor grow poorer.
- Martinez, Oscar; Washington, John B.; Ugaz, Daniela Maria: A History of Violence
Living and Dying in Central America Resource Type: Book First Published: 2016 This is a book about one of the deadliest places in the world: Central America.
- Martinot, Steve: The "Fundamentalism" in Police Operations
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 As police murders accumulate, and police chiefs get fired and replaced because they cannot stop it (as in Oakland and San Francisco), the notion that this represents a political crisis becomes a truism. It is not a "crisis of policing," which would suggest a situation beyond the capacities of the police. It is the police who have become the crisis. In Oakland, on July 7, 2016, 5000 people came to demonstrate on one day's notice against the two police killings that had occur the previous two days out of a profound awareness of the malignity afoot – and they shut down the Interstate. The magnitude of this crisis is represented by its insidious repetitiveness.
- Martinot, Steve: On Victimless Crime Laws: And a Call to Release All Who Have Been Victimzed by Them
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 In recent months, a Seminar on Prisoners' Writings has been meeting in Oakland. The idea of this seminar is to take some of the writings of people politicized by imprisonment, and make their insights available to the movements and the general public.
- Martinot, Steve: Police Torture and the Real Militarization of Society
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 What rights can we still say we have, if we find ourselves trapped in a military structure? A person has the right to remain silent if arrested, but one does not have the right to remain silent if approached by the police on the street with the demand that one respond. That would constitute being "uncooperative." Neither does one have the right to protect one's property from the police.
- Martinot, Steve: The Politics of Prisons and Prisoners
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 They are getting ready to activate another super-max prison. Like Pelican Bay, Marion, and Florence, this prison will be dedicated to holding people in solitary confinement. They say it is for "the worst of the worst" , but we know it refers to political prisoners.
- Martirosyan, Lucy: A Children's Book Introduces German Kids to the True Story of Syrian Refugees
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Germany has received more than 1 million refugees, mostly from Syria and Iraq. Despite supporters initially celebrating Chancellor Angela Merkel's actions, many Germans have begun voicing concerns about when this acceptance of migrants will come to an end. But while the adults in Germany have expressed mixed reactions to the refugees, German author Kirsten Boie wants children at least to realize that a refugee child is just like any other kid in the world.
- Martorell, J.: Wilebaldo Solano, 1916-2010
Against The Current vol. 152 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 Wilebaldo Solano, the last member of the original leadership of the Partit Obrer d’Unificació Marxista (POUM — Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification), died in Barcelona on September 7, 2010, at 94. As an anti-Stalinist communist party, the POUM helped lead the Spanish Revolution of 1936.
- Martyn, Amy: Spokane vs. the Border Patrol: How Immigration Agents Stake Out a City Bus Station
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Amid the Trump administration's immigration enforcement crackdown, the Border Patrol has stepped up raids on Greyhound buses nationwide, combatting what the agency claims is a "growing threat" of "alien smuggling and drug trafficking organizations to move people, narcotics, and contraband to interior destinations."
- Martí, Jose: Inside the Monster
Writings on the United States and American Imperialism Resource Type: Book Explores the emergent threat of U.S. imperialism from 1881 to 1895.
- Martí, Jose: On Education
Articles on Educational Theory and Pedagogy, and Writings for Children from "The Age of Gold" Resource Type: Book Writings on educational theory, pedagogy, and the relationship between education and popular democracy.
- Marubuci, Elimisha K.: Behind the Death of Amadou Diallo
Against The Current vol. 86 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2000 Now that public outrage slowly diminishes regarding the Amadou Diallo case, this essay shares some of the immediate feeling and reaction that occurred at the time of the verdict. Furthermore, this essay tries to imagine salient possibilities for re-education in policing methods within communities of color.
- Marusek, Sarah: Marching to Jerusalem
Searching for Dignity in Occupied East Jerusalem Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 46 years ago, Israel seized East Jerusalem. Since then, Israel has undertaken measures to restrict Palestinian movement.
- Marx, Eleanor: Marx, Eleanor - Writings - Archive
Resource Type: Article Writings of Eleanor Marx (1855-1898).
- Marx, Karl: Address of the International Working Men's Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1865 The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world.
- Marx, Karl: Anti-Church Movement Demonstration in Hyde Park
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1855
- Marx, Karl: Antithesis of Capital and Labour. Landed Property and Capital
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1844
- Marx, Karl: Articles by Karl Marx in the New York Daily Tribune
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1852 Published: 1861 In the early 1850's, Karl Marx (and Frederick Engels, though to a lesser extent) wrote a quantity of journalist news summaries about events in Europe for the New-York Daily Tribune. These articles were often reprinted in other papers: see Semi-Weekly Tribune, The Free Press, Das Volk, The People's Paper, Die Reform and Others.
- Marx, Karl: The Ban on the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1843 The German press begins the New Year with apparently gloomy prospects. The ban that has just been imposed on the Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung in the states of Prussia is surely a sufficiently convincing refutation of all the complacent dreams of gullible people about big concessions in the future.
- Marx, Karl: Bloody Legislation Against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing Down of Wages by Acts of Parliament
Capital, Volume One: Chapter 28 Resource Type: Article First Published: 1867 Agricultural people: first forcibly expropriated from the soil, driven from their homes, turned into vagabonds, and then whipped, branded, tortured by laws grotesquely terrible, into the discipline necessary for the wage system.
- Marx, Karl: The British Rule in India
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1853 England has broken down the entire framework of Indian society, without any symptoms of reconstitution yet appearing. This loss of his old world, with no gain of a new one, imparts a particular kind of melancholy to the present misery of the Hindoo, and separates Hindostan, ruled by Britain, from all its ancient traditions, and from the whole of its past history.
- Marx, Karl: Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production Resource Type: Book First Published: 1867 Published: 1890 Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
- Marx, Karl: Das Capital, Volume 2
The Process of Circulation of Capital Resource Type: Book First Published: 1893 Published: 1956
- Marx, Karl: Das Capital, Volume 3
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole Resource Type: Book First Published: 1894 Published: 1971
- Marx, Karl: The Civil War in France
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1871 Written by Karl Marx as an address to the General Council of the International, with the aim of distributing to workers of all countries a clear understanding of the character and world-wide significance of the heroic struggle of the Paris Communards of 1871 and their historical experience to learn from.
- Marx, Karl: The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1850 Originally a series of articles written between January and October 1850 specially for the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Politisch-ökonomische Revue and published in it under the general title "1848-1849."
- Marx, Karl: Comments on The Latest Prussian Censorship Instruction
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1842 The real, radical cure for the censorship would be its abolition; for the institution itself is a bad one, and institutions are more powerful than people.
- Marx, Karl: Communism and the Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1842 We are firmly convinced that it is not the practical Attempt, but rather the theoretical application of communist ideas, that constitutes the real danger; for practical attempts, even those on a large scale, can be answered with cannon as soon as they become dangerous, but ideas, which conquer our intelligence, which overcome the outlook that reason has riveted to our conscience, are chains from which we cannot tear ourselves away without tearing our hearts.
- Marx, Karl: Conspectus of Bakunin's Statism and Anarchy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1874 Published: 1875 Marx's notes on Bakunin's recent book Statism and Anarchy.
- Marx, Karl: Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1844 The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses
- Marx, Karl: A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1859
- Marx, Karl: Critique of Hegel's Philosophy in General
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1844
- Marx, Karl: Critique of the Gotha Programme
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1875 Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875.
- Marx, Karl: Debates on the Law on Thefts of Wood
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1842 A deputy from the knightly estate mentioned that in the neighbourhood of Cleve many wood thefts took place merely in order to secure arrest and prison fare. Does not this deputy from the knightly estate prove precisely what he wants to refute, namely, that people are driven to steal wood by the sheer necessity of saving themselves from starvation and homelessness? Is this terrible need an aggravating circumstance?
- Marx, Karl: The Divorce Bill
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1842 In regard to marriage, the legislator can only establish when it is permissible to dissolve it, that is to say, when in its essence it is already dissolved. Juridical dissolution of marriage can only be the registering of its internal dissolution.
- Marx, Karl: The East India Company - Its History and Results
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1853 Thus the British Government has been fighting, under the Company's name, for two centuries, till at last the natural limits of India were reached. We understand now, why during ail this time all parties in England have connived in silence, even those which had resolved to become the loudest with their hypocritical peace-cant, after the arrondissement of the one Indian Empire should have been completed. Firstly, of course, they had to get it, in order to subject it afterward to their sharp philanthropy.
- Marx, Karl: Economic & Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1844 A series of notes written between April and August 1844 by Karl Marx. Not published by Marx during his lifetime, they were first released in 1927. The notebooks are an early expression of Marx's analysis of economics, chiefly Adam Smith, and critique of the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel. The notebooks cover a wide range of topics including private property, communism, and money. Because the 1844 manuscripts show Marx's thought at the time of its early genesis, their publication, in English not until 1959,[2] has profoundly affected recent scholarship on Marx and Marxism.
- Marx, Karl: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1852 Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon between December 1851 and March 1852. The "Eighteenth Brumaire" refers to November 9, 1799 in the French Revolutionary Calendar -- the day the first Napoleon Bonaparte had made himself dictator by a coup d'etat. Marx traces how the conflict of different social interests manifest themselves in the complex web of political struggles, and in particular the contradictory relationships between the outer form of a struggle and its real social content.
- Marx, Karl: The English Government and the Fenian Prisoners
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1870 On the treatment of Fenian prisoners.
- Marx, Karl: Estranged Labour
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Resource Type: Article First Published: 1844
- Marx, Karl: First Draft of Letter To Vera Zasulich
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1881
- Marx, Karl: The Grundrisse
Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy Resource Type: Book First Published: 1857 Published: 1973 Marx wrote this huge manuscript as part of his preparation for what would become A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (published in 1859) and Capital (published 1867). The series of seven notebooks were rough-drafted by Marx, chiefly for purposes of self-clarification, during the winter of 1857-8. The manuscript became lost in circumstances still unknown and was first effectively published, in the German original, in 1953.
- Marx, Karl: Heroes of the Exile
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1852 Published: 1960
- Marx, Karl: Human Requirements and Division of Labour Under the Rule of Private Property
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Resource Type: Article First Published: 1844
- Marx, Karl: Inaugural Address of the International Workingmen's Association
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1864 Speech by Karl Marx to the founding meeting of the First International.
- Marx, Karl: The June Revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1848 The defeated plebeians are tormented by hunger, abused by the press, forsaken by the physicians, called thieves, incendiaries and galley-slaves by the respectabilities; their wives and children are plunged into still greater misery and the best of those who have survived are sent overseas.
- Marx, Karl: Justification of the Correspondent from the Mosel
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1843 The press is obliged to reveal and denounce circumstances, but I am convinced that it should not denounce individuals, unless there is no other way of preventing a public evil or unless publicity already prevails throughout political life so that the German concept of denunciation no longer exists.
- Marx, Karl: The Leading Article in No. 179 of the Kölnische Zeitung
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1842 What are we to make of an article which disputes the right to its own existence, which prefaces itself with a declaration of its own incompetence?
- Marx, Karl: Letter: Karl Marx to Arnold Ruge
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1843 Constructing the future and settling everything for all times are not our affair, it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.
Therefore I am not in favour of raising any dogmatic banner. On the contrary, we must try to help the dogmatists to clarify their propositions for themselves.
- Marx, Karl: Letter to Bracke
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1875 Karl Marx comments on the unity programme (Gotha programme) of the German Democratic Workers Party and the People's Party.
- Marx, Karl: La Liberté Speech
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1872 Citizens, let us think of the basic principle of the International: Solidarity. Only when we have established this life-giving principle on a sound basis among the numerous workers of all countries will we attain the great final goal which we have set ourselves. The revolution must be carried out with solidarity; this is the great lesson of the French Commune, which fell becaue none of the other centres -- Berlin, Madrid, etc. -- developed great revolutionary movements comparable to the mighty uprising of the Paris proletariat.
- Marx, Karl: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 33
Marx 1861 - 1863 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1863 Economic Manuscript of 1861-63. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (Continuation).
- Marx, Karl: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 34
Marx 1861 - 1864 Resource Type: Book Economic Manuscripts of 1861-64 (Conclusion). A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
- Marx, Karl: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 35
Capital Volume 1 Resource Type: Book Capital. Volume 1.
- Marx, Karl: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 28
Marx 1857 - 1861 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1861 Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58.
- Marx, Karl: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 29
Marx 1857 - 1861 Resource Type: Book Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58.
- Marx, Karl: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 30
Marx 1861 - 1863 Resource Type: Book Economic Manuscripts of 1861-63.
- Marx, Karl: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 31
Marx 1861 - 1863 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1863 A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
- Marx, Karl: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 32
Marx 1861 - 1863 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1863 Economic Manuscript of 1861-63 (Continuation). A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
- Marx, Karl: Karl Marx Quotes
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- Marx, Karl: Marx's Marginal Notes on the Program and Rules of Bakunin's International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1868
- Marx, Karl: Moralising Criticism and Critical Morality
A Contribution to German Cultural History Contra Karl Heinzen Resource Type: Article First Published: 1847
- Marx, Karl: The Nationalisation of the Land
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1872 I do not intend discussing here all the arguments put forward by the advocates of private property in land, by jurists, philosophers and political economists, but shall confine myself firstly to state that they have tried hard to disguise the primitive fact of conquest under the cloak of "Natural Right". If conquest constituted a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them. In the progress of history the conquerors found it convenient to give to their original titles, derived from brute force, a sort of social standing through the instrumentality of laws imposed by themselves.
- Marx, Karl: On Freedom of the Press (5)
Censorship Resource Type: Article First Published: 1842 A censorship law is an impossibility because it seeks to punish not offences but opinions, because it cannot be anything but a formula for the censor, because no state has the courage to put in general legal terms what it can carry out in practice through the agency of the censor. For that reason, too, the operation of the censorship is entrusted not to the courts but to the police.
- Marx, Karl: On Freedom of the Press (1)
Prussian Censorship Resource Type: Article First Published: 1842 Apart from the catchwords and commonplaces which fill the air, we find among these opponents of press freedom a pathological emotion, a passionate partisanship, which gives them a real, not an imaginary, attitude to the press, whereas the defenders of the press in this Assembly have on the whole no real relation to what they are defending. They have never come to know freedom of the press as a vital need. For them it is a matter of the head, in which the heart plays no part.
- Marx, Karl: On Freedom of the Press (2)
Opponents of a Free Press Resource Type: Article First Published: 1842 What an illogical paradox to regard the censorship as a basis for improving our press!
- Marx, Karl: On Freedom of the Press (3)
On the Assembly of the Estates Resource Type: Article First Published: 1842 Precisely because freedom of discussion, the speaker concludes, is desirable in our Assembly - and what freedoms would we not find desirable where we are concerned? - precisely for that reason freedom of discussion is not desirable in the province. Because it is desirable that we speak frankly, it is still more desirable to keep the province in thrall to secrecy.
- Marx, Karl: On Freedom of the Press (4)
As a privilege of particular individuals or a privilege of the human mind? Resource Type: Article First Published: 1842 From the standpoint of the idea, it is self-evident that freedom of the press has a justification quite different from that of censorship because it is itself an embodiment of the idea, an embodiment of freedom, a positive good, whereas censorship is an embodiment of unfreedom, the polemic of a world outlook of semblance against the world outlook of essence; it has a merely negative nature.
- Marx, Karl: On Freedom of the Press (6)
Freedom in General Resource Type: Article First Published: 1842 Some want a full censorship, others a half censorship; some want three-eighths freedom of the press, others none at all. God save me from my friends!
- Marx, Karl: On The Jewish Question
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1843 Published: 1844
- Marx, Karl: Political Indifferentism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1873
- Marx, Karl: The Poverty of Philosophy
Answer to the Philosophy of Poverty by M. Proudhon Resource Type: Book First Published: 1847
- Marx, Karl: The Power of Money
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Resource Type: Article First Published: 1844
- Marx, Karl: Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations I
The process which precedes the formation of the capital relation or of original accumulation Resource Type: Article First Published: 1857 Notes by Marx not intended for publication.
- Marx, Karl: Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations II
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1857 Notes by Marx not intended for publication.
- Marx, Karl: Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1859 Perhaps Marx's most succinct summary of his analysis of political economy.
- Marx, Karl: Private Property and Communism
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Resource Type: Article First Published: 1844
- Marx, Karl: Private Property and Labour. Political Economy as a Product of the Movement of Private Property
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Resource Type: Article First Published: 1844
- Marx, Karl: Profit of Capital
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Resource Type: Article First Published: 1844
- Marx, Karl: Rent of Land
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Resource Type: Article First Published: 1844
- Marx, Karl: Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1852 Marx exposes the unseemly methods used by the Prussian police state against the communist movement.
- Marx, Karl: Revolutionary Spain
Articles by Karl Marx in the New-York Herald Tribune Resource Type: Article First Published: 1854 The series of articles Revolutionary Spain was written by Marx for the New-York Daily Tribune between August and November 1854. Marx observed all the symptoms of the revolutionary movement in Europe and paid much attention to the revolutionary events in the summer of 1854 in Spain. He held that the revolutionary struggle there could provide a stimulus for the development of the revolutionary movement in other European countries.
- Marx, Karl: Speech at anniversary of the People's Paper
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1856 The so-called revolutions of 1848 were but poor incidents - small fractures and fissures in the dry crust of European society. However, they denounced the abyss. Beneath the apparently solid surface, they betrayed oceans of liquid matter, only needing expansion to rend into fragments continents of hard rock.
- Marx, Karl: Theses On Feuerbach
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1845 Published: 1924
- Marx, Karl: Value, Price and Profit
Speech by Marx to the International Working Men's Association, June 1865 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1865 Published: 1898
- Marx, Karl: Wage Labour and Capital
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1847 Published: 1891 From Engels' 1891 introduction: "This pamphlet first appeared in the form of a series of leading articles in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, beginning on April 4th, 1849. The text is made up of from lectures delivered by Marx before the German Workingmen’s Club of Brussels in 1847. The series was never completed. Marx, in the ’40s, had not yet completed his criticism of political economy. This was not done until toward the end of the fifties. Consequently, such of his writings as were published before the first installment of his Critique of Political Economy was finished, deviate in some points from those written after 1859, and contain expressions and whole sentences which, viewed from the standpoint of his later writings, appear inexact, and even incorrect."
- Marx, Karl: Wages of Labour
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Resource Type: Article First Published: 1844
- Marx, Karl: A Workers' Inquiry
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1880
- Marx, Karl (Bottomore, T.B., ed.; Foreword by Erich Fromm): Karl Marx: Early Writings
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1844 Published: 1964
- Marx, Karl (ed.): Neue Rheinische Zeitung - Digitalisierung
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1848 Published: Die Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Organ der Demokratie erschien in 301 Ausgaben vom 1. Juni 1848 bis zum 19. Mai 1849 täglich in der preußischen Stadt Köln unter der Chefredaktion von Karl Marx und Mitarbeit von Friedrich Engels. Sie umfasst somit den Zeitraum der europäischen Revolution von 1848/49. Weitere Redakteure waren Heinrich Bürgers, Ernst Dronke, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Georg Weerth, Ferdinand Wolff und Wilhelm Wolff.
Die Zeitung erreichte eine Auflage von 5000 bis 6000 Exemplaren und verfügte über eigene Korrespondenten insbesondere in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Wien und Paris. Zu den täglichen Ausgaben wurden häufig Beilagen veröffentlicht. Von der vollständig in Rot gedruckten Abschlussnummer vom 19. Mai 1849 wurden fast 20 000 Exemplare gedruckt.
- Marx, Karl (Freedman ed.): Marx on Economics
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1961 A systematic compilation of extracts drawn from Marx's publications with brief summaries of their arguments.
- Marx, Karl (Saul K. Padover, ed.): On the First International
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1973
- Marx, Karl (with an introduction by Eric J. Hobsbawm): Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1858 Published: 1964 Thes notes of 1857-1858 throw light on Marx's views concerning the economic development of human society as a whole, from "primitive communism" to capitalism and socialistm. The notes deal partcularly with the epochs of historic development and their evolutionary stages.
- Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich (Draper, Hal, ed.): Writings on the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Book Hal Draper's compilation of all the writings by Marx and Engels on the Paris Commune of 1871, when a working-class-led revolution took power and established a new type of state for the first time in the history of the world - temporarily, in one city.
- Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich (edited by Feuer, Lewis S.): Marx and Engels
Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy Resource Type: Book First Published: 1959
- Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich, Lenin, V.I.: Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism
Resource Type: Book
- Marx, Karl; edited by Eleanor Marx Aveling: Revolution and Counter Revolution
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1896 Published: 1971 A collection of articles and letters written by Marx for the New York Tribune in 1851 and 1852.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1850
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Article by Marx and Engels in Deutsche-Brusseler-Zeitung April 1847 - February 1848
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1847 Published: 1848
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Articles by Karl Marx on China 1853-1860
Resource Type: Article China was, at this time, in upheaval. It was the most populous region in the world (400 million people in 1834). The "Celestial Empire" had long operated with trade surpluses, but by the 1840s, serious trade deficits plagued China. The first European-Chinese conflict (The Opium War) began in 1839 and ended with the 1842 Treaty of Nanking. During this period, famines wracked the land. It is estimated maybe 14 million people died in 1849, and another 20 million between 1854 and 1860.
At the same time, the Taiping rebellion broke out in 1850 and attacked the status quo Confucianist Manchu Dynasty -- which had ruled since 1644. The rebellion was based in social revolutionary ideas of equality and was popular among the masses. It abolished private property, established sexual equality, and banned drugs (from alcohol to opium). By 1853, it dominated much of SE China.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Articles by Marx & Engels in Neue Rheinische Zeitung June 1848 - May 1849
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1848 Published: 1849 Neue Rheinische Zeitung
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Articles by Marx & Engels in the Rheinische Zeitung April 1842 - March 1843
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1842 Published: 1843
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: The Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1848 Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the theoretical and practical platform of the Communist League, a workers' association.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: England's 17th Century Revolution
A Review of Francois Guizot's 1850 pamphlet Pourquoi la revolution d'Angleterre a-t-elle reussi? Resource Type: Article First Published: 1850 For Guizot, English history ends with the consolidation of the constitutional monarchy. For him, everything that follows is limited to a pleasant alternating game between Tories and Whigs. In reality, however, the consolidation of the constitutional monarchy is only the beginning of the magnificent development and transformation of bourgeois society in England. Where M. Guizot sees only gentle calm and idyllic peace, in reality the most violent conflicts and the most penetrating revolutions are taking place.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Fictitious Splits in the International
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1872
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: The First Indian War of Independence (1857-1858) and the East India Company (June-August 1853)
Resource Type: Website First Published: 1857 Articles by Marx and Engels on India 1853-1859.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: The First Trial of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1849
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: The German Ideology
Critique of Modern German Philosophy According to Its Representatives Feuerbach, B. Bauer and Stirner, and of German Socialism According to Resource Type: Book First Published: 1846 Published: 1932 Marx and Engels take on the "philosophic charlatanry" and pettiness and "parochial narrowness" of the pseudo-radicals of their time, "in particular the tragicomic contrast between the illusions of these heroes about their achievements and the actual achievements themselves."
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Historical Materialism
The Materialist Conception of History Resource Type: Website Selected writings by Marx and Engels.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Criticism
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1845
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Ireland and the Irish Question
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1971 Brings together all of Marx's and Engels' writing on Ireland in one volume.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Letters of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels 1870 & after
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1870 Published: 1895
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Letters of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels for the 1850s
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1859
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Letters of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels for the 1860s
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1869
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Letters of Marx and Engels: 1844
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1844
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Letters of Marx and Engels 1845
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1844
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Letters of Marx and Engels: 1846
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1846
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Letters of Marx and Engels: 1847
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1847
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Letters of Marx and Engels: 1848
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1848
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Letters of Marx and Engels: 1849
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1849
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 3
Marx and Engels 1843 - 1844 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1844
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 4
Marx and Engels 1844 - 1845 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1845 Includes The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Criticism, and The Condition of the Working-Class in England.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 5
Marx and Engels 1845 - 1847 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1847 Includes The German Ideology.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 6
Marx and Engels 1845 - 1848 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1848 Includes the Poverty of Philosophy and The Communist Manifesto.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 7
Marx and Engels 1848 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1848 Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, June 1 - November 7, 1848.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 8
Marx and Engels 1848 - 1849 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1849 Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung November 8, 1848 - March 5, 1849.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 9
Marx and Engels 1849 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1849 Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung March 6 - May 19, 1849.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 10
Marx and Engels 1849 - 1851 Resource Type: Book Includes The Peasant War in Germany.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 11
Marx and Engels 1851 - 1853 Resource Type: Book Includes Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany and The Eighteenth Brumaire
of Louis Bonaparte and Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 12
Marx and Engels 1853 - 1854 Resource Type: Book Articles mainly on British colonialism.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 13
Marx and Engels 1854 - 1855 Resource Type: Book Includes Revolutionary Spain
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 14
Marx and Engels 1855 - 1856 Resource Type: Book Includes material on British politics and the Crimean War.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 15
Marx and Engels 1856 - 1858 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1858 Mainly articles about Europe, colonialism, and India.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 16
Marx and Engels 1858 - 1860 Resource Type: Book Mainly events in Europe.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 17
Marx and Engels 1859 - 1860 Resource Type: Book Includes Herr Vogt and articles on military matters.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 18
Marx and Engels 1857 - 1862 Resource Type: Book Articles for The New American Cyclopaedia.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 19
Marx and Engels 1861 - 1864 Resource Type: Book Colonialism, slavery, and the American Civil War.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 20
Marx and Engels 1864- 1868 Resource Type: Book Includes The Prussian Military Question and the (German Workers' Party), and Value, Price and Profit, and articles and Reviews written in connection with the publication of Volume One of Capital.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 21
Marx and Engels 1867 - 1870 Resource Type: Book Materials related to the International Workingmen's Association.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 22
Marx and Engels 1870 - 1871 Resource Type: Book Includes The Civil War in France and other materials on the Franco-Prussian War.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 23
Marx and Engels 1871 - 1874 Resource Type: Book Articles on the International, Bakunin, and the Housing Question.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 24
Marx and Engels 1874 - 1883 Resource Type: Book Includes the Critique of the Gotha Programme, and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 38
Marx and Engels 1844 - 1851 Resource Type: Book Letters.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 39
Marx and Engels 1852 - 1855 Resource Type: Book Letters.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 40
Marx and Engels 1856 - 1859 Resource Type: Book Letters.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 41
Marx and Engels 1860 - 1864 Resource Type: Book Letters.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 42
Marx and Engels 1864 - 1868 Resource Type: Book Letters.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 43
Marx and Engels 1868 - 1870 Resource Type: Book Letters.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 44
Marx and Engels 1870 - 1873 Resource Type: Book Letters.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 45
Marx and Engels 1874 - 1879 Resource Type: Book Letters.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 46
Marx and Engels 1880 - 1883 Resource Type: Book Letters.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels on Philosophy
Resource Type: Website Early philosophical works.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 1
Marx 1835 - 1843 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1835
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Marx Engels Internet Archive
Resource Type: Database
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: On the Question of Free Trade
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1847 Published: 1888
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Reviews from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung Politisch-okonomische Revue
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1850 The periodical's aims were to assess the results of the 1848-49 revolution, to reveal the nature of the new historical situation, and to develop further the party's tactics. Altogether six issues were published; the last issue, a double one (5-6),came out at the end of November 1850. All further attempts to continue publication were blocked by police persecution in Germany and lack of funds.
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Saint Max
Chapter 3 of The German Ideology Resource Type: Article First Published: 1845 Published: 1846
- Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich: Writings by Marx and Engels on the U.S. Civil War
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1861 Published: 1862
- Marx, Karl; Guesde, Jules: The Programme of the Parti Ouvrier
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1880 This document was drawn up in May 1880, when French workers' leader Jules Guesde came to visit Marx in London. The Preamble was dictated by Marx, while the other two parts of minimum political and economic demands were formulated by Marx and Guesde, with assistance from Engels and Paul Lafargue, who with Guesde was to become a leading figure in the Marxist wing of French socialism.
- Marx, Paris: Uber Has Always Been a Criminal Organization
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Uber's whole business model was premised on criminality -- the willful, systematic flouting of local taxi regulations, based on a wager that the company could retroactively absolve itself by getting the laws changed via big-money lobbying. With that kind of mission, it's not surprising its executives had blood on their hands long before they started taking Saudi blood money.
- Marx, Wesley: The Frail Ocean
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1969
- Marxist Student Federation - Britain: Marxism and Feminism in the student movement
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 The ideas of Feminism have traditionally found support in universities, and these ideas are currently enjoying a surge in popularity amongst students. At a time when the ideas of Marxism are also finding a growing echo in the student movement, what attitude do Marxists take towards different feminist ideas? How far are these schools of thought compatible? What are the points of contention between them? And what does it mean to call yourself a "Marxist-Feminist"?
- Marzec, Robert P.: Militarizing the Environment
Climate Change and the Security State Resource Type: Book First Published: 2015 In this extensive historical study of scientific, military, political, and economic formations across five centuries, Robert P. Marzec reveals how environmentality has been instrumental in the development of today's security society -- informing the creation of the military-industrial complex during World War II and the National Security Act that established the CIA during the Cold War.
- Marzán, César F. Rosado: Puerto Rico, The Oldest U.S. Colony
Against The Current vol. 132 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 When I was a high school senior, my history teacher promised the class that the Americans “would land” in Puerto Rico by the New Year. What he meant to tell us was that, different from most Puerto Rican history courses, our class would spend considerable time studying more recent historical events, and therefore the most controversial period of Puerto Rican history — the American Century. He kept his promise and many of us, including me, left the class with a deep sense of uneasiness against Puerto Rico’s colonial condition under the United States.
- Masalha, Nur: Expulsion of the Palestinians
The Concept of Transfer in Zionist Political Thought 1882-1948 Resource Type: Book Before, during and after 1948 the Israelis expelled more than 750,000 Palestinians. The ideas and attitudes that allowed for this concept of "transfer" are examined in Nur Masalha's book. "Transfer"being a euphemism for expulsion- and he shows how that concept is the logical extension of the Israelis process of colonization.
- Masching, Mike; Masching, Melanie: We Can Get There From Here
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1998 We pose the following question: Is the capitalist system really meeting our needs or is it undermining our needs by giving us artificial motivators which actually result in feelings of inadequacy and isolation?
- Masculine Collective Against Sexism: Pornography
A brief submitted to the Commission D'Etude sur le Cinema et l'Audiovisuel Resource Type: Article First Published: 1982
- Maser, Chris: Global Imperative
Harmonizing Culture and Nature Resource Type: Book First Published: 1992
- Maser, Chris: The Redesigned Forest
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1990 An exploration of how forests are utilized, with particular interest paid to the old-growth coniferous forests of the Pacific north-west.
- Masheder, Mildred: Let's Play Together
Co-operative Games for All Ages Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989 A collection of over 300 games and sports which put co-operation before competition.
- Masina, Lameck: Malawi: Women Fight Harmful Cultural Practices
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Combatting traditional practices that harm women.
- Maslin, Sarah: Burning History in San Salvador
Destruction of Historical and Human Rights Archives Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 On Thursday, Nov. 14, three armed men broke into the offices of Pro-Búsqueda. The attack on Pro-Búsqueda was not a random crime. We should be worried about what is happening in El Salvador.
- Maslow, Abraham: Abraham Maslow Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Mason, Barry: One in five Israelis lives in poverty
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 With just over 8 million people, Israel has over 1.7 million, more than 20 percent of the population, living below the poverty line, according to the latest report issued by the National Insurance Institute (NII) and the Central Bureau of Statistics. Issued in December, the figures relate to 2012 and will have worsened since then.
- Mason, George: The Virigina Declaration of Rights
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1776 Drafted in 1776 to proclaim the inherent natural rights of men, including the right to rebel against "inadequate" government. The Declaration was adopted unanimously by the Virginia Convention of Delegates on June 12, 1776.
- Mason, Paul: Live Working or Die Fighting
How the Working Class Went Global Resource Type: Book First Published: 2010 Mason relates a series of struggles for worker and human rights over the past two hundred years and compares them to current struggles.
- Mason, Paul: Meltdown
The End of the Age of Greed Resource Type: Book First Published: 2009 Paul Mason, the economics editor of BBC Newsnight, discusses the current economic recession and how it has caused for the neo-liberal orthodoxy to be undermined. He explores the roots of the crisis , and envisions a new era of hyper-regulated capitalism.
- Mason, Paul: Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere
The New Global Revolutions Resource Type: Book First Published: 2012 From London to Cairo, Wisconsin to Tehran, Paul Mason charts new forms of collective action: fluid networks of agile, Twitter- and Facebook-savvy networks of youthful protesters. The events, says Mason, reflect the expanding power of the individual and call for new ways of thinking about political alternatives, elite rule and global poverty.
- Mason, Raymond: Spirit of the Grassroots People
Seeking Justice for Indigenous Survivors of Canada's Colonial Education System Resource Type: Book First Published: 2020 A memoir by a survivor of the Indian residential and day school system who fought for justice on behalf of Indigenous people.
- Mass, Bonnie: Political Economy of Population Control in Latin America
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1972 An analysis of the use of birth control in Latin America.
- Massad, Joseph: The future of the Nakba
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 If the Nakba’s most salient features are the theft of Palestinian land and the expulsion of the Palestinians from their land, and subjecting the lands that could not be stolen and the people who could not be expelled to systematic control and oppression, then, it would be most inaccurate to consider the Nakba as a discrete event that refers to the war of 1948 and its immediate aftermath. Rather, it should be historicized as a process which spanned the last 140 years, beginning with the arrival of the first Zionist conquerors to colonize the land in the early 1880s. In addition, Israeli leaders continue to regale their own people and the world with assurances that the Nakba is not just a past and present process of dispossessing the Palestinian people of their lands and expelling them, but rather one that must continue to preserve the future survival of Israel. The Nakba then turns out to be not just a past event and an ongoing process in the present, but a calamity that has a decidedly planned future ahead of it. If so, what might that future be?
- Massad, Joseph: Witch Hunt vs. Academic Freedom
Against The Current vol. 116 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2005 I appear before you today because of a campaign of intimidation to which I have been subjected for over three years. While this campaign was started by certain members of the Columbia faculty, and by outside forces using some of my students as conduits, it soon expanded to include members of the Columbia administration, the rightwing tabloid press, the Israeli press, and more locally the Columbia Spectator. Much of this preceded the David Project film “Columbia Unbecoming,” and the ensuing controversy.
- Massey, Brian: Wendell Berry's Radical Skepticism
The celebrated farmer and poet shares a message of love in a time of unrest Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 When the celebrated writer, farmer, and elder statesman of the local food movement sat down in front of a sold-out audience at Johns Hopkins University last week, the crowd seemed even more eager than usual to soak in Berry's wisdom in this particularly fraught national moment. The event was a public conversation between Berry and Eric Schlosser, investigative journalist and author of Fast Food Nation, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. And many in the audience -- made up of people who care about the work the Center does to study the intersections between food systems, the environment, and human health -- were likely feeling a great deal worried about the fate of the issues about which they care deeply.
- Mast, Meghan: Still Surviving: Reconciliation Through Everyday Rebellion
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Residential school survivors rebuild through small acts of hope and resistance.
- Masters, Jeff: The Manufactured Doubt Industry And The Hacked Email Controversy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 The fossil fuel industry has been working for years to create a smokescreen of doubt to obscure the facts of global warming.
- Masters, Philinda (ed.) with the Broadside Collective: Inside Broadside: A Decade of Feminist Journalism
Resource Type: Book Broadside: A Feminist Review was a groundbreaking Canadian feminist newspaper published between 1979 and 1989. This is a collection of articles which appeared in Broadside.
- Mastracci, Davide: Exposing How Pro-Israel Groups Manufacture Antisemitism Narratives
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2021 These narratives attempt to have the public, media and politicians focus on bogus allegations of antisemitism instead of Israel’s actions.
- Mastracci, Davide: Uncovering Canadian Media's Devastating Pro-Israel Bias
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 The bias is enforced at every level of the media, from editorial boards all the way to ownership.
- Matas, David: No More
The Battle Against Human Rights Violations Resource Type: Book First Published: 1995 Matas, a Winnipeg immigration lawyer and participant in the Helsinski Watch movement and Amnesty international, examines the ideological causes of human rights violations.
- Mate, Aaron: Crippling New Sanctions Punish Syrian Civilians For U.S. Defeat In Proxy War
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 As Syria tries to recover from a nearly decade-long war, the US has imposed crippling new sanctions under the Caesar Act that target reconstruction.
- Mate, Aaron: US, EU sacrificing Ukraine to 'weaken Russia': former NATO adviser
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2022 As the Russia-Ukraine war enters a new phase, former Swiss intelligence officer, senior United Nations official, and NATO advisor Jacques Baud analyzes the conflict and argues that the US and its allies are exploiting Ukraine in a longstanding campaign to bleed its Russian neighbour.
- Mate, Gabor: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2008 Gabor Mate looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and outlines what he thinks is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours.
- Mate, Gabor: Zionism doesn't define Jews: It divides us
Resource Type: Article Zionist theory denied the legitimate presence of an emerging, indigenous nation in Palestine. Zionist practice ensured its dispossession and exile.
- Mateus, Benjamin: Behind the epidemic of police killings in America: Class, poverty and race
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Article examines root causes and socioeconomics dimension of police violence, with particular stress on the importance of class.
- Mather, Yasmine: From Sykes-Picot to "Islamic State": Imperialism's Bloody Wreckage
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 When the Jihadist group Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) changed its name and declared the establishment of the Caliphate, it did so with the release of a promotional video entitled "The End of Sykes-Picot." This was a reference to the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement that marked the end of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of two zones of influence, British and French.
- Mather, Yassamine: Iran: The Impact of October
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Russian Revolution had a profound influence on the revolutionary movement in the countries neighbouring the new Soviet Republic, and Iran was no exception.
- Matheson, Gwen: A letter of resignation
I refuse to brainwash Canadian students Resource Type: Article First Published: 1971
- Matiashe, Farai: Zimbabwe farmers turn to smart solutions to fight climate change
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2020 Having suffered poor harvests due to drought, Lupane small-scale farmers find solutions in climate-smart agriculture.
- Matisons, Michelle Renee: Bobby Hutton's Hands Were Up
The Search for Justice Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 The death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, has catalyzed intense U.S. anti-policing/ police demilitarization movement activity, with Ferguson serving as an urgent training ground and meeting point for anti-policing thinkers, writers, artists and activists.
- Matisons, Michelle Renee: Freedom, Valor, Love: On Snowden's Permanent Record
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Edward Snowden's life reveals it's not just "the computer guy" (or other non-male folks) at tech's helms, but the general U.S. public that bears witness to corporatized data surveillance state violations, or the data industrial complex. This secretive sprawling network is the invasive rule today; it involves regular media outlets, telecommunications, social media platforms, Internet service providers, and government agencies.
- Matles, James J.: Them and us : struggles of a rank-and-file union
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1975 This account, co-written by an ex-machinist and UE organizer, was one of the first accounts of the militant, highly democratic, activist union in the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE).
- Matsumoto, Chie: Fukushima After Five Years
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 In the five years since the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, at least 100,000 people remain displaced; 80 people have committed suicide in Fukushima alone over the loss of their families.
- Mattelart, Armand; Siegelaub Seth: Communication and Class Struggle, Vol 2
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1979
- Matthews, Bernie: Intractable: Hell Has a Name
Life Inside Australia's First Super-Max Prison Resource Type: Book First Published: 2006 A firsthand account spanning two generations of high-security confinement in the 1970s NSW Australian prison system.
- Matthews, Jeff: Is Canada's government trying to kill off the wild salmon?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Matthews discusses how the Canadian government's actions and legal changes threaten the wild salmon.
- Matthews, Kevin: CHO!CES Transformed
A look back on a long and extraordinary mo(ve)ment Resource Type: Article First Published: 2000 Kevin Matthews reflects back on CHO!CES, a coalition for social justice that to many has represented an exceptional moment in the history of the Canadian Left, and in the Winnipeg activist community's contribution to that history.
- Mattick, Paul: The American Economy: Crisis and Policy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1971 Since capitalist economic policy must make no mention of the exploitation relations underlying the capitalist mode of production, economists and politicians must seek 'solutions' to economic problems in terms of market phenomena.
- Mattick, Paul: America's War in Indochina
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1971 There is no special reason for America's intervention in Indochina, apart from her general policy of intervening anywhere in the world in order to prevent political and social changes that would be detrimental to the so-called 'free world,' and particularly to the power which dominates it.
- Mattick, Paul: Anti-Bolshevist Communism in Germany
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1947 Until the final collapse of the German labor movement, the retreat of the 'ultra-left' appeared to be a return to theoretical work. The organizations existed in the form of weekly and monthly publications, pamphlets and books. The publications secured the organizations, the organizations the publications. While mass-organizations served small capitalistic minorities, the mass of the workers were represented by individuals. The contradiction between the theories of the 'ultra-left' and the prevailing conditions became unbearable. The more one thought in collective terms the more isolated one became.
- Mattick, Paul: Anton Pannekoek
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1960 Anton Pannekoek's life span coincided with what was almost the whole history of the modern labour movement; he experienced its rise as a movement of social protest, its transformation into a movement of social reform, and its eclipse as an independent class movement in the contemporary world. But Pannekoek also experienced its revolutionary potentialities in the spontaneous upheavals which, from time to time, interrupted the even flow of social evolution. He entered the labour movement a Marxist and he died a Marxist, still convinced that if there is a future, it will be a socialist future.
- Mattick, Paul: Authority and democracy in the United States
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1979 Paul Mattick shows that corresponding to the absence of a socialist movement in America is the absence of fascistic movements as attempted resolutions of extreme class conflict. The complacency of the American working class, however, depends upon continuing capitalist expansion. Thus, the limits imposed by the developing crisis create the possibility of a break with the belief that politics can be safely left to the bourgeoisie.
- Mattick, Paul: Baran and Sweezy's Monopoly Capital
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1966
- Mattick, Paul: Bolshevism and Stalinism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1947 From any view that goes beyond the capitalist system of exploitation, Stalinism and Trotskyism are both relics of the past.
- Mattick, Paul: Council Communism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1939 There is no dearth of proposals as to how to revive the labour movement; however, the serious investigator cannot help noticing that all such proposals for a 'new beginning' are in reality but the restatement and rediscovery of ideas and forms of activity developed with much greater clarity and consistency during the beginnings of the modern labour movement.
- Mattick, Paul: Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1974
- Mattick, Paul: Economics of the War Economy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1959 Ever since Lord Keynes' dictum that wars - like pyramid-building and earthquakes - may serve to increase wealth, it has been increasingly recognized that war and preparation for war are necessary aspects of the prevailing economy and a condition of its proper functioning.
- Mattick, Paul: The Economics of War and Peace
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1956 Wars, like crises, are inherent in uncontrolled capital accumulation even though their actual occurrence in time is not predictable.
- Mattick, Paul: Economics, Politics and The Age of Inflation
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1977
- Mattick, Paul: Ernest Mandel's Late Capitalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1972
- Mattick, Paul: Fromm's sane society
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1956
- Mattick, Paul: The Hero' of Kronstadt Writes History
Review of The Revolution Betrayed Resource Type: Article First Published: 1937 It is only necessary to reflect on the paramount role which Trotsky played in the first thundering years of Bolshevik Russia to understand why he cannot admit that the Bolshevik revolution was only able to change the form of capitalism but was not able to do away with the capitalist form of exploitation. It is the shadow of that period that lies in the way of his understanding.
- Mattick, Paul: Humanism and Socialism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1965 The resumption of the struggle for socialism would also be the rebirth of socialist humanism.
- Mattick, Paul: The Inevitability of Communism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1936 A reaction to Sidney Hook's Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx.
- Mattick, Paul: Interview with J.J. Lebel 1975
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1975 Transcript of an interview with J.J. Lebel.
- Mattick, Paul: Interview with Lotta Continua 1977
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1977 Revolutionary actions are directed against the system as a whole - for its overthrow. This presupposes a general disruption of society which escapes political control. Thus far, such revolutionary actions have occurred only in connection with social catastrophe, such as were released by lost wars and the associated economic dislocations. This does not mean that such situations are an absolute precondition for revolution, but it indicates the extent of social disintegration that precedes revolutionary upheavals. Revolution must involve a majority of the active population. Not ideology but necessity brings the masses into revolutionary motion. The resulting activities produce their own revolutionary ideology, namely an understanding of what has to be done to emerge victoriously out of the struggle against the system's defenders.
- Mattick, Paul: Introduction to 'Anti-Bolshevik Communism'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1978 The international socialist movement must of course be an anti-imperialist movement. But it has to actualise its anti-imperialism through the destruction of the capitalist system in the advanced countries. Were this accomplished, anti-imperialism would become meaningless and the social struggles in the underdeveloped part of the world would focus on internal class differences.
- Mattick, Paul: Karl Kautsky: From Marx to Hitler
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1939 What distinguished Kautsky from the general run of intellectuals who flocked to the labour movement as soon as it became more respectable and who were only too eager to foster the trend of class collaboration, was a greater love for theory, a love which refused to compare theory with actuality. Only as a theoretician could Kautsky remain a revolutionist; only too willingly he left the practical affairs of the movement to others. However, he fooled himself. In the role of a mere 'theoretician,' he ceased to be a revolutionary theoretician, or rather he could not become a revolutionist. As soon as the scene for a real battle between capitalism and socialism after the war had been laid, his theories collapsed because they had already been divorced in practice from the movement they were supposed to represent.
- Mattick, Paul: Karl Korsch: His Contribution to Revolutionary Marxism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1962 For Korsch, all the imperfections of Marx's revolutionary theory which, in retrospect, are explainable by the circumstances out of which it arose, do not alter the fact that Marxism remains superior to all other social theories even today, despite its apparent failure as a social movement. It is this failure which demands not the rejection of Marxism but a Marxian critique of Marxism, that is, the further proletarisation of the concept of social revolution. There was no doubt in Korsch's mind, that the period of counter-revolution is historically limited like everything else -- that the new social productive forces embodied in a socialist revolution would re-assert themselves and find a revolutionary theory adequate to their practical tasks.
- Mattick, Paul: Kropokin on Mutual Aid - Review
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1956
- Mattick, Paul: The Lenin Legend
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1935 For Lenin, socialism was in the last instance merely a kind of state-capitalism.
- Mattick, Paul: Luxemburg versus Lenin
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1935 On many essential points the conceptions of Luxemburg differ from those of Lenin as day from night, or -- the same thing -- as the problems of the bourgeois revolution from those of the proletarian.
- Mattick, Paul: Mandel's Economics
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1969
- Mattick, Paul: Marx and Freud
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1956 Marcuse's book renews the endeavor to read Marx into Freud. Marcuse wants to resurrect the 'explosive' revolutionary content of Freud's theories.
- Mattick, Paul: Marx & Keynes
The Limits of the Mixed Economy Resource Type: Book First Published: 1969 According to Mattick, "Keynesianism merely reflects the transition of capitalism from its free-market to a state-aided phase and provides an ideology for those who mementarily profit by this transition. It does not touch upon the problems Marx was concerned with. As long as the capitalist mode of production prevails, Marxism will retain its relevance, since it concerns itself neither with one or another technique of capital production, nor with the social changes within the frame of capital production, but only with its final abolition".
- Mattick, Paul: A Marxian Oddity
A review of Marxiam and Freedom. From 1776 Unitl Today, by Raya Dunayevskaya Resource Type: Article First Published: 1958 Paul Mattick says although Raya Dunayevskaya’s interpretation of Marxian doctrine is occasionally true and eloquent, this book as a whole is a scatterbrained hodge-podge of philosophical, economic and political ideas that defy description and serious criticism.
- Mattick, Paul: Marxism and Bourgeois Economics
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1983 Just as the proletariat opposed the bourgeoisie, so Marx confronted bourgeois economic theory: not in order to develop it, or to improve it, but to destroy its apparent validity and, finally, with the abolition of capitalism, to overcome it altogether.
- Mattick, Paul: The Marxism of Karl Korsch
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1964
- Mattick, Paul: Marxism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1978 Until now the history of revolutionary Marxism has been the history of its defeats, which include the apparent successes that culminated in the emergence of state-capitalist systems. It is clear that early Marxism not only underestimated the resiliency of capitalism, but in doing so also overestimated the power of Marxian ideology to affect the consciousness of the proletariat. The process of historical change, even if speeded up by the dynamics of capitalism, is exceedingly slow, particularly when measured against the lifespan of an individual. But the history of failure is also one of illusions shed and experience gained, if not for the individual, at least for the class. There is no reason to assume that the proletariat cannot learn from experience.
- Mattick, Paul: The Masses & The Vanguard
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1938 The leadership principle, the idea of the vanguard that must assume responsibility for the proletarian revolution is based on the pre-war conception of the labour movement, is unsound. The tasks of the revolutionary and the communist reorganization of society cannot be realized without the widest and fullest action of the masses themselves.
- Mattick, Paul: Mattick, Paul - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article Writings of Paul Mattick (1904-1981).
- Mattick, Paul: Monopoly Capital
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1966 For Baran and Sweezy, capitalist problems are exclusively market problems.
- Mattick, Paul: Nationalism and Socialism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1959 Nations, whether "knitted together" by ideology, by objective conditions, or by the usual combination of both, are products of social development. There is no more point in cherishing or damning nationalism in principle than in cherishing or damning tribalism or, for that matter, an ideal cosmopolitanism. The nation is a fact to be suffered or enjoyed, to be fought for or against according to historical circumstances and the implications of those circumstances for various populations and different classes within these populations.
- Mattick, Paul: The New Capitalism and the Old Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1975
- Mattick, Paul: The Nonsense of Planning
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1937 The literature dealing with the problems of a planned economy has attained proportions comparable only with those of the depression which brought it forth. In all this welter of thought, we may distinguish three main currents: one which stands for the possibility of capitalist planning, another which denies it on principle, and a third which hovers between these extremes and finds its champions both in the bourgeois and socialist camps.
- Mattick, Paul: Obsessions of Berlin
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1948 The Russians are Berlin's second great obsession. The rape of the city is burned deep into the minds of its inhabitants because it is associated with their greatest disappointment. Long before the fall of the city, refugees from the East told horrible stories about the Russians' behavior. So did the radio. But wishful thinking discounted these stories as exaggerations and propaganda. At any rate, it could not get worse than it was. The same hope that welcomed Hitler in exchange for the depression welcomed now the Russians in exchange for the bombings.
- Mattick, Paul: One Dimensional Man In Class Society
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1972
- Mattick, Paul: Otto Rühle and the German Labour Movement
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1935
- Mattick, Paul: Pannekoek's "The Party and the Working Class"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1941
- Mattick, Paul: Reform or Revolution
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1983 The reformists had no principles to 'betray.' They remained what they had been all along, but they were now obliged first of all to safeguard the system in which their cherished practice could continue. The revolution had to be reduced to a mere reform, so as to satisfy their deepest convictions and, incidentally, secure their political existence.
- Mattick, Paul: Review: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1968 Myrdal's dilemma is his theoretical attempt to combine irreconcilable, namely, a capitalist market economy with authoritarian controls designed to subject capital production to actual social needs. This forces him to misunderstand both capitalism and socialism, and to provide them with features they do not possess. It induces him also to assume that it is actually possible to treat the development problems of South Asia in relative isolation from the problems of the capitalist world economy.
- Mattick, Paul: Review of 'Karl Marx' by Karl Korsch
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1939 In conspicuous distinction to many other interpretations of Marx, this book concentrates upon the essentials of Marxian theory and practice.
- Mattick, Paul: Rosa Luexmburg in retrospect
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1973 Mattick reconsiders the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, particularly her critique of Bolshevism and her economic theory.
- Mattick, Paul: Rosa Luxemburg in Retrospect
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1978 Mattick reconsiders the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, particularly her critique of Bolshevism and her economic theory.
- Mattick, Paul: Samuelson's 'Transformation' of Marxism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1972 Somehow, and for reasons known only to himself, Paul A. Samuelson cannot leave Marx alone.
- Mattick, Paul: Serfdom in a Free Society
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1946
- Mattick, Paul: Spontaneitat und Organisation
Resource Type: Book
- Mattick, Paul: Spontaneity and Organisation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1949 How revolutionaries have viewed the relationship between organized planned action and spontaneous action.
- Mattick, Paul: Spontaneity and Organisation
From 'Anti-Bolshevik Communism' Resource Type: Article First Published: 1977 Although Lenin counted on, he simultaneously feared, spontaneous movements. He justified the need for conscious interferences in spontaneously-arising revolutions by citing the backwardness of the masses and saw in spontaneity an important destructive but not constructive element. In Lenin's view, the more forceful the spontaneous movement, the greater would be the need to supplement and direct it with organised, planned party-activity. The workers had to be guarded against themselves, so to speak, or they might defeat their own cause through ignorance, and, by dissipating their powers, open the way for counter-revolution.
- Mattick, Paul: Stalin and German Communism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1949
- Mattick, Paul: Stalin's Frame-Up System and the Moscow Trials (Review)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1951 Trotsky's own indignation over the Moscow Trials, although understandable since they were directed against his followers and fellow-oppositionists, was nevertheless inconsistent with his own political outlook and conception of dictatorship. The terroristic system he came to bewail was after all originally headed by Lenin and Trotsky, and was proudly defended by the latter in his book Terrorism and Communism.
- Mattick, Paul: Leon Trotsky
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1940 Trotsky's works, and most of all his History of the Russian Revolution, will immortalize his name as a writer and politician. But there is a real need to oppose the development of the Trotsky legend which will make out of this leader of the Russian state capitalist revolution a martyr of the international working class - a legend which must be rejected together with all other postulates and aspects of bolshevism.
- Mattick, Paul: Was the Bolshevik Revolution a Failure?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1938 As soon as the Bolsheviks recognized that the proletariat was too weak to establish state capitalistic systems favorable to Russia in other countries, and also that the bourgeoisie was no longer willing to risk anything in a struggle against state capitalist Russia, that is, about 1920, the Bolsheviks ceased to support revolutionary movements in other countries and instead prepared for a peaceful side by side existence with the other capitalistic systems.
- Mattick, Paul: Workers' Control
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1967
- Mattick, Paul Jr.: Business as Usual
The Economic Crisis and the Future of Capitalism Resource Type: Book First Published: 2011 In Business as Usual Paul Mattick explains the recession in jargon-free style, without shying away from serious analysis. He explores current events in relation to the development of the world economy since the Second World War and, more fundamentally, looks at the cycle of crisis and recovery that has characterized capitalism since the early nineteenth century. Mattick situates today’s crisis in the context of a capitalism ruled by a voracious quest for profit.
- Mattick, Paul Jr.: Old left, new left, what's left?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1970 Paul Mattick Jr. takes a look at the 'New Left' and student movement at the end of the 1960s.
- Mattick, Paul Jr.: Old Left, New Left, What's Left?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1970 Paul Mattick Jr. takes a look at the 'New Left' and student movements at the end of the 1960s.
- Mattick, Paul Jr.: Theory and practice: an introduction to Marxian theory
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1973 1979 article by Root and Branch, introducing Marxist theory.
- Mattick, Paul Jr.; Clegg, John; Benanav, Aaron: The Economic Crisis in Fact and Fiction
Paul Mattick Jr. with John Clegg and Aaron Benanav Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 An interview with Paul Mattick Jr., the author of Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Future of Capitalism.
- Mattick, Paul; Lebel, J.J.: Paul Mattick Interview with J.J. Lebel 1975
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1975
- Mattis, Kristine: GMO Propaganda and the Sociology of Science
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 In August of 2014, the website Gawker revealed documents that demonstrated the lengths to which the global chemical giant Monsanto would go in order to control the narrative about their products – in particular, their genetically modified crops. While we all like to believe that our scientific/rational brains see through the transparent marketing, public relations rhetoric exists because it greatly sedates critical thought.
- Mattis, Kristine: Superunknown: Scientific Integrity Within the Academic and Media Industrial Complexes
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Mattis provides an analysis of the competing priorities of scientists, funders and the media that together, create a perfect storm of "unscientific science".
- Mattis, Kristine: Toxic Curve Ball: Why Outdated Assumptions to Determine "Safe Levels" of Toxicants Forfeit the Game
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 By now, a large number of consumers are aware of the hazards of the synthetic compound bisphenol-A (BPA). Effective May 11, 2016, under California state law Proposition 65, products containing BPA must possess a warning label indicating that exposure could result in female reproductive impairment. Independent research on the endocrine disrupting effects of the chemical, commonly used in plastic bottles, the lining of metal cans, and customer receipts, among other applications, has consistently demonstrated toxic effects at low dose exposures. Two recent robust studies from Denmark concur, finding deleterious effects in rats exposed to BPA at doses lower than those considered safe for human ingestion, yet not at several higher doses. Nevertheless, regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) conclude that BPA is safe at the levels at which it is currently in use.
- Mattison, Corey: University of Minnesota: Dignity vs. Cutbacks
Against The Current vol. 108 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2004 On October 21, 1800 clerical workers of AFSCME Local 3800 made statewide news by going on strike against the University of Minnesota. At the heart of the AFSCME clerical workers' struggle was a strong determination to stand up for their dignity and respect.
- Mattson, Corey: Jan and Carrol Cox, Political Activists
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Obituary for Jan and Carrol Cox, long-time activists from Illinois.
- Maté, Aaron: Gabor Maté on the misuse of anti-Semitism and why fewer Jews identify with Israel
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Talking today about antisemitism, particularly posing it as a problem on the left.
- Maté, Aaron: Israel's relentless violence on Gaza met by global silence
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A ceasefire has been reached in Gaza after Israel launched a wave of airstrikes that killed 34 Palestinians, including eight members of one family. Ali Abunimah of The Electronic Intifada discusses Israel's latest bombings, which come after more than one year of weekly, deadly Israeli attacks on non-violent Palestinian demonstrators.
- Maté, Aaron: Leaks reveal FBI helps Ukraine censor Twitter users and obtain their info
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2023 The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to censor social media users and obtain their personal information, leaked emails reveal.
- Maté, Aaron: On Ukraine, 'progressive' proxy warriors spell disaster
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2022 'Progressives" who urge leftists to support the Ukraine proxy war whitewash the US role, attack dissenting voices, and advocate the dangerous militarism that they claims to oppose.
- Maughan-Brown, David: Land, Freedom and Fiction
History and Ideology in Kenya Resource Type: Book A unique exploration of the contrasting ways in which the Mau Mau struggle for land and independence was mirrored in the novels of settler writers, English authors at home, and subsequently indigenous Kenyan novelists. The author explores the relationships between historical events, the myths that are cultivated to serve particular social interests, and literary creation.
- Maurice Ste. Croix, Geoffrey E.: The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World
From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989 A broad-ranging attempt to establish the validity of historical materialist analysis of the ancient world.
- Maurice Tremblay: 1978 Annual Report of San Juan River Salmon Enhancement Program
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1978
- Mavroudeas, Stavros: Blatant Hypocrisy: the Latest Late-Night Bailout of Greece
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 The new late night deal in the Eurogroup on the new bailout for Greece is another blatant hypocrisy by the dominant European Union powers, their partner-cum-competitor IMF (aka the US) and the Greek establishment (now represented by the SYRIZA government). The new deal is an uneasy compromise subject to a continuing tug-of-war between the US (through its proxy, the IMF) and the EU.
- Maximoff, G. P.: Syndicalists in the Russian Revolution
Direct Action Pamphlets No. 11 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1940
- Maxwell, Grant: Attitudes at the Canadian Grassroots
Signs and Portents in the Seventies Resource Type: Article First Published: 1976 A report on people's attitudes across Canada.
- Maxwell, William J.: The Ghosts of St. Louis Future
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Maxwell provides an analysis of the court decision by Judge Timothy J. Wilson's acquital of Jason Stockley, the white St. Louis cop charged with the first-degree murder of Anthony Lamar Smith (a 24-year-old African American).
- May, Elizabeth: At the Cutting Edge
The Fight for Canada's Forests Resource Type: Book First Published: 1998 Exposes the overexploitation of Canada's forests and suggests measures to create a sustainable industry.
- May, Elizabeth: Paradise Won
The Struggle for South Moresby Resource Type: Book First Published: 1992
- May, Matthew S.: Soapbox Rebellion
The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916 Resource Type: Book First Published: 2013 A new critical history of the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) which illustrates how the lively and colourful soapbox culture of the "Wobblies" generated novel forms of class struggle.
- Maybury, Greg: All Fire and Fury in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Using Oliver Stone's 'portentious' documentary film 'Ukraine on Fire' as a basis for discussion, the article looks beyond the mainstream media and public discourse on the events and developments in the country which ultimately framed the public's view of the situation.
- Mayekiso, Mzwanele: The Civic Movement in South Africa: Popular Politics, Then and Now
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1997 The tradition of democracy within the progressive movement in South Africa remains alive and well, judging not only by the recent, high-profile contestation of ANC provincial elections, but also by grassroots democratic impulses within the civic movement.
- Mayekiso, Mzwanele: Township Politics: Civic Struggles for a New South Africa
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1996 It is with the ordinary citizens of our cities, towns, and villages that I rest my greatest hopes and expectations. Their role in South Africa and elsewhere has been inspiring, and it is in the whole rather than in the sum of the actions of a few leaders that change is accomplished.
- Mayer, Arno: Plowshares into Swords
From Zionism to Israel Resource Type: Book First Published: 2008 An authoritative history of Zionism and Israel.
- Mayer, Arno J.: The Future of Israel and the Decline of the American Empire
The Wages of Hubris and Vengeance Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Israel is in the grip of a kind of collective schizophrenia. Not only its governors but the majority of its Jewish population have delusions of both grandeur and persecution, making for a distortion of reality and inconsistent behaviour. Israeli Jews see and represent themselves as a chosen people and part of a superior Western civilization.
- Mayer, Jonathan: The Turn-Verizon Zombie Cookie
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Discussion of Verizon's "supercookie," a header that tracks mobile subscribers, even if they have opted out, cleared their cookies, or entered private browsing mode.
- Maynen, Nick: Concrete, or beaches? World's sand running out as global construction booms
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A crucial component of concrete, sand is vital to the global construction industry. China alone is importing a billion tonnes of sand a year, and its increasing scarcity is leading to large scale illegal mining and deadly conflicts. With ever more sand fetched from riverbeds, shorelines and sandbanks, roads and bridges are being undermined and beaches eroded. And the world's sand wars are only set to worsen.
- Maynes, Clifford: The Nuclear Power Booklet
The Case for a Nuclear-Free Ontario Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1990 he Nuclear Power Booklet discusses the effects of low level radiation, and the hazards of uranium mining and reactors. It also talks about solutions and alternatives.
- Maynes, Clifford: Public Consultation: A Citizens Handbook
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1989 A publication created to help you consult effectively; decide what you expect and want from any public consultation process; decide when to say no.
- Mayo, Pater: The Uprising in Turkey
Conservative-Neoliberal Alliance and Popular Resistance in Turkey Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Thousands are taking to the streets to oppose the current regime of old Islamic, anti-secularist values sitting comfortably with large scale US based Neoliberal capitalism.
- Mayu, Chang: Details Of Tax Avoidance Schemes For Wealthy HSBC Clients Revealed
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 A cache of secret documents has thrust HSBC into the limelight for helping international clients dodge taxes.
- Mazelis, Fred: New report documents "a living death" in US prisons
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 The American Civil Liberties Union has issued a massive report that meticulously documents the unconstitutional practice of life imprisonment without parole in federal and state prisons in the US.
- Mazrui, Alamin M.; Muchiri, Mundia; Oloo, Vera; Kenya Human Rights Commission: Media Censorship in a Plural Context
A Report on the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation Resource Type: Book First Published: 1998
- Mazza, Patrick: How the Saami Indigenous People Fended Off Gates-funded Geoengineering Experiment
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2021 The first ever stratospheric test of geoengineering technology, funded by Bill Gates, has been suspended under pressure from the indigenous people over whose heads it would take place, the Saami of northern Scandinavia.
- Mbeki, Govan: South Africa: The Peasants' Revolt
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1964 "To understand the conditions of the Africans in rural South Africa, how bantustan policy affects them and the underlying reasons for the policy, there are a few books as comprehensive and authoritative as this... this book is a must." - Africa Magazine
- MC, Ali: Maubere Timor: Keeping East Timor's songs of resistance alive
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Presumed dead for years, musician and independence fighter Berliku returns to pay tribute to his nation through music.
- McAdam, Doug: Freedom Summer
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1990 An analysis of the 1964 Freedom Summer movement and the myths surrounding the campaign and 60s activism in general.
- McAlevey, Jane: No Shortcuts
Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age Resource Type: Book First Published: 2016 Examines case studies of successes and failures of labour and social movements in recent history, arguing for the need for mass organization and bottom-up organizing which empowers ordinary people at the community level.
- McAlevey, Jane: Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2014 Today, fewer than 7% of American private-sector workers belong to a union and public employee collective bargaining has been dealt devastating blows in Wisconsin and elsewhere. This book argues that labour can be revived with social movement unionism that involves raising worker's expectations.
- McAlevey, Jane; Rozworski, Michael: Having the Hard Conversations
Jane McAlevey on Fight for 15, labour's crisis of strategy, and the difference between organizing and mobilizing Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 An interview with labour organizer Jane McAlevey on labour's crisis of strategy and the difference between organizing and mobilizing. McAlevey discusses what ails the labour movement, problem with the terms "public" and "private" sector, and why we need to stop ignoring the rank-and-file.
- McAllister, James: The Government of Edward Schreyer
Democratic Socialism in Manitoba Resource Type: Book
- McAllister, Pam: You Can't Kill the Spirit
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1988 This book tells the inspiring stories of women using nonviolent action in their struggles for social change. These vivid accounts drawn from around the world testify to women's courage and inventiveness in struggles for women's rights, economic self- sufficiency, liberation, human dignity, and self-determination.
- Mcallister, Pam (ed.): Reweaving the Web of Life
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1983 Contributors, including Alice Walker, Grace Paley Joan Baaez, Barbara Deming and Holly Near, stress the connection between patriarchy and war, sex and violence. This book makes it clear that nonviolence can be an assertive, positive force. This is a provociative reading for those interested in the surviving in and changing the nuclear age.
- McAlpine, Trevor: The Partition Principle
Remapping Quebec after Separation Resource Type: Book Considers the question: if Canada is divisible, then why not Quebec? McAlpine argues that Quebec cannot separate from Canada and expect to retain its present borders. He maps out the specifics of how Quebec might be partitioned in the event of separation, and devotes special attention to aboriginal land claims and the status of Montreal.
- McAnarney, Alexandra: Memory and Repression in El Salvador
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 The raid on Pro-Busqueda happened three days after the Salvadorean Supreme Court heard testimony from survivors of a 1982 raid carried out by government forces.
- McBride, Laurie: Activism Under Attack
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989 What does it say about democracy in Canada when people can be singled out, arrested, jailed, and kept out of a public place at the arbitrary whim of political organizers or police?
- McCain, Greg: Hondurans Walk for Dignity and Sovereignty
Step by Step Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 About the Walk called 'Caminata Dignidad y Soberanía Paso a Paso' (Walk for Dignity and Sovereignty Step by Step), which culminated with over 400 people from various groups representing the social movements in Honduras reaching the National Congress in Tegucigalpa with various demands.
- McCallister, Mike: The Fight for Housing, 1967-68 & Milwaukee NAACP Commandos
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A history of The Commandos, an offshoot of the NAACP Youth Council formed in Milwaukee in the 1960s. Their main fight was against segregated housing.
- McCallum, Anne (editor): Common Ground
February 1983 issue - Periodical profile published Summer 1983 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1983
- McCann, Bryan: The Throes of Democracy
Brazil since 1989 Resource Type: Book First Published: 2008
- McCann, Craig: Expelled from a Progressive Think Tank - for the Crime of Denouncing Antifa Violence
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2022
- McCann, Eamonn: The Rape of Irish Children
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 A State which had genuine concern for its children would have responded to the report by taking decisive action to remove the Catholic bishops as patrons of primary schools. Three thousand of 3,200 primaries in the Republic have bishops as patrons - with the power to hire and fire and complete control over the school's 'ethos'. No less appropriate category of men could be imagined to have such power over the moral formation of children.
- McCann, Ron as told to Vitale, John: The Joy of Service!
Bringing service excellence to the world thriugh your world Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989
- McCarthy Michael A.; Pine, Glen: Noam Chomsky: Moral & Social Thinker
Against The Current vol. 145 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 Noam Chomsky is a powerhouse of insightful thought – this book attests to that. So analyzing or even summarizing Anthony Arnove’s The Essential Chomsky is no simple task. A moderately lengthy and notably chronological collection of texts plucked from Chomsky’s enormous output, The Essential Chomsky leaps from linguistics to Palestine to libertarian socialism and back to linguistics again. Given the political nature of Against the Current, we will focus on Chomsky’s views on political philosophy, morality, U.S. foreign and domestic policy, and propaganda, ending with thoughts on the editing. But first, a few introductory remarks on the man himself.
- McCarthy, Donnachadh: UK Tax Dodgers PLC - Google outrage is the tip of an iceberg
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Why are we so surprised at the Google tax heist? It's not because there's anything new about it. It's because our own political class have long had their noses in the trough, and the tax-dodging billionaires that own our mainstream media are anxious to hide the swindle that's keeping them rich, and us poor.
- McCarthy, Kieren: Google keeps tracking you even when you specifically tell it not to: Maps, Search won't take no for an answer
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Google has admitted that its option to "pause" the gathering of your location data doesn't apply to its Maps and Search apps – which will continue to track you even when you specifically choose to halt such monitoring.
- McCarthy, Mary: Mary McCarthy Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- McCarthy, Michael A.: Racism and Structural Solutions
Against The Current vol. 135 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 When Barack Obama raised the specter of race in a March 18 speech that went far beyond what one would expect from the Democratic Party, some of us on the left were hopeful. Since the 1970s, race-speech in presidential campaigns has been increasingly buried in coded language like, “welfare moms,” “inner-city,” “street crime,” “states’ rights” and so on. We all welcomed a shift away from such discourse. By dealing a bit more squarely with the issue, the speech had the potential to ignite a national debate that could grapple with the “racial stalemate we’ve been stuck in for years,” as Obama put it.
- McCarthy, Tom: Snowden and Ellsberg hail leak of drone documents from new whistleblower
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 American whistleblowers hailed the release of a collection of classified documents about US drone warfare as a blow on behalf of transparency and human rights. The documents anchored a multi-part report by the Intercept on the Defense Department assassination program in Yemen and Somalia.
- McCaskell, Tim: Queer Progress
From Homophobia to Homonationalism Resource Type: Book First Published: 2016 A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
- McCaskell, Tim: Queering the Cold War
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 A review of the book 'The Canadian War on Queers' and its examination of how homophobia, national security, and queerness unfolded in Canada during the Cold War.
- McCay, Bonnie J ; Acheson, James M (Editors): The Question of the Commons
The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources Resource Type: Book First Published: 1987
- McChesney, Robert: Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles
An interview with Robert McChesney Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Robert McChesney talks about contemporary media capitalism and 21st century media democracy struggles to understand and change it.
- McChesney, Robert: Political Economy of Media
Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas Resource Type: Book Demonstrates the incompatibility of the corporate media system with a viable democratic public sphere, and the corrupt policymaking process that brings the system into existence.
- McChesney, Robert: The Problem of the Media
U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century Resource Type: Book First Published: 2004 Gets to the roots of the crisis, explains it, and points a way forward for the growing media reform movement.
- McChesney, Robert W: Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2000
- McChesney, Robert W.: Digital Disconnect
How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy Resource Type: Book First Published: 2013 The author argues that the sharp decline in the enforcement of antitrust violations, the increase in patents on digital technology and proprietary systems and massive indirect subsidies and other policies have made the Internet a place of numbing commercialism.
- McChesney, Robert W.; Nichols, John: The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Journalism is collapsing, and with it comes the most serious threat in our lifetimes to self-government and the rule of law as it has been understood here in the United States.
- McChesney, Robert W; Foster, John Bellamy: The Big Picture
Understanding Media Through Political Economy Resource Type: Book First Published: 2003 Examines the nature of contemporary journalism, the role of the media system in the process of globalization, and the workings of new communication technologies, including the Internet.
- McChesney, Robert W; Wood, Ellen Meiksins; Foster, John Bellamy: Capitalism and the Information Age
The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution Resource Type: Book A rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of new technologies.
- McClain, Karen: Understanding Idle No More
Special Topics in Aboriginal Community Learning Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 A selection of readings related to the Idle No More movement, and to aboriginal struggles in Canada generally.
- McClear, Sheila: Capital Crimes of Fashion
Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion (Book Review) Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Book Review of Tansy E. Hoskins' Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion.
- McClear, Sheila: WSF Youth Camp
Against The Current vol. 116 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2005 First, a picture of the World Social Forum’s Youth Camp in Porto Alegre, Brazil: Imagine an unending sea of tents and tarps, hammocks hanging from the trees-all of it baking under the sun. Dirt paths divide the camp and are lined by a colorful array of vendors hawking soap, food (“Refri, agua!” was the constant chant), marijuana plants, and jewelry.
- McClintock, Anne: Imperial Leather
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest Resource Type: Book First Published: 1995 Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race, and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between race and sexuality, fetishism and money, gender and violence, domesticity and the imperial market, and the gendering of nationalism within the zones of imperial and anti-imperial power.
- McClintock, Michael: The American Connection
Volume 1: State Terror and Popular Resistance in El Salvador Resource Type: Book McClintock reveals the U.S. role in introducing new strategies of state terror and counter-insurgency in Central America since the 1960s. Against a backdrop of longstanding class and land ownership patterns the author shows how U.S. refusal to tolerate social reform and its support for brutal security apparatuses have led not only to the current wars in Central America, but inextricably involved the U.S.
- McClintock, Michael: The American Connection
Volume 2: State Terror and Popular Resistance in Guatemala Resource Type: Book The author who is now a senior researcher with Amnesty International spent several years unravelling the development of counter-insurgency forces and the role of the U.S. in creating them. This book details how the U.S. notion of counter-insurgency, when applied under highly authoritarian regimes, ultimately converts almost the entire civilian population into the enemy.
- McConkey, David: Choices
A Family Global Action Handbook Resource Type: Book First Published: 1987 Choices is aimed particularly at parents who want to instil social awareness in their children, and who are looking for ideas, activities, and ways of initiating discussion.
- McConkey, David: Global Thoughts, Local Actions
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1984 Published: 1985 A wealth of information for those seeking ways to link global problems to everyday life.
- McConnell, Alan: "Sure, Stick It In"
Who Will Organize the Organizers? Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 One has to recognize when the movement is all there, ready to go, and just needs a little impetus.
- McCook, Alison: Philosophy journal spoofed, retracts hoax article
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 A philosophy journal that focuses on the teachings of philosopher Alain Badiou has apparently fallen victim to yet another Sokal hoax, and has retracted a fake article submitted by authors trying to expose the publication's weaknesses. The paper, "Ontology, Neutrality and the Strive for (non-)Being-Queer," attributed to Benedetta Tripodi of the Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza in Romania, is apparently the work of two academics, who submitted the absurd article to Badiou Studies to expose its lack of rigor in accepting papers.
- McCord, William: Voyages To Utopia
From Monastery to Commune - The Search for the Perfect Society in Modern Times Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989 The story of William McCord's exploration of utopian communities, both in person and through literature.
- McCormack, Geoffrey; Workman, Thom: Age of Austerity
Capital, the Financial Crisis and the State in Canada Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 The financial and economic crisis of 2008 has left a continuing legacy on social welfare, showing up in slow economic growth, unemployment and underemployment, and increasing social conflict. In the debate over the future of the world economy, many foresee a long depression, and the intensification of neoliberal austerity. Geoffrey McCormack and Thom Workman's new book is concerned with Canada's unique economic and social history over the period of neoliberalism, including the financial and economic crisis of 2008.
- McCormick, John: Acid Earth
The Global Threat of Acid Pollution Resource Type: Book First Published: 1985 This is the new, revised and updated version of McCormic's comprehensive book on the subject of acid rain and its effect on the environment.
- McCoy, Alfred: The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines. If Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 as the end of the American Century, a more realistic assessment of domestic and global trends suggests that in 2025, just 15 years from now, it could all be over except for the shouting.
- McCoy, Alfred: A Question of Torture
CIA Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror Resource Type: Book First Published: 2006 Chronicles the US government's use of terror as a political instrument
- McCracken, Grant: Culture and Consumption:
New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities Resource Type: Book First Published: 1988
- McCracken, Joyce: Central Europe and Central America: Will there be a historical convergence?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018
- McCracken, Krista: Archives As Activism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Last week was archives awareness week in Ontario, a week to raise awareness about what archivists do, what archives are, and just generally celebrate all of the good stuff associated with archives. In addition to general archives promotion this week it is also about the connection between archives and activism.
- McCready, K.J.: The Role Co-operatives in Childcare
Role des cooperatives dans le secteur de la garde d'enfants Resource Type: Book First Published: 1991
- McCree, Keith and Barbra: Trail Damage Caused by Irresponsible Mountain Bikers
Resource Type: Article The damage caused by each mountain biker is much greater than that caused by a hiker, firstly because of the extra weight of the bike, and secondly because the soil is impacted continuously along the trail, while a hiker's feet hit the soil only at intervals.
- McCuen, Heather: No Heroes in Montreal -- Why Endless Protest Does Not a Movement Make
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 No matter what you've taken to the streets to oppose - no matter how just your cause - your message gets lost when you don’t engage the community, you don't exercise discipline, or you just start acting like assholes.
- McCullum, Karmel; McCullum, Hugh: This Land Is Not For Sale
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1976 Examination of Native land claims and development in Canada's north.
- McCurdy, Earle: A Match to a Blasty Bough
How FFAW-Unifor Confronted Power and Shared the Wealth Resource Type: Book
- McCutcheon, John: Christmas in the Trenches
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1984 Lyrics to a song commemorating the Christmas Truce of 1914 on the Western and Eastern Fronts during World War I.
- McCutcheon, Sean: Electric Rivers
The Story of the James Bay Project Resource Type: Book First Published: 1991
- McCutcheon, Sean: Resource and Development in Newfoundland
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1976 This pamphlet traces the history and inequities of Newfoundland's development of resources.
- McDonald, Kathlene: Hitler's Bestiary from the Inside
Against The Current vol. 156 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 Over a decade ago, I spent several months poring through the Martha Eccles Dodd papers at the Library of Congress. I was driven to research her life while working on a book about Left feminist culture and anti-fascist resistance in the McCarthy era. I had just read two of Dodd’s novels (Sowing the Wind and The Searching Light) and was driven to find out more about the sources of Dodd’s attraction to antifascist causes.
- McDonald, Marci: The Armageddon Factor: The rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2010
- McDonald, Marci: How Canada's Christian right was built
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 2010 The religous right is organizing hard, and effectively, to get their hands on the levers of power.
- McDonnell, John: The noble cause of the Heathrow 13
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 With the 'Heathrow 13' protestors expecting custodial sentences today for their occupation of a Heathrow runway last July, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell MP writes that their direct action followed years of official lies and broken promises, and forms part of a long tradition of direct action protests in defence of democracy.
- McDonnell, Kathleen: Not An Easy Choice: A Feminist Re-Examines Abortion
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1986 McDonnell describes the often conflicting needs and emotions experienced prior to and after abortion.
- McElrath, K.J.: The Volkswagen Scandal Wasn't Exposed by Regulators, but by Two Engineers Working at a Small Non-Profit Lab
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 German automaker Volkswagen was recently exposed for perpetrating a massive deception by installing a small device on as many as 11 million diesel-powered vehicles designed to cheat emissions tests.
- McElroy, Wendy: On Handcuffed and Felonious Children
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2005 Arresting young children for a crayon drawing, not unlike the games of hangman we once all played, is the ultimate meaning and logic of Zero Tolerance. Zero tolerance involves the application of law in an extreme and uncompromising manner to any activity, violent or not, that is deemed to be anti-social.
- McElwee, David A. (ed.): Media Resource Guide
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1987
- McElwee, Sean: The Threat of Just-in-Time Scheduling
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 One of the most unnoticed labour trends in the past few decades has been the rise of "just-in-time scheduling," the practice of scheduling workers' shifts with little advance notice that are subject to cancelation hours before they are due to begin.
- McFarlane, Peter: Canadians and Central America
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989
- McFarlane, Peter: Northern Shadows
Canadians and Central America Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989
- McFarlane, Peter, with Doreen Manuel: Brotherhood To Nationhood
George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement Resource Type: Book First Published: 1994 Published: 2021 George Manuel's work as leader of the National Indian Brotherhood and the later founding of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. First published 1994; revised edition 2021.
- McGeever, Brendan: The Bolsheviks and Antisemitism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Antisemitism was found across the political divide in Russia's year of revolution.
- McGill, Abby: From Slavery to Debt-Bondage: Big Tobacco's Addiction to Cheap Labor
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Cigarette manufacturers and leaf buyers perpetuate a global system of inequity that bolsters corporate profits at the expense of those who labor at the bottom of the tobacco supply chain. It is long past time for that system to end, and be replaced by a more fair tobacco trade that respects the workers who harvest this toxic crop.
- McGill, Abby: Respect, not restraints, for workers in Thailand's seafood industry
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 A report on a year-long investigation into forced labour in the global seafood supply chain in Thailand.
- McGinnis, Kathleen; McGinnis, James: Parenting for Peace and Justice
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1981
- McGough, John: Eliizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Against The Current vol. 125 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2006 Floods in normally drought-stricken eastern India have killed hundreds and left 1.5 million homeless this summer. Closer to home, a record-setting heat wave this June killed 225 in the United States, breaking thousands of local temperature records and sending the mercury above 104 degrees as far north as North Dakota.
- McGough, John: Long March to Revolution
Against The Current vol. 138 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Revolutions at first appearance may seem sudden or spontaneous events. But they are also built over the long-haul, through generations of resistance and the preservation in collective memory of traditions of struggle and solidarity.
- McGough, John: New Red-Green Politics
Against The Current vol. 130 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2007 In their preface to the 43rd volume of the Socialist Register, Coming to Terms with Nature, editors Leo Panitch and Colin Leys admit that this edition “has been one of the most challenging to put together.”
- McGough, John; Steiner, Isaac: A Festival of Radical Energy
Against The Current vol. 130 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2007 The culmination of years of discussion and thousands of hours of planning, the 1st United States Social Forum brought together over 12,000 activists to sweltering Atlanta June 27-31 for a week of conferencing, networking and marching. With lead organizing initiated by nonprofits, especially Project South, with ties to the Grassroots Global Justice network, the USSF resulted from two years’ work by a National Planning Committee (NPC) composed of several dozen nonprofits, left “thinktanks” and social movement organizations.
- McGovern, Ray: Conditioned for War with Russia
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2022 Discusses the American role in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and the Establishment media's part in keeping the truth from Americans.
- McGovern, Ray: German TV Exposes the Lies That Entrapped Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020
- McGovern, Ray: The Great Power Shift: a Russia-China Alliance
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A significant powershift in the triangular relaionship between the US, Russia and China is occuring as Sino-Russian relations are improving.
- McGovern, Ray: The Humiliation of Bradley Manning
Kangaroos Missing Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 It is a bitter irony that Army Pvt. Bradley Manning, whose conscience compelled him to leak evidence about the U.S. military brass ignoring evidence of torture in Iraq, was himself the victim of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment while other military officers privately took note but did nothing.
- McGovern, Ray: Kerry's Propaganda War on Russia's RT
When specialists insist that war with Russia is "not unthinkable" precipitated by events in Ukraine, one should take note Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Secretary of State Kerry, who has bumbled through a string of propaganda fiascos on Ukraine, decries Russia's RT network as a "propaganda bullhorn" that Americans should ignore - just trust what the U.S. government tells you, an idea that ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern rejects.
- McGovern, Ray: The Moral Corrosion of Drone Warfare
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Jerry Berrigan Brigade, named after Syracuse peacemaker Jerry Berrigan, were called to court for their nonviolent witness against drone warfare at the state-side drone base Hancock.
- McGrath, Cam: Bloggers Name and Shame Torturers in Egypt
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Egyptian bloggers use the Internet to expose police abuse and torture.
- McGrath, Cam: Desert Winds Stir New Hope
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 With oil and gas reserves running dry, Egypt is eyeing wind power as a solution to its looming energy crunch.
- McGrath, Molly: Students and Labor Together
Against The Current vol. 87 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2000 On behalf of my fellow campus organizers I would like to thank the AFL-CIO leadership and all of you for this opportunity to speak with you. I have a new slogan for you: "Whose University? Our University!!!" That's what we were chanting three weeks ago when I and hundreds other University of Wisconsin students and workers took over our administration building.
- McGregor, Sheila: Marx rediscovered
A review of Heather A Brown, Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Sheila McGregor states that Heather Brown has written an important study of Marx’s writings on women’s oppression. Brown situates her book in the current economic and political context, noting the role that women play both in the world economy and in recent tumultuous struggles such as the Occupy movement and, not least, in the revolutions in the Middle East beginning in 2011. At the same time, parts of Brown's book are contraditory and frustrating.
- McGregor, Sheila: Marxism and women's oppression today
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Times reflect how much in society in relation to women has changed, but also how much appears to have stayed the same.
- McGuigan, Gerald F.: Student Protest
The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player Resource Type: Book First Published: 1968
- McGuire, Danielle L.: Murder at the Algiers Motel
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The following account is abridged from an anthology, Detroit 1967, just published by Wayne State Press. McGuire has uncovered material that hadn't previously come to light.
- McGuire, Scott; Goldner, Loren: Class Struggle Beyond Unionism: Boston-Area Public Workers' Ferment, 1981-82
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1993
- McIlroy, Jim: A Radical Life: A memoir by Jim McIlroy
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2021
- McInerney, Lisa: Don't tell me that working-class people can’t be articulate
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 When writing dialogue, the idea that a drug dealer must be portrayed as verbally hesitant is daft -- language is not a tool issued by the nobility.
- McIntosh, Dave: When the Work's All Done This Fall
The Settling of the Land Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989 Excerpts from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writings that touch on Canadian agriculture.
- McIver, Colin: Marketing Mirage
How To Make It A Reality Resource Type: Book First Published: 1987
- McKay, Ian: A Different Location in the World: A Reconnaissance of Socialist Feminism in Canada, 1965-1990
Unpublished paper, 2002 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2002
- McKay, Ian: Reasoning Otherwise
Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada 1890 - 1920 Resource Type: Book First Published: 2008 Examines the people and events that led to the rise of the left in Canada from 1890 to 1920, and highlights how a new way of looking at the world based on theories of evolution transformed struggles around class, religion, gender, and race, and culminates in a new interpretation of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
- McKay, Ian: Rebels, Reds, Radicals
Rethinking Canada's Left History Resource Type: Book First Published: 2005 McKay looks at the history of the left in Canada as a series of experiments in "living otherwise" -- efforts to work out ways of life and thought strategically opposed to the prevailing liberal-capitalist order.
- McKay, Ian: Visioning a World Without Capitalism
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 2010 As leftists we have something infinitely more precious to win from our rich history than sentimentality and sectarianism, as we struggle to renovate the revolutionary tradition in the twenty-first century.
- McKay, Ian; Milsom, Scott (eds.): Toward A New Maritimes
A Selection From Ten Years of New Maritimes Resource Type: Book First Published: 1992 A collection of investigative reportage that looks at the historical, economic, cultural, and personal forces at work in the Maritimes.
- McKay, Paul: Electric Empire: The Inside Story of Ontario Hydro
The Inside Story of Ontario Hydro Resource Type: Book First Published: 1983 Electric Empire is a close-up look at Ontario Hydro, the second-largest public-owned utility in North America, a giant enterprise presiding over 30,000 employees, 80 generating stations, and 32,000 kilometers of transmission lines serving over eight million people.
- McKay, Paul: Exporting Apocalypse: Candu Reactors and Nuclear Prolifieration
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1984
- McKeigue, Paul; Robinson, Piers: Doubts about 'Novichoks'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Briefing notes developed from ongoing research and investigation into the use of chemical and biological weapons during the 2011-present war in Syria conducted by members of the "Working Group on Syria, Media and Propaganda".
- McKellar, Peter ed.: Land Use or Land Abuse?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1977 This Study Action Kit has been compiled to help the interested Canadians learn the facts about the nature, scope and urgency of the present land use situation in Canada. The materials are intended as a starting point for both study and action.
- McKenna, Brian: Cancer is Capitalist Violence
Anthropology Against Oncology Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 It’s been two decades since the publication of Martha Balsham’s landmark study, “Cancer in the Community: Class and Medical Authority (1993).” Balshem, a hospital-based anthropologist, documented how a Philadelphia “lay community” rejected medical advice to stop smoking, eat fruits and vegetables and schedule regular screening tests. The working class community of Tannerstown (a pseudonym) instead blamed air pollution from highway traffic and nearby chemical plants, as well as fate, for their cancers.
- Mckenna, Brian: The Predatory Pedagogy of On-Line Education
New Techno-peasants of the Latifundia Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Distance learning amounts to the erosion of the traditional face-to-face classroom.
- McKenna, Brian: Wild West Journalism
Outlaws, Cowpokes and a Eunuched Press Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 Journalism is not dead nor is anthropology. Both are undergoing seismic transformations while under attack from a neoliberal culture that devalues the public and disparages the truth.
- McKenna, Paul: In 1492, What Did Columbus Really Do?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1990 A summary of various resistance movements then being organized to protest celebrating the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' first landing in the Carribbean.
- McKenna, Paul: 1992 The Theology of Self-Discovery Offers Hope
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1990 The Self-Discovery campaign does not confine itself to the struggles of Indigenous People but addresses the concerns of all social and racial groups who have experienced social/cultural destruction under the yoke of colonialism.
- McKenna, Paul; Diemer, Ulli: Paul McKenna interview
Resource Type: Audio First Published: 2021 An conversation with Connexions veteran Paul McKenna on August 6, 2021. An audio recording of the interview, and a transcript, are held in the Connexions Archive.
- McKenna, Paul; Taylor, Norman: Christopher Who? -- Discovering the Americas
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1990 Columbus seen as a conqueror.
- McKenna, Tony: Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Conspiracy theories in general tend to be crude and simplistic, more often than not reflecting the nature of the people who indulge them. But when the conspiracy theory is mingled with antisemitism – as with the Rothschild rot – it represents a particular failure of the imagination, a particularly null and void exercise in dehumanisation.
- McKenzie, Bruce G: The Hammerhill Guide to Desktop Publishing in Business
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989
- McKeown, CCODP: Inner City Agencies
Organization profile published 1979 Resource Type: Organization First Published: 1979 The Inner City agencies work with a large unemployed, often transient population, very poor senior citizens and the over 55 displaced population who do not qualify for pensions and cannot find employment.
- McKibben, Bill: Beyond Radical
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 What conservatives could bring to the climate conversation.
- McKibben, Bill: Scandal! Exxon knew about climate change, boosted denialism, misled shareholders, went carbon heavy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 One of the world's biggest energy companies has been caught out in what may be the biggest ever climate scandal. Way back in the 1980s ExxonMobil knew of the 'potentially catastrophic' and 'irreversible' effects of increasing fossil fuel consumption, but chose to cover up the findings, spread misinformation on climate change, and go for high carbon energy sources.
- McKinnon, Charlie: The radical Robert Burns
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 For many people the only association they have with the work of Robert Burns is singing Auld Lang Syne at New Year celebrations or at annual Burns Supper events. The real Burns, the radical, revolutionary Burns, is rarely even hinted at in these events. Instead what we have is a sentimentalised, romanticised portrayal of Burns as what Henry Mackenzie called "that heav'n taught ploughman". MacKenzie was a lawyer, novelist and editor of The Lounger magazine in which he reviewed Burns's work. Burns admired some of Mackenzie's work; indeed one of his favourite novels was his Man of Feeling (1771). Mackenzie, however, was scornful of Burns's use of vernacular Scots "which greatly damps the pleasure of the reader".
- McKnight, David: Murdoch's Politics
How One Man's Thirst For Wealth and Power Shapes our World Resource Type: Book First Published: 2013 McKnight tracks Murdoch's influence, from his support for Reagan and Thatcher, his deal with Tony Blair and attacks on Barack Obama. He examines the secretive corporate culture of News Corporation: its private political seminars for editors, its support for think tanks and its global campaigns on issues like Iraq and climate change.
- McLachlan, Stephane; Tyas, Michael (directors): One River Many Relations
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2014 The Alberta Oil Sands are one of the world's most controversial industrial developments. They are the target of high profile protests and debate around the globe. One essential voice is largely excluded from discourse on the issue - the voice of downstream Indigenous communities.
- McLaren, Brian: Everything Must Change
Jesus, Global Crises and a Revolution of Hope Resource Type: Book First Published: 2007 McLaren poses the question "How do the life and teachings of Jesus address the most critical global problems in our world today?" McLaren believes that we live in a world based on a wrong assumption of what is important in our lives, what is worth fighting for and what is the purpose of humanity's existence. He believes it is important to look at the teachings of Jesus to move to a positive view of humanity to overcome the dysfuntionality-economic, political and social of the world.
- McLaren, Jesse: Climate Justice Transitions
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 The devastating fires in Fort McMurray show the urgent need to transition to an economy that supports people and the planet, and this is part of a transition in climate justice politics.
- McLaren, Jesse (ed.): System Change Not Climate Change
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Stopping climate catastrophe and winning a world of climate justice is a critical task of our generation -- and it will require a radical transformation of society and of our relationship with nature. This pamphlet examines the climate crisis, Canada's contributio, and the development of colonialism and capitalism that led us here.
- McLaughlin, Darrell: Reflections On The New Brunswick Farmers' Tour Of Bolivia.
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1982
- McLaughlin, Jenna: The Big Secret That Makes the FBI's Anti-Encryption Campaign a Big Lie
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 McLaughlin discusses how hacking techniques and their increasing use are justified in a prevalent way by the American government.
- Mclaughlin, Jenna: CIA Torture Tactics Reemerge in New York Prison
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Over 60 inmates at New York's Clinton Correctional Facility have complained of abuse by prison guards in the wake of the June escape of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt.
- McLaughlin, Jenna: CIA Torture Tactics Reemerge in New York Prison
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Over 60 inmates at New York’s Clinton Correctional Facility have complained of abuse by prison guards in the wake of the June escape of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt.
- McLaughlin, Jenna: U.S. Mass Surveillance Has No Record of Thwarting Large Terror Attacks, Regardless of Snowden Leaks
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Despite the intelligence community's attempts to blame NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for the tragic attacks in Paris on Friday, the NSA's mass surveillance programs do not have a track record of identifying or thwarting actual large-scale terrorist plots.
- McLaughlin, Jenna; Cooper, Talya: New Film Tells the Story of Edward Snowden; Here Are the Surveillance Programs He Helped Expose
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Oliver Stone's latest film, "Snowden," bills itself as a dramatized version of the life of Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who revealed the global extent of U.S. surveillance capabilities.
- McLaughlin, Tom: Bookchin on Technology
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1978 Murray Bookchin's arguments for a liberatory technology.
- McLaughlin, Tom: Libertarian Socialism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1977 There must be a revolt against bureaucracy - the predominant trend of societal organization.
- McLaughlin, Tom: The Red Menace Interviews Prime Minister Trudeau
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1977 An exclusive interview with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, published in The Red Menace and nowhere else.
- McLauglin, Jenna: Is Law Enforcement "Going Dark" Because of Encryption? Hardly, Says New Report
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Unbreakable encryption -- which prevents easy, conventional surveillance of digital communications-- isn’t a big problem for law enforcement, says a report published by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The report, titled "Don’t Panic," finds that we are probably not "headed to a future in which our ability to effectively surveil criminals and bad actors is impossible" because of companies that offer end-to-end encryption, such as Apple.
- McLellan, David: Karl Marx: His Life and Thought
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1973 A biography of Karl Marx.
- McLeod, Alan: The BBC to NATO Pipeline
How the British state broadcaster serves the powerful Resource Type: Article First Published: 2022 The death of Queen Elizabeth II, where the BBC dropped programming to run endless, wall-to-wall coverage, has underlined the fact to many Britons that the network is far from impartial, but the voice of the state.
- McLeod, Donald W.: Lesbian and gay liberation in Canada: a selected annotated chronology, 1964-1975
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1996 This authoritative reference guide covers the first twelve years of the organized homophile/gay liberation movement in Canada, from 1964 (when the Association for Social Knowledge [ASK], Canada's first large-scale homophile organization, was formed in Vancouver) through 1975 (the year of the founding of the National Gay Rights Coalition [NGRC], the first truly national coalition of Canadian lesbian and gay groups).
- Mcleod, Donald W.: Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1976–1981
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 This authoritative reference guide is a continuation of Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: A Selected Annotated Chronology, 1964–1975. It starts where the first volume left off, and highlights some of the seminal events and people involved in the fight for gay rights in Canada to the end of 1981.
- McLeod, Greg: New Age Business
Community Corporations That Work Resource Type: Book First Published: 1986
- Mcllroy, Jim: NSW protesters: 'We will break these laws'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 "This is a law to protect the rich. We will need to break these laws to protect our democratic rights," Aboriginal activist and lead NSW Senate candidate for the Socialist Alliance team in the federal elections Ken Canning, said on March 15, 2016. Canning was addressing protesters who had occupied the road outside State Parliament following a rally, called by Greens MLC David Shoebridge, against the state government's new laws attacking the right to protest.
- McMahon, Barbara: Australia's 'stolen' children get apology but no cash
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 The stolen generations were Aboriginal children - mainly mixed race - who were removed from their families and sent to institutions or adopted into white families during the last century. Some children were snatched from their mother's arms, others were taken under the guise of court orders.
- McManus, Philip and Schlabach, Gerald (ed.): Relentless Persistence
Nonviolent Action in Latin America Resource Type: Book First Published: 1991 There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
- McMillan, John: Smoking Typewriters
The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America Resource Type: Book First Published: 2011 Provides an examination of the underground press in the 1960s; offers new interpretation of the New Left and explores the origins of 'zines and new media.
- McMillan, Stephanie: Capitalism Must Die! A basic introduction to capitalism: what it is, why it sucks, and how to crush it
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2014 Text combined with comics explain in simple terms what capitalism is, how it works, why it's irredeemable, and what we can do to end it.
- McMillan, Stephanie: NGOs Are Cages
How Capitalists Control Mass Movements Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 We really need to understand the methods used by NGOs to undermine radical political organizing efforts and divert us into political dead ends.
- McMillan, Stephanie: Why environmentalists must support workers' struggles
Global Capitalism is the Real Enemy Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 This is to specifically address class struggle as it relates to the ecological crisis. It will not address all the other (many!) reasons that working class struggle must be waged and supported.
- McMillan, Stephanie: Why NGOs and Leftish Nonprofits Suck (4 Reasons)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 NGOs have proliferated like mushrooms all over the world. First deployed in social formations dominated by imperialism, they've now taken over the political scene in capital's base countries as well. They've become the hot new form of capital accumulation, with global reach and billions in revenue. So while ostensibly "non-profit," they serve as a pretty sweet income stream for those at the top, while fattening up large layers of the petite bourgeoisie and draping them like a warm wet blanket over the working class, muffling their demands.
- McMillan, Stephanie; Kelley, Vincent: The Useful Altruists: How NGOs Serve Capitalism and Imperialism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 NGOs are far from revolutionary organizations, but many of us would think that their work still seems more helpful than not. Political differences with them aside, it seems dogmatic to denounce free health care and anti-poverty programs. Short of more radical measures, NGOs seem to serve an important interim function. In fact, though, it can be argued that many NGOs are destructive, both in their current work and in their preclusion of an alternative future beyond the capitalist present. They undermine, divert, and replace autonomous organizing and erase working class struggle and organizing.
- McMillan, Tracie: The American Way of Eating
Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table Resource Type: Book First Published: 2012 Why do working Americans eat the way we do? And what can we do to change it? To find out, McMillan went undercover in three jobs that feed hte U.S., living and eating off her wages in each. Reporting from California fields, a Walmart produce aisle outside of Detroit, and the kitchen of a New York City Applebee’s, McMillan examines the reality of the American food industry.
- McMillian, John: Smoking Typewriters
The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America Resource Type: Book First Published: 2011 Describes the emergence of an underground press in the 1960s. Writers and participants reflected the spirit of cultural and political protest and encouraged the development of the New Left's highly democratic "movement culture".
- McMullan, John L.: News, Truth and Crime
The Westray Disaster and its Aftermath Resource Type: Book First Published: 2005 McMullan examines the media coverage devoted to the ten year (1992-2002) aftermath of the May 9, 1992 explosion where 26 miners died at the Westray mine.
- McMurtry, John: Canada: Decoding Harper's Terror Game.
Beneath the Masks and Diversions Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Stephen Harper is the most deeply reviled Prime Minister in Canada’s history. On the world stage, he is the servant of Big Oil boiling oil out of tar-sands to destroy major river systems and pollute the planet with dirty oil, while his attack dog John Baird leads the warmongering and bullying of nations like Iran and Syria targeted by the US-Israeli axis.
- McMurtry, John: The Canadian Elections: Cover-Up and Steal (Again)
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 The opposition parties in Canada's 2015 federal election are sticking to a careful PR-driven script, refusing to even mention the fact that Stephen Harper's Conservatives broke the law and committed fraud in winning the 2006, 2008, and 2011 elections. The mainstream media and the political parties scrupulously ignore this reality.
- McMurtry, John: CBC left-wing?
Resource Type: Article
- McMurtry, John: Fake News: the Unravelling of US Empire From Within
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A war of opposing certitudes and denunciations is waged day to day between the long-ruling US corporate media and the White House. Both continuously proclaim ringing recriminations of the other's 'fake news'. Over months they both portray each other as malevolent liars.
- McMurtry, John: The FTAA and the WTO: the meta-program for global corporate rule
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 2001 The deepest and most systemic threat to civil and planetary life the world has ever faced is underway. Behind the disasters of regional economies and planetary ecosystems melting down, the threat is driven by an underlying meta-program, in terms of which every decision, every policy, every regulation and implementation is demanded and instituted by servant governments.
- McMurtry, John: Lawless Trump-Canada Connections
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Canada recently seized and sold $30 million worth of Iranian properties in Ottawa and Toronto, a gross hypocrisy explains Yves Engler in light of oversights of more flagrant US and Israel terror victims. But the behaviour of Canada Foreign Affairs in joining the lawless US war of sanctions, embargos and military threats against Iran goes deeper than hypocrisy.
- McMurtry, John: President Trump: Big Liar Going to Washington or Tribune of the People?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 An examination of Donald Trump's challenges to precepts of globalism, interventionist foreign policy, and special interests, how they resonated with public sentiment, and the challenges and potential outcomes of their implementation.
- McMurtry, John: Unequal Freedoms
The Global Market as an Ethical System Resource Type: Book First Published: 1998 McMurtry's central argument in this work is the global market can be an ethical thing if a civil commons is put into place. The civil commons is a economic system in which individuals, not a handful of corporations, take part in a equal opporutinity framework of supply and demand.
- McNabb, Debra: Davis Day: Coal Miners & Community Connection
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An historical look at tragic events in the Cape Breton coal mining community, highlighting mining companyies' greed that led to unrest and disaster.
- McNally, David: Against the Market
Political Economy, Market Socialism and the Marxist Critique Resource Type: Book First Published: 1993
- McNally, David: Another World is Possible
Globalization and Anti-capitalism Resource Type: Book First Published: 2002 Published: 2006 A call-to-arms for progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
- McNally, David: Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis & Resistance
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2011 Global Slump analyzes the global financial meltdown as the first systemic crisis of the neoliberal stage of capitalism. It argues that – far from having ended – the crisis has ushered in a whole period of worldwide economic and political turbulence. In developing an account of the crisis as rooted in fundamental features of capitalism, Global Slump challenges the view that its source lies in financial deregulation.
- McNally, David: Karl Marx: Revolutionary Heretic
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A celebration of Marx as a thinker who constantly adapted his ideas and thinking.
- McNally, David: Monsters of the Market
Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism Resource Type: Book First Published: 2012 Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, this book links tales of monstrosity from England to recent vampire- and zombie-fables from sub-Saharan Africa, and it connects these to Marx’s persistent use of monster-metaphors in his descriptions of capitalism. Reading across these tales of the grotesque, McNally offers a novel account of the cultural economy of the global market-system.
- McNally, David: Of Hegel and Bernie Sanders
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 My concern is not with Bernie Sanders (basically a New Deal liberal) but with the social dynamics of the Sanders phenomenon. What is going on when we see a surge of mass support for someone who identifies himself (however inaccurately) with socialism? What is the social process driving this unexpected shift in political goals and ideas toward the left? What lies behind the re-entry of socialism into the mass vocabulary of political life?
- McNally, David: Understanding Imperialism: Old and New Dominion
Against The Current vol. 117 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2005 It is a commonplace today that we have entered a “new age of imperialism.” The emergence of complex world money markets, increasingly integrated global production systems, aggressively neoliberal policies imposed by the likes of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and the belligerent militarism of the American state — all these are recognized as new modalities of capitalist empire.
- McNamara, Tom: Reflections on a Religion of Hate
Engaging in War Crimes Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Refelctions on US preparations to engage in more acts of war against yet another Middle Eastern country.
- McNamara, Tom: The Return of COINTELPRO?
Time to Target the Real Terrorists Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 The FBI was using its offices and agents across the country as early as August 2011 to engage in a massive surveillance scheme against Occupy Wall Street. The documents show a government agency at its most paranoid.
- McNamara, Tom: The War Crimes of a Sergeant, the War Crimes of a Nation
A Double Standard of Justice Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 It is alleged that on the evening of March 10-11, 2012, US Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales left his base in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, fully armed and loaded, and murdered 16 civilians in a nearby village.
- McNaught, Kenneth: Conscience and History
A Memoir Resource Type: Book First Published: 1999
- McNaught, Kenneth: A Prophet in Politics
A Biography of J.S. Woodsworth Resource Type: Book First Published: 1959 A biography of the Canadian socialist who became the first leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF).
- McNeill, J.R.; Engelke, Peter: The Great Acceleration
An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945 Resource Type: Book First Published: 2016 Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a massive uncontrolled experiment. The Great Acceleration explains its causes and consequences, highlighting the role of energy systems, as well as trends in climate change, urbanization, and environmentalism.
- McQuaig, Linda: Behind Closed Doors
How The Rich Won Control of Canada's Tax System... And Ended Up Richer Resource Type: Book First Published: 1987 A stinging indictment of Canada's tax system and the people who shape it.
- McQuaig, Linda: Holding the Bully's Coat
Canada and the U.S. Empire Resource Type: Book Linda McQuaig poses questions as to why the Canadian elite of media, government, miltary and business sanction the agressive military, anti-environmental agenda espoused by the Bush/Cheney adminsitration while ignoring Canadian public policy. She asserts that these developments are a threat to Canadian values and sovereingty.
- McQuaig, Linda: The Quick and The Dead
Brian Mulroney, Big Business And The Seduction Of Canada Resource Type: Book First Published: 1991 McQuaig argues that since 1984, there has been a systematic transfer of power in Canada from the democratically elected government to the private sector.
- McQuaig, Linda: Shooting the Hippo
Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths Resource Type: Book First Published: 1995 An examination of how economic policies systematically favour the interests of the rich while pretending to be for the common good.
- McQuaig, Linda: The Wealthy Banker's Wife
The Assault on Equality in Canada Resource Type: Book First Published: 1993
- McQuaig, Linda; Brooks, Neil: The Trouble With Billionaires
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2010 The glittering lives of billionaires may seem to be a harmless source of entertainment, but authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks argue that such financial power not only threatens everyone's economic and social well-being but also upsets the very functioning of democracy. Our society tends to regard great wealth as evidence of exceptional talent or accomplishment. Yet spectacular fortunes are often attributable to luck, ruthlessness, cheating, or advantageous positioning that allow some to build on the work and insights of others who have paved the way.
- McQueen, Humphrey: Reading the "unreadable" Marx
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2005 Many who have not read Marx have heard that he is “unreadable,” but in this article Humphery McQueen celebrates the colour and humour of Marx’s writing, the use of metaphor, paradox, pun, irony, classical allusion and all the devices of the writer’s art. True, there are passages! the endless manipulation of prices and quantities of coats and cloth in Capital which often add little to the point already made, the obsessive, almost paranoiac bombast of works like Herr Vogt, but some of his prose ranks with the best of its kind, and should be enjoyed. It seems that Marx used these literary devices to achieve a depth of analysis which the normal “scientific” mode of exposition could never achieve.
- McQueen, Humphrey: Whose side are you on? The mundane decline of labour history
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 The following polemical intervention by Humphrey McQueen is published as a contribution to understanding the nature, and practice, of radical history.
- McReynolds, David: Remembering Dave Dellinger
Against The Current vol. 112 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2004 Dave Dellinger’s death on May 25th of this year, at the age of 88, marked the end of a remarkable life. Most readers know him from the event that, more than any other, made him a public figure — the infamous trial of the Chicago Eight, following the riots that marked the Democratic Party’s 1968 convention.
- McSheffrey, Elizabeth: Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold fired whistleblower. Then it spilled cyanide into five rivers
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Toronto-based mining giant, Barrick Gold, spilled cyanide solution into five Argentina rivers shortly after firing an engineer who raised serious safety concerns about the mining operation responsible for the contamination.
- McSorley, Tim: Montreal spends $110,000 on private lawyers to fight challenge to anti-protest bylaw
There's room for austerity around everything except repression Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 As the city of Montreal tightens its belt-buckle and is cutting budgets, two Montrealers who are challenging the city's regulations around demonstrations are questioning the amount of resources the city is putting in to defend the bylaws.
- McTaggart, Ted: Claude McKay's Lost Novel
Review of Amiable with Big Teeth; Against the Current vol. 192 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Review of Amiable with Big Teeth, a novel by the African-American revolutionary activist and writer Claude McKay.
- McTaggart, Ted: Comintern Congress Revisited
To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Review of John Riddell's To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921.
- McTaggart, Ted: Early U.S. Communism Revisited
The Communist International and US Communism 1919-1929 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Book review of Jacob A. Zumoff's The Communist International and US Communism 1919-1929.
- McTaggart, Ted M.: Revolutionaries in the a Time of Retreat
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Book review of "Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922" edited and translated by John Riddell.
- McTaggart, Ursula: Can We Build Socialist-Anarchist Alliances?
Against The Current vol. 141 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Last summer I delivered a talk on primitivist anarchism at a conference devoted to Marxist literature and culture. The participants were mostly academics engaged with Marxist criticism, and most came out of university English departments. For many in this group of self-described Marxists, my attempt at bemused critical appreciation for this admittedly problematic group of anarchists was not welcome. Anarcho-primitivists, critics insisted, are not activists, and they certainly have no place among committed Marxists. Worse, they are misanthropic, individualistic terrorists — perhaps even genocidal in their overall aims to destroy civilization.
- McTaggart, Ursula: Grad Student Organizing "19th-Century Style"
Against The Current vol. 114 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2005
- McTaggart, Ursula: Macaroni & Cheese and Revolution
The Anarchist Cookbook Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Keith McHenry's and Chaz Bufe's The Anarchist Cookbook.
- McTaggart, Ursula: The Mythology of Corporate Social Responsibility
Against The Current vol. 111 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2004 For Dow Chemical, corporate social responsibility means encouraging its employees to volunteer in their communities as long as that doesn't take up company time. It means, according to the Dow website, that "At Dow, protecting people and the environment is part of everything we do and every decision we make."
- McTaggart, Ursula: Occupy Cincinnati as a Case Study
Against The Current vol. 163 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Occupy Cincinnati was "an event, not a movement." It is argued that viewing Occupy — both in Cincinnati and nationally — as a movement, causes it to be seen as something that is now over, diminishing its significance.
- McTaggart, Ursula: The Oratory of Malcolm X
Against The Current vol. 120 Resource Type: Article Spike Lee closes his 1989 film “Do the Right Thing” with two quotes: In one, Malcolm X proclaims the right to self defense and in the other, Martin Luther King, Jr. insists upon non-violent protest. Each quote has the potential to produce a drastically different reading of the film, which ends in a police murder of an African-American youth and a subsequent street riot. Lee, however, chooses to maintain a tension between the two interpretations of the riot, asking his audience to juggle both or to choose for themselves.
- McTaggart, Ursula: Reimagining the Harper's Ferry Revolt
The Good Lord Bird Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Book review of James McBride's The Good Lord Bird.
- McTaggart, Ursula: Toward A New Socialism
Against The Current vol. 139 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Richard Schmitt and Anatole Anton correctly insist in the introduction to their anthology Toward a New Socialism that we are in need of a new socialism for the 21st century. This claim has little currency in contemporary academic or even activist cultures. “To speak of ‘socialism’ in today’s academy in the U.S.,” says Anton, “is to betray a lack of academic breeding.”
- McTair, Roger: Journey to Justice
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2000 The film examines the history of Canadian discrimination against Black Canadians, and the individuals who refuse to accept inequality by taking racist perpetrators and institutions to court, and the civil rights challenges of it. The film has a runtime of 47 mins.
- McVeigh, Karen: Hospital pays compensation over 'racism' death
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 Harinder Veriah's death helped to expose an ugly truth in Hong Kong: that racism is a serious problem. A report "Hong Kong's big dirty little secret" acknowledged that racism was so ingrained that derogatory terms for ethnic minorities such as gwei lo ("ghost people") for whites and hak gwai or ("black ghost") for blacks were barely noticed.
- McVicar, Jackie: Canada's Deadly Diplomacy and the Plight of Political Prisoners in Honduras
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at the political crisis in Honduras since the Nov. 26 election, which has led to brutal and deadly government crack-downs by military police and other state forces of Honduras. Described as state-led terrorism, it is being tacitly supported by funding from Canadian taxpayers.
- McWilliams, Peter: Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do
The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society Resource Type: Book First Published: 1994
- Meade, Jason: An Examination of the Microcredit Movement
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2001 An examination of the microcredit movement, its history, how it functions, and future trends.
- Meadows, Donella; Meadows, Dennis; Randers, Jurgen: Beyond the Limits
Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future Resource Type: Book First Published: 1992
- Mearsheimer, John: The Situation in Russia and Ukraine
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2022
- Mearsheimer, John J.: Death and Destruction in Gaza
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2023 What Israel is doing in Gaza to the Palestinian civilian population – with the support of the Biden administration – is a crime against humanity that serves no meaningful military purpose.
- Mearsheimer, John J.: The Future of Palestine
Righteous Jews vs. New Afrikaners Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 The Israel lobby is effectively helping Israel commit national suicide. Israel, is turning itself into an apartheid state, which, as Ehud Olmert has pointed out, is not sustainable in the modern era.
- Mearsheimer, John J.: Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault
The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 The taproot of the trouble is NATO enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia's orbit and integrate it into the West. At the same time, the EU's expansion eastward and the West's backing of the pro-democracy movement in Ukraine -- beginning with the Orange Revolution in 2004 -- were critical elements, too.
- Mearsheimer, John J., Walt, Stephen M.: The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2007 Mearsheimer and Walt describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argue that this support cannot be fully explained in either strategic or moral grounds. This exceptional relationship is due largely to the political influence of a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction. Mearsheimer and Walt contend that the lobby has a far-reaching impact on America's posture throughout the Middle East and the policies it has encouraged are in neither America's national interest nor Israel's long-term interest.
- Mecartney: Nonviolent Defence, The Road Not Taken
The Case of India Resource Type: Article First Published: 1990 One of the most unfortunate missed historical opportunities occured when India, after achieving independence through nonviolent action, took the course of military defence. Let us imagine what might have happened if Gandhi and other nonviolent enthusiasts had spent their time in prison planning the specifics of nonviolent defence in detail.
- Media Lens: Death By A Thousand Cuts: Earth Enters The 'Danger Zone'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 2014 was the warmest year on record for the world; possibly the warmest in 5000 years. Even worse, this warming will soon double the pollution levels of our planet. Meanwhile, corporate media couldn't care less.
- Media Lens: Sick Sophistry: BBC News On Afghan Hospital "Mistakenly" Bombed by United States
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 One of the defining features of the corporate media is that Western crimes are ignored or downplayed. The US bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on the night of October 3, 2015, is an archetypal example.
- Media Lens: The Syrian Observatory: Funded By The Foreign Office
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The UK funded a project worth £194,769.60 to provide the 'Syrian Observatory for Human Rights' with communications equipment and cameras.
- Media Lens Editor: Menwith Menace: Britain's Complicity In Saudi Arabia's Terror Campaign Against Yemen
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 The 'mainstream' Western media is, almost by definition, the last place to consult for honest reporting of Western crimes. Consider the appalling case of Yemen which is consumed by war and an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. Since March 2015, a 'coalition' of Sunni Arab states led by Saudi Arabia, and supported by the US, Britain and France, has been dropping bombs on neighbouring Yemen. The scale of the bombing is indicated in a recent article by Felicity Arbuthnot - in one year, 330,000 homes, 648 mosques, 630 schools and institutes, and 250 health facilities were destroyed or damaged.
- Media Lens editor: Some Deaths Really Matter
The Disproportionate Coverage of Israeli And Palestinian Killings Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Israeli deaths matter much more than Palestinian deaths. This has long been a distinguishing feature of Western news media reporting on the Middle East. The recent blanket coverage afforded to the brutal killing of three Israeli teenagers highlights this immutable fact.
- Media Lense: Noam Chomsky And The BBC: A Brief Comparison
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A recent interview with 88-year-old Noam Chomsky once again demonstrates just how insightful he is in providing rational analysis of Western power and the suffering it generates. By contrast, anyone relying on BBC News receives a power-friendly view of the world, systematically distorted in a way that allows the state and private interests to pursue business as usual.
- Meek, Ronald: Studies in the Labor Theory of Value
Resource Type: Book This pioneering survey of the development of the "labour theory of value," advances Marxian economic categories for contemporary conditions.
- Meeker-Lowry, Susan: Economics as if the Earth Really Mattered
A Catalyst Guide to Socially Conscious Investing Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989 Economics as if the Earth Really Mattered offers hundreds of suggestions of how average people can invest their money and/or their time in building a new economy in harmony with life-affirming values. Subjects covered include boycotts and sharehold action, socially responsible investment funds, social change revolving loan funds, small-scale investing, worker ownership, alternative exchange systems, and seeds for the future.
- Meeks, Brian: Remembering Michael Manley
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1997 Manley, who had entered the decade of the Seventies with so much hope for changing Jamaica, departed bitterly at the end of it.
- Meen, Art: Strike Wave and Worker Victories in Cambodia
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 In Cambodia the class struggle has resulted in the enactment of a major anti-union labour law this year. Yet more is reported in the media on the long-gone Khmer Rouge than the frequent strikes that occur in the country. Still, the strikes are happening. And more often than not, they are winning.
- Meeropol, Robert: An Execution in the Family
One Son's Journey Resource Type: Book First Published: 2003 A memoir by the son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 after being convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
- Meger, Peter: Addresbuch Alternativer Projekte
Resource Type: Book Over 500 pages (5" x 7 1/2), written mostly in German. An extensive European resource guide to alternative projects. Contains several indices including an index of the alternative press.
- Meggs, Geoff: Salmon
The Decline of the British Columbia Fishery Resource Type: Book First Published: 1981 Published: 1991
- Mehaffy, Michael W; Salingros, Nikos A: The biological basis of resilient cities
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Biological systems offer design strategies for successfully adapting to an age of climate change and resource depletion. Insights from nature will be essential in creating a green and sustainable future for humankind.
- Mehari, Milen: My Mother, Stopped for Driving While Black
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 When the police pulled their guns on my mother, I reached for my phone and told her to be calm and do as they say. My parents and I had just been swarmed by police cars, sirens blaring, as we drove on I-64 through Virginia. Shock and fear consumed my family as we came to a stop and were ordered out of the vehicle at gun point. A third car even showed up to stop traffic. The officers then arrested my mother without any explanation. I felt helpless.
- Mehring, Franz: Absolutism and Revolution in Germany
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1892 Published: 1910
- Mehring, Franz: Karl Marx: The Story of His Life
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1918 Published: 1936 A biography of Karl Marx
- Mehrpouya, Afshin: Six Ways the Media Has Misreported Syria
How One-Sided Reporting is Facilitating Escalation Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 The Western mainstream media’s coverage of the Syrian conflict has been mostly simplistic and black & white with a Hollywoodian good (opposition) and evil (Syrian government) story.
- Meili,Ryan: What We Don't Know Will Hurt Us: Ignorance In The Information Age
Canada Has Changed Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 The war on knowledge is a war on the health of Canadians. We need a government that will embrace the information age and use evidence to improve our lives. We need a government that has the health of Canadians as its greatest priority. Ten years in, it’s clear that that government is not Stephen Harper’s.
- Meisch, Lynn A.: Crisis and Coup in Ecuador
Against The Current vol. 87 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2000 On January 21, 2000, for the first time since the Spanish conquest of Ecuador in A.D. 1533-34, indigenous people briefly -- very briefly -- ruled the country as part of a triumvirate. Frustrated by over a decade of economic problems, corruption and political stalemates over indigenous rights and land disputes, thousands of indigenous protesters and members of popular movements converged on Quito, the country's capital. On the 21st, hundreds of protesters occupied Congress and proclaimed a People's Parliament.
- Meisel, Duncan; Jackson, Janine: The Goal of These Ads Is to Distract From Their Actual Business Model
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2021 CounterSpin interview with Duncan Meisel on oil industry greenwashing.
- Meisner, Maurice: Li Ta-Chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2008
- Meister, Dick: Too Damn Old!
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Ageism can strike anyone once they reach a certain age -- sometimes as early as 40 -- and it can make the victim feel unwanted, unneeded and oppressed.
- Mejía, Camilo: Road from ar Ramadi
The private rebellion of staff sergeant Camilo Mejía - An Iraq war memoir Resource Type: Book First Published: 2007 After serving in the Army for nearly nine years, Mejía was the first known Iraq veteran to refuse to fight, citing moral concerns about the war and occupation. Now released after serving almost his sentence of nine months for desertion, the celebrated soldier-turned-pacifist tells his own story.
- Mel Rothenberg: Lessons of an Ambiguous Struggle
Against The Current vol. 88 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2000 The conflict around Congress' granting China Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) signals the opening of important new terrain of political struggle. With the background of the two major mass demonstrations against neoliberalism in Seattle and Washington D.C., perhaps the most significant and interesting political development is the leadership role of the AFL-CIO in mobilizing against the most important policy initiative of the waning Clinton administration.
- Melamed, Lanie: Power in Play
Reclaiming Play in the Serious Work of our Lives Resource Type: Article First Published: 1986 Published: 1987 For too long, our culture has 'viewed play as appropriate only for children, and in some rare instances for adults (when they are artists, nursery school teachers, or living out their retirement years). When we dare to question the Protestant Work Ethic and affirm both what feels good, and what works for us, it seems to me that play must be reclaimed from childhood memory and made a reality in everyday adult life.
- Melamed, Lanie: Transforming Apathy and Denial
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1990 Assisting others to face militarism and ecocatastrophe and become motivated and capable of working to reverse these threats is a substantial challenge for educators in all setting.
- Melchett, Peter: A tale of two farming conferences: the future is 'real' and organic
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Lord Krebs, self-appointed spokesman for industrial agriculture, used the Oxford Farming Conference to attack organic systems for causing more climate change - a claim as demonstrably false as it is ludicrous, writes Peter Melchett. But across the city, the upstart 'real farming' conference was showing the way to a cleaner, greener and healthier future.
- Melencio, Sonny: Arroyo on the Brink
Against The Current vol. 122 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2006 Phillipines president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has so far survived two attempts to oust her from office. The first constituted the so-called “opposition salvo” in July 2005. This was followed by the aborted “military uprising” in February.
- Melissa del Bosque: Checkpoint Nation
Border agents are expanding their reach into the country's interior Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Even if you never leave the United States, you can encounter Border Patrol at the thirty-five fixed checkpoints and dozens of temporary checkpoints they operate deep in the interior. The locations of these checkpoints are not made public, but the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, has developed a project to track them.
- Mellen, Matt: The Invention of Nature: adventures of Alexander Humboldt, lost hero of science
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Andrea Wulf's book about the remarkable 19th century explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt is welcome, opportune and a pleasure to read, packed as it is with high adventure and amazing discoveries. We have much to learn from him today in tackling the world's environmental crises; reading this book is an excellent - and enjoyable - way to begin.
- Mello, Greg; Dyne, Bryan; Grey, Barry: Nuclear expert speaks on the dangers of war between the US and Russia
Interview with Greg Mello Resource Type: Article First Published: 2022 Nuclear war is not one or two Hiroshima-sized bombs. The imagination cannot encompass nuclear war. Nuclear war means nuclear winter. It means the collapse of very fragile electronic, financial, governmental, administrative systems that keep everyone alive. We’d be lucky to reboot in the early 19th century. And if enough weapons are detonated, the collapse of the Earth’s ozone layer would mean that every form of life that has eyes could be blinded. The combined effects of a US-Russian nuclear war would mean that pretty much every terrestrial mammal, and many plants, would become extinct.
- Mellor, John: The Company Store: J.B. McLachlan and the Cape Breton Coal Miners 1900-1925
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1984
- Mellor, Richard: The reactionary, class nature of left Academia today
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Mellor challenges the idea that socialism is eurocentric and speaks to how capitalist exploitation and workers' resistance is fundamentally similar all over the world.
- Melnitzer, Julius: Maximum, Minimum, Medium
A Journey Through Canadian Prisons Resource Type: Book First Published: 1995 Serving a nine-year sentence, Melnitzer documented his experience in three different prisons, along with his own introspections.
- Melnyk, George: Together:
A Co-operative Community Newsletter Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989
- Melville, Toby: Bullied BBC? Alternative media returns fire on claims it's waging 'war' on the corporation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Alternative media accused of waging "guerilla warfare" against the BBC by its former political editor Nick Robinson say they are just providing balance to the 'biased' government-funded corporation.
- Melynk, Olenka: No Bankers in Heaven
Remembering the CCF Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989 An oral history of men and women who devoted themselves to building the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.
- Members of Christian communities in Canada: An Open Letter to Latin Americans
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1978
- Menasche, Ann: Campaigning with Issues
Against The Current vol. 151 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 An interview with Ann Menasche. Ann Menasche, who ran for Secretary of State in California on the Green Party ticket, was interviewed by Dianne Feeley for ATC. Menasche is a longtime activist and an attorney concentrating on disability rights.
- Menasche, Ann: Democracy Is the Key
Against The Current vol. 112 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2004 Ann Menasche interviews Peter Camejo: Against the Current: What is the importance of Nader-Camejo campaign in 2004?
- Menasche, Ann: The Democrats' New Scapegoat
Against The Current vol. 114 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2005 In 2000, the Democratic Party establishment and much of the left blamed Ralph Nader for the election of George Bush. The “spoiler” label conveniently ignored the fact that Al Gore ran a weak campaign with no compelling message; that more registered Democrats voted for Bush than for Nader; and that the Democratic Party refused to challenge the removal of African Americans from the voter rolls in Florida.
- Menasche, Ann: Green Party Convention: A Party Divided
Against The Current vol. 112 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2004 In an election year when so many antiwar activists, progressives and even socialists are embracing the “anybody but Bush” (“ABB”) rationale for giving backhanded support to pro-war, pro-corporate John Kerry, the Green Party of the United States emerged from its June convention deeply divided.
- Menasche, Ann: Imagining Socialism in Our Lives
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 A book review of "Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA" edited by Francis Goldin, Debby Smith and Michael Steven Smith.
- Mencken, H. L.: H. L. Mencken Quotes
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- Mendel, Arthur P.: Michael Bakunin: Roots of Apocalypse
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1981
- Mendes, Chico; Gross, Tony: Fight for the Forest
Chico Mendes in His Own Words Resource Type: Book Chico Mendes talks of his life's work in his last major interview. He recalls the rubber tappers' campaign against forest clearances and their struggle to develop sustainable alternatives for the Amazon.
- Mendes, Kaitlynn: How the 'SlutWalk' Has Transformed the Rape Culture Conversation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 It is amidst this wider rape culture, and the ways feminists are fighting back, that SlutWalk not only emerged, but exploded as a global grassroots movement. What is significant about SlutWalk is not the premise; after all, women have been protesting against sexual violence for decades. What is striking about SlutWalk was its ability, despite its feminist roots, to capture the mainstream media's attention.
- Mendes-Franco, Janine: The 'Civic Death' of Dominicans of Haitian Descent
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Imagine being born in a country and then being told you have no rights as a citizen; that you're not wanted there. That is exactly what has been happening to Dominicans of Haitian descent.
- Mendoza, Kerry-Anne: Israel put up a £1,000,000 bounty for Labour insiders to undermine Corbyn
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A second release from an Al Jazeera undercover sting operation has revealed the existence of a £1,000,000 plot designed by the Israeli government to undermine Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
- Menetrez, Frank J.: The Case Against Alan Dershowitz
Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 Documents numerous instances of plagiarism and misrepresention by Alan Dershowitz in his smear campaigns against critics of Israel.
- Menon, Meema: What's left of Pakistan's left?
For those in Pakistan who want to explore a non neo-liberal, non-right wing option, the Left is there in some form. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Menon recounts her discovery of the emerging political Left in Pakistan and reflects on its future. Awami Workers Party featured.
- Mensing, Alex: At the Escuelita Zapatista, Students Learn Community Organizing and Civil Resistance as a Way of Life
The Class Was Stopped Twice: The First Time to Emphasize the Importance of Discipline in Their Organization Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 From August 11-17, the Zapatistas brought more than 1,500 people into their communities to attend the Escuelita Zapatista, the Little Zapatista School. According to a February comunicado by the EZLN, in a class entitled Liberty According to the Zapatistas: Autonomous Government I, "our compas from the Zapatista bases of support are going to share the little we have learned about the struggle for freedom, and the [the students] can see what is useful or not for their own struggles."
- Mensing, Alex: Johanna Lawrenson: Organizing on the Run
Lawrenson and Partner Abbie Hoffman Ran the Guantlet of US Law Enforcement to Organize for Justice Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 In 1978, Johanna Lawrenson launched a social movement with a fugitive. Her partner was Abbie Hoffman, an experienced organizer who at the time was wanted by the FBI.
- Mensing, Alex: Taking Back What's Ours
The Struggle of the Townspeople of Venustiano Carranza, Chiapas Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 The morning sun was just above the horizon when San Cristóbal’s cobblestone streets and colonial houses gave way to crumbling pavement and deep green cornfields. Our combi, a small minibus bursting with passengers, wound its way downwards out of the highlands of Chiapas, down into the warmer climate of the lowland valleys.
- Mepschen, Paul: Against the Politics of Tolerance: Islam, Sexuality and Belonging in the Netherlands
Against The Current vol. 141 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 What could be wrong with tolerance? Would I perhaps prefer intolerance? Of course not -- but if we take a harder look at the concept and the way it was employed, we are able to see that “tolerance” has a paradoxical meaning in present day society. It is accompanied, in fact, by virulent forms of intolerance and exclusion. To illustrate, we may have a look at the debate about Islam in the Netherlands starting in 2001.
- Merchant, Nomaan: ACLU sues US over separation of mother, child seeking asylum
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 American Civil Liberties Union accused the U.S. government of unlawfully separating a Congolese woman and her 7-year-old daughter by holding them in different immigration facilities 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) appart.
- Mercier, Jean: Downstream and Upstream Ecologists
The People, Organizatons, and Ideas Behind the Movement Resource Type: Book First Published: 1997 Mercier discusses the environmental movement and identifies specialized ecologists of different spectrums.
- Mercille, Julien: Cruel Harvest
U.S. Intervention in the Afghan Drug Trade Resource Type: Book First Published: 2012 Mercille argues that the United States is not concerned about waging a real war on drugs, and that alleged concerns about narco-terrorism mostly act as pretexts to justify occupation. The United States in fact shares a large part of the responsibility by supporting drug lords, refusing to adopt effective drug control policies and failing to crack down on drug money laundered through Western banks.
- Mercredi, Ovide; Turpel, Mary Ellen: In The Rapids
Navigating the Future of First Nations Resource Type: Book First Published: 1994 A collection of speeches by Mercredi with contributions by the Dalhousie law professor who assisted him in 1992 constitutional negotiations.
- Merelli, Annalisa: A history of American anti-immigrant bias, starting with Benjamin Franklin’s hatred of the Germans
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In the 1750s, the United States of America was not yet a country, but its trouble with immigrants already had begun. People of non-WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) descent were crossing the ocean to start new lives in the new world, and earlier Colonial settlers were none too happy about it.
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice: Adventures of the Dialectic
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1955 Published: 1973
- Mermelstein, David: The Economic Crisis Reader
Resource Type: Book
- Meronek, Toshio: YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market "Solutions" to the Nation's Housing Crisis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Anti-displacement activists hate them. Tech firms and big developers love them -- and shower them with cash.
- Merrifield, Andy: Dialectical Urbanism
Social Struggles and the Capitalist City Resource Type: Book Life in the city can be both liberating and oppressive.This book explores both sides of the urban experience, developing a perspective from which the contradictory nature of the politics of the city comes more clearly into view.
- Merrifield, Andy: Good To Know You! - John Berger's ways of seeing
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A tribute to the life and work of John Berger, author of the influential 'Ways of Seeing'.
- Merriman, John: Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2014 A narrative account of the Paris Commune.
- Merritt, Leigh Keri: Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2017 Analyzing land policy, labour, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor.
- Mertes, Tom: A Movement of Movements
Is another world really possible? Resource Type: Book First Published: 2004 The Movement of Movements charts the strategic thinking behind the mosaic of movements currently challenging neoliberal globalization.
- Mervis, Jeffrey: Researcher loses job at NSF after government questions her role as 1980s activist
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Valerie Barr was 22 and living in New York City in 1979 when she became politically active. A recent graduate of New York University with a master’s degree in computer science, Barr handed out leaflets, stood behind tables at rallies, and baked cookies to support two left-wing groups, the Women’s Committee Against Genocide and the New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence. Despite her passion for those issues, she had a full-time job as a software developer that took precedence.
- Mesbahi, Mohammed: Commercialisation: The Antithesis Of Sharing
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Sharing is the key to solving the world’s problems’. Such a statement is so simple that it may fail to make an appeal, so we must go much deeper into this subject if we want to comprehend what this means.
- Messer-Kruse, Tim Messer: Right But Wrong: Trump's Defense of Confederate Symbols and Its Threat to Color-Blind Liberalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The ugly scenes of neo-nazis, neo-Confederates, and self-proclaimed white supremacists marching in large numbers and brawling on the streets of Charlottesville shocked American culture. President Trump spoke three times commenting on those troubling events.
- Messersmith-Glavin, Paul: Remembering the Earth Day Wall Street Action
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 In 1989 the Greens held their national gathering in Eugene, Oregon. That was before they had entered national electoral politics, when they still focused on grassroots organizing, and what we now call 'movement from below.'
- Meszaros, Istvan: Beyond Capital
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1996 Addresses the need for a new socialist theory of transition after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its apparent triumph of capitalism. Beyond Capital examines the European-based conceptual framework of socialist theory in an effort to restate Marx's philosophy into a new social metabolic system.
- Meszaros, Istvan: The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time
Socialism in the Twenty-First Century Resource Type: Book Meszaros, one of the foremost Marxist thinkers of our age, focuses on the tyranny of capital's time imperative and the necessity of a new socialist time accountancy, and provides a strong refutation of the popular view that there is no alternative to the current neoliberal order.
- Meszaros, Istvan: Marx's Theory of Alienation
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1970 Meszaros provides a comprehensive treatment of Marx's theory of alienation by surveying Marx's work as a whole. In doing so, he argues against the commonly held distinction between a young philosophically-oriented Marx and a mature economics-oriented Marx.
- Meszaros, Paul: A winning formula
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Intelligent community-based campaigning exposes the BNP for what it is, as well as providing a defence of civil society.
- Metatawabin, Edmund; Shimo, Alexandra: Up Ghost River
A Chief's Journey Through The Turbulent Waters Of Native History Resource Type: Book First Published: 2015 A powerful, raw and eloquent memoir about the abuse former First Nations chief Edmund Metatawabin endured in residential school in the 1960s, the resulting trauma, and the spirit he rediscovered within himself and his community through traditional spirituality and knowledge.
- Metcalf, Andy; Humphries, Martin: The Sexuality of Men
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1985 Essays on aspects of male sexuality.
- Metropolitan Toronto Solid Waste Environmental Assessment Plan Refuse Disposal Division: SWEAP News
Number 1, September 8, 1987 - Periodical profile published 1988 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1988
- Mett, Ida: The Kronstadt Commune
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1938 Published: 1971 A history of the Kronstadt Uprising 1921 which highlights one of the most important yet neglected events of the Russian Revolution. The suppression of the most revolutionary section of the Navy by the Bolsheviks was the final blow to any hope of a genuine revolution based on democratic workers' control. Mett dispels many of the contemporary mistruths put forward by Bolshevik propagandists and includes a number of original sources from the commune.
- Metta, John: The danger of the white American liberal
What a team of 10-year-olds building a robot can teach us about sexism and racism in the US. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The Liberal white American reaction to the sexism and racism exeplified in the Google manifesto and the killing of nine innocent people at Emanuel AME church in Charleston shows how remarkably how easy it is to condemn the evil other when we can use that to avoid facing our responsibility for the society we ourselves have created and work to maintain.
- Metzgar, Jack: Misrepresenting the White Working Class: What the Narrating Class Gets Wrong
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Most of the time the white working class is invisible in the U.S. But during elections there is a flurry of attention to this "demographic" among political reporters and operatives.
- Meulenbelt, Anja, ed.: A Creative Tension: Key Issues of Socialist-Feminism
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1984 Examination of motherhood and feminism, psychoanalysis, the Third World, individual power, and traditional sex roles.
- Mexican American Political Association: Organizations & Leaders' Critique of S.744
A statement by the Mexican American Political Association Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 A statement by the Mexican American Political Association
- Meyer, Christine; Moosang, Faith: Living with the Land
Communities Restoring the Earth Resource Type: Book First Published: 1992 A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
- Meyer, Christine; Moosang, Faith (Editors): Landscaping With the Land
Communities Restoring the Earth Resource Type: Book First Published: 1992 A collection of essays which describe 14 communities using alternative forms of development; to rebuild sustainable communities and environments.
- Meyer, Gerald: Fighting Lynch Laws in America
Against The Current vol. 143 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Rebecca Hill’s ambitious book highlights a major theme of American radical history. It brings together the history of labor defense campaigns with the concurrent movement to prevent the lynching of African Americans. In six individual studies from John Brown to the Black Panther Party, Hill achieves two notable goals: a substantive reinterpretation of these cases and a heightened recognition of their commonalities.
- Meyer, Gerald: Proportional Representation: The Urgency of Real Reform
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1996 The introduction of an electoral system based on proportional representation would allow the left to be represented in government, because it allows for representation without requiring a majority vote.
- Meyer, Neal: Electoral Strategy After Bernie's Campaign
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Supporters of Bernie Sanders wagered that his campaign would be the most important event in the development of socialist politics in decades. There is at least some evidence to suggest that this prediction was correct.
- Meyer, Sebastian: Chatting with Chomsky
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 The linguistics professor, political theorist and activist discusses the Occupy movement, Obama’s first term and the economic crisis in Europe.
- Meyerding, Jane (ed.): We Are All Parts of One Another
A Barbara Deming Reader Resource Type: Book These essays, speeches, letters, stories, and poems span four decades of writing on women and peace, feminism and nonviolence.
- Meynen, Nick: Charting Environmental Conflict - The Atlas of Environmental Justice
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Another tool supporting the growing movement and better global awareness is the Atlas of Environmental Justice. The EJAtlas is packed with qualitative information about almost 1800 environmental conflicts.
- Meynen, Nick: 'They stole the beach' - the major mafia that almost nobody wants to talk about
The building boom in China and worldwide demand for consumer goods containing ilmenite has enriched criminals who specialise in stealing san Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Increasing demand for sand has led to targeting of sandy beaches by organised crime. Community members who speak out or protest the destruction of beaches are often victims of intimidation, harrassment and violence.
- Miah, Malik: African-American Self-Defense
Guns and the Freedom Struggle Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 A Review of "This Noviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Cvil Rights Movement Possible" by Carles E. Cobb. Jr.
- Miah, Malik: African Americans and Immigrant Workers
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Malik discusses job competition and tensions between Afrcian Americans and Hispanic workers, more specifically between African Amercians and undocumented workers. He illustrates this through the example of a conflict in a Chicago bakery.
- Miah, Malik: African Americans Ignored in the Age of Obama
Against The Current vol. 162 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 A truly equal and diverse United States is not possible unless all Americans come to grips with the origins of the race issue, its centrality to U.S. politics, and why African-American issues must be central to revitalizing the civil rights and labour movements — which also requires rebuilding the dream for full equality by direct action.
- Miah, Malik: Architects of Mass Slaughter
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Detailed review of two books about the Indonesian Genocide.
- Miah, Malik: Arizona's Racial Profiling Push
Against The Current vol. 147 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is quick to blame the federal government for the economic and social ills of her state. Responding to a growing movement to boycott Arizona for its new “show me your papers” law as “thoughtless and harmful,” she complained that the outraged response “adds to the massive economic burden Arizonans have sustained for years due to the federal government’s failure to secure its borders.”
- Miah, Malik: The Attack on American Muslims
Against The Current vol. 152 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 Flailing after Muslims is a convenient way for the right — extreme and mainstream — to prove their credentials as “genuine, God-loving Americans.” Islam, they charge, is not a religion of peace, of Western values; it’s an ideology of terror. “You can’t trust Muslims.”
- Miah, Malik: Austerity Is Not Colorblind
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 The myths about austerity convey that it solves deficits and debts, leads to economic growth and brings business confidence, but real statistics shows that, as an ideological tool, it is not colorblind.
- Miah, Malik: Behind the Confederate Flag Controversy: The Unfinished Civil War
Against The Current vol. 85 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2000 Some 50,000 people, ninety percent African Americans, marched in Columbia, South Carolina, on January 17, the federal holiday honoring the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. The march protest was organized by the NAACP demanding that South Carolina's government remove the Confederate flag from its statehouse. Until the state officials do so, the NAACP pledged to continue its economic boycott of the state.
- Miah, Malik: Bigotry vs. Black Lives, Muslims, Immigrants
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Donald Trump and other Republican presidential candidates use hate and fear of these "others." Could this strategy win the 2016 presidency?
- Miah, Malik: Black Nationalism, Black Solidarity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Malik explains examines Black Nationalism and its relationship to a Marxist analysis of nationalism of oppressed peoples.
- Miah, Malik: BLM: A Movement and Its Critics
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Recent studies, once again, show that being Black makes life more difficult than for those with white skin. It is more difficult to get good paying jobs, education and housing (even for those with equal or better qualifications than whites). Blacks pay more for loans than whites, even if they have higher incomes.
- Miah, Malik: BLM Movement Grows Stronger
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 The vanguard leadership of the young women who started the Black Lives Movement with the #Blacklivesmatter on Twitter, after the killings of Trayvon Martin in Florida and Michael Brown in Missouri, continues to advance and has led to similar formations in other countries.
- Miah, Malik: Choices Facing African Americans
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 For African Americans, this campaign against Russia (and North Korea, Iran) is a diversion from more central issues including the right to vote.
- Miah, Malik: Class and the African-American Leadership Crisis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1996 This market economy can't solve the real problems of African Americans. Worse, the scapegoating of society's most vulnerable members (immigrants, people of color, women and gays) is on the rise.
- Miah, Malik: The Constitutional Root of Racism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A look at how the US Constitution enables racism by affording power to the states.
- Miah, Malik: A Convergence of Realities
Against The Current vol. 156 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 What's striking the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) Movement and its popular slogan “We are the 99 percent” is how much the central demand of the movement resonates with the Black community. African Americans with few exceptions are in the bottom 20% of income and wealth. Double digit unemployment is the norm in “good” economic times.
- Miah, Malik: Detroit's Rebellion at Fifty
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 From the days of the Marcus Garvey nationalist movement in the early decades of the century, to Malcolm X, revolutionary autoworkers and the Black Power movement in the 1960s, Detroit was front and center in debates on strategy and tactics to win Black freedom.
- Miah, Malik: The Elephant in the Room
Against The Current vol. 136 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 Much of the world is fascinated by the U.S. presidential election. The main reason is that the country may be ready to do something that most developed countries wouldn’t consider: electing a representative from an oppressed minority as head of government or state. (Try to imagine an Arab citizen of Israel or France as either country’s prime minister or president; or a British prime minister of South Asian descent.)
- Miah, Malik: Evolution not "Reinvention: Manning Marable's Malcolm X
Against The Current vol. 154 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 Manning Marable's final book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, is a serious political biography of one of the most historic figures of the African-American community. Marable’s interpretation of papers provided by Malcolm’s family estate, along with files from the FBI, New York City Police Department and new interviews from those who knew Malcolm and the Nation of Islam (NOI), add to our understandings and debates about Malcolm’s views and evolution.
- Miah, Malik: Ferguson on Center Stage
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Miah examines race relations in Ferguson, Missouri after the recent police murder of Michael Brown as a result of racial profiling and police brutality.
- Miah, Malik: Final Blow to Affirmative Action?
Against The Current vol. 161 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 The current state of affirmative action in the United States.
- Miah, Malik: John Hope Franklin's Message
Against The Current vol. 140 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Three years ago the acclaimed historian, John Hope Franklin, who died in March at the age of 94, discussed his lifelong battle for equality and against racism. Franklin personally knew most of the major African American figures of the 20th Century — W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X -- and lived long enough to see Barack Obama be elected president.
- Miah, Malik: Freedom Now Vision Unfinished
Book Review of LeBlanc and Yates's "A Freedom Budget for All Americans" Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Miah critiques LeBlanc and Yates' analysis of the Civil Rights Revolution, in light of the fact that the Freedom Budget issued during this time remains unfulfilled.
- Miah, Malik: How Race Fuels Rightist Agenda
Against The Current vol. 148 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 Nearly 50 years after the 1963 March on Washington for civil rights, the conservative movement is mobilizing its electoral base by using the wedge issues of race and racism. The principal targets are not new — African Americans and “illegal immigrants” from Mexico.
- Miah, Malik: Immigration and Racial Bias
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 The immigrant debate, once again at the center of U.S. politics, was accelerated by the success of president Obama winning more than 70% of the Latino and Asian vote in the 2012 elections. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s call for all 11 million undocumented immigrants to "self deport" was a significant reason for his defeat. Latinos are the largest ethnic minority in the country -- and growing rapidly -- and more and more of them vote.
- Miah, Malik: Indonesia Update: An Economic Titanic
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1998 "LIVING IN AN Economic Nightmare" is the headline of Time Asia's cover story on Indonesia (August 3). In one year's time Indonesia's per capita income dropped from $1300 per capita to less than $300. In human terms, this has meant unbelievable suffering for an average working person. According to Indonesian government figures, more than 50 million people have fallen below the poverty line since the country's financial crisis began in July 1997.
- Miah, Malik: Indonesia's Unfolding Democratic Revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1998 AS WE GO TO PRESS, the pro-democratic forces continue to push their advantage against the weakened army-backed Habibie government. Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund agreed to soften implementation of its economic austerity package to give Habibie and the military more time to hopefully bring political stability. In addition, the big Western banks, led by Chase Manhattan, have agreed to reschedule repayment of nearly $80 billion in private debt.
- Miah, Malik: Invaluable History and Important Lessons - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 160 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 Book review of 'The Party: The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988. A Political Memoir. Volume 2: Interregnum, Decline and Collapse, 1973-1988' by Barry Sheppard.
- Miah, Malik: It's War on the Poor
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Miah analyzes the increase in numbers within the working poor class and the economic structures that keep them poor.
- Miah, Malik: Learn from Malcolm X
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 It's time to re-learn lessons from Malcolm in the Black community - nationalism and pride, solidarity and militancy, and a worldview that African Americans are part of a global community in struggle against the injustices of capitalism.
- Miah, Malik: Legalize Free Movement of Labor: Viewing A National Debate
Against The Current vol. 123 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2006 The immigration debate is exposing deep social, racial and class divisions within American society. The arguments are sharp, furious and divide many families - immigrant as well as native born.
- Miah, Malik: Making Trump's America Ungovernable
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The goal of opponents, including those of the far left, should be to make the Trump presidency ungovernable. In that struggle revolutionary change is possible.
- Miah, Malik: Martin Luther King's Speech on Vietnam
Against The Current vol. 109 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2004 On January 20, President Bush made a photo-op visit to Atlanta, Georgia, to participate in the celebration of the life of the greatest civil rights figure in American history, Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Miah, Malik: The Minimum Wage Debate
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 In a discussion of the debate over the minimum wage increase in the United States, Miah advocates for a socialist mentality and a focus on individual rights in order to provide an economic solution to the decline of the middle class caused by capitalisim.
- Miah, Malik: MLK in Memphis, 1968
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A look at MLK's actions and speeches in Memphis and their relevance today.
- Miah, Malik: Muhammad Ali: Free Black Man
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Muhammad Ali spoke truth to power. Even after he became ill with Parkinson's disease and eventually lost much of his verbal skills, he stood by his militant spirit and youth. He never apologized for his words or action.
- Miah, Malik: The Murder of Trayvon Martin
Against The Current vol. 158 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 Popular anger, mass protests and leadership from Trayvon Martin’s parents, the African-American community and its organizations have exposed the racial divisions that run throughout U.S. society.
- Miah, Malik: The Murder of Walter Scott
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 A video capturing the murder of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man killed by a white police officer, has gone virtal.
- Miah, Malik: The NAACP at 100
Against The Current vol. 140 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) marks its 100th anniversary this year. It plans a full celebration at its centennial national convention July 11-16 in New York City.
- Miah, Malik: The NAACP's Future
Against The Current vol. 118 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2005 The NAACP is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the country. Founded in 1909, it played a leading role in opposing lynching laws and legal segregation until the demise of Jim Crow three decades ago .
- Miah, Malik: Nationalism, Patriotism, Hate Crimes
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A look at the (mis)use of the word "nationalism" to describe Trump and white supremacists.
- Miah, Malik: A New COINTELPRO?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Malik discusses the revelations that the FBI is targeting Black Lives Matters and what Justice Department head Jeff Sessions calls “Black identity” extremists as well as the response to open racism and how to move forward.
- Miah, Malik: The New Poor People's Campaign
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Though there has been progress in electoral politics since the days of MLK this success leaves many people behind. The New Poor People's Campaign seeks to create a grassroots movement to counter that.
- Miah, Malik: New Strategy and Tactics for Labor in the Airlines: Beyond Bankruptcy
Against The Current vol. 121 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2006 The airlines have been leading the way in the transformation of labor-management relations. The goal of the owners is the radical restructuring of labor costs and working conditions, to provide the maximum payout to executives and value to major shareholders.
- Miah, Malik: The Northwest Strike: Acid Test for Labor
Against The Current vol. 119 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2005 The following speech was given by Malik Miah, a United Airlines Airline representative and editor of Way Points of Local 9 of the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA), at a San Francisco Airport rally on Labor Day, September 5, organized for striking mechanics, custodians and cleaners at Northwest Airlines.
- Miah, Malik: Obama, African Americans and War on the Working Poor
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Malcom X's speech given nearly 50 years ago still remains valid today even in the age of the first African-American president and a sizable Congressional Black Caucus. While much has changed legally and socially -- upper-class African Americans can work and live almost anywhere if qualified -- much hasn’t changed for the working poor who are Black.
- Miah, Malik: Obama and "I Have a Dream" in 2008
Against The Current vol. 132 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 As we enter the 2008 presidential election, it is noteworthy that Illinois Senator Barack Obama is still a serious contender for the Democratic Party nomination. I say “noteworthy” because his campaign has been marked throughout with ambivalence among many African Americans.
- Miah, Malik: The Obama Reality Disconnect
Against The Current vol. 155 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 There is a sharp reality disconnect in the Black community. On the one hand, the Black population continues to support the first African-American president, Barack Obama, by more than 90%.
- Miah, Malik: Obama's Legacy and the Rise of Trump
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 So much has been written about why Donald Trump won the presidency and the anger of the white working class. White supremacists are overjoyed by his victory. Much less is written or discussed about the failures of liberalism and the Obama presidency for Blacks and other minorities who voted for Hillary Clinton as a lesser evil.
- Miah, Malik: Outsourcing & the Unions
Against The Current vol. 110 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2004 Why are outsourcing and offshoring hot button issues? The Bush administration defends it; the Democratic challenger John Kerry attacks it.
- Miah, Malik: The Pension Crisis
Against The Current vol. 112 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2004 First, wages. Then health care. Now pension benefits.
- Miah, Malik: Pension Terminations
Against The Current vol. 117 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2005 Pensions have been an example of a major social wage that most Americans took for granted, both in private and public sector employment. That’s no longer the case. Ask the workers at United Air Lines.
- Miah, Malik: Plight of Young Black Men: The Scars and the Crisis
Against The Current vol. 122 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2006 Recent studies have reaffirmed a long known reality: young poorly educated Black men are disproportionately disconnected from mainstream society. The numbers are significantly worse than for Latinos, Asians and whites.
- Miah, Malik: Police Violence in the Spotlight
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Our investigation concluded that there is reasonable cause to believe that CDP [Cleveland Division of Police] engages in a pattern or practice of using unreasonable force in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
- Miah, Malik: Prospects for African Americans
Against The Current vol. 150 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 Much of the debate in Washington and Wall Street is about the ongoing world economic crisis and what to do about it. The ruling elites’ solution: cut taxes for the rich, who will “trickle down” their investments to hire more people who will then jumpstart the economy. The fact that this hasn’t worked for the past 10 years is irrelevant.
- Miah, Malik: Pushing Back Civil Rights
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 An examination of the roll back of civil rights in the context of police violence against African Americans.
- Miah, Malik: Race & Class: Obama & the Politics of Protest
Against The Current vol. 146 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 Consider the following contradiction of modern African-American politics: We have the first African-American president (he checked “Black” on the new census form) offering hope to millions of working-class Blacks. Yet we see a drawdown of protest politics by longtime civil rights leaders, even though the “Great Recession” is causing the greatest harm Black communities have seen in decades.
- Miah, Malik: Race & Class: Obama Forgets Black Community
Against The Current vol. 145 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 What I found most striking about President Barack Obama’s first “State of the Union” address before Congress on January 27 was what he didn’t say. In his 70-minute speech on the economy as the first president of the United States of African heritage, I expected that Obama would highlight the special impact of the recession on Blacks.
- Miah, Malik: Race and Politics
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1999 THE MID-TERM NOVEMBER elections brought two surprises according to the pundits: the demise of Newt Gingrich and the likely survival of the Clinton presidency. A major reason for this striking turn of events had much to do with the Black voter turnout. It is a sidebar that was briefly commented on before and right after the elections but since has been buried by the impeachment hearings.
- Miah, Malik: Race and Politics: A Color-Blind America?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1998 THROUGHOUT U.S. HISTORY “race” has been a major factor in all politics—beginning with the English occupation and the Westward drive of settlers to conquer and slaughter the native peoples. The justification: advancement of civilization. Racism is as American as apple pie, yet race itself is a political (economic) concept having little to do with biology or science.
- Miah, Malik: Race and Politics: Blacks in Corporate America
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1999 A Concern of old-line civil rights leaders is how to remain relevant to the vast majority of African Americans. Since the victories won by the civil rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this has been an issue facing the NAACP, Operation PUSH, the SCLC, Urban League and every other group formed in that period and since.
- Miah, Malik: Race and Politics: Profiling and DWB
Against The Current vol. 81 Resource Type: Article First Published: 1999 It's happened to most Blacks at least once in our lifetime. Driving towards home or heading from work on the freeway a cop decides to pull you over for no reason. You wait in your car (you never get out first), hoping it's nothing. As you wait, the tension increases throughout your body. You keep your hands visible and crack no smile. Is it just a ticket? Or worse? (You wonder why African Americans have high blood pressure.)
- Miah, Malik: Race and Politics: Indonesia's Ethnic Conflicts
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1999 IF YOU READ only the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, or watched CNN, your view of the fourth most populous country in the world, Indonesia with its 210 million people, would be of Muslims (ninety percent of the population) and Christians killing each other, as well as pogroms against ethnic Chinese, Dayaks attacking migrants and the people of the "Spice Islands" engaging in communal violence.
- Miah, Malik: Race and Class: African Americans in a Sick System
Against The Current vol. 142 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 The critical lack of quality and affordable health care is devastating for African Americans. Twice as likely as whites to go without insurance, African Americans suffer chronic illnesses such as high blood pressure and diabetes at an escalating rate.
- Miah, Malik: Race and Class: Blacks Still Taking the Hit
Against The Current vol. 144 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 It took ten months before the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) stood up and challenged President Barack Obama. In a surprise move, 10 CBC leaders refused to participate in a key House financial committee vote in December until some more relief is provided to Black businesses.
- Miah, Malik: Race and Class: Brown v. Board of Education 50 Years Later
Against The Current vol. 111 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2004 I found the headline of the May 17 Business Week article on the 50th anniversary of the famous Brown v. Board of Education landmark Supreme Court ruling, that "separate but equal" schools were unconstitutional, most revealing. "A Bittersweet Birthday," it said, declaring "Decades of progress on integration have been followed by disturbing slippage."
- Miah, Malik: Race and Class: Busing and Integration, 1975-99
Against The Current vol. 82 Resource Type: Article First Published: 1999 In the mid-1970s Boston was a major battle ground for equal education in the public schools. Boston's inner-city schools—as in most urban areas—were less-equipped and in worse condition than those in white neighborhoods.
- Miah, Malik: Race and Class: Downturn Undermines Black "Middle Class"
Against The Current vol. 139 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Although the historic election of president Barack Obama has led to big cheers in the Black community and society in general, the reality for the vast majority of African Americans is growing uncertainty if not joblessness and poverty. Cities like Detroit, and the Rust Belt in the Midwest, are reeling under the blows of the recession and structural changes, including overseas outsourcing and shifting work to nonunion companies in “right to work” states.
- Miah, Malik: Race and Class: Paris to New Orleans
Against The Current vol. 120 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2006 It turns out that the city of lights and city of jazz have a lot in common. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and militant explosions in the suburbs of Paris expose the underbelly of racism and class divisions.
- Miah, Malik: Race and Class: The Agenda of Pure Racism
Against The Current vol. 141 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 There is a sinister aspect of the attacks by the far right against President Barack Obama that does not sit well with me, and with a vast majority of African Americans and other ethnic minorities, no matter our political or ideological point of view.
- Miah, Malik: Race and Class: The Wealth Gap
Against The Current vol. 88 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2000 Politicians and government officials point to the historic low unemployment level in the Black community as signs of a strong economy and a future where whites and African Americans will finally have an opportunity for an equal share of the American dream. While it is true that long-term unemployment for the African-American population is in the single digits for the first time, the wealth gap between white and Black families continues to widen. According to government statistics Black households' wealth average one-twelfth that of white households.
- Miah, Malik: Race and Class: What About the Working Poor?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 One striking feature of political debate in the country today is that — while every commentator, pundit and political observer talks about and focuses on the concerns of the super-rich and the middle class — few ever talk about the plight of the disadvantaged, those on food stamps and welfare and particularly the working poor.
- Miah, Malik: Race and Class: What About the Working Poor?
Against The Current vol. 149 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 One striking feature of political debate in the country today is that — while every commentator, pundit and political observer talks about and focuses on the concerns of the super-rich and the middle class — few ever talk about the plight of the disadvantaged, those on food stamps and welfare and particularly the working poor.
- Miah, Malik: Race and Class: What Counts in the Census?
Against The Current vol. 86 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2000 I recently received two surveys in the mail. The first came from the U.S. Census Bureau, asking me a number of personal questions-some relevant, others intrusive. For the first time, however, the census offered me more options than the "normal" white, Black, Hispanic and other categories for race. I could now identify myself by checking as many ethnic groups as I liked. Progress? Maybe.
- Miah, Malik: Race and Class: What the Jena 6 Case Shows
Against The Current vol. 131 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2007 Some 50,000 people converged on the small Louisiana town of Jena on September 20. The protest shook up not only the two-stoplight town but sent a loud siren across the country. The 85% white population had never seen anything like this — a Black-led protest against modern-day racism.
- Miah, Malik: Racial Capitalism and the "Digital Divide"
Against The Current vol. 84 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2000 The dialogue on race and nationality in the United States has always been conducted from the standpoint of the dominant racial group—whites. Not surprisingly, President Clinton's commission on race produced very little to overcome racism, something that would require facing up to the reality of centuries of white supremacy.
- Miah, Malik: Racism Refusing to Go Away
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Miah analyzes the position of race and racism within American culture, history, and politics and how it has been continuously central in society from the beginning of Europe's colonial agenda to the present day, though it has taken on different manifestations.
- Miah, Malik: Racist Undercurrents in the "War on Terror"
Against The Current vol. 125 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2006 Although it is rarely mentioned in the so-called war on terrorism, racism is an undercurrent in every action and decision taken by the Bush-Cheney government. It is a dangerous element that has long-term implications.
- Miah, Malik: Rebellions and Black Wealth
Against The Current vol. 116 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2005 What is a working-class family’s most valuable asset? What does every family seek to own?
- Miah, Malik: Rejoinder: The Dynamics of Revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1998 ONE COMMON ERROR socialists tend to make when discussing unfolding revolutions in other countries is to offer programmatic analysis that has little to do with the real situation on the ground. Comrade Steve Bloom makes that mistake in regards to “the relationship between the democratic and the socialist revolutions”in Indonesia.
- Miah, Malik: Response to George Fish
Against The Current vol. 133 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 George Fish raises an important point about the “taking personal responsibility” debate taking place within the Black community, especially at the academic and leadership level. But his criticism of my argument that it is a “secondary factor” to prevalent institutional racism is way off.
- Miah, Malik: Reverend Wright and Black Liberation Theology
Against The Current vol. 134 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 The groundswell of broad support for Barack Obama (both among Blacks and whites) is a phenomenon that deserves a serious analysis and understanding. It cannot be down played by passing it through the lens of pure-and-simple lesser-evilism.
- Miah, Malik: Right-Wing Assault, Liberal Retreat
Against The Current vol. 143 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 The heat is on the Obama administration. The energized conservative base has taken over town hall meetings on health care. There are “birthers,” “deathers” and just pure haters. President Obama has been personally attacked as a racist, socialist, communist, Stalinist, fascist, Nazi, Pol Potist, foreigner and every other name the right finds in its vocabulary.
- Miah, Malik: Rolling Back Reconstruction
Against The Current vol. 159 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 The 'Reconstruction Amendments” — the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution — are targeted in many of the Tea Party and far-right Republican campaigns against the rights of immigrants and women, marriage equality and LGBT rights, and voting rights for African Americans and other minority ethnic groups.
- Miah, Malik: Thieving Sons of Bushes
Against The Current vol. 91 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2001 “Never Trust a Son of Bush” was one of many signs at George W. Bush's presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. on January 20. Some 25,000 marched in Washington and 15,000 rallied in San Francisco. The D.C. protest was the largest one at a presidential inauguration since 1973 -- at President Nixon's second term.
- Miah, Malik: Two Americas -- Where Racism Lives
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 The George Zimmerman case and racism.
- Miah, Malik: Two Powerful Films on Indonesian Mass Terror
Film Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Short review of two films about Indonesian genocide.
- Miah, Malik: Voter ID Laws, Voter Fraud
Against The Current vol. 133 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 The close primary election inside the Democratic Party between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton shows that every vote counts. The fiasco in the 2000 presidential election because of “hanging chads” also proves that every vote “not counted” does matter. And voter suppression under any circumstances — not just when elections are close — is a crime, a violation of basic rights and an attack on democracy.
- Miah, Malik: What Obama's Victory Means About Race and Class
Against The Current vol. 138 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 There was euphoria in every Black community household November 4. High fives and tears of joy. No one could believe it. It didn’t matter Obama’s politics. A Black man had won! The election of the first Black president of the United States has a dual meaning: social and political.
- Miah, Malik: Where Is Indonesia Going?
Against The Current vol. 87 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2000 For both admirers and critics of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, the picture is disturbing: At the presidential palace in Jakarta there are signs of a new “royal court” in the making. Officials converse in Javanese, not the national language Bahasa Indonesia; Wahid himself borrows from mysticism and ancient tracts to plot political strategy; and family and friends are acting as gatekeepers and facilitators, in some cases for businessmen hoping to curry favor. Some analysts describe it as a form of “benign Suhartoism,” a throwback to the disastrous last decade of President's 32-year rule.
- Miah, Malik: A Whiff of Jim Crow
Against The Current vol. 153 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 The Republican party and its rightwing base are on a concerted drive to suppress the vote in coming elections. The targets are African Americans, other ethnic minorities, the elderly and young.
- Miah, Malik: White Supremacy/ Identity Politics
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Can cop violence and anti-Black racism be permanently defeated so long as white supremacist ideology permeates the ruling class and society?
- Miah, Malik: The White World and Black Reality
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 White people on the left must deal with racism to create true solidarity and resist Trump's politics.
- Miah, Malik: Who Speaks for the 99%
Against The Current vol. 157 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 The bitter truth about U.S. politics is that neither ruling-class party speaks for the working class or poor.
- Miah, Malik: Whose Lives Matter in America?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 A discussion of Black Lives Matter and the murders of African Americans.
- Miah, Malik: Why a Killer Cop is Not Arrested
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Miah analyzes the grand jury system and police conduct in the United States to explain why the large number of African Americans killed by police are considered justifiable homicides in court.
- Miah, Malik: Why Black Lives Matter Is Game Change
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 The Cleveland Black Lives Matter Convening was a "game changer" because it made clear the Movement is long term. Whether its next step will add a call for a break with the two-party system, time and struggle will tell.
- Miah, Malik: Why Blacks Vote for "Pragmatism"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 African Americans are probably the most pragmatic voting bloc in the country. African Americans more than any other ethnic group understand white supremacy, racism and class exploitation.
- Miah, Malik: Why Race Matters in the 2012 Elections
Against The Current vol. 160 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 We sometimes hear that the drive by the Republican Party and the far right to "suppress the vote" -- attempting to ensure the election of a Republican president and win control of the Congress -- is just hardball politics, not about race or racism. Yet the primary target is people of color.
- Miah, Malik; Citkowski, Emily: East Timor and Indonesia's Political Explosion
Against The Current vol. 83 Resource Type: Article First Published: 1999 As we go to press at the end of October, the 700-member Peoples Consultative Assembly (MPR, the national parliament) meeting in Jakarta reached some historic decisions.
In a seventy-two-hour period (October 19-21), the assembly rejected an "accountability" speech by President Habibie (who immediately withdrew his name for president); formally endorsed the August 30 referendum in East Timor, thus relinquishing its national claim to the territory; elected Muslim leader and supporter of reform Abdurrahman Wahid (popularly known as "Gus Dur") as the country's new president; and elected popular leader of the poor and students Megawati Sukarnoputri as the new vice-president.
- Miah, Malik; O'Rourke, Terry: A Union Defeated at United Air Lines
Against The Current vol. 134 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 The April 1 certification of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) was no April Fool’s joke for the 8600 eligible mechanic and related United Airlines (UAL) employees who voted in the March 31 representational election. The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA), which served the members for nearly five years under very difficult circumstances in the aviation industry, lost the vote by 4,113 to 2,631.
- Michael Principe: When White Supremacists March
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The rally, featuring white nationalist groups such as the Nationalist Front and the League of the South as well as white supremacist "superstars" like Richard Spencer and David Duke projected violence from its first moments.
- Michael, Wambi: To Silence a Poet, and a Nation: What Stella Nyanzi's Conviction Means for Uganda
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Dr. Stella Nyanzi has been convicted under internet obscenity laws for criticizing Uganda's president. The style of her writing may be as much an issue as the criticism itself.
- Michael, Wambi: Uganda: Carbon Trading Scheme Pushing People off Their Land
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Carbon trading schemes are causing the displacement of indigenous persons as western companies rush to invest in tree-planting projects in developing countries.
- Michaels, David (ed.): Doubt is their Product
How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health Resource Type: Book First Published: 2008 Reveals how the tobacco industry's duplicitious tactics spawned a multimillion-dollar industry that is dismantling public health safeguards. Offers concrete, workable suggestions for how it can be restored by taking the politics out of science and ensuring that concern for public safety, rather than private profits, guides our regulatory policy.
- Michaels, Sheila: Forty Years of Defying the Odds
Against The Current vol. 133 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 My work area is a shambles. Projects I’ve been meaning to get to for forty years tumble from wherever I’ve shoved them.
- Michaels, Walter Benn: The Myth of 'Cultural Appropriation'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Arguing that certain people don’t have the right to tell certain stories is a distraction from the real menace: inequality.
- Michaels, Walter Benn: The Trouble with Diversity
How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality Resource Type: Book First Published: 2006 Published: 2007 Argues that a focus on cultural diversity at the expense of economic equality has stunted resistance to neoliberalism.
- Michaels, Walter Benn; Reed,Adolph Jr.: No Politics But Class Politics
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2023
- Michaels, Walter Benn; Reed,Adolph Jr.: The Trouble with Disparity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Racism is real and antiracism is both admirable and necessary, but extant racism isn’t what principally produces our inequality and antiracism won’t eliminate it. And because racism is not the principal source of inequality today, antiracism functions more as a misdirection that justifies inequality than a strategy for eliminating it.
- Michel, Frann: "Born into Brothels" Controversy
Against The Current vol. 117 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2005 "Born into Brothels" won this year’s Academy Award for best documentary. Directed by British photojournalist Zana Briski and U.S. film editor Ross Kauffman, the film follows Briski’s project of teaching photography to a group of children who live in Sonagachi — Calcutta, India’s red-light district — as well as Briski’s efforts to get these children of sex workers admitted into boarding schools.
- Mickenberg, Julia L.: When Marxism is Kids' Stuff
Little Red Readings: Historical Materialist Approaches to Children's Literature Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Book review of Angela Huber's Little Red Readings: Historical Materialist Approaches to Children's Literature.
- Mickey Z.: The Seminole-African Alliance
World News Trust Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 The Native American Indian people that comprised the Seminole Nation grew out of the Creek Nation in Florida. Multilingual and diverse, the Seminoles (from a word meaning “runaway”) became infamous for intermingling with runaway slaves from Georgia and the Carolinas… slaves that built prosperous, free, self-governing communities since 1738.
- Middle East Eye: Iranian police arrest 29 women over protests against compulsory hijab
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Iranian police have arrested 29 women in the capital, Tehran, after they protested against a law that makes wearing the hijab compulsory.
- Mies, Maria: The Lacemakers of Narsapur
Indian Housewives Produce for the World Market Resource Type: Book First Published: 1982 This book offers a sensitive portrait of women in India and the conditions under which they work at home to produce luxury goods for the Western market. Maria Mies shows how this "cottage" industry is a permanent and ever more prevalent part of the process of primitive capital accumulation. By defining women as 'non-working housewives' a system has been created which makes possible rates of pay far below the levels necessary for the reproduction of the labour force.
- Mies, Maria: Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale
Women in the International Division of Labour Resource Type: Book First Published: 1986 Maria Mies argues that feminist analysis must not be misled by the ideological and structural divisions between 'Western' and 'Third World' women created by the global system of capitalist patriarchy. Instead, she posits the contradictory relationships created historically between women as "housewives" in the West and as the cheapest and most exploited workers in the Third World.
- Mies, Maria: Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale (Second Edition)
Women in the International Division of Labour Resource Type: Book First Published: 1986 Published: 1999 This now classic book traces the social origins of the sexual division of labor. It gives a history of the related processes of colonization and "housewifization" and extends this analysis to the contemporary new international division of labour and the role that women have to play as the cheapest producers and consumers. This new edition includes a substantial new introduction in which Mies both applies her theory to the new globalized world and answers her critics.
- Mies, Maria (ed.): Women: The Last Colony
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1988 In this exploration of women and work, Maria Mies and her co-authors have specialized in researching the condition of women in Third World countries. They use their general investigations and particular case studies in order to advance feminist theory's understanding of women under capitalism . This book throws valuable light on how Marxist political economy often still bypasses women, and so limits understanding of historical processes.
- Mies, Maria; Shiva, Vandana: Ecofeminism
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1993 The authors argue that ecological destruction and industrial catastrophes constitute a direct threat to everyday life, the maintenance of which has been made the particular responsibility of women. In both industrialized societies and developing countries, the new wars the world is experiencing, violent ethnic chauvinisms and the malfunctioning of the economy also pose urgent questions for ecofeminists. Is there a relationship between patriarchal oppression and the destruction of nature in the name of profit and progress? How can women counter the violence inherent in these processes? Should they look to a link between the women's movement and other social movements?
- Mietkiewicz, Henry; Mackowycz, Bob: Dream Tower
The Life and Legacy of Rochdale College Resource Type: Book First Published: 1988
- Mihevc, John: The Market Tells Them So
The World Bank and Economic Fundamentalism Resource Type: Book First Published: 1995 Mihevic asserts that World Bank policy can be viewed as a powerful fundamentalist quasi-religion whose effect is to perpetuate and even worsen inequities between developed and developing countries.
- Mikellides, Byron (ed.): Architecture for People
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1980 A book of possible solutions for the problems of modern architecture.
- Miko, Peled: Facebook Shut Me Down
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Peled describes how Facebook shut him down after he exposed an Israeli plant.
- Mikulka, Justin: Stanford Study Says Renewable Power Eliminates Argument for Using Carbon Capture with Fossil Fuels
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A study in the peer-reviewed journal Energy and Environmental Science, concludes that carbon capture technologies are inefficient at pulling out carbon, from a climate perspective, and often increase local air pollution from the power required to run them, which exacerbates public health issues. Replacing a coal plant with wind turbines, on the other hand, always decreases local air pollution and doesn't come with the associated cost of running a carbon capture system, says Jacobson.
- Miles, Angela; Finn, Geraldine: Feminism in Canada
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1982 An attempt to lay down theoretical and methodological principles of feminist scholarship.
- Miles, John: Design for Desktop Publishing
A Guide to Layout and Typography on the Personal Computer Resource Type: Book First Published: 1987
- Miles, Laura: Can we combine intersectionality with Marxism?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Neoliberal austerity is impacting particularly hard on women. Capitalism relies on women not just directly as workers who generate surplus value but also to provide the primary carers for the next generation of workers and increasingly for the sick and elderly as social service cuts bite. Reproductive rights face serial attacks and domestic violence and other forms of endemic sexism in capitalist society mean that the fight for women's liberation and, in the shorter term, the fight to defend those rights women have won so far from being rolled back remain key issues for socialists.
- Miles, Laura: Transgender oppression and resistance
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Miles discusses how socialists approach the question of fighting oppressions like transphobia is not an abstract matter. It goes to the heart of how we work with oppressed groups and individuals such as trans people and how we persuade them to become part of building a mass united working class movement to overthrow capitalism and create a socialist society.
- Milevska, Tanja: The anguish of migrants in Macedonia
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Milevska talks about the difficulties that migrants and refugees have to endure as cross Macedonia in their way to Western Europe.
- Milgaard, Joyce and Edwards, Peter: A Mother's Story
The Fight To Free My Son David Resource Type: Book First Published: 1999
- Miliband, Ralph: Marxism and Politics
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1977 Miliband sets out to present an overview of the main themes and problems of the Marxist approach to politics.
- Miliband, Ralph: Miliband, Ralph - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article Writings of Ralph Miliband (1924-1994).
- Miliband, Ralph: Parliamentary Socialism
A Study in the Politics of Labour Resource Type: Book First Published: 1961 The leadership of the British Labour Party has always been determined that the Labour Party should not stray from the narrow path of parliamentary politics. Miliband sets out the analyse the consequences which this approach to politics has had for the Labour Party and the Labour movement from the time the Labour Party came into existence.
- Miliband, Ralph: September 11, 1973: The Coup in Chile
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1973 How the reasonable men of capitalism orchestrated horror in Chile.
- Miliband, Ralph: The State in Capitalist Society
The Analysis of the Western System of Power Resource Type: Book First Published: 1969 Miliband argues that the pluralist-democratic view of society, of politics and of the state in regards to the countries of advanced capitalism, is in all essential wrong.
- Miliband, Ralph; Panitch, Leo (eds.): The Socialist Register 1990
Volume 26: The Retreat of the Intellectuals Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1990 Essays on the retreat away from socialism and Marxism by Left or formerly Left intellectuals.
- Miliband, Ralph; Panitch, Leo (eds.): Socialist Register 1991
Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1991
- Miliband, Ralph; Panitch, Leo (eds.): Socialist Register 1992
Volume 28: New World Order? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1992
- Miliband, Ralph; Panitch, Leo (eds.): Socialist Register 1993
Volume 29: Real Problems False Solutions Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1993
- Miliband, Ralph; Panitch, Leo (eds.): Socialist Register 1994
Volume 30: Between Globalism and Nationalism Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1994
- Miliband, Ralph; Panitch, Leo; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1987
Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality Resource Type: Book First Published: 1987
- Miliband, Ralph; Panitch, Leo; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1988
Volume 24: Problems of Socialist Renewal: East & West Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1988 An examination of the prospects for socialism written shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union.
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (ed.s): The Socialist Register 1964
Volume 1: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1964
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) An annual survey of movements and ideas first published in 1964. It is committed to developing an independent relation to Marxism, free from sectarian and dogmatic positions.
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1965
Volume 2: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1964 Published: 1965
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1966
Volume 3: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1966
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1967
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- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1968
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- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1969
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- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1970
Volume 7: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1970
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1971
Volume 8: A survey of movements and ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1971
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1972
Volume 9: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1972
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1973
Volume 10: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1973
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1974
Volume 11: A survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1974
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1975
Volume 12: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1975
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1976
Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1976
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1977
Volume 14: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1977
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1978
Volume 15: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1978
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1979
Volume 16: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1979 A series of essays on the state of the global economy.
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1980
Volume 17: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1980
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1981
Volume 18: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1981
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1982
Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1982
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1983
Volume 20: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1983
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1984
Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1984
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.): The Socialist Register 1989
Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1989
- Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John; Liebman, Marc; Panitch, Leo (eds.): The Socialist Register 1985/1986
Volume 22: Social Democracy and After Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1986
- Milkman, Ruth: Remembering Rosalyn Baxandall
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall was a pioneering figure of socialist feminism in the United States.
- Millar, Matthew: Harper government's extensive spying on anti-oilsands groups revealed in FOIs
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 The National Energy Board, supposedly an independent federal agency, has directly coordinated efforts between CSIS, the RCMP and private oil companies against environmentalist groups and indigenous-rights activists.
- Miller John: Yesterday's News
Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us Resource Type: Book First Published: 1998 Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.
- Miller, Alicia: Eating your ethics: Halal meat
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Halal ritual slaughter has raised huge controversy in the UK press. But the far greater issue is farm animals' entire quality of life - as reflected in the Qu'ranic principle that meat must be 'tayyib' - good, wholesome and from well-treated, healthy animals. Is this something we can all agree on?
- Miller, Amy: Tomorrow's power
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2017 An award-winning documentary that follows stories of communities in Germany, Gaza and Colombia that are challenging current power structures, leading to possibilities of a future with both social and climate justice. Runtime: 76 min.
- Miller, Amy (director): No Land No Food No Life
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2013 A film which explores sustainable small scale agriculture and the urgent call for an end to corporate global land grabs. This feature length documentary gives voice to those directly affected by combining personal stories, and vérite footage of communities fighting to retain control of their land.
- Miller, Anita: What Went Wrong in Ohio
The Conyers Report on the 2004 Presidential Election Resource Type: Book First Published: 2006 Documents fraud in the 2004 U.S. election.
- Miller, Carol: Air Force Invades the Rocky Mountains
Sky Grab Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 Communities throughout rural America are fighting to stop more Air Force flights overhead. In addition to New Mexico and Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Arizona, Kentucky and Maine are some of the other states fighting intrusive low-level flights.
- Miller, Ed: Operation Liberte Builds Support
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1978
- Miller, J P: The Mill Hill, Natural Communism, And The Loray Mill Strikes
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 There are no less than six books on the Gastonia Loray Mill strike of 1929. There are scores of papers, hundreds of opinions and a common conception that although the strike itself was a failure, it led to better working conditions for many workers that followed.
- Miller, J.R. (Edited): Sweet Promises
A Reader On Indian-White Relations in Canada Resource Type: Book First Published: 1991
- Miller, James: Democracy is in the Streets
From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago Resource Type: Book First Published: 1987 A thoughtful and evocative history of the American New Left in the 1960's, looking critically but sympathetically at the struggles and passions of that period.
- Miller, Jeremy: Bounty Hunters
A clandestine war on wolves Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The centuries old killing of wolves has extirpated the species throughout most of the United States, yet there remains a strong anti-wolf lobby which continues to threaten even a modest recovery.
- Miller, John: No Fooling - Corporations Evade Taxes
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 Closing corporate loopholes so that corporate income tax revenues in the United States match the 3.4% of GDP collected on average by OECD corporate income taxes would add close to $200 billion to federal government revenues—more than five times the $39 billion of devastating spending cuts just made in the federal budget in 2011. Returning the corporate income tax revenues to the 4.0% of GDP level of four decades ago would add close to $300 billion a year to government revenues.
- Miller, Karen: Fighting the Wal-Mart Plague
Against The Current vol. 118 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2005 Liza Featherstone offers a devastating portrait of rampant sex discrimination at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Women working for the company at all levels — from cashier positions to the highest levels of corporate marketing — have been paid less than their male coworkers and offered far fewer raises and promotions.
- Miller, Karen R.: Racial Liberalism: The Case of Interwar Detroit
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 The paradox at the heart of contemporary racial politics is what sociologists and political scientists call "colorblind racism:" How is it that the United States is a country where racism is supposed to be politically, socially, and morally unacceptable yet simultaneously where inequalities are quite neatly organized along racial lines?
- Miller, Liz: The Water Front
Resource Type: Film First Published: 2007 Follows the heated struggle between residents, water workers and corporate managers in Highland Park, Michigan to spotlight what many of us take for granted - the right to affordable water.
- Miller, Mark Crispin: Fooled Again
The Real Case fo Electoral Reform Resource Type: Book First Published: 2007 For Republicans, the 2004 presidential election was little short of miraculous: Behind in the Electoral College tally in the days leading up to the election, behind even on the very afternoon of the vote, the Bush ticket staged a stunning comeback. The exit polls, usually so reliable, turned out to be wrong by an unprecedented 5 percent in the swing states. Conservatives argued-and the media agreed-that "moral values" had made the difference. Critic and political commentator Mark Crispin Miller argues that it wasn't moral values that swung the election - it was theft.
- Miller, Mark Crispin: Loser Take All
Election Fraud and The Subversion of Democracy, 2000 - 2008 Resource Type: Book First Published: 2008 The U.S. election system is a shambles, run by private corporations with a partisan agenda, and largely based on a technology that anyone can rig.
- Miller, Marlene: Business Guide To Promotion
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1988 A useful guide for any group preparing materials for publication.
- Miller, Mike: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
The Civil Rights Movement in the Rural South Reconsidered Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Is it possible to both win substantial benefits for people who are on the lower rungs of the socio-economic status ladder while at the same time building forms of democratic people power that can continue to challenge the present political oligarchy and the economic plutocracy whose interests it generally serves?
- Miller, Mike: The Mississippi Summer Project 50th Anniversary Reunion
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Greenwood was the place where the first major cracks in the wall of Mississippi racism were broken open.
- Miller, Mike: The Perfect Organizer - Almost
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Fred Ross, Sr. was as close to the perfect embodiment of the myth of the organizer as is humanly possible. Cesar Chavez called him "my secret weapon". In "Finding and Making Leaders," Nicholas Von Hoffman, Saul Alinsky's favorite organizer, said, "The good organizer ... judges his work a success when he can leave the organization without even being missed. He is rare, rarer than first-rate leadership, but he exists ... and he can work in almost any situation."
- Miller, Morris: Debt and the Environment
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1991
- Miller, Neil: Out In The World
Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to Bangkok Resource Type: Book First Published: 1992
- Miller, Philip; Devon, Molly: Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1995 A guide to S&M play.
- Miller, Sally: Edible Action
Food Activism and Alternative Economics Resource Type: Book First Published: 2008
- Miller, Scott: The Los Angeles Bus Riders Union
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1997 The Bus Riders Union began as an outgrowth of the Labor/Community Strategy Center's "Equity in Transportation Project," a policy analysis group which to study the transportation problems of the urban poor. What they discovered was an increasingly polarized allocation of public resources based on race.
- Miller, Todd: Bringing the Battlefield to the Border
The Wild World of Border Security and Boundary Building in Arizona Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 The U.S.-Mexican border has not only become Ground Zero for every experiment in immigration enforcement and drug interdiction, but also the incubator, testing site, showcase, and staging ground for ever newer versions of border-enforcement technology that, sooner or later, are sure to be applied globally.
- Millett, Kate: Sexual Politics
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1971 Published: 1972
- Millette, James: Society and Politics in Colonial Trinidad
Resource Type: Book This reissue of a classic study (The Genesis of Crown Colony Government in Trinidad 1783-1810, Trinidad 1970) traces the critical conflicts and issues as the island passed from Spanish to British colonial hands. Professor Millette, who is an eminent radical Caribbean historian, has written a deeply researched book that makes clear the origins of Trinidad and Tobago's complex society.
- Milley, Danielle: Quilt gives peace a chance
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2001 Now more than ever people need to try to understand one another. That is what Miriam Garfinkle believes in the aftermath of Sept. 11 and why she feels it is even more important for people to come out and view the Middle East Peace Quilt when it comes to North York.
- Milligan, Ian: Rebel Youth
1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada Resource Type: Book First Published: 2015
- Milloy, John: A National Crime
The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879-1986 Resource Type: Book First Published: 1999 Milloy chronicles the heart-breaking realities of the Residential School. This institiution separated thousands of Native children from their families in the Canadian Government's pursuit of "aggressive civilization."
- Mills, Ami Chen: CIA Off Campus
Building the Movement Against Agency Recruitment and Research Resource Type: Book First Published: 1990 Published: 1999 Mills describes campus organizing against the CIA's recruiting and research programs on campus. She also describes how to detect secret CIA activities and how to combat them. She gives voice to the multiple reasons why so many academics have opposed the presence of the CIA on university campuses: reasons that ranged from the recognition of secrecy's antithetical relationship to academic freedom, to political objections to the CIA's use of torture and assassination, to efforts on campuses to recruit professors and students, and the CIA's longstanding role in undermining democratic movements around the world.
- Mills, C. Wright: Letter to the New Left
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1960
- Mills, Nathaniel: History, Theory, Politics & Invisible Man
Against The Current vol. 155 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 Paul Heideman's spirited critique of my review of Barbara Foley’s Wrestling with the Left testifies to the reach of Foley’s study. That the politics of Ellison’s novel would be up for debate in a journal like Against the Current would be unthinkable without Foley’s efforts. In multiple articles going back more than a decade, and culminating in Wrestling, Foley challenges the consensus critical position that Invisible Man was made possible by Ellison’s clean break from the left, and that the novel offers an objective and accurate critique of U.S. Communism.
- Mills, Sephanie: In Service of the Wild
Restoring and Reinhabiting Damaged Land Resource Type: Book First Published: 1995
- Milne, A.A.: A.A. Milne Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Milne, David: The Canadian Constitution
From Patriation to Meech Lake Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989
- Milne, J.M.: History of the Socialist Party of Canada
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1973
- Milne, Seamus: Seamus Milne Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Milne, Seumas: The Revenge of History
The Battle for the 21st Century Resource Type: Book First Published: 2012 A critical account of the first decade of the twenty-first century.
- Milton, John: John Milton Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Minces, Juliette: The House of Obedience
Women in Arab Society Resource Type: Book First Published: 1982 The House of Obedience is about women in the Arab world who are still largely subject to a traditional set of beliefs and customs employed to justify a multiplicity of practices against them. The veil, physical mutiliation, forced marriage, incarceration in the home, repudiation and polygamy are manifestations of this commitment to a tradional lifestyle, with the Islamic concept of the family as its keystone.
- Mincy, Grant: After the oil spill: ode to the Yellowstone River
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 In the face of environmental atrocities like the recent spill of crude oil into the Yellowstone River, quiescence be damned! To stop more of the same, we must reclaim from the corporate-captured state the rights of commons and community to decide on how local resources are used.
- Mincy, Grant: Appalachia Rising
Which Side Are You On? Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 On January 9, 2014, a dangerous toxin, 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, leaked from a busted tank and into the Elk River in West Virginia. It is believed that nearly 7,500 gallons of the toxin made its way from the 40,000-gallon tank into the river. This is a story too often told in Appalachia.
- Mincy, Grant: Reclaiming the Commons in Appalachia
Property is Theft Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 The extractive resource industry has a firm hold on the wild, wonderful, but wounded Appalachians. The use of eminent domain and compulsory pooling has robbed communities of their cultural and natural heritage. Capital is the authority of the Appalachian coalfields, and has created systemic poverty and mono economies. Instead of prosperity in the commons, the mechanism of authority has spawned tragedy.
- Minden, Bob: Sitting On the Bookshelf
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1969 Bob Minden attended an open house for teachers and other interested persons organized by Herbert Kohl, and describes the experience as extraordinary.
- Mine Action Team: Ban Landmines
The Ottawa Process and the International Movement to Ban Landmines Resource Type: Audio First Published: 1998
- Minear, Richard H.: Dr Seuss Goes to War
The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel Resource Type: Book First Published: 2000
- Ming, Wu: Manituana
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2009 1775. The conflict between the British Empire and the American colonies erupts in all-out war. Meanwhile, in the secluded Mohawk Valley, a utopian community thrives: white Irish, Scots and Native Americans live harmoniously together in "Iroquireland."
- Minns, Richard: Take over the City
The Case for Public Ownership of Financial Institutions Resource Type: Book
- Minton, Anna; Aked, Jody: Indefensible design: the high social costs of 'security'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 The pedlars of gates, alarms and CCTV have an ever-growing business. It’s the community that pays.
- Mintz, Julie (director): Four Winters
Resource Type: Film/Video A story of Jewish partisan resistance and bravery in World War II.
- Minus, Citizens; Jamieson, Kathleen: Indian Women and the Law in Canada
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1978 This report examines section 12 (1) (b) of the Indian Act.
- Miranda, Aliya: Florida Students Confront Spencer
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Aliya recounts her experience protesting the Richard Spencer event at the University of Florida.
- Mire, Abdullahi: 'I wish I was a boy': The Kenyan girls fighting period poverty
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 In Kenya, one million girls miss school each month because they cannot afford sanitary pads, while some share used ones.
- Mirovalev, Mansur: Evictions, trials as Russian Church claims property
With the resurgence of a Kremlin-endorsed monastery, islanders on Valaam have endured trials, evictions and arson. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 With the resurgence of a Kremlin-endorsed monastery, islanders on Valaam have endured trials, evictions and arson.
- Mirza, Munira: How 'diversity' breeds division
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2004 Diversity training is supposed to help 'promote good relations' between different ethnic groups and capitalise on workforce diversity. However, there is warranted scepticism about whether such training alleviates tensions or exacerbates them. Much of the content of this training is overreliant on pop sociology and pseudo-therapeutic techniques. Participants are expected to talk about stereotypes they harbour deep in their subconscious, and disclose feelings of harassment and victimisation. Trainers claim to eliminate stereotypes in the workplace, yet in talking about 'different cultural perspectives' they end up generating new and more insidious stereotypes in their stead.
- Mischi, Julian; Solano, Valerie: The great train robbery
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Privatised networks of European railways have neglected safety, community and environmental issues in pursuit of profit.
- Misser, Francois: Threat to Africa's parks
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2021 Powerful oil companies have set their sights on the huge potential reserves under Sub-Saharan Africa's wildlife sanctuaries, which will be far cheaper to exploit than deep ofshore desposits.
- Missmeh, Roaa Aladdin: What will Gaza's children remember?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2023 Gaza children grow up thinking bombing is normal, creating shelter space is normal, having plans disrupted by war is normal.
- Mitchell, Alanna: New generation: Growing up reading Rachel Carson, scientists unravel risks of new pesticides
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Like biologist Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring warned about the devastating effects of DDT, a new generation of scientists is trying to figure out if new pesticides -- which are being used in ever-increasing numbers, quantities, and combinations -- are harming living things they’re not intended to kill, including birds.
- Mitchell, Alanna: Winged Warnings: Built for survival, birds in trouble from pole to pole
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Globally, one in eight -- more than 1,300 species -- are threatened with extinction, and the status of most of those is deteriorating, according to BirdLife International.
- Mitchell, David J.: 1919
Red Mirage Resource Type: Book First Published: 1970 An account of the rebellion and counter-rebellion that spread across Europe in 1919.
- Mitchell, Don et al.: The Crisis in Red Meats
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) First Published: 1977 This newsletter is a report of a seminar dealing with the crises created in the livestock industry in Canada and their relation to marketing, nutrition and the world food situation.
- Mitchell, Jeanette; Mackenzie, Donald; Holloway, John; Cockburn, Cynthia, et al: In and against the state
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1979 Published: 1980 The state is not neutral. It does provide services and resources which most of us need – education, health care, social security. But it does not do so primarily for the good of the working class. It does it to maintain the capitalist system. Although the state may appear to exist to protect us from the worst excesses of capitalism, it is in fact protecting capital from our strength by ensuring that we relate to capital and to each other in ways which divide us from ourselves, and leave the basic inequalities unquestioned.
- Mitchell, Joni: Joni Mitchell Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Mitchell, Juliet: Woman's Estate
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1966 Published: 1976 Juliet Mitchell defines the specific areas of women's oppression and describes current attempts to break the pattern of repression imposed on all women.
- Mitchell, Juliet: Women: The Longest Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1966 Chapter transcribed from Women's Estate. A discussion of women in socalist theory in the 19th century, and the Women's liberation movement through to the 1960's.
- Mitchell, Penni: About Canada: Women's Rights
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2015 Introduces readers to some of the many women who changed Canada through their efforst to secure greater equality.
- Mitralias, Yorgos: The Catastrophic International Consequences of the Capitulation of Syriza and the Criminal Responsibility of Mr. Tsipras
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Syriza's betrayal comes at a very critical historical moment, when the racist extreme right is advancing almost everywhere in our continent, which already makes immediate and direct the threat that many of the citizens Europeans disappointed by Syriza will fall prey to this racist and neo-fascist self-proclaimed "anti-systemic" extreme right.
- Mitralias, Yorgos: The Revolt of the Aganaktismeni
Huge Popular Uprisings in Greece Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 The 'Outraged' movement is getting more and more rooted among lower classes against a Greek society that has been shaped by 25 years of total domination of a cynical, nationalist, racist and individualist neoliberal ideology that turned everything into commodities.
- Mitrani, Sam: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor Poeple, Not 'Serve and Protect'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 On the history and origins of policing in the US.
- Mitrani, Sam; Pearson, Chad: A Short History of Liberal Myths and Anti-Labor Politics
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A history of how labour and working-class groups have been alienated or disserviced by the major US political parties, particularly by liberal policies which are primarily aligned with business interests.
- Mittal, Devika: The Sinicization Of Tibet
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 In 1950s, China incorporated Tibet into its territory and since then, it has began a major reform of all aspects of Tibetan life - social, religious, political and economic. The Tibetans had organised an armed resistance but it could not challenge the Chinese army. As a result of this, thousands of Tibetans fled from Tibet and seek asylum in nearby countries like India, Nepal and Bhutan where they have created refugee or exile communities. But other forms of resistance had been continued and is still continued by Tibetans in Tibet and in exile.
- Mjondolo, Abahlali: SA xenophobic attacks: A view from below
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 The attacks on African migrants in South Africa are connected to oppression of poor black people in general. To prevent the poor from organizing and standing up to their real enemies, the state is tacitly encouraging violence against foreigners.
- Mlynar, Zdenek: Nightfrost in Prague
The End of Humane Socialism Resource Type: Book First Published: 1980
- Mobbs, Paul: Engineering consent for fracking: Chris Smith and the 'astroturf' consultancy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Edelman, the global PR group, has a history of 'consent engineering' for the fossil fuel industry in North America.
- Mobbs, Paul: Fracking is the death spasm of a defunct economic order
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Political support for fracking is not just about energy, writes Paul Mobbs. It reflects the greater ecological and resource crisis at the root of our current economic woes - and only postpones the essential shift to a new kind of economy.
- Mobbs, Paul: Noise, the 'ignored pollutant': health, nature and ecopsychology
The sonic backdrop to our lives is increasingly one of unwanted technospheric noise, writes Paul Mobbs. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 For those who like to enjoy the natural environment, noise is something to be escaped from within the relative sanctuary of the landscape. These days that's getting harder and harder to accomplish. That's not only because of noise from all around - in particular from urban areas, roads and the increasing mechanisation of agriculture - but also due to the increasing level of air traffic overhead.
- Mock, Freida: G-Dog
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2012 Unlikely gang expert Jesuit Father Boyle, known as G-Dog, creates Homeboy Industries, leading former gang involved youth to become a positive force in their communities.
- Moelart, John: Nicaragua
Then and Now Resource Type: Book First Published: 1986
- Moffatt, Gary: Alternate Societies
A brief survey on intentional community in European history Resource Type: Article First Published: 1993 A brief outline of the history of attempts in western society to create living arrangements which would complement, and in some cases further, efforts to become economically independent.
- Moffatt, Gary: Building Economic Alternatives
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1992 Moffatt outlines many currently practiced methods of creating an alternative economy.
- Moffatt, Gary: Can Free Schools Work?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1985 Before starting on another round of alternative education projects, it might be helpful to try to understand why few of the last round's projects achieved long term success.
- Moffatt, Gary: Civil Disobedience: A Radical Critique
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1983 Gary Moffatt argues that while appearing to be radical in that they represent a more complete commitment of the participants to changing government policy than the work of the mainstream peace movement, sitdowns fail to challenge and in some respects reinforce the legitmacy of the military state.
- Moffatt, Gary: Community
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1972 The time has come to start a community. The purpose of this article is to explain why and how.
- Moffatt, Gary: The Eagle and the Jackal
America's Rape of the Third World Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1984 A major section of this paper deals with United States domination and exploitation of Third World countries, and the relationship of this to U.S. militarism. The final section of the paper deals with the question of how the peace movement can work for a better society.
- Moffatt, Gary: The Enemies of Anarchy: A Critical Summary
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1971
- Moffatt, Gary: Fantasy and the Counter-Culture
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1972 The purpose of this article is to evaluate the usefulness of speculative fiction in our search for an alternative way of life.
- Moffatt, Gary: History of the Canadian peace movement until 1969
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1969
- Moffatt, Gary: A history of the peace movement in Canada
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1969 Published: 1982
- Moffatt, Gary: The More Information The Less Knowledge
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1995 While our short-term quest for knowledge must be related to the immediate problems of saving society from environmental and economic collapse, the long-term goals of learning more about humanity's place in the universe must not be neglected.
- Moffatt, Gary: The Need for Alternative Employment
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1989 An alternative economy would enable movement people to integrate their bread labour with their social change work.
- Moffatt, Gary: Some Questions the Radical Peace Movement Should be Asking Itself
Resource Type: Article Questions radical peace groups need to consider.
- Moffatt, Gary: Why Do Communities Fail?
Resource Type: Article The strains that take their toll on community groups.
- Moffatt, Gary; Westley, Dennis: Exploring Alternatives: Free Schools
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1969 Since our schools and universities are unwilling to adopt basic, or even moderate, reform, the only way to achieve a worthwhile education is through free schools.
- Moghadam, Val: A Century's Feminist Journey
Against The Current vol. 109 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2004 International feminism -- and feminist internationalism -- have existed since at least the early 20th century, but forms of women's organizing and mobilizing have varied over the past 100 years. Since the 1980s, a new transnational feminism -- encompassing Third World countries as well as the core countries -- has emerged which requires explanation.
- Moghadam, Val: On Syria Crisis and Prospects
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 This article speculates and considers the probable outcomes and consequences that could result if a U.S. bombing campaign against Syria takes place.
- Moghadam, Val: Women, Revolution and the Future
Against The Current vol. 151 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 Valentine Moghadam is director of the Women’s Studies Program and a professor of sociology at Purdue University. She responded to some questions from Against the Current early on February 11, 2011, shortly before the announcement of Hosni Mubarak’s resignation.
- Moghissi, Haideh: Arab Uprising & Women's Rights: Lessons from Iran
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 The aftermath of the ''Arab Spring" revolutionary activity is bringing forth changes that run counter to the ideals and visions of the original change-seeking forces. Most notably, the swift turn in favor of Islamist parties in the wake of these uprisings -- for example, in Egypt and Tunisia -- while not unexpected, is worrisome indeed. For women in particular, a revolution whose mobilizing demands were freedom, democracy and social justice turned into a huge prison under the self-appointed guardians of Shari'a.
- Moghissi, Haideh: Defying Fundamentalism
A review of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 To some people Islam has come to represent the ideology of liberation from the yoke of Western imperialism; to others it is a backward and inherently violent faith targeting innocent individuals indiscriminately.
- Moghissi, Haideh: Defying Fundamentalism
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 A review of "Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism" By Karima Bennoune.
- Moghissi, Haideh: Review: Defying Fundamentalism
A review of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Concerned with the rising Jihadist fundamentalism on one hand, and increasing discrimination against Muslims following 9/11 on the other, and having in mind the question repeated by many commentators — “Why don’t Muslims speak out?” — Bennoune documents the voices of Muslims in various ways victimized by Islamic fundamentalists.
- Mograbi, Avi (director): Avenge But One of My Two Eyes
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2006 Israeli director Avi Mograbi documents what he calls the "culture of death" in the psychology of Israel the occupier.
- Mohaiemen, Naeem: The Young Man Was
Part 1: United Red Army Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2012 The start of a film trilogy that traces 1970s ultra left movements' turn to violence; Part One is based on the negotiations of the 1977 JAL hijacking, between the Japanese Red Army members on board the plane and the Dhaka control tower in Bangladesh.
- Mohr, Richard D.: A More Perfect Union
Why Straight America Must Stand Up for Gay Rights Resource Type: Book Mohr uses lively examples and historical cases to explore both private and public issues affecting the gay and lesbian community.
- Mohsin, Ali: Pakistan: Teachers and Farmers Protests Brutally Crushed in Sindh
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 On December 25, 2017, primary, secondary and high school teachers in Karachi held a defiant protest against the Sindh government due to its refusal to provide them with permanent jobs despite having agreed to do so in 2014. The provincial government is refusing to honor its agreement even after forcing teachers to pass a rigorous examination conducted by the National Testing Service and the University of Sindh.
- Moiola, Paolo: When oil is more important than life
Oil exploitation leaves trail of pollution and death in the Peruvian Amazon Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 The dumping of oil waste into the waters of the Marañón, Corrientes, Pastaza and Tigre rivers and the Amazon forest is producing fatal consequences for the local population, mostly to the Kukama ethnic group. The responsible are well-known oil companies, but the Peruvian authorities have not acted with timeliness, making them responsible as well. For years, victims have protested against pollution and violence, but the oil business has always had the upper hand.
- Moira, Fran: Lesbian Sex Mafia ("l s/m") speakout
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1982 Report of a workshop on "politically correct, politically incorrect sexuality."
- Mojab, Shahrzad: Refugees and Capitalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 The process of escaping violence has turned into a "journey of death" for millions of refugees. For Syrian refugees it is also a journey of "no return."
- Mokhiber, Russell: The Boeing Way: Blaming Dead Pilots
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The House Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation held a hearing about the recent crashes of Boeing 737 MAXs. The Representatives (many of whom received campaign contributions from Boeing) actively tried to shift blame from the company and place it on the dead pilots.
- Mokhiber, Russell: Corporate Terrorism in West Texas
The Full Weight of Justice Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Make no mistake, if it becomes clear that the Texas explosion was triggered by a terrorist attack, a la the Oklahoma City bombing, then Obama will begin talking about “the full weight of justice.”
- Mokhiber, Russell: Lissa Lucas Dragged Out of West Virginia House Judiciary Hearing For Listing Oil and Gas Contributions
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Mokhiber's article summarizes the case of political candidate Lissa Lucas, whose testimony against a bill "that would allow companies to drill on minority mineral owners' land without their consent" was censored by the court.
- Mokhiber, Russell: Meet the Real Death Panels
44,000 Americans a Year Die From Lack of Health Insurance Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Harvard-based researchers found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993.
- Mokhiber, Russell: Narcs Versus Big Pharma
Behind the Meth Curtain Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Communities in the heartland of America are fighting an epidemic of methamphetamine labs.
The driving force behind the scourge? Big Pharma.
- Mokhiber, Russell: Not Your Mother's Electrolux
Planned Obsolescence Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Documentary goes on to present new evidence on the school of engineers who were driven by the market and who were clearly interested in making the most disposable product that they could. Electrolux began selling its vacuum cleaners in the UK.
- Mokhiber, Russell: Single-Payer Health Care and the Case Against Clicktivism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 What’s the next step in the campaign for single-payer universal health care in the United States? Single Payer Now's Don Bechler says we have to hit the streets.
- Mokhiber, Russell: Time to Jail Auto Executives?
Still Unsafe at Any Speed Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Rather than allowing automobile industry debacles to float by without inspiring systemic change that will save lives, criminal prosecutions should become an integral part of -- even a priority for -- both federal and state governments.
- Mokhiber, Russell: Two Systems of Justice
One for the Corporate Class; One for the Rest of Us Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 We have two systems of justice. One for the corporate class. And one for the rest of us.
- Mokhiber, Russell: VW, GM and Takata: the Case for Jailing Corporate Executives
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Making the case that executives at VW, Takata and General Motors should be jailed for corporate crime. The crimes committed by the corporations they head are extremely serious, and have caused and will cause hundreds of deaths. Why are the perpetrators allowed to get off simply by writing a cheque to cover the fine, instead of going to jail the way other criminals do?
- Mokhiber, Russell: Why Not Jail for Corporate Criminals?
When Regulation Fails to Restrain Corporate Villainy Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 It's time to focus on corporate criminal prosecution. Get rid of deferred and non prosecution agreements. Criminally charge corporations and their top executives.
- Mokhiber, Russell ; Weissman, Robert: Corporate Predators
The Hunt for MegaProfits and the Attack on Democracy Resource Type: Book First Published: 1999
- Molina, Ivan; Palmer, Steven: The History of Costa Rica
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1998 Published: 2007 An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
- Moll, Marita (ed.): But It's Only a Tool!
The Politics of Technology and Education Reform Resource Type: Book First Published: 2001
- Moll, Marita; Shad, Leslie Regan (eds.): E-Commerce vs. E-Commons
Communications in the public interest Resource Type: Book First Published: 2001 From privacy issues to intellectual property, from universal access to union activism, these essays challenge the rush to deregulate and disconnect communications from the public interest.
- Molyneux, John: Climate Change: A Socialist Solution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 A lot has been written, including by myself, on why capitalism, by its very nature, cannot tackle or stop climate change. The purpose of this article is not to repeat those arguments but to make the positive case for socialism as necessary to deal with this existential crisis for humanity.
- Molyneyx, John: Marxism and the Party
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1978 Molyneux examines the views of Marx, Lenin, Luxemburg, Trotsky, and Gramsci on the question of party organisation. He takes as his central theme their concern with the relationship between the party and the working class.
- Monahan,Sean: Reading Paine from the Left
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 A biography of the revolutionary Thomas Paine.
- Monbiot, George: Advertising is a poison that demeans even love – and we're hooked on it
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 We are subjected to ever more pervasive messages to consume, encouraging dissatisfaction. Yet this column depends on it.
- Monbiot, George: The Age of Consent
A Manifesto for a New World Order Resource Type: Book First Published: 2003 A critique of the existing system of power and a proposal for international democracy.
- Monbiot, George: Bogus, Misdirected and Effective
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 The Tea Party movement is steeped in misinformation and denial. But it has a lot to teach the left.
- Monbiot, George: Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush. Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada.
- Monbiot, George: Career advice
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Career advice given by George Monbiot for those who have a genuine choice of careers, which means, regrettably, that it does not apply to the majority of the world’s workforce.
- Monbiot, George: The Climate Denial Industry Is Out To Dupe The Public. And It's Working
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 The climate denial industry consists of people who are paid to say that man-made global warming isn't happening.
- Monbiot, George: Conservatives have perfected the trick of defending power by attacking it
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 The UK Cameron government is atempting to use a tried-and-proven trick: defending the elite by pretending to attack it.
- Monbiot, George: Consumer Hell
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 The problem with gross domestic product is that there are no deductions involved: all economic activity is accounted as if it were of positive value. Social harm is added to, not subtracted from, social good. A train crash which generates £1bn worth of track repairs, medical bills and funeral costs is deemed by this measure as beneficial as an uninterrupted service which generates £1bn in ticket sales.
- Monbiot, George: Evidence Meltdown
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 The green movement has misled the world about the dangers of radiation.
- Monbiot, George: A Ginger Revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 Grassroots campaigns could break Britain's corrupt political system.
- Monbiot, George: Heat
How to Stop the Planet From Burning Resource Type: Book First Published: 2006 Concerns about the effects of global warming on the Human species - especially those unfortunate enough to live in poorer countries - require drastic action, far outstripping the recommendations of the Kyoto protocol.
- Monbiot, George: Housebroken
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 There’s a second environmental crisis, just as potent as the first.
- Monbiot, George: How Did We Get Into This Mess?
Politics, Equality, Nature Resource Type: Book First Published: 2016 This selection from George Monbiot's journalism, assesses the state we are now in: the devastation of the natural world, the crisis of inequality, the corporate takeover of nature, our obsessions with growth and profit and the decline of the political debate over what to do.
- Monbiot, George: I was wrong on veganism
Traditional livestock production makes ecological sense Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 An environmental reporter reviews the environmental impacts of meat production in the developed world. He finds that First World meat production is incredibly wasteful but that this is not a requirement of livestock rearing so much as an entrenched practice, and offers suggestions for greening the industry.
- Monbiot, George: Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Fire is raging across the 5,000km length of Indonesia.It is hard to convey the scale of this inferno, but here’s a comparison that might help: it is currently producing more carbon dioxide than the US economy. And in three weeks the fires have released more CO2 than the annual emissions of Germany.
- Monbiot, George: It makes economic sense to kill people
Britain's approach to climate change puts a price on human lives. And the richer you are the more yours is worth Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 A study of the economics of climate compares the costs of halting runaway climate changewith the costs of inaction. The "costs" of climate change are calculated in part by calculating the reduction in consumption that would result from death and disease in the third world. Monbiot challenges the ethics of this economic model.
- Monbiot, George: Land of Impunity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 If the police can get away with killing Ian Tomlinson, there's no justice in Britain.
- Monbiot, George: Looking for Trouble
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 Why are we still prospecting for oil when we can't afford to use existing reserves?
- Monbiot, George: The Money Gusher
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 The oil industry's decommissioning costs will dwarf those of nuclear power. The money being made now should be put aside to meet them.
- Monbiot, George: Morality Policing
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 The police treat protests and festivals as a threat to their power.
- Monbiot, George: The need to protect the internet from 'astroturfing' grows ever more urgent
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 The tobacco industry does it, the US Air Force clearly wants to ... astroturfing – the use of sophisticated software to drown out real people on web forums – is on the rise. How do we stop it?
- Monbiot, George: Nuclear opponents have a moral duty to get their facts straight
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 My request to Helen Caldicott was a simple one: I asked her to give me sources for the claims she had made about the effects of radiation. Helen had made a number of startling statements during a television debate, and I wanted to know whether or not they were correct. Scientific claims are only as good as their sources.
- Monbiot, George: Out of Sight, Out of Trouble
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 The UK could tap into vast renewable resources, without any of the aggro caused by existing wind farms.
- Monbiot, George: The public reaction to new power lines could kill renewable energy: they must be buried
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 Anti-wind campaigners are highly selective. The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales, obsessed by wind farms, says nothing about the opencast coal mines ripping south Wales apart. Nor do you hear a word about the destruction of the ecosystems of upland Wales (and England and Scotland) by sheep grazing. These champions of the countryside want to save it from only one threat.
- Monbiot, George: The Real Expenses Scandal
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 One of the consistent features of Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) is that the projects are reverse-engineered to meet the demands of corporate investors. This, for example, is how the £30m public scheme to refurbish Coventry's two hospitals became a £410m private scheme to knock them both down and rebuild one of them - containing fewer beds and fewer doctors and nurses.
- Monbiot, George: Strong Meat
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 The meat-producing system Simon Fairlie advocates differs sharply from the one now practised in the rich world: low energy, low waste, just, diverse, small-scale. But if we were to adopt it, we could eat meat, milk and eggs (albeit much less) with a clean conscience.
- Monbiot, George: These astroturf libertarians are the real threat to internet democracy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 As I see in threads on my articles, the online sabotaging of intelligent debate seems organised. We must fight to save this precious gift.
- Monbiot, George: This Is About Us
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 The talks at Copenhagen are not just about climate change. They represent a battle to redefine humanity.
- Monbiot, George: Turning Estates into Villages
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 How good planning can make us slimmer, fitter, safer and less lonely.
- Monbiot, George: Universal Cure
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 Here's a simple means of transforming the UK's universities, schools and society.
- Monbiot, George: The Unpersuadables
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 In fighting for science, we subscribe to a comforting illusion: that people can be swayed by the facts.
- Monbiot, George: The well-intentioned dolts putting a price on nature are delivering it into the hands of business
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 It’s the definitive neoliberal triumph: the monetisation and marketisation of nature, its reduction to a tradeable asset. Once you have surrendered it to the realm of Pareto optimisation and Kaldor-Hicks compensation, everything is up for grabs. The well-intentioned dolts who produced the government’s assessment, have crushed the natural world into a column of figures. Now it can be swapped for money.
- Monbiot, George: The Welsh Revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 Why are radical politics electable in Wales but not in England?
- Monbiot, George: Who threatens us most -- peaceful campaigners or a private militia run by police chiefs?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 The people challenging corporate power are often defamed as destructive anarchists. Yet they are seeking to defend the fabric of our lives from the anarchic destruction of market fundamentalism. The police, on the other hand, are fighting – often without obvious justification – to shield destructive companies from both unlawful and lawful challenges. They are defending neoliberalism’s atomising, kleptocratic projects from those who question them.
- Mondlane, Eduardo: The Struggle for Mozambique
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1969 Published: 1983 Eduardo Mondlane, first President of FRELIMO, completed this classic study of his country and the history of his people's struggle against colonial rule only months before his assassination by the Portugese secret police in 1969. Out of print now for many years, Zed Press is reissuing it with two additions: an introduction by Dr. John Saul, and a biographical sketch by Professor Herbert Shore.
- Monk, Heather Dashner: Mexican Women -- Then and Now
Against The Current vol. 148 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 Araceli's gnarled hands knead the corn dough in a smoke-filled lean-to next to her kitchen, as the 5 a.m. sunlight begins to squint through the slats. She will make about 48 pounds of tortillas, as she does every day. By noon they’ll be on the table in houses all over the 500-inhabitant town she has lived in her whole life, half-way between Mexico City and Toluca, the capital of the State of Mexico.
- Montagu, Ashley: Radiation, X Rays and Fallout
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1978
- Montague, Brendan: Greenpeace 'peer review' climate sting's first scalp?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 A leading member of the climate change-skeptic Global Warming Policy Foundation has resigned from his post in the wake of a Greenpeace investigation that exposed its phoney 'peer review' process. But he insists: 'nothing going on here!'
- Montague, Brendan: Let Them Eat Climate Change
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 The winds are changing for the energy giants. And so the black plumes of smoke emitted by the climate deniers in an attempt to provide cover for the coal, oil and gas industry have already been refined.
- Montague, Brendan: On the nature of change
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The first in a series of articles exploring how dialectical systems thinking can direct change making. The 'On the Nature of Change' series will have three clear sections: 'The Philosophers' will examine a philosophical theory of change, and how this has developed and evolved over time. The second, 'Interpreting the World', and will apply this theory to three fundamental areas: the self, the team, society. Lastyly, 'Changing the World', will present clear ways in which this theory of change can be practically applied.
- Montesanti, Edu: The War on Democracy in Latin America: Interview with John Pilger
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Journalist, writer and filmmaker John Pilger granted this exclusive interview where he talks about the US war on democracy in Latin America. "Modern era imperialism is a war on democracy. Genuine democracy is a threat to unfettered power and cannot be tolerated", he says.
- Montgomery, Charlotte: Blood Relations
Animals, Humans, and Politics Resource Type: Book First Published: 2000 Explores the world of the Canadian animal rights movement.
- Montgomery, David: Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1973 A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
- Montgomery, David R.: Healthy soil is the real key to feeding the world
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Some of the more common myths regarding the modern agricultural industry are outlined, notably that large scale commercial farming provides higher yields and greater diversity of products. Indeed the author contests the coversation should move beyond conventional farming vs organic, and that it is regenerative farming practices that concentrate on soil health that will provide the best solution.
- Moody, Kim: At General Motors, "What Means This Strike?"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1998 IN HIS FAMOUS address to the striking New Bedford textile workers in 1898, Socialist Labor Party leader Daniel De Leon posed the question, "What Means This Strike?" De Leon told the workers their strike would be for naught if they didn't see it connected to the broader struggle of their class.
He praised them for their courage and affirmed the socialist belief in the strike weapon, but warned that this strike, the second in recent time, would simply become one of a series of lost struggles...
- Moody, Kim: Big Three Win A Modular Future: Contract Hype and Reality
Against The Current vol. 83 Resource Type: Article First Published: 1999 The 1999 contract talks between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three auto makers, plus General Motors' Delphi spin-off, offer one more demonstration of what the mainstream media like to call improved relations between the union and the company. Whatever the media mainliners think of this overused phrase, in practice it means greater consensus between top union leaders and company officials.
- Moody, Kim: The Crisis and the Potential
Against The Current vol. 145 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 A veritable civil [war] erupted in the past year among several of America’s leading unions. At a time when over eight million jobs were disappearing, unemployment reaching highs unseen for nearly three decades, home defaults and foreclosures hitting all-time records with no end in sight, and labor’s major legislative goals being cut to pieces, some of the country’s biggest, most aggressive unions went to war — not against capital or Congress, but against one another.
- Moody, Kim: General Strikes, Mass Strikes
Against The Current vol. 160 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 Inspired by the boldness of the movement, activists of Occupy Oakland issued a “call for a general strike” in that city for November 2 — a sign of the movement’s radicalism and its sense of where social power lies.
- Moody, Kim: Global Capital and Economic Nationalism (Part 2)
Against The Current vol. 88 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2000 A number of aspects of global capitalism changed rapidly at the end of the 1980s. The most obvious was the collapse of most of the Communist states and the initiation of their integration into the world capitalist system. While the impact of this has yet to be fully felt in the West, it is in effect a giant "enclosure" (privatization) movement on a scale and at a speed never before seen in the transition to capitalism anywhere.
- Moody, Kim: Immigrant Workers in the United States (Part 1)
Against The Current vol. 127 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2007 The rise of mass immigration in much of the developed world began its acceleration with the global economic crisis of the 1970s. A deepening crisis of profitability; the collapse of the Bretton Woods currency system; and the recession of 1974-75 encouraged an acceleration of foreign direct investment, the rise of multinational corporations, and the subsequent increase in trade.
- Moody, Kim: An Injury to All
The Decline of American Unionism Resource Type: Book The author, a union organizer and activist, details the decline of the American union movement.
- Moody, Kim: Is There a Gig Economy?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A data-heavy analysis questioning whether 'gig-economy' precarious jobs are indeed growing rapidly as reported.
- Moody, Kim: Kicking Ass for the Working Class
Against The Current vol. 133 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 There it was, staring at me from the AFL-CIO’s very own blog: a black sign with bold red letters saying “KICKING ASS FOR THE WORKING CLASS,” signed AFL-CIO. Surely they meant to say “working for,” or in SEIU-speak “uniting” “working families” or “working people” or some other euphemisms for struggle and class. Had the decline and split of organized labor pushed our otherwise moderate business union leaders to new extremes?
- Moody, Kim: New York's Latino Workers Center
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1996 By organizing around both "labor" and "social" issues-and seeking to transcend this distinction-workers' centers can integrate a variety of unifying issues into their efforts to build an organization that can fight for their members' varied social, political and economic interests.
- Moody, Kim: The Ohio Vote in November
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Donald Trump won Ohio because the total Democratic vote declined more than the drop in the total two-party vote, and significantly more than the Republican increase.
- Moody, Kim: On Immigration and Wages
Against The Current vol. 131 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2007
- Moody, Kim: Protectionism or Solidarity? (Part I)
Against The Current vol. 87 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2000 As the 21st century opened, U.S. labor seemed more energized and more engaged in grappling with the forces that had so long kept it on the defensive. Perhaps it was the fact that over a million workers had joined unions in the last two years and new members outnumbered lost ones by over a quarter of a million. Maybe it was the high-visibility experience of Seattle and the promise of a new coalition of forces.
- Moody, Kim: The Rank and File Strategy: Building A Socialist Movement in the U.S.
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2006 We are seeing more and more attempts by rank and file union members to make their unions more democratic and more effective in fighting today's highly aggressive employers and in organizing the unorganized.
- Moody, Kim: U.S. Labor: What's New, What's Not?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 We all know that there's something different about today's working class. One obvious difference is that today's working class produces fewer things "you can drop on your toe," as The Economist famously put it, and more that you can't. What’s actually changing in capitalist production in the United States?
- Moody, Kim: Unity Begins Somewhere
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1996 Though the industrial workers can be as paralyzed as any group of workers in the face of restructuring, though they can lose any particular strike, and though genuine class consciousness is never automatic; whenever there is a major working class upheaval industrial workers play a leading role.
- Moody, Kim: Was Brexit a Working-Class Revolt?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 The malevelant genius of the Leave campaign was that it managed to go one step further and direct the anger of many previous working-class targets of derision at the even more vulnerable immigrants.
- Moody, Kim: Who Put Trump in the White House?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The media story in the days following the 2016 election was that a huge defection of angry, white, blue-collar workers in the Rust Belt from their traditional Democratic voting patterns put Donald J. Trump in the White House in a grand slap at the nation's "liberal" elite. But is that the real story?
- Moody, Kim: Why the Industrial Working Class Still Matters
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1995 It is evident today that the vast majority of the population (perhaps 80% of the workforce) live and reproduce themselves only through wage-labor that produces surplus value, regardless of the nature of the commodity (good or service) they produce. Whatever the changing weight of the industrial sector of this enormous, working majority, it is clear that the working class as a whole is proportionately far larger today than at the time of classical Marxist writers.
- Moody, Kim: Wisconsin and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 152 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 As the last decade or more have demonstrated, unions don’t grow incrementally as a result of their patient, even persistence efforts to recruit. Rather, unions grow more or less rapidly in periods of intense conflict and labor upheaval. Such was the clear experience of the 1930s. In a somewhat more uneven fashion, the period from the mid-1960s through the 1970s saw rising numbers of strikes, increased rank and file rebellion, and the addition of four million members to the ranks of organized labor.
- Moody, Kim: Worker Resistance in Telecommunications
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1998 LABOR RESISTANCE SEEMS to be spreading, capturing public support, and even winning some gains here and there. Such diverse groups as New York cabbies and construction workers, California nurses and transit workers, UPS and GM workers have gone to the streets against the affects of work intensification and industry reorganization.
Less and less are today's strikes characterized by tiny dispirited picket lines, and more and more by mass actions. Job security, work time, work loads and...
- Moody, Kim: Workers in a lean world: unions in the international economy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 In a comprehensive study of current labour relations worldwide, Kim Moody surveys both sides of the picket lines. A bracing riposte to the conventional wisdom concerning the irresistible power of globalization, Workers in a Lean World is a definitive account of contemporary labour relations on a global scale.
- Moody, Kim; Bhattacharyya, Anindya; M, Ray: Radicalising the rank and file
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 A discussion with U.S. labour historian Kim Moody focusing on the labour movement and rebuilding workplace organisation.
- Moody, Kim; McGuinn, Mary: Unions and Free Trade
Solidarity vs. Competition Resource Type: Book First Published: 1992 This handbook details the effects of free trade on workers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It argues that solidarity, not competition, is the only long-term strategy for unions. It includes case studies of unions that are creating cross-border ties.
- Moon of Alabama: Israel Again Bombs Gaza - But Is It "In Response"?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 In this case it is undoubtedly the Palestinian side that is responding to Israeli violence. But even if Palestinians would fire missiles without an immediate cause it would be within the full rights of the Palestinian people. In its 1982 Resolution 37/43 the General Assembly of the United Nations reaffirmed:
"the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle;"
The UN GA resolution is standing international law. The Palestinian people have the right to resist against the occupation force. In practice as well as legally Israel is a colonial entity that occupies Palestinian land, especially in Gaza and the West Bank. Any armed struggle by Palestinians against the occupation, provoked or not, is thus morally and legally justified.
But do not expect that any 'western' mainstream media will ever point that out.
- Moon, John Chief: Kainai Action Committee
Organization profile published 1979 Resource Type: Organization First Published: 1979 Elders and other residents of the Blood Indian Reserve in Southern Alberta form this committee concerned about inadequate housing, non-existent plumbing for many families, poor band administration, and the inability to secure adequate loans for farming.
- Mooney, Pat: Big Data is Accelerating Corporate Control of the Global Food Supply
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A summary of the report "Too Big to Feed: Exploring the Impacts of Mega-Margers, Consolidation and Concentration of Power in the Agri-Food Sector," published by The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems.
- Moore, Beth: "Solidarity, Not Charity" - Revolution in the Ninth Ward
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2006 In New Orleans, the people have stopped being patient with false choices. They have stopped trusting in politicians who represent only themselves and their contributors. They have chosen the common good, and they have bypassed the system that failed them in order to reclaim their lives through direct and positive action.
- Moore, Jack: Gaza Crisis: Far-Right Israelis Chant 'There's No School Tomorrow, There's No Children Left in Gaza!'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Right-wing Israelis have been filmed chanting "There's no children left there [in Gaza]" and "Gaza is a cemetery" in celebration of their military's attacks on Gaza.
- Moore, Jr., Barrington: Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World Resource Type: Book First Published: 1967
- Moore, Lloyd H.: A Submission to the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1979 In March 1979 a submission from Ontario was made to the Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning by the Concerned Farmers of the United Townships (Turnberry, Howick, Wallace, Maryborough, Peel, Woolwich and Pilkington).
- Moore, Melinda and Olsen, Laurie: Our Future at Stake A Teenager's Guide to Stopping the Nuclear Arms Race
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1985
- Moore, Michael: Dude, Where's My Country?
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2003
- Moore, Stanley W.: The Critique of Capitalist Democracy
An Introduction to the Theory of the State in Marx, Engels, and Lenin Resource Type: Book First Published: 1957 Published: 1969
- Moore-Backman, Chris: A New Way of Life and the New Underground Railroad
Making a Break for Freedom During the Era of Mass Incarceration Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 This radio documentary is the third segment in Truthout's serialization of Chris Moore-Backman's Bringing Down the New Jim Crow based on Michelle Alexander's book of the same name. The series explores and gives voice to the continuing struggle for racial justice in the United States during the era of mass incarceration.
- Moorsom, Toby: Canada: Activists Face the Future
Against The Current vol. 91 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2001 Electoral politics present challenging problems for labor movements all over the world. In the absence of strong working class parties, labor activists are often compelled to support parties that implement anti-worker legislation simply because they represent a lesser evil. While reforms are certainly necessary, the investment of activist energy and resources into the electoral process can often distract union and social justice organizations, preventing them from undertaking the important task of generating solidarity within more impoverished segments of the working class.
- Mora, Jean-Sebastien: Privatising the Oceans
Fished out in our Lifetimes Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Long-range fishing with the backing of the EU deprives countries elsewhere in the world of employment and a crucial food source. And it is depleting the seas to the point of ecological collapse.
- Morales, Evo: 20 Ways to Save Mother Earth and Prevent Climate Change
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 Capitalism's glorification of competition and thirst for limitless profit are destroying the planet.
- Moran, Max: The Issue Dividing Democratic Candidates Is Hidden in Plain Sight
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 Takes came in hot and heavy last weekend after the New York Times editorial board endorsed both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar for the Democratic presidential nomination, mercifully ending the paper's self-aggrandizing pseudo-event widely compared to … that's right … "The Apprentice."
- Morder, Robi: Collective Action - and Victory! France: CPE Goes Down
Against The Current vol. 122 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2006 Millions of young people in France have lived through the experience of collective action and of an important victory, young people who just a few weeks earlier had paid no attention to political organization. In the end the movement won: the "First Employment Contract" (CPE) has been annulled.
- More, Thomas: Utopia
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1516
- Morel, E. D.: Black Man's Burden
The White Man in Africa from the Fifteenth Century to World War I Resource Type: Book Since it was first published in 1920, The Black Man's Burden has been widely recognized as a prime source of education and influence in the field of African history.
- Morelli, Peter: 84-year-old ex-librarian arrested protesting Kinder Morgan, calls NEB a "sham"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Barbara Grant criticized the NEB hearings of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion as a "sham" and spoke out about the danger before crossing the police line to be arrested. At 84, she's the oldest person arrested on Burnaby Mountain so far.
- Moreno, Mariale: Recycling is not enough! Sharing is the way to achieve a circular economy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Mariale Moreno discusses how can we reduce our ever increasing throughput of raw materials. She suggests lowering consumerism and making things last.
- Morgan, Edmund S.: Inventing the People
The Rise of Popular Sovereignity in England and America Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989 The author makes the case that the United States has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and used it to impose a government on the new nation. Morgan ties the notion of popular sovereignty to the older, equally fictional notion, the "divine right of kings."
- Morgan, Edward P.: What Really Happened to the 1960s
How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy Resource Type: Book First Published: 2010 A historical overview, critical analysis, and appraisal of the 1960s. Drawing upon historical and media studies, theories of capitalism and democracy, and in-depth study of the era's social movements, Morgan provides an extremely comprehensive and penetrating analysis of the events and aftermath of the 1960s.
- Morgan, Elizabeth (ed.); Preface by Utah Phillips: Socialist and Labor Songs
An International Revolutionary Songbook Resource Type: Book First Published: 1964 Published: 2014 Seventy-seven songs -- with words and sheet music -- of solidarity, revolt, humor, and revolution.
- Morgan, Hiba: South Sudan archivists fear loss of historical texts
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 South Sudan doesn't have a museum, so thousands of archival documents are sitting in a small building in the capital, Juba, waiting for a national archives to be built. The project will also need the help of international donors to get off the ground, and the ongoing conflict has made it difficult to secure funding.
- Morgan, Jim: On the History of Human Nature
Against The Current vol. 108 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2004 First, humans have the capacity for love, solidarity, compassion AND the capacity for great aggression and cruelty. Which capacity dominates depends on certain geographic and social conditions.
- Morgan, R.E. (Lefty); Pool, G.R.; Young, D.J.: Workers' Control on the Railroad
A Practical Example 'Right Under Your Nose' Resource Type: Book Morgan outlines his philosophy of workers' control. Anthropologists Gail Pool and Donna Young locate Lefty's work in current debates.
- Morgan, Robin (Editor): Sisterhood is Powerful
An Anthology of Writing From the Women's Liberation Movement Resource Type: Book First Published: 1970 The first comprehensive collection of writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, including articles, poems, photographs, and manifestos.
- Morgenstern, Eve: Cheshire, Ohio
An American coal story in 3 acts Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2016 Published: 2017 Follows a community devastated by coal, starting with American Electric Power's buyout and bulldozing of this Ohio River town, after exposing them to years of harmful emissions.
- Moriarity, Maury: Book Review: Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013
- Morlin-Yron, Sophie: Lead poisoning - fighting industrial pollution in Kenya is a dangerous business
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Lead poisoning from industrial pollution has imposed a terrible toll on Kenyans, and single mother Phyllis Omido is no exception -- lead from a nearby metal refinery badly damaged her own son's health. But it was when she decided to fight back against the polluters that a whole new realm of threats and dangers opened up.
- Morlin-Yron, Sophie: Securing communal land rights for Tanzania's Indigenous Peoples
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Commuting between land rights negotiations in the city and herding goats on the plains, Edward Loure is at once a traditional Maasai and a modern urbanite. That ability to straddle the two very different worlds he inhabits has been key to his success at having 200,000 acres of land registered into village and community ownership.
- Morlin-Yron, Sophie: Winner of the 2017 Goldman Environmental Prize for Asia: Prafulla Samantara
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Prafulla Samantara, winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for his relentless efforts, has made it his life's work to fight injustice by lending a voice to Indigenous communities and small scale farmers.
- Morlin-Yron, Sophie; Tickell, Oliver: Africa's Farm Revolution - Who will Benefit?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 A farming revolution is under way in Africa, pushed by giant corporations and the UK's aid budget. It will surely be good for the global economy, but will Africa's small farmers see the benefit?
- Morozov, Evgeny: How much for your data?
What you whistle in the shower Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Rapacious financialisation risks turning everything we are and have into a productive asset. And the foremost asset is our personal data, mined by digitalised technology.
- Morozov, Evgeny: To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2014 Many of us have come to believe that any complex situation can be solved by finding the right algorithm to fix it. Morozov argues that real-world problems can rarely be solved with technological solutions.
- Morpurgo, Horatio: Beyond Solidarity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 The American sociologist Richard Sennett has explored themes of class and social exclusion for more than 40 years. Horatio Morpurgo speaks with him about his recent book Together: The Rituals, Pleasure and Politics of Co-operation.
- Morris, William; Bax. E. Belfort: The Utopists: Owen, Saint Simon, and Fourier
Chapter 13 of Socialism From The Root Up Resource Type: Article First Published: 1888
- Morris, Brett S.: Laos After the Bombs
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 From 1964 to 1973, the US dropped two million tons of bombs on Laos. The horrendous effects are still being felt.
- Morris, Brian: Bakunin
The Philosophy of Freedom Resource Type: Book First Published: 1993 An attempt to portray Bakunin's political theories in a coherent manner.
- Morris, David: Occupy Giving Why do the 1% give less than the rest of us?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 Nearly two thirds of Americans donate to charities each year. This year we will send more than $225 billion to charities. This year, when the stark divide between the 1% and the 99% has begun to inform our thinking and our approach, it might be instructive to examine the world of giving through that lens.
- Morris, David: Public Disinterest: Information Commons Dismantled
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 Seventy-five years after the Federal Radio Commission declared there was no room on the public airwaves for “propaganda stations” and denied a license renewal to a station that attacked Jews and law enforcement agencies, the airwaves are filled with both propaganda and venom. Today the airwaves, stripped of commons rules, feed hatred.
- Morris, Fanella: The Threat of the Tag
Resource Type: Article Tracking anklets for convicts are not a good way to alleviate prison overcrowding.
- Morris, Michael: Robert Wedderburn: race, religion and revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 As a Scottish-Jamaican “mulatto” radical preacher and leader of working class movements in 19th century London, Wedderburn has been identified as a “linchpin” of the “Atlantic Working Class” — that group of amorphous, multi-ethnic, subaltern peoples linked by the ocean in suffering and resistance around the Atlantic continents of Africa, the Americas and Europe.
- Morris, Norval; Rothman, David J. (eds.): The Oxford History of the Prison
The Practice of Punishment in Western Society Resource Type: Book First Published: 1997 Thematic chapters explore a variety of aspects and institutions.
- Morris, Ruth: Quaker Prison Committee
A series of reflections by Ruth Morris, director of Canadian Friends Service Committee Resource Type: Article First Published: 1977 A look at two case histories vis. the bail system and pre-trial treatment of those charged.
- Morris, Ruth: Stories of Transformative Justice
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2000
- Morris, Ruth; Glasbeek, Harry; Martin, Dianne: We're Being Cheated!
Corporate and Welfare Fraud: The Hidden Story Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1997 We've allowed our corporate dominated media and politicians to sell us a bill of goods that welfare fraud is a big problem. Meanwhile, corporations continue on their robber baron path, virtually untouched by enforcement of our social rights.
- Morris, William: Art and Labour
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1884 Says Morris: "By art, I do not mean only pictures and sculpture, nor only these and architecture, that is beautiful building properly ornamented; these are only a portion of art, which comprises, as I understand the word a great deal more; beauty produced by the labour of man both mental and bodily, the expression of the interest man takes in the life of man upon the earth with all its surroundings, in other words the human pleasure of life is what I mean by art."
- Morris, William: Art and Socialism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1884 Morris sees work as a necessity of human life, not merely as a means of obtaining a livelihood. Morris insists that only socialism can restore work to its proper, central position.
- Morris, William: Art Under Plutocracy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1883 Published: 1884 Morris asks "What kind of an account shall we be able to give to those who come after us of our dealings with the earth, which our forefathers handed down to us still beautiful, in spite of all the thousands of years of strife and carelessness and selfishness?"
- Morris, William: Art, Wealth, and Riches
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1883 A lecture by William Morris, delivered in Manchester in 1883. Morris poses the question "Is art to be limited to a narrow class who only care for it in a very languid way, or is it to be the solace and pleasure of the whole people?"
- Morris, William: A Dream of John Ball
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1888 Morris' novel describes a dream and time travel leading to an encounter between the medieval and modern worlds. Morris describes a positive image of the Middle Ages, seeing it as a golden, if brief, period when peasants were prosperous and happy and guilds protected workers from exploitation.
It contains the famous passage "... I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name..."
- Morris, William: How I Became a Socialist
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1894 Morris looks back over his life and describes his political development.
- Morris, William: How We Live and How We Might Live
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1884 Published: 1887 Morris sees capitalist society as based on war between nations, between rival capitalists, against colonial peoples and between classes. Only the victory of Socialist revolution can end all these wars.
- Morris, William: The Ideal Book
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1893 The designer William Morris describes his ideas about book design.
- Morris, William: Morris, William - Internet Archive - Index
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- Morris, William: William Morris Quotes
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- Morris, William: News from Nowhere
or An Epoch of Rest: Being Some Chapters From a Utopian Romance Resource Type: Book First Published: 1890 Published: 1892 A utopian novel by William Morris which combines a vision of working class revolution with a picture of a society that is primarily agricultural and based on handicraft production.
- Morris, William: The Policy of Abstention
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1887 Morris argues that socialism should be fought for using mass action rather than parliamentary action.
- Morris, William: Socialism and Anarchism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1889 Morris repudiates the anarchist view that freedom from authority means the individual doing what he pleases under all circumstances. This, he says is "an absolute negation of society".
- Morris, William: Socialism: The Ends and the Means
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1886 Shall we waste our wealth or use it? Why do we waste it now? Because we are cowards and therefore unjust. The wealth was made by all and should be used for the benefit of all; but we in our fear have forgotten what is meant by all.
- Morris, William: Statement of Principles of the Hammersmith Socialist Society
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1890 Advocates "an essential change in the basis of society: the present basis is privilege for the few and consequent servitude for the many; the further basis will be equality of condition for all, which we firmly believe to be the essence of true society."
- Morris, William: Useful Work versus Useless Toil
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1883 Morris proposes that while work is essential for our survival, nevertheless "there is some labour which is so far from being a blessing that it is a curse; that it would be better for the community and for the worker if the latter were to fold his hands and refuse to work."
- Morris, William; Bax, E. Belfort: The Manifesto of The Socialist League
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1885 Advocating the principles of Revolutionary International Socialism; that is, we seek a change in the basis of Society - a change which would destroy the distinctions of classes and nationalities.
- Morris, William; Bax, E. Belfort: Socialism From The Root Up
or Socialism Its Growth & Outcome Resource Type: Book First Published: 1886 Published: 1888 Traces the development of history in relation to socialism.
- Morrison, Bill (director): The Miners' Hymns
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2010 The ill-fated coal mining communities in North East England are the subject of this inspired documentary by multi-media artist Bill Morrison.
- Morrison, Daphne Photography by Barnett, Robin: Being Pregnant
Conversations with Women Resource Type: Book First Published: 1987
- Morrison, Derrick: Birth of the Abolitionist Nation
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Manisha Sinha's The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition.
- Morrison, Derrick: Class & Race in A Modern Catastrophe: Lessons of Katrina
Against The Current vol. 155 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 Hurricane Katrina was a catastrophic disaster that resulted in over eighteen hundred fatalities, the displacement of at least 1.2 million people, and economic losses that are not yet finally accounted, but may approach $100 billion. Approximately 2.5 million residences were damaged by the category three storm that made landfall on the morning of August 29, 2005.
- Morrison, Derrick: Confederate Monuments Down
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 For the rewriters, the Civil War became a "misunderstanding" (as Donald Trump echoes today) and Confederate generals and politicians were transformed into great Southern heroes and cultural icons. African-Americans were routinely humiliated, brutalized, and mutilated.
- Morrison, Derrick: Election and Revolution
Book Review Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 A review of two volumes by August H. Nimtz: "Lenin's Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels Through the Revolution of 1905" and "Lenin's Electoral Strategy from 1907 to the October Revolution of 1917".
- Morrison, Derrick: From Reconstruction to Capitalist Crisis
Against The Current vol. 144 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 The outcome of the Civil War registered the defeat of the Army of the Confederate states, the defeat of the army of the slaveholders, and a victory for the army of the owners of the railroads and big industrial enterprises committed to free, or wage labor. The political party of the big property holders, the Republican party, was supported by the mass of small farmers, urban workers, small business owners and the abolitionist movement.
- Morrison, Derrick: Post-Katrina New Orleans: A Third Reconstruction?
Against The Current vol. 144 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 When Union Army troops under the command of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler entered and occupied New Orleans in April of 1862, so began the first Reconstruction of the city and the state of Louisiana. The rise and then the defeat of the historic democratic struggle known as the first Reconstruction — discussed in the accompanying sidebar [as well as reviews by Robert Caldwell and Jim Toweill elsewhere in this issue] — sets the context in which we find today’s New Orleans, four years after the levee collapse.
- Morrison, Derrick: A Saga of Revolution
Book Review of Reiss' "The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo" Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 A review of Tom Reiss' biography of Alexandre Dumas, a largely underemphasized figure in the French Revolution and the slave trade during the 18th century.
- Morrison, Derrick: The Unknown Slave Rebellion
Against The Current vol. 156 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 Though the planters had no difficulty reconciling the wealth they enjoyed and the price the slaves paid, the region’s black laborers did. By aborting their own children, poisoning livestock, lighting fires, and escaping to the cypress swamps, the slaves struggled to dilute, deflect, and if possible demolish slaveholders’ authority. Even open revolt was not beyond question. While it was a card that slaves played only rarely — planters tended to take a dim and deadly view of armed rebellion — the German Coast teemed with violent possibilities. The planters’ world rested on a powder keg to be ignited by the smallest of sparks.
- Morrison, Derrick: Waging the War on Slavery
Against The Current vol. 147 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 The settlement of Lawrence in the territory of Kansas, summer of 1856: Pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers are trying to colonize the territory. The former want a slave-soil, the latter a free-soil state. Armed pro-slavery gangs from Missouri are harassing and attacking the free-soil settlers. The U.S. government and U.S. Army are pro-slavery.
- Morrison, Dorothy; Dehr, Roma; Bazar, Ronald M.: We Can Do It!
A Kid's Peace Book Resource Type: Book First Published: 1985
- Morrison, Ian: Frederico and Ingrid Luchsinger
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1979
- Morrison, James H.: The Right to Read
Social Justice, Literacy, and the Creation of Frontier College: The Alfred Fitzpatrick Story Resource Type: Book First Published: 2023 The story of Frontier College, founded to bringing literacy education to adult workers in remote locations.
- Morrison, Nevin: Marxism and the Fight Against Native Oppression in Canada
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Published: 2015 Our political tendency has always emphasized the need to combat the special oppression of Natives, blacks, women and others. Such oppression is intimately connected with the “normal” capitalist exploitation of the workers and must be fought by means of the class struggle. Most of our opponents on the left these days reject historical materialism, just as they reject the perspective of working-class revolution and instead push variants of Native cultural nationalism and "ecosocialism."
- Morrison, Roy: Facebook: A Cooperative Transformation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Facebook represents a standard for a global model of concentration of wealth and power in the 21st century, joined by companies like Google, Amazon, and Uber. Entrepreneurs with computer skills and good or lucky timing have privatized and enclosed the global information commons and have enriched themselves by providing services for free or for reduced prices to the billions.
- Morriss, W.E.: Watch the Rope
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1996
- Morrow, Will: As lies on Syrian gas attack unravel, US and UK shift to claims of Russian "cyber war"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An examination of the alleged gas attack in Syria as pretext for yet another war against a Middle Eastern nation, the suppression of anti-war sentiment, and the legitimization and crackdown on democratic rights and censorship of the Internet under the banner of combating Russian cyber warfare.
- Morrow, Will: Facebook announces latest step in censorship campaign, prioritizing "local news"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media giant will prioritize news from 'local sources' in the News Feed displayed to users. This is the third move this year in a roll-out of updates by Facebook aimed at censoring online information.
- Morrow, Will: Paris police use pepper spray against seated climate change protesters
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Police in Paris have been filmed pepper-spraying peaceful protestors. This is part of Macron's crackdown on the "yellow vest" movement in which several protestors have been seriously injured.
- Morse, Randy; Pratt, Larry: Darkness at the End of the Tunnel
A Radical Analysis of Canadian-American Relations Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1975
- Morss, Alex: Moving past climate denial
Deniers feel that the impacts of climate breakdown don't matter, but the solutions pose an imminent threat, new research shows. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Katharine Hayhoe, a climate researcher and political science professor argues that it's more productive to show climate change skeptics that solutions are beneficial to them rather than trying to make them believe in the science of climate change.
- Mortenson, Greg; Relin, David Oliver: Three Cups of Tea
One Man's Mission To Promote Peace ... One School At A Time Resource Type: Book First Published: 2006
- Mortimer, Wyndham: Organize! My Life as a Union Man
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1971
- Mortinston, Peter: If boycotts could change the system they'd be illegal
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1996 A ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal says that boycotting by a grassroots group Friends of the Lubicon Lake Cree Nation of Daishowa paper products was illegal because it resulted in economic harm to the corporation. This is an example of a growing number of "SLAPP suits" Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation brought by corporations against activists.
- Morton, Brian: All Shook Up: The Politics of Cultural Appropriation
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 In the era of global capitalism, imagining the lives of others is a crucial form of solidarity.
- Morton, Desmond: NDP: The Dream of Power
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1974 A history of Canada's New Democratic Party from its origins to 1973.
- Morton, Desmond; Copp, Terry: Working People
An Illustrated History of Canadian Labour Resource Type: Book First Published: 1980
- Morton, Marian: Emma Goldman and the American Left: Nowhere at Home
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1992 A biography of Emma Goldman.
- Morton, Peggy: They Are Burning Effigies They Are Burning Effigies Why, Why, Why, Effigies?
Resource Type: Pamphlet Morton argues that the Women's Movement has attempted to organize women around their perceived weaknesses. Instead, she argues for an autonomous Women's Movement predicated on the inherent strength of women and on solidarity with other groups engaged in struggle.
- Morton, Thomas: The New English Canaan
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1637
- Mortágua, Joana: Portuguese Workers vs. Austerity
Against The Current vol. 158 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 The General Strike of March 22, 2012 was the second called by the Portuguese trade unions since the IMF/European Commission/European Central Bank (“Troika”) intervened a year ago to impose austerity measures that almost forced the country to its knees. This is the third strike since the financial crisis took hold.
- Moschlitz, Ed: Mama Illegal
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2012 They gave the smugglers all their money and risk their life on their journey across borders: Three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in Austria and Italy as cleaning women. On top of their hard job they live a life in illegality without documents, far away from their children and family for years.
- Moseley, Fred: Are we headed for another depression?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1979 Summarizing from a Marxian perspective the most important factors determining the structure of the economy, Moseley concludes that both the squeezing of workers' living standards and government economic interventions can, at best, only prevent a sudden collapse of the system.
- Moseley, Fred: Reply
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A reply by the author of "Money and Totality: A Macro-Monetary Interpretation of Marx’s Logic in Capital and the End of the Transformation Problem" to two previous responses to his book.
- Moser, Richard: Beyond Corporate Power
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 By concentrating on corporate power we can end up looking to the state for solutions. But the only way to achieve even the moderate reforms necessary is through revolutionary mass movements.
- Moser, Richard: Doubling Down: The Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not In Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The two most important narratives imposed on us are climate change as a "threat to national security" and as a "business opportunity" - the twin rationales for military and corporate power. They want to focus us on how to manage the crisis, profit from it, or adapt to it, instead of opposing it.
- Moser, Richard: Dumbass Democrats
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 The Democrats were oblivious to the deep discontent among the American people because that simply does not figure into their clever and cunning calculations. Why should it? Fear, lesser of two evils, scapegoating, palace politics -- all these things worked in the past, didn't they?
- Moser, Richard: Empire Abroad, Empire At Home
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The institutions and ideas U.S. elites used to project "full spectrum dominance" onto the global stage have eventually become part of the political order in the U.S. It is empire -- most of all -- that dooms democracy. As corporations have an insatiable drive for profit, empires have an insatiable drive for power.
- Moser, Richard: Jackson Rising: At Last, a Real Strategic Plan
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Moser reviews Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi.
- Moser, Richard: Neoliberalism: Free Market Fundamentalism or Corporate Power?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 The idea of "free market fundamentalism (FMF)" omits the fact that neoliberalism requires state intervention to run, so criticism of neoliberalsm based on FMF is ahistorical and self-defeating.
- Moser, Richard: No Ban! No Wall! No War?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The corporate media avoids connecting our wars to Trump's ban because war and empire is a matter of agreement among the political elites, an elite that the corporate media is very much a part of.
- Moser, Richard: Radical White Workers During the Last Revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The long-lost story of anti-racist, radical white working class activism has been restored by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy in their invaluable book: Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times.
- Moser, Richard: Towards a Transformative Electoral Strategy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An essay on Electoral Strategy for the left in the United States.
- Moser, Richard: What is Organizing?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Morgan reviews the history of Organizing in the USA and provides advice to activists on how to organize in an inclusive, constructive, way.
- Moses, Greg: Revolution of Conscience
Martin Luther King Jr., and the Philosophy of Nonviolence Resource Type: Book First Published: 1998 Moses explores key ideas about Martin Luther King Jr. and his philosophy in relation to the American civil rights movement, racial equality and nonviolence.
- Moses, Greg: While Everyone Else Went to College, I Went to Jail
A Conversation With Saad Nabeel Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010
- Moses, Nigel: All That Was Left
Student Struggles for Mass Student Aid and the Abolition of Tuition Fees in Ontario, 1945-1975 Resource Type: Article First Published: 1995 PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 1995
- Moss, Andrew: Why ICE Raids Imperil Us All
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Millions of people who have been living and working in the U.S., contributing to their communities and to the economy, are now at risk simply for who they are: people "without papers."
- Moss, Daniel: Tear Down the Dam; Restore the Commons
Temacapulin Fights for Its Survival Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 Over 47,000 large dams around the world have displaced some 40,000,000 people. The World Bank has invested more than $60 billion in 600 dams.
- Mosse, G.: The Nationalization of the Masses
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1975
- Mostyn, Trevor: Censorship in Islamic Societies
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2003 A study of censorship in Islamic societies, concentrating on key events throughout history. The text includes analysis of: censorship in Algeria the "fatwa" against Salman Rushdie Taliban repression in Afghanistan and the 1980 transmission on British TV of "Death of a Princess".
- Motopu, Comrade: Coopting the language of the left at the pro-life march on Washington
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Examining the use of left wing rhetoric by a participant of the pro-life match on Washington to justify right wing ideologies and policies, and the broader impliciations of such tactics.
- Mottem, Nicholas: Suffering Strong
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989 This readable book tells readers much about the underlying causes of hunger in Africa. Through the author's powers of observation, the readers experience the horror of seeing both a starving child and the thrill of accomplishment of irrigated fields in Eritrea. The odyssey details the devastating impact of the West's two hundred year presence on the wars and oppression that today cause hunger and death in Africa.
- Moulitsas, Markos: American Taliban
How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right Resource Type: Book First Published: 2010 America's main international enemy- Islamic radicalism - favors theocracy, curtails civil liberties, embraces torture, represses women, reviles homosexuality, subverts science and education, and reveres force over diplomacy. Markos Moulitsas shows how the American right shares those very same traits. He argues that our domestic jihadists are a greater threat to American democracy than any Islamic terrorist.
- Mountain, Thomas: Mali, Wahabis, and Saudis
Following the Money Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 The impact of the Wahabi movement in Mali.
- Mousa, Aseel: "It Surpassed Tragedy": The Horrors of Being Pregnant and Giving Birth in Gaza
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2024 Women in Gaza are giving birth in a health care system that is on the brink of collapse, with little access to prenatal or postnatal care.
- Moustakbal, Jawad: Moroccan Catastrophic Convergence
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The convergance of injustices in Morocco - climate change, neoliberalism, political suppression - make for a completely untenable situation. This could make people hopeful since it makes radical change the only possibility.
- Mowat, Farley: Rescue the Earth!
Conversations with the Green Crusaders Resource Type: Book 14 conversations with activists and thinkers concerning the understanding and redemption of the natural world in the late twentieth century.
- Mowat, Farley: Sea of Slaughter
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1986 Published: 1984 Documents the white European's onslaught on the North American continent, and its devastating results for other life. Mowat writes of the slaughter of buffalo and walrus, wolves and whales, of the virtual destruction of the salmon fishery on the east coast.
- Moyers, Bill: A Drone Protestor Heads to Jail
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out.
- Moyers, Bill: The Fiery Cage and the Lynching Tree, Brutality's Never Far Away
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 They burned him alive in an iron cage, and as he screamed and writhed in the agony of hell they made a sport of his death. After listening to one newscast after another rightly condemn the barbaric killing of that Jordanian air force pilot at the bloody hands of ISIS, I couldn’t sleep.
- Moyers, Bill: How the Nazis Used Jim Crow Laws as the Model for Their Race Laws
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 An interview with James Q. Whitman about his new book "Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law".
- Moyers, Bill; Reed, Adolph Jr.: Adolph Reed Jr.: The Surrender of America's Liberals
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. talks with Bill Moyers about his provocative titled article in the March issue of Harper's Magazine, and why the left is no longer a significant force in American politics.
- Moyles, David: the Jews, Israel, and the Holocaust - Key Texts
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 The Blairites' crocodile tears are about defending empire, writes David Moyles in this introduction to The Jews, Israel and the Holocaust by Tony Cliff.
- Moynihan, Keven (Audio-Visual Studios - Producer): For Bread and Hope
Resource Type: Slide Show First Published: 1976 15 min. slide-tape looking critically at migration and regional under-development in Canada.
- Mrosovsky, Lara Lucretia: An Illustrated Guide to Growing Food on Your Balcony
Resource Type: Book First Published: 2011 Published: 2015 A booklet for people in the city who grow or want to grow plants in container. The information is meant to be basic enough for beginners and informattive enough to be a handy reference for even an experienced gardener.
- MST: Landless Workers' Movement on the True Origins of Brazil's Political Crisis
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Brazil's Landless Worker's Movement, MST, takes a profound look at Brazil's political crisis, how it affects the working class and how they must respond.
- Muder, Doug: Six True Things Politicians Can’t Say
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011
- Muder, Doug: Suck It Up: Using Our Pride Against Us
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011
- Mueler, David: Working in Nonprofit Organizations
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 If people want to work in jobs that provide some satisfaction and flexibility, nonprofits jobs can be good for a while. They’re also a way to learn some skills. But don’t have illusions about nonprofit organizations. A job in a nonprofit organization is still a job. A nonprofit job is not a good way to make a contribution to revolutionary change and it’s often not a very good contribution even to smaller scale reformist change.
- Mueller, Gavin: Gimme the Loot
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 Once the heroes of nations, pirates went from being state-sponsored champions to tolerated annoyances to the basest sort of criminals. Henry Morgan was knighted after plundering Panama in 1674; fifty years later hundreds of pirates were dangling from the gibbet at remote trading posts along Africa’s Gold Coast.
- Mugeres (Latin American and Carribean Women's Collective): Slaves of Slaves
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1980 This is about women in Latin America and the Carribean. Their subjection and their resistance, their particular problems as well as their common struggle alongside other women come across strikingly in this clear and succint book. The author's frequent use of examples and personal testimony also makes it very readable.
- Mughal, Aftab Alexander: Pakistan's blasphemy laws – The Supreme Court, Asia Bibi and the laws' historical background
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A description of a blasphemy case in Pakistan. Also includes a history of blasphemy laws going back to British India.
- Mugubane, Zine: Contemporary Race Theory and the Problem of History: A Critique
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2022 The inability of contemporary race theory to fully account for and explain (rather than just label) the social dynamics that produce and reproduce inequality stems from two core assumptions that form the bedrock for this taxonomic project. The first is that anti-Black racism is an unalterable feature of American life - hence the impetus towards labeling and naming the different and ostensibly novel forms that racism takes. The second is that class analysis in inadequate theoretically, and class struggle is politically outmoded.
- Mugyeni, Bianca; Engler, Yves: Cars and Class
"A Reckless, Blood-Thirsty, Villainous Lot ... " Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 Making life difficult for cars could be, in fact, described as a form of class war, but one that works in the long-term interests of the poor and working class.
- Muhammad, Umair: Can we shop our way to a better world?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 In this article Umair Mohammad summarizes arguments from the introduction and first chapter of his book Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism. Mohammad argues that lifestyle change and 'ethical consumerism' are not bridges to effective social change, but barriers to it. To build effective social movements, he says, we must begin by rejecting individualist approaches.
- Muhammad, Umair: Confronting Injustice
Social Activism in the Age of Individualism Resource Type: Book First Published: 2014 Published: 2016 Confronting Injustice is a call for collective action against the social causes of poverty and climate change, written by a socialist organizer for activists.
- Muhammad, Umair: The path to power: 'Let's commit to the long haul'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 The following discussion of strategy for social change, by Umair Muhammad, was first published under the title "An Altered Position," as an afterword to the second edition of his book Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism.
- Muhammad, Umair: The Strange Workings of Identity and Adolph Reed Jr.'s Thought
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 One of the cornerstones of the socialist approach to identity is the insistence that identities are not naturally occurring but are, rather, the products of history. The controversy surrounding Reed’s work offers an opportunity to try to clarify our understanding of identity.
- Mukerjee, Hirendranath: Gandhiji: A Study 1960
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1960
- Mukerjee, Hirendranath: India's Struggle for Freedom
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1962
- Mukherjee, Ritayan: 'The happy days are now just nostalgia'
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Along with the temperatures, the Brokpa say, the entire weather pattern has become increasingly unpredictable in the past two decades in the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh, which border the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, Bhutan and Myanmar.
- Mukhopadhyay, Bhaswati; Chakrabarty, Saumyadeb: Taser Company Uses Facebook, Blogs to Improve Image Amidst Lawsuits
Stun-gun maker Taser blogs to beat bad buz Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 The company, whose main product is a lightning rod for criticism, is increasingly using blogs and social networks to promote new products and dispel anxieties about them.
- Mulhall, Douglas; Rose, Bonnie; Et al.: The Co-operative Union of Canada
Organization profile published 1976 Resource Type: Organization First Published: 1976 An educational and promotional organization for all cooperative projects.
- Mullen, Bill: Is there a White Skin Privilege?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 The idea that all whites are privileged at the expense of Blacks is popular on the left -- but Bill Mullen makes the case that Marxism offers a better understanding of racism.
- Mullen, Bill V.: Detroit Radicals' Odessey
In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James & Grace Lee Boggs Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Book review of Stephen M. Ward's In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James & Grace Lee Boggs.
- Mullen, Bill V.: Inspired by Injustice: Scottsboro in History
Against The Current vol. 144 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2010 “In many respects this is an archival project,” writes James A. Miller, Chair of the American Studies Department at George Washington University, at the end of his introduction to Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial.
- Mumford, Lewis: From the Ground Up
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1947 Published: 1956
- Mumford, Lewis: Lewis Mumford Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Mumtaz, Khawar; Shaheed, Farida: Women of Pakistan
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1987 This book is the first history of Pakistani women's struggles for their rights in the 20th century. From the Education Reform Movement around 1900 to the current campaigns, the authors make it clear the diverse conditions affecting Pakistani women, and set their struggle in the context of the country's troubled politics and the specific role of Islam. They tell of the courage and skill with which Pakistani women have resisted the regime's systematic steps to deny them their rights.
- Munayyer, Yousef: Boycott the state, not just the settlements
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2011 West Bank settlements would not be viable without government aid, so boycotts should target the Israeli state as well.
- Munck, Ronaldo: Politics and Dependency in the Third World
The Case of Latin America Resource Type: Book The author constructs a theory of dependent politics in Third World countries. Munck shows that despite different political methods used and different governmental institutions, the countries of the Third World are still manipulated by foreign influences.
- Munck, Ronaldo; Falcon, Ricardo; Galitelli, Bernardo: Argentina: From Anarchism to Peronism
Workers, Unions and Politics 1855-1985 Resource Type: Book This book by three Argentinian authors traces the history of what is Latin America's oldest and largest working class. Its mid-19th century origins in migration from overseas and internal proletarianization are traced. The authors relate the history of Argentinian workers' clashes with both the state and employers and the preponderant influence that anarchists and syndicalists had over the labour movement in the early 20th century.
- Muncy, Raymond Lee: Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
Nineteenth-Century America Resource Type: Book First Published: 1973 A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
- Mundi, Amor: You Are Not An Experience
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A growing number of intellectuals are arguing that free speech needs to be subordinated to the goal of protecting the feelings of people who don't want to hear views that they find threatening. They are wrong.
- Mundy, Martha: Yemen as Laboratory: Why is the West So Silent About This Savage War?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 What is at stake in Yemen that far more systematic violations of the Geneva Conventions than in any of the recent wars which Western powers have supported in the Arab world (Iraq, Syria, Libya and Gaza) are met with resounding silence? For six months there has been a blockade of food and fuel, and management of aid (even that through the UN) as part of war strategy, bombing of civilian, historical, educational, religious and medical targets, destruction of infrastructure from roads to electricity and water, and use of prohibited weapons.
- Mundy, Toby: The Price of Books, The Value of Civilization
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 I have come to think that books occupy this valuable position in our civilisation because they are the only medium for thick descriptions of the world that human beings possess. By ‘thick’ description, I mean an extended, detailed, evidence-based, written interpretation of a subject. If you want to write a feature or blog or wikipedia entry, be it about the origins of the first world war; the authoritarian turn in Russia; or the causes and effects of the 2008 financial crisis, in the end you will have to refer to a book. Or at least refer to other people who have referred to books. Even the best magazine pieces and TV documentaries – and the best of these are very good indeed – are only puddle-deep compared with the thick descriptions laid out in books. They are ‘thin’ descriptions and the creators and authors of them will have referred extensively to books to produce their work.
- Munger, Sean: Fire in the dark: the astonishing story of the Courrieres mine disaster
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 One hundred and eight years ago today, on March 10, 1906, an explosion and fire occurred deep underground in a coal mine owned by the Courrières mining company underneath the village of Billy-Montigny in northern France. A total of 1,099 miners died, including many children.
- Munis, G., Zerzan, J.: Unions Against Revolution
Resource Type: Book Unions -- as well as employers -- stand in the way of workers' political freedom. Labour militants who become union leaders enforce industrial discipline just as Lenin and Stalin advocated. In the pamphlet's second essay, John Zerzan documents "The Revolt Against Work."
- Munoz, Eduardo: Fake cell phone 'towers' may be spying on Americans' calls, texts
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 More than a dozen 'fake cell phone towers' could be secretly hijacking Americans' mobile devices in order to listen in on phone calls or snoop on text messages, a security-focused cell phone company claims. It is not clear who controls the devices.
- Munslow, Barry (ed.): Africa
Problems in the Transition to Socialism Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989 The obstacles and strategies in the transition from inherited colonial and capitalist economies toward socialism are the topics of this title. New information and political insights make this the first serious attempt to explore the important questions thrown up by the experiences of those African states that have tried to break with prevailing neo-colonial patterns.
- Munslow, Barry; Katerere, Y.M.; Ferf, A.G.E; O'Keefe. P.: The Fuelwood Trap
Policy and Planning in the SADCC Resource Type: Book First Published: 1989 The vast majority of the 60 million people in SADCC countries rely on woodfuel for domestic use. As supplies diminish, the quality of life is deteriorating while the environment becomes more and more degraded. This book looks at the demands to be made on politicians and planners and describes not simply the costs and effects of the problem but also suggests major ways forward.
- Munson, James: The Left Has Better Things to Do Than Watch Liberals Scratch Their Heads
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Drawing from author David Harvey's work "The Ways of the World", Munson examines how Liberal-democracy has changed when the nucleus of capitalism shifted in the 1970's from the production of goods to the production of 'signs'. He further examines how 'neo-liberalism' is now grappling and adjusting in the era of Trump.
- Munson, Marit, K.; Jamieson, Susan, M. (Editors): Before Ontario
The Archaeology of a Province Resource Type: Book First Published: 2013 An accessible introduction to Ontario's Aboriginal past, from the province's leading archaelogists, before Ontario bridges the gap between the modern world and a past that can seem distant and unfamiliar, but is not beyond our reach.
- Mura, Roberta: Searching for Subjectivity in the World of the Sciences
Feminist Viewpoints Resource Type: Book First Published: 1991
- Murfin, Patrick: Victorian Class War -- Bloody Sunday at Trafalgar Square
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Patrick Murfin recalls a part of UK history, Bloody Sunday at Trafalgar Square.
- Murphy, Brett: Rigged. Forced into Debt. Worked past exhaustion. Left with nothing.
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Port trucking companies in southern California have spent the past decade forcing drivers to finance their own trucks by taking on debt, which is then used as leverage to extract forced labor and trap drivers in jobs that leave them destitute.
- Murphy, Brian K.: Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
An Open Conspiracy for Social Change Resource Type: Book First Published: 1999 Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
- Murphy, David: The time has come for France to own up to the massacre of its own troops in Senegal
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 The truth about a massacre of sub-Saharans who fought on the French side in World War II must be acknowledged.
- Murphy, Dylan: Abandoned in the Cold and Dark
Living Under Siege people of Gaza Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 The world has forgotten Gaza, its women and children. The people of Gaza are being crushed under the Israeli blockade which severely restricts essential supplies coming into the strip. The blockade is as bad as the war; it’s like a slow death for everyone in Gaza.
- Murphy, Elliot: Prospects for an Alt-Left
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Examining the limitations and issues with prevalent approaches of younger progressives and how a more effective 'alt-left' movement might be formed.
- Murphy, Fred and Angus, Ian: Two Views on Marxist Ecology and Jason W. Moore
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 On June 6, 2016, Climate & Capitalism published an interview with John Bellamy Foster, in which he for the first time responded to nearly a decade of criticism from Jason W. Moore, who accuses Foster of "Cartesian dualism" and who promotes what he calls "world-ecology" as an alternative to the approach Foster is most associated with, metabolic rift theory and Ecological Marxism.
- Murphy, Kevin: Theorizing the Soviet Bureaucracy
Review of Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 A review of the book: Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy by Thomas M. Twiss.
- Murphy, Lily: A Flame Gone Out - obituary
The Legacy of Stephane Hessel Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 Obituary for Stephane Hessel.
- Murphy, Maureen Clare: Cruelty against Gaza patients enabled by US and EU
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2022 The cruelty of the siege of Gaza and the depravity of those who prolong it cannot be overstated.
- Murphy, Maureen Clare: Israeli army shuts down prominent Palestinian rights groups
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2022 Israeli occupation forces have raided, sealed and imposed closure orders on the offices of several prominent Palestinian human rights, feminist and social services organizations in the West Bank.
- Murphy, Maureen Clare: Israeli exports hit hard by Palestinian boycott, World Bank says
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 The Palestinian campaign to boycott Israeli goods has exacted a major cost on Israel's exports to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Even though the World Bank's report has modestly recognized so, they have failed to address any trace of occupation.
- Murphy, Maureen Clare: Review: Poster art of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2004
- Murphy, Meghan: Historic Speaker's Corner Becomes Site of Anti-feminist Silencing and Volence
Efforts to silence feminist speech have taken a violent turn Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 The "What is gender" debate at the historic Speaker's Corner in London turned vitriolic and violent when opposing organizations accused the discussion of potentially inciting "transmisogyny."
- Murphy, Pauline: The Death of Liam Tumilson, an Irish Anti-Fascist in Spain
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Murphy commemorates the life of Liam Tumilson, who fought against facism in the Spanish Civil War.
- Murphy, Pauline: Fighting Fascism: the Irish at the Battle of Cordoba
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A history of the role played by Irish citizens who enlisted to fight against General Franco's fascist forces in Spain in 1936.
- Murphy, Pauline: Fighting Franco: the First Irish Casualties of the Spanish Civil War
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 A brief biography of Tommy Patten and Jack Barry focusing on their involvement in the Spanish Civil War.
- Murphy, Pauline: The Irish Dead: Fighting Fascism in Spain, 1937
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 In the springtime of 1937, Spain was in the grip of civil war which flared as intense and as hot as the sun that hung over its skies. Of the many different nationalities that went to Spain to help the Republicans defeat the fascists, it was the Irish who proved to be a dominant force, but death stalked the men from the emerald isle and many of them did not see the end of that intensely hot Summer.
- Murphy, Pauline: The Irishmen Who Fought in the Last Great Battle Against Spanish Fascism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 An account of the numerous Irishmen who were killed, injured, captured and who simply disappeared while volunteering to fight against the rising fascist tide during the Spanish Civil War.
- Murphy, Pauline: Killing Children: From Ireland to Palestine
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 The most tragic casualty in a conflict is that of a child, the most disturbing casualty in a conflict is that of a child killed purposely. In Palestine there is a disturbingly tragic high rate of children killed by those sporting the uniform of Israeli armed forces.
- Murphy, Richard: How are you going to pay for it?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Debates on how government will pay for new programs suffer from a fundamental fallacy: the assumption that the government spends other people's money. It doesn't.
- Murphy, S. Timothy (ed.), Mustapha, Abdul-Karim (ed.): The Philosophy of Antonio Negri
Resistance in Practice Resource Type: Book First Published: 2005
- Murphy, Terry: Korea: The Elections and Sexual Violence
Against The Current vol. 87 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2000 In the April 13 South Korean parliamentary elections, the closest the Democratic Labor Party came to victory was in the Hyundai company town of Ulsan. Their candidate was defeated by a small margin (43% to 41.8%) by the Grand National Party, the traditional party of the military dictatorship, anticommunism, and Kyongsang chauvinism (Ulsan is in South Kyongsang Province). The combination of money, regionalism and boss politics still exerts influence in the working class.
- Murphy, Terry: Raymond Williams and the Moral Project of the New Left
A review of 'Views Beyond the Border Country: Raymond Williams and Cultural Politics' Resource Type: Article First Published: 1997 Views Beyond the Border Country is an ample demonstration that activist-scholarship, a concrete political standpoint and the insights of feminism and anti-racism ought to inform the politics of any future left in North America, both inside and outside the classroom.
- Murray, Andrew and German, Lindsey: Stop the War
The Story of Britain's Biggest Mass Movement Resource Type: Book First Published: 2005
- Murray, Craig: Activating the Genocide Convention
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2023 There is no doubt that Israel's actions amount to genocide. Numerous international law experts have said so and genocidal intent has been directly expressed by numerous Israeli ministers, generals and public officials. I can see no room to doubt whatsoever that Israel's current campaign of bombing of civilians and of the deprivation of food, water and other necessities of life to Palestinians amounts to genocide.
- Murray, Craig: Active Participants in Genocide
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2024 In obedience to Israel, the Western political and media class is isolating itself from public opinion on Gaza in ways hard to believe.
- Murray, Craig: The Balance of Probabilities
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Unlike the famous chemical weapons "attack" portrayed by the BBC in Saving Syria's Children, it does appear that in the latest incident at Idlib there was real horror inflicted by chemical attack of some kind. The question is who did it and why?
- Murray, Craig: Beware the Righteous
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2023 There is nothing more dangerous that the inability to see that it is reasonable for others to have a different view or interest.
- Murray, Craig: Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 Whoever leaked the Mossack Fonseca papers appears motivated by a genuine desire to expose the system that enables the ultra wealthy to hide their massive stashes, often corruptly obtained and all involved in tax avoidance. These Panamanian lawyers hide the wealth of a significant proportion of the 1%, and the massive leak of their documents ought to be a wonderful thing.
Unfortunately the leaker has made the dreadful mistake of turning to the western corporate media to publicise the results. In consequence the first major story, published today by the Guardian, is all about Vladimir Putin and a cellist on the fiddle. As it happens I believe the story and have no doubt Putin is bent.
But why focus on Russia? Russian wealth is only a tiny minority of the money hidden away with the aid of Mossack Fonseca. In fact, it soon becomes obvious that the selective reporting is going to stink.
- Murray, Craig: Craig Murray: Your Man in Saughton Jail Part 2
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2022 Think of every sensible thing you think you know about prison. Think of education, training, rehabilitation. It is all completely ignored by the Scottish Prison Service.
- Murray, Craig: Donziger: a Tale for Our Times
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2022 This case shows how we are all, in a sense, the prisoners of corporations which dictate the terms on which we live, work and share knowledge.
- Murray, Craig: The Empire Strikes Back
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 If you argue a case strongly on the internet you must expect to receive robust argument back. Plus the odd insult. There has been plenty of both in reaction to my posts about corporate media control of access to the data in the Panama Papers. But I believe it is fair to say that the overwhelming public feeling I have picked up through monitoring online discussion worldwide, is that the full data should be made available online in searchable form so that the public can look through it and form their own conclusions.
- Murray, Craig: Fascism in the West to Enable Genocide in Palestine
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2023 The UK and the US are both sending military assistance to Israel to commit a calculated and deliberate act of genocide, which is already underway.
- Murray, Craig: Fascistic Judges
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2023 The jailing of three U.K. climate activists should provide another warning to anyone expecting judges to defend liberties. The current legal establishment will adapt itself to whatever legal framework is ordained by the rulers.
- Murray, Craig: The Great Clutching at Pearls
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2022 Tt turns out Marx was right. The crisis of capitalism is now upon us. Neoliberalism (another word for designing state systems deliberately to lead to incredible concentrations of wealth amid general poverty) is coming to the end of its course.
- Murray, Craig: Human Rights Watch Confirms Israel is an Apartheid State
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2021 The forthright branding of Israel as an apartheid state by Human Rights Watch could be a watershed moment in mainstream acceptance of what Israel has become. Human Rights Watch is not an outlier or left wing organisation. It is very much a part of the establishment in the United States and is not generally associated with hard hitting criticism that conflicts with the promoted interests of the American state. Kenneth Roth, the Human Rights Watch CEO who has been in power longer than Putin, is a darling of the New York liberal and Democratic Party Establishment. That is an important financial source for HRW and includes many members of New York’s highly altruistic liberal Jewish community.
- Murray, Craig: Incredibly, I Face Investigation for Terrorism - Defence Funds Appeal
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2023 My phone is not being returned to me by police as, astonishingly, I am now formally under investigation for terrorism. Whether this relates to support for Palestine or for Wikileaks has currently not been made clear.
- Murray, Craig: It's Still the Iraq War, Stupid.
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 No rational person could blame Jeremy Corbyn for Brexit. So why are the Blairites moving against Corbyn now, with such precipitate haste? The answer is the Chilcot Report. It is only a fortnight away, and though its form will be concealed by thick layers of establishment whitewash, the basic contours of Blair’s lies will still be visible beneath. Corbyn had deferred to Blairite pressure not to apologise on behalf of the Labour Party for the Iraq War until Chilcot is published.
- Murray, Craig: No Trump, No Clinton, No NATO
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Murray explains why the notion that those who do not want Clinton in power are therefore supporters of Trump is intellectually risible and politically dishonest.
- Murray, Craig: Now We Have Your Attention
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2023 There have been decades of photos of dead Palestinian women and children, and kids being beaten, humilated and imprisoned by Israeli soldiers. The historic killing rate in this 'conflict' has been fairly consistent at about 40:1.
- Murray, Craig: Of a Type Developed by Liars
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018 Porton Down scientists are not able to identify the nerve gas as being of Russian manufacture, and have been resentful of the pressure being placed on them to do so. Porton Down would only sign up to the formulation "of a type developed by Russia" after a rather difficult meeting where this was agreed as a compromise formulation.
- Murray, Craig: Pre-Emptive Murder
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2022 The lives of the latest fifteen Palestinian children to be murdered by Israel in Gaza, lives ripped from their small, terrified bodies with devastating violence, do not seem of much concern to the powerful in the West, or indeed anywhere.
- Murray, Craig: Pure: Ten Points I Just Can't Believe About the Official Skripal Narrative
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2021 A lie repeated often enough enters the public consciousness, so I am republishing this in the hope of stimulating the honest and the intellectually awake.
- Murray, Craig: Quality and Propaganda
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2024 An obviously fake video created and circulated by the Australian Jewish Association, which purported to show protesters chanting 'Gas the Jews,' received massive media coverage and went viral, even though it was immediately shown to be fake. Hundreds of mainstream journalists reported it as if it were true.
- Murray, Craig: Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2024 The same powers who fund and arm Ukraine fund and arm genocide by a racial supremacist Israel. My belief in some kind of inherent decency in the Western political Establishment was naive.
- Murray, Craig: Save the Fat Cats
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Very few charities are in any sense independent any more. Save the Children Fund gets 176 million pounds – over half its income - in grants from various governments, including over 80 million from the British government. That compares to 106 million in donations from the public. In 2012 over 70 million pounds was spent by Save the Children UK on its own staff costs.
- Murray, Craig: The Scottish Gestapo
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2023 If you are on the 'wrong' side in the culture wars, you will get prosecuted for an innocuous tweet or a remark in the street. If you are on the 'right' side, you can punch women in the face or parade a sign calling for the decapitation of those who disagree with you, and face no legal jeopardy.
- Murray, Craig: The Slow Motion Execution of Julian Assange
Resource Type: Film/Video First Published: 2023
- Murray, Craig: Snowden and Texeira: Ten Years of Disaster
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2023 The idea that the legacy media in any way serves the truth or the public interest is now completely buried. The legacy media serves the state, and the state serves the billionaires. It is a shame the Washington Post, New York Times, Guardian and Bellingcat each had no interest whatsoever in the journalistic pursuit of the truth behind this extraordinary episode. We live entirely in security states: there is no doubt about it.
- Murray, Craig: Striving to make sense of the Ukraine war
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2022
- Murray, Craig: Sy Hersh & The Way We Live Now
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2023 Coverage of the sabotage of the Nordstream pipelines helped Murray realize something important about how the Big Lie works.
- Murray, Craig: The Twilight of Freedom
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2023 Three British journalists I know personally - Johanna Ross, Vanessa Beeley and Kit Klarenberg - have each in the last two years been detained at immigration for hours on re-entering their own country, and questioned by police under anti-terrorist legislation. This is plainly an abuse of the power to detain at port of entry, because in each case they could have been questioned at any time in the UK were there legitimate cause, and the questioning was not focused on their travels. They were in fact detained and interrogated simply for holding and publishing dissident opinion on foreign policy, and in particular for supporting a more collaborative approach to Russia.
- Murray, Craig: Why the "Two State Solution" is Apartheid
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2018
- Murray, Craig: Your Man in Saughton Jail Part 1
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2022
- Murray, Dobbin: The Militarization of Canada: Chrystia Freeland's Budgetary Coup
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Canada is to increase military spending by 70% over the next ten years following Donald Trump's demand for NATO allies to increase defense spending to 2% of GDP.
- Murray, Star; Williams, Charles: "Illegals" of the World Unite?
Against The Current vol. 141 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 An interview with David Bacon.
- Murtagh, P.: The End of Dialectical Materialism: An anarchist reply to the libertarian Marxists
Resource Type: Pamphlet First Published: 1978 An anarchist reply to the libertarian Marxists.
- Murtagh, P.: Letter to Canadian Dimension
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1982 The left of the NDP consists of a scraggly band of public service union bureaucrats, almost as out of touch with their union membership as the right wing, and a declining number of socialist academics ensconsced in their ivory towers. The traditional NDP left, whose link up with the 'new left' in the Waffle almost defeated the party leadership no longer exists.
- Murtagh, P.: Point of order
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1979 Letter on dialectical materialism and on lefty language.
- Murtagh, P.: Some Thoughts on Organization
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1978 What type of organization should anarchists, libertarian socialists and libertarian Marxists be working towards?
- Murthwaite, Rob: Disability, resistance and revolution
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2016 The number of disabled people has grown from around 10 percent of the world population in the 1970s to 15 percent, 1 billion people, today. The World Health Organisation predicts that this figure will continue to grow as the world's population ages and chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, respiratory disease and stress related illness increase. Severe physical injury in warfare and road traffic accidents as well as industrial injury, malnutrition and insanitary living conditions also remain major causes of serious impairment. Around the world disabled people are among the most marginalised -- suffering poorer health outcomes, lower levels of educational achievement and higher levels of unemployment and poverty than non-disabled people.
- Mushtaq, Sameer; Nazir, Aijaz: 'I lost four sons': In Kashmir, women suffer brunt of conflict
Women's Day is a grim reminder of atrocities and hardships faced by the women of the region in decades-long conflict. Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Women in Kashmir suffer the loss of their sons, husbands, and fathers in ongoing conflict.
- Muste, A.J.: Some Lessons of the Toledo Strike
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1935 There will be no unions worth the name unless the militants build and maintain them. Without fighting unions the workers will presently be made the object of an attack which will make 1929-35 seem like 'the good old times.'
- Mustonen, Tero; Rhoades, Hannibal: Ecologist Special Report: From fish to forests and conflicts to coffee ... how humans are affected by climate-driven species shifts
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2017 Climate change has species on the move, with major consequences for biodiversity and human communities. Building resilience has never been more important and Indigenous Peoples are showing the way.
- Mutch, Thembi: Maybe we can all learn from smaller islands?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2014 Europe's periphories are meant to be in a state of collapse - but not so the Shetland Isles, where it can be found a land of open skies, howling storms, historic traditions, and an active, growing community of notable individuals.
- Muzaffar, Chandra: The Blockade Against Cuba: An Assault Upon Humanity's Conscience
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 On 29 October 2013, for the 22nd consecutive year, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) called for an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba. 188 states supported the Resolution, 2 voted against it, namely the US and Israel.
- Muñoz, Monica; Tremlett, Giles: Pamplona's locksmiths join revolt as banks throw families from their homes
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2013 In the years of the housing boom, Spain's banks offered 100% mortgages. Now, while receiving millions in public aid, they are throwing people out of their homes. But there's a rebellion under way.
- Mychalejko, Cyril: Guatemala: The Violence of "Free Trade"
Against The Current vol. 117 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2005 On January 11, Guatemalan President Oscar Berger spoke to a group of reporters in Guatemala City about ongoing protests against a World Bank mining project in the northern part of the country. He said that his government had to establish law and order. “We have to protect investors,” said Berger.
- Mychalejko, Cyril: Indigenous Resistance to Gold Mine Gains Momentum
Against The Current vol. 119 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2005 Last June 13 indigenous communities in Sipacapa, in the western highlands of Guatemala, voted overwhelmingly to reject gold mining on their lands. Oxfam’s press release announced the results: 2,486 people cast their vote against the mine, 35 voted in favor, 32 abstained and one cast a blank vote.
- Myers, Fraser: Chemical weapons and cover-ups: the Western media's Syrian shame
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2020 How Western media shapes public perception with regards to chemical weapons in Syria.
- Myers, Gustavus: A History of Canadian Wealth
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1914 Published: 1972 Myers lays bare the corruption, swindling, land deals, and bribery that are at the basis of Canadian history. This is Canada's past seen through the eyes of a muckraker.
- Mykytyn, Eve: Arthur Topham's Political Beliefs May Just Be Illegal
The Extraordinary Trial of Arthur Topham: Part 3 Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 On November 7, 2015, Arthur Topham was convicted of inciting hatred against a racial group, the Jewish people. Mr. Topham maintains a website, Radical Free Press, in which he publishes and comments upon various documents. These documents include The Elders of the Protocols of Zion, various anti-Zionist texts, and a tract entitled Germany Must Perish, first published in 1941 and then satirized by Mr. Topham as Israel Must Perish.
- Mykytyn, Eve: The Extraordinary Trial of Arthur Topham
Part I Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 Five security guards, members of the RCMP, two in bulletproof vests, all entrants pass through metal detectors, undergo a wand search, check all electronics including cell phones and have their bags meticulously scrutinized. Why all the security? The crown was presenting its criminal case against Arthur Topham, for the crime of "hate."
- Mykytyn, Eve: The Extraordinary Trial of Arthur Topham
Part II Resource Type: Article First Published: 2015 On November 12th, 2015 the jury found Arthur Topham guilty of "inciting hate." This leads to a few questions.
- Mzala: Gatsha Buthelezi: Chief With a Double Agenda
Resource Type: Book First Published: 1988 Operating from within the South African government's bantustan system, Gatsha Buthelezi, chief minister of the KwaZulu 'homeland', presents himself as a leading opponent of apartheid but resoultely opposes the struggle for liberation of the ANC and its allies. Who is this man and what does he stand for? Whose side is he on? Mzala examines these questions in a controversial analysis.
- Márquez, Humberto: Latin America: Women in History - More than Just Heroines
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 Women in Latin American struggles.
- Márquez, Humberto: Women Recycle for Income and Environment
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 The women of this town in northern Venezuela no longer say "garbage" but rather "secondary raw material," and instead of referring to recycling, they talk about "separation at point of origin."
- Mészáros István: Mészáros István - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article Writings of István Mészáros.
- Métraux, Julia: The new Jewish left
In Canada, young Jews are fighting antisemitism while opposing the Israeli occupation Resource Type: Article First Published: 2019 Young Jewish people in North America are fighting antisemitism while opposing Israel's occupation of Palestine.
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