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- Tabb, William: The Amoral Elephant
Globalization and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
Tabb describes how international institutions, most importantly the International Monetary Fund and the WTO have focused on neoliberal goals to erode the welfare state and shift wealth from the poor to the rich.
- Taber, Mike: Kautsky, Lenin, and the transition to socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Counterposing Karl Kautsky's perspective of a "democratic road to socialism" as against a supposed Leninist "insurrectionary strategy" presents a false framework for the debate.
- Taber, Robert: The War of the Flea
Resource Type: Book
- Taddeo, Roberto: The Italian Long ’68
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Taddeo describes how the charateristics of 1968 continued in Italy passed 1968 and his subsequent participation in various movements. He explains that with the struggles of 1977 and the repression that followed, one can say that the social ferment begun in Italy in 1968 had exhausted itself.
- Taft, Kevin: Oil's Deep State
How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming - in Alberta, and in Ottawa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
An insider's eywitness view of the oil industry, and how and why governments have failed to heed warnings despite substantial scientific evidence of global warming
- Tagoona, Eric: Submission by Inuit Tapirisat of Canada to the National Energy Board
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
The Submission by the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada to the National Energy Board makes the request that the entire question of gas supply and demand be reviewed.
- Tahhan, Zena: Israel's settlements: 50 years of land theft explained
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Today, between 600,000 and 750,000 Israelis live in these sizeable settlements, equivalent to roughly 11 percent of the total Jewish Israeli population. So why have these housing compounds caused so much rancour and been called a threat to the prospect of peace in the Holy Land? Follow this journey to find out.
- Tahhan, Zena: 'It's okay to be racist in Israel'
An Israeli conscientious objector speaks out about racism and subjugation as the occupation enters its 51st year.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An interview with Sahar Vardi, a conscientious objector in opposition to Israel's policies in the Palestinian territories, who was sentenced to prison and detention for her defiance.
- Tahir, Madiha R.: Covering Pakistan: How Journalists and Experts Reproduce Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
It appears irrelevant to many policymakers, journalists, and people in the US generally that Pakistan has, for example, peasants, unions, working-class politics, LGBTQ organizations, feminist groups—that, in short, the overriding ethic of Pakistani democracy and resistance movements is secular.
- Taibbi: Hate Inc.
Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
Resource Type: Book
In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider's guide to the variety of ways today's mainstream media tells us lies.
- Taibbi, Matt: After the QAnon Ban, Who's Next?
QAnon is crazy, but so is our increasingly arbitrary system of speech controls
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
This current system is the worst of all worlds. It's invisible to the public, clearly invites government recommendations on speech, allows a gameable system of anonymous complaints to influence content, and gives awesome power to an unelected, unaccountable body of private media regulators. Whatever the right method is for dealing with dangerous content in the Internet era -- and it’s clear we need a better one -- this isn't it.
- Taibbi, Matt: The American Press Is Destroying Itself
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The leaders of this new movement are replacing traditional liberal beliefs about tolerance, free inquiry, and even racial harmony with ideas so toxic and unattractive that they eschew debate, moving straight to shaming, threats, and intimidation. They are counting on the guilt-ridden, self-flagellating nature of traditional American progressives, who will not stand up for themselves, and will walk to the Razor voluntarily. They've conned organization after organization into empowering panels to search out thoughtcrime, and it’s established now that anything can be an offense
- Taibbi, Matt: The New Puritans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The attack on congressional candidate Alex Morse for consensual sexual relationships is disturbing for many reasons, but mostly because it reveals a new American phobia toward adulthood.
- Taibbi, Matt: The New Puritans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The attack on congressional candidate Alex Morse for consensual sexual relationships is disturbing for many reasons, but mostly because it reveals a new American phobia toward adulthood.
- Taibbi, Matt: On 'White Fragility'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
A few thoughts on America’s smash-hit #1 guide to egghead racialism.
- Taibbi, Matt: Planet of the Censoring Humans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The campaign to remove Michael Moore’s new documentary from the Internet -- led by Moore's erstwhile progressive "allies" -- is a significant advance in the censorship revolution.
- Takahashi, Saul: Japan's post-Fukushima 'secrecy' clampdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Japan's secrecy law, just passed by parliament, gives the government carte blanche to designate state secrets - and restrict information about anything it likes.
- Talberth, John: To Save Our Climate We Need Taller Trees Not Taller Wooden Buildings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
To many of us working at the intersection of forest conservation and climate stability recent opinions and news coverage of proposals to fill our cities with tall wooden buildings presents not a stirring vision of sustainability but a nightmarish scenario of a land base increasingly scarred by clearcuts, logging roads and small diameter tree plantations at a time when climate science insists that reestablishing natural forests and letting them grow much bigger and older is one of humanity's last best hopes to keep climate change from accelerating out of control. To save our climate we need taller trees not taller wooden buildings.
- Talese, Gay: Thy Neighbor's Wife
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
- Tambor, Milton: Envisioning Economic Justice
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
The organizers of the U.S. Social Forum must be commended for making possible this political happening with its 900 workshops. The USSF has succeeded in bringing together activists from many diverse sectors working for global justice — thereby contributing to the strengthening of the entire movement.
- Tamvaklis, Nikos: Greece: The Crisis Continues
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
What's happened in Greece after the explosive strikes and street protests that erupted over the terms of the European bailout in 2010?
- Tanner, Adrian: Labrador: Land Claims Run Aground
Atlantic Issues, Vol. 3, No. 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
The Indians of Labrador have been pressing land claims as have Native people in other parts of Canada.
- Tanner, E.: Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
A Review and Commentary by E. Tanner (Part One)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A review and dicussion of Bryan Palmer's in-depth study of the truckers strikes in Minneapolis in 1934.
- Tanner, E.: Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
A Review and Commentary by E. Tanner (Part Two)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A review and dicussion of Bryan Palmer's in-depth study of the truckers strikes in Minneapolis in 1934.
- Tanner, Helen Hornbeck (ed): Cartography by Miklos Pinther: Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Focuses on the Great Lakes Region, in both Canada and the United States.
- Tanner, Leslie (ed.): Voices from Women's Liberation
Resource Type: Book
- Tannis, Ernest G.: Alternative Dispute Resolution That Works!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Tanuro, Daniel: Confronting the Ecological Emergency
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
In April 2014, two different teams of American glaciologists, specialists in the Antarctic, reached -- by different methods, based on observation -- the same conclusion: because of global warming, a portion of the ice sheet has begun to dislocate, and this dislocation is irreversible.
- Tanuro, Daniel: COP21: in spite of the show, the glass is 80% empty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The COP21 Paris Climate Conference has, as expected, led to an agreement. It will come into effect from 2020 if it is ratified by 55 of the countries which are signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and these 55 countries account for at least 55% of global emissions of greenhouse gases. In the light of the positions taken in Paris, this dual condition should not raise any difficulty (although the non-ratification of Kyoto by the United States shows that surprises are always possible).
- Tanuro, Daniel: Humanity in the Capitalist Cul-de-sac
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
As a result of 200 years of capitalism, humanity is deep in a very dangerous cul-de-sac which could result in barbarism on an unprecedented scale.
- Tanuro, Daniel: The IPCC report: Between nightmare and revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Belgian ecosocialist Daniel Tanuro says the latest IPCC report has sounded an alarm that we must not ignore. Only radical change can avert climate disaster.
- Tanuro, Daniel: The specter of geoengineering haunts the Paris climate agreement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
in a capitalist framework negative emissions technologies appear to offer the only possible way out. Geoengineering is the specter that haunts the text adopted in Paris and gives it meaning. The fact that the Agreement does not mention "energy transition" is not a regrettable lapse in generally good text, but proof by omission that the negotiators have chosen to bet on geoengineering instead of confronting fossil capital.
- Taormino, Tristan: Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships — from partnered non-monogamy to solo polyamory.
- Tarabochia, Milton Lopez: Illegal logging: An organized crime that is destroying Latin American forests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A recent report indicates that Illegal wood trafficking is the most profitable crime against natural resources, and allows other crimes to flourish, including deforestation, labor exploitation, land invasions, tax evasion, document forgery and state corruption.
- Tarabochia, Milton López: Illegal logging: An organized crime that is destroying Latin American forests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Illegal timber trafficking is a complex type or ogranized crime that involves other crimes such as tax evasion, labor exploitation, and land invasion. Countries in Latin America need to work together to fight this crime.
- Tarachansky, Lia: On the Side of the Road
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
Filmed over the course of five years, this documentary focuses on the collective Israeli denial about the expulsion and displacement of Palestinians in the wake of the 1948 war for independence.
- Tariq, Ali: Yemen's Turn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The Arab Spring, numerically strong but politically weak, failed to break this destructive dynamic. With the corpse of Arab nationalism in a state of advanced decay and the principal opposition, the Muslim Brotherhood, desperate for a deal with Washington, the 2011 uprisings were easily confiscated by the US to further its own aims in the region. Despite its many national peculiarities, the ruinous war in Yemen has to be viewed in this context.
- Tariq, Farooq: After Pakistan's Election
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Throughout Pakistan the massive anti-Musharraf vote on 18 February, 2008 spoke volumes: We do not like the military dictatorship; we want Musharraf out.
- Tariq, Farooq: A Left Voice in Pakistan
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Following the October 18 attack on the massive procession into Karachi welcoming Benazir Bhutto back from an eight-year exile, Farooq Tariq, General Secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, expressed his solidarity with the families of the more than 135 killed and 540 injured.
- Tariq, Farooq: Update on Pakistan: After the "Emergency"
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
General Pervez Musharraf has “taken off the uniform” and lifted the emergency as of December 15th. But Labour Party Pakistan rejects the Musharraf’s claim that the emergency is lifted. It is “lifted” with the Constitution amended, and with all the repressive measures protected by a decree.
- Tarman, Vera Ingrid: Privatization and Health Care
The Case of Ontario Nursing Homes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Tarman identifies many problems with privatization, among them, a basic contradiction between the profit motive and quality of care, poor accountability and lack of public input, less government control of services with the balance of power decidedly in favour of the nursing home industry, and the problem of access.
- Tarrant, Anthony: Extraordinary Violence at 500 Pearl Street
The Sentencing of Jeremy Hammond
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
On Friday, November 15, 2013, extreme violence with malicious intent was meted out by Federal District Court Judge Loretta Preska in the sentencing phase of 28 year old hacktivist Jeremy Hammond before a chamber packed with friends, family, supporters and others.
- Taslima, Nasreen: Bangladesh and the shrinking space for free thinkers: 'Don't call me Muslim, I am an atheist'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Writer Taslima Nasreen fled Bangladesh in 1994 when extremists threatened to kill her for criticizing Islam, and has been living in exile since. Her country has, in recent times, seen many intellectuals expelled or killed. In this interview, she speaks about the shrinking space for free thinkers in Bangladesh and says that Islam cannot be exempt from the critical scrutiny that other religions undergo.
- Tataryn, Lloyd: Development and Canada's Last Frontiers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
This publication is in the form of a brief review of the exploitation by whites of the lands occupied by the Indians and Inuit.
- Tatchell, Peter: The Art of Activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
The unique style of 'protest as performance' pioneered by the queer rights group OutRage!
- Tatchell, Peter: Beyond Gay Identity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Gay emancipation will destroy gay identity. This is a good thing, because gay identity sustains gay conformism.
- Tatchell, Peter: Defiance with Freedom in Mind
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
The case for civil disobedience.
- Tatchell, Peter: Direct Action for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Direct action protests are about people taking power for themselves, instead of leaving politics to professional politicians.
- Tatchell, Peter: Electoral Reform: Do the right thing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The Chartist goal of a representative parliament and majority govermment is still sadly unrealised.
- Tatchell, Peter: The End of Gay?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Gay identity is destined for oblivion once homophobia is overturned.
- Tatchell, Peter: The foreign victims of criminal injustice
Resource Type: Article
How non-UK offenders are often denied truth, fairness and justice.
- Tatchell, Peter: Gay Pride is Now Respectable, and the Worse for It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
The gay community has retreated from radical idealism to cautious conformism.
- Tatchell, Peter: Idealism, Pride & Anger- The Beginnings of Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Britain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
A glorious chaotic enthusiasm. At times, shocking. Always unapologetic and defiant. An exhilarating mixture of idealism, pride, anger, bravado and imagination.
- Tatchell, Peter: Islamic Fundamentalism in Britain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Muslim fundamentalists are a growing threat to gay human rights in Britain.
- Tatchell, Peter: I've changed my mind on the gay cake row. Here's why
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Like most gay and equality campaigners, I initially condemned the Christian-run Ashers Bakery in Belfast over its refusal to produce a cake with a pro-gay marriage slogan for a gay customer, Gareth Lee. I supported his legal claim against Ashers and the subsequent verdict – the bakery was found guilty of discrimination last year. Now, two days before the case goes to appeal, I have changed my mind. Much as I wish to defend the gay community, I also want to defend freedom of conscience, expression and religion.
- Tatchell, Peter: Just say no to Sharia law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Let us support the courageous Muslims who, often at great personal risk, are campaigning against religious extremism.
- Tatchell, Peter: Liberating Sexual Desire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Everyone is potentially bisexual; the struggle for lesbian and gay equality is about the right of all people to share the joy of same-sex relationships without guilt or anxiety, and without the fear of prejudice and discrimination.
- Tatchell, Peter: Making Gay Redundant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Peter Tatchell suggests that gay identity has nothing to do with biology and everything to do with homophobia. Winning gay freedom will make gay identity redundant.
- Tatchell, Peter: The New Dark Ages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
For hundreds of millions of people in parts of the Middle-East, Africa and South-East Asia, the ascendancy of Islamic fundamentalism has ushered in an era of religious obscurantism and intolerance. The liberal, compassionate wing of Islam - although it still has large numbers of adherents - is being forced onto the defensive and increasingly eclipsed.
- Tatchell, Peter: Outrageous Campaigners Show Size Isn't Everything
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
OutRage! therefore consciously tries to make its protests informative and amusing. It projects it's political message with wit, style, humour and theatricality. Indeed, a typical OutRage! action could be described as "radical theatre of the streets".
- Tatchell, Peter: Porn can be good for you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
While pornography can be dehumanising and exploitative, it can also be educative, liberating, empowering, fulfilling and immensely socially beneficial. It all depends on how it is made, who makes it, what it depicts and why it is being used.
- Tatchell, Peter: Respect is a Two-Way Street
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
There is a whiff of hypocrisy among some Muslims who, in the name of being spared offence, want to censor other people's opinions.
- Tatchell, Peter: Selfish Activism or Equal Rights for All?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
The separatist agendas of women, gays, black and disabled activists are divisive, and undermine the campaign for equality.
- Tatchell, Peter: Support the Iranian people, oppose Tehran's clerical fascism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Tragically, the leadership of the UK and US anti-war movements have been sleep-walking into making the same mistakes over Iran as they made over Iraq. They are silent about the regime's despotism and oppression. Mirroring the neo con indifference to human rights abuses in Iran, they refuse to show solidarity with the Iranian peoples' struggle for secularism, democracy, social justice, human rights and self-determination for national minorities. There is nothing remotely left-wing about this is sad and cruel betrayal. Put bluntly: it is collusion with tyranny.
- Tatchell, Peter: Tatchell's reply: "A new left-wing McCarthyism"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The future of progressive politics is under threat, again. But this time from the left. Historically, socialists and greens have made gains by building broad alliances around a common goal, such as the campaigns against the poll tax and the bombing of Syria. We united together diverse people who often disagreed on other issues. Through this unity and solidarity, we won. Nowadays, we are witnessing a revival of far 'left' sectarian politics and it is infecting the Green Party too. Zealous activists, seemingly motivated by a desire to be more 'left' and pure than rivals, are putting huge energy into fighting and dragging down other campaigners.
- Tatchell, Peter: Their Multiculturalism and Ours
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Reactionary interpretations of multiculturalism ignore, tolerate or excuse prejudice and abuse in the name of pluralism and diversity. They foster social division, moral confusion and double-standards - often to the detriment of the most vulnerable: minorities within minority communities. Progressive multiculturalism is about respecting and celebrating difference, but within a framework of universal equality and human rights. It is premised on welcoming and embracing cultural diversity, providing it does not involve the oppression of other people.
- Tatchell, Peter: Time for Civil Disobedience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
The lesbian and gay movement should be committed to a strategy of non-violent civil disobedience to force the repeal of Britain's discriminatory anti-homosexual laws.
- Tatchell, Peter: Time to Abandon Gay Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Thirty years after the Stonewall Riots, comprehensive human rights laws - not gay rights - are the way forward.
- Tatchell, Peter: Touching a Nerve
No apology for fighting homophobia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Defending OutRage!'s decision to campaign against the homophobia of Lord Jakobovits.
- Tatchell, Peter: What About a Right of Reply?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Concern about press intrusion is overshadowing the need for a 'right of reply' to redress inaccurate and inflammatory reporting.
- Tatchell, Peter: Why has the left gone soft on human rights?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
A perverse interpretation of multiculturalism has resulted in race and religion ruling the roost in a tainted hierarchy of oppression. In the name of "unity" against Islamophobia and racism, much of the left tolerates misogyny and homophobia in minority communities. It rejects common standards of rights and responsibilities; demanding that we "make allowances" and show "sensitivity" with regard to the prejudices of ethnic and faith communities. This attitude is patronising, even racist. It judges minority peoples by different standards.
- Tate, Ernest: A Letter from North America – Our Migrant Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
This is the third of Ernie Tate’s letters to Left Unity detailing and analysing the struggles against Trump as they emerge on the other side of the pond.
- Tate, Ernest: Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir
Volume 1, Canada 1955-1965
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
The first volume of long-time Canadian revolutionary socialist Ernie Tate's memoir.
- Tate, Ernest: Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir
Volume 2, Britain 1965-1970
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
The second volume of long-time Canadian revolutionary socialist Ernie Tate's memoir.
- Tatour, Lana: This isn't a civil war, it is settler-colonial brutality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
We are not seeing a "civil war" inside Israel, but rather the Israeli settler state declaring a war on its colonized "citizens," and Palestinians fighting for their liberation.
- Tattrie, Jon: How the tiny fishing village of Pugwash tried to stop a nuclear war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The Pugwash Conference in Nova Scotia, a gathering of leading scientists to help thwart nuclear war, is the inspiration for a new play by Vern Thiessen.
- Tavares, Flavia: Brazil: Journalist Evany José Metzker Murdered While Investigating Drugs and Child Exploitation in Minas Gerais
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
- Tawil, Raymonda H.: My Home, My Prison
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Mr Home, My Prison is the passionate, controversial autobiography ofa Palestinian journalist well known for her outspoken support of her people's rights. Raymonda Tawil's book makes clear in personal terms just what damage the Middle East conflict has wrought and what it means for Arabs to live under Israeli occupation. At the same time, her book is as much about the struggle for women's rights as it is about Palestinian rights.
- Tax, Meredith: A Parable of Women's Liberation
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Interview with Meredith Tax.
- Taylor, A.J.P.: A.J.P. Taylor Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Taylor, Astra: Against Activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
"Activism" stands in contrast to organizing. Organizing aims to bring people together to build and exercise power, informed by a strategic vision for acquiring power and changing society. To be an "activist" now merely means to advocate for change, and the hows and whys of that advocacy are unclear. Activist is a generic category associated with oddly specific stereotypes: today, the term signals not so much a certain set of political opinions or behaviours as a certain temperament. Worse, many activists seem to relish their marginalization, interpreting their small numbers as evidence of their specialness, their membership in an exclusive and righteous clique, effectiveness be damned.
- Taylor, Astra: Get out there and organise
The excitement of activism has supplanted slowly organized structures working for social and political change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
While there has been an explosion of activism over the past couple of decades, the left must better cultivate organizing to make activism more sustainable and effective.
- Taylor, Astra: Why Do We Expose Ourselves?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Among critics of technological surveillance, there are two allusions so commonplace they have crossed into the realm of cliché. One, as you have probably already guessed, is George Orwell's Big Brother, from 1984. The other is Michel Foucault’s panopticon -- a vision, adapted from Jeremy Bentham, of a prison in which captives cannot tell if or when they are being watched. Today, both of these touchstones are considered chillingly prophetic. But in Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age, Bernard Harcourt has another suggestion: Both of them are insufficient.
- Taylor, Astra; Gessen, Keith (eds): Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
An unofficial record of the New York branch of the Occupy movement, Occupy! combines adrenalin-fueled first-hand accounts of the early days and weeks of Occupy Wall Street with contentious debates and thoughtful reflections.
- Taylor, Bron Raymond (ed.): Ecological Resistance Movements
The Global Emergance of Radical and Popular Environmentalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
- Taylor, Ellen: Does National Security Trump the Blue Whale?
Navy Mischief in the Pacific
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
- Taylor, Guy: Trans-Canada sues US for $15 billion over KXL refusal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The US government is being sued for $15 billion for its cancellation of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline last year in order to combat climate change. The legal challenge under NAFTA sends a warning to all countries contemplating similar 'free trade' agreements.
- Taylor, Guy; Dearden, Nick: TTIP is on the rocks. Let's defeat these toxic trade deals!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The TTIP EU-US trade deal has finally hit the rocks with massive popular opposition on both sides of the Atlantic gaining serious political traction. There's now a good chance that TTIP will be defeated - but first we must make sure that CETA, the equally toxic EU-Canada 'Trojan Horse' deal, bites the dust.
- Taylor, Jonathan: Apathy and Our Totalitarian Future
Watching Everything, Everywhere, All the Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The implication of the NSA scandal is this: encroaching totalitarianism can move slowly, in stages.
- Taylor, Laurence; Jenkins, Peter: Time to Listen
The human aspect in development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Taylor, Naj: Mining companies funded Indonesian abuses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Two mine operators have cosy ties with the Indonesian military, who have a long history of human rights abuses.
- Taylor, Walt: For Our Common Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Most Canadians seem brainwashed by two myths: (1) Work is scarce; not enough work for everyone; and (2) Money is scarce; Canada cannot afford full employment.
- Tecumseh: Tecumseh Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Teeple, Gary: Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform
Into the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
- Teeple, Gary: Sociology Misconstrues the Working Class
Part I: Class conflict in the workplace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
- Teeple, Gary: Sociology Misconstrues the Working Class
Part II: Class conflict outside the workplace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
- Teeple, Gary (ed.): Capitalism and the National Question in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Essays examining a variety of questions about Canada's past, from a Marxist perspective.
- Tegemea, Theo: Occupy Atlanta: Privilege Politics of Popular Self-Management for the Post-Civil Rights City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The Occupy Atlanta (OA) movement, like the OWS movement more generally, revealed a national response to the general economic crisis.
- Teitelbaum, Kenneth: Schooling for "Good Rebels"
Socialist Education for Children in the United States, 1900-1920
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Teitelbaum captures in detail the spirited devotion and revolutionary fervor of the Socialist Sunday School movement whose themes of solidarity, cooperation, and concern for others are badly needed today. Socialist Sunday Schools were part of a thriving radical culture which included daily newspapers, clubs, lectures, festivals and parades.
- Teitelman, Michael: Obama and the Boy in the Metal Box
The Incarceration of John Walker Lindh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Clemency for John Walker Lindh would open up to public scrutiny an outrageous injustice that high officials in the Bush administration deliberately perpetrated on an American citizen after the 9/11 attacks. It would expose how they covered up their illegalities by betraying the legal professionalism of the Justice Department and by imprisoning their victim behind prison walls for half his life.
- Teixeira, F. Bryan: The Inter-Church Task Force on the Churchill River Diversion
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
Task Force formed to assist the Northern Flood Committee.
- Telbis, Rozali: Lawsuit Against Google Highlights Mining of Student Data
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Children have become lucrative targets for data mining companies, according to a study by Politico magazine. Just weeks after Google settled a lawsuit for selling student data for advertising, the publication revealed an entire industry devoted to marketing data gathered from Internet applications offered to students and their teachers. Many modern software companies offer free tools to everyone like email, games and search engines that come with strings attached. Google is perhaps the best known because it offers students an entire suite of applications from calendars to chat services and data storage. In return the company has made money by selling personal information gleaned from users for targeted advertising.
- Telbis, Rozali: Lawsuit Against Google Highlights Mining of Student Data
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Children have become lucrative targets for data mining companies, according to a study by Politico magazine. Just weeks after Google settled a lawsuit for selling student data for advertising, the publication revealed an entire industry devoted to marketing data gathered from Internet applications offered to students and their teachers.
- Tell , Shawgi: Charter Schools Increase Fraud, Corruption, Chaos, and Anarchy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Charter schools, which barely make up seven percent of U.S. schools, are often accused of taking all the antisocial, antipublic, and antipeople practices of medieval autocrats and opportunuties to new extremes. Shawgi Tell looks into the issue of privatization of education that will intensify in the months ahead.
- Telling It Book Collective ( Lee, Sky; Maracle, Lee ; Marlatt, Daphne ; Warland,Betsy): Telling It
Women and Language Across Cutures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Tello, Carlos: Tsleil-Waututh First Nation rejects Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Kinder Morgan's pipeline project proposes almost 1,000 kilometres of new pipeline to carry diluted bitumen from Edmonton to Burnaby. The Tsleil-Waututh Nation announced that the project would not be allowed to proceed on the Nation's territory. It also released a scathing report on the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion, outlining the project's risks to health and environment.
- Tello,Carlos: Canada more at risk from environmentalists than religiously inspired terrorists: RCMP
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Recent RCMP report warns that Canada's energy sector is more at risk from domestic environmental extremists than from religiously inspired terrorist organizations like Al Qaida and ISIS.
- Templeton, Virginia (pseud.): Comment: The Rise and the Fall of the Isolated Communities Advisory Board
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Seven Northern Alberta communities formed an organization in the early 1970's to take action to protect their rights to their land, which had not been included in any treaties, and their traditional lifestyle.
- Ten Days for World Development: Development On Trial
Ten Days for World Development Education and Action Guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Tennyson: Tennyson Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Tentler, Leslie Woodcock: Wage-Earning Women
Industrial Work & Family Life in the U.S. 1900-1930
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
- Terkel, Studs: American Dreams: Lost and Found
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Interviews with 100 Americans who relate their dreams, disappointments, aspirations and experiences.
- Terkel, Studs: Hard Times
An Oral History of The Great Depression
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
In a series of interviews, Studs Terkel captures a mosaic of memories of the Great Depression in the United States.
- Terkel, Studs: Studs Terkel Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Terkel, Studs: Working
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972 Published: 1974
People talk a bout what they do all day and how they feel about what they do.
- Terral, Jim: The Hazards of Uranium Exploration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
This booklet is sponsored by the Kootenay Nuclear Study Group. Its backdrop is the protest barricade by Genelle residents of the drilling and blasting operations of Noman Mines in the China Creek watershed that supplies that community's water.
- Terrall, Ben: Global Crisis and Opportunity
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Ben Terrall interviews Mike Davis. Mike Davis is a veteran writer and activist who cut his progressive teeth in the 1960s civil rights and antiwar movements. He has worked as a meat cutter, long-distance trucker, and currently teaches history at UC Irvine.
- Terrall, Ben: Models of Coming U.S. Interventions: Iraq or Haiti?
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Ben Terrall interviews Mike Davis.
- Terrell, Brian: How the U.S. Department of Justice Makes Murder Respectable, Kills the Innocent and Jails their Defenders
Redefining "Imminent"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In order to justify its global assassination program, the Obama administration has had to stretch words beyond their natural breaking points. For instance, any male 14 years or older found dead in a drone strike zone is a 'combatant' unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving him innocent.
- Terrell, Brian: Peter Maurin's Vision for the Catholic Worker, an Idea Whose Time has Come
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Today it seems obvious that a return to the land, to a proper relationship with creation and to meaningful, productive work is integral to the aims of the Catholic Worker movement. For much of its history, however, since its beginning in 1933, this aspect of its founder's original intentions was relegated to the margins of an already marginal movement.
- Terrell, Brian: War of the Killer Robots
Four Realities About Drones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Drones are "killer robots," they do make war easy and game-like, and therefore likelier, drone strikes do kill too many civilians and they do violate the International Law of Armed Conflict. I am puzzled and disturbed that some feel that the debate over the use of drones in warfare can be enhanced by denying these facts.
- Thanki, Nathan; Nacpil, Lidy; Rehma, Asad: A Call For A Fair Shares Agreement: Will Justice Prevail in Paris?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
For most people the word justice conjures up images of superheroes and supreme courts. It seems a grand notion with little bearing on the practicalities of daily life. And when applied to the climate crisis it seems even less comprehensible. But the shocking thing about climate justice is that not only can it be calculated -- it can be achieved.
- The Bullet: A Leap Toward Radical Politics?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The Leap Manifesto is, in a way, Canada's version of the burst of Left and socialist energies that have come with the Bernie Sanders campaign in the Democratic Party in the U.S. and the Jeremy Corbyn leadership win in the Labour Party in Britain. As with these, the explosion of popular interest reflects general disquiet about the limits of recent protests demanding changes from the state but having no strategy to transform it, on the one hand; and disappointments with electoral politics and social democratic parties that only seem to reinforce neoliberalism, on the other.
- The Ecologist: Arboricide in Palestine - olive orchard destroyed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Israeli settlers in Palestine's South Hebron Hills last week cut down an orchard of 36 olive trees, in the latest attack of a decades-long war against Palestinian culture and survival in which has seen the cutting, burning and bulldozing of over a million olive, fruit and nut trees.
- The Ecologist: Impacts of mass coral die-off on Indian Ocean reefs revealed
Warming sea waters - caused by climate change and extreme climatic events - threaten the stability of tropical coral reefs, with potentially
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
New research by the University of Exeter shows that increased surface ocean temperatures during the strong 2016 El Niño led to a major coral die-off event in the Maldives, and that this has caused reef growth rates to collapse. They also found that the rates at which some reefs species, in particular parrotfish, are eroding the reefs had increased following this coral die-off event.
- The Ecologist: UK exporting 67% of plastic waste amid 'illegal practices' warnings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Britain's trade in waste plastic to the Far East is booming. The exported plastic is meant to be recycled under UK conditions and standards, but often is not, undermining bona fide UK recycling firms who face falling prices, reduced turnover, collapsing profits, and all too often, closure.
- The Editors: After the Democrats' Debacle
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
How far have politics “moved to the right” in the United States — and for how long? Although we’re going to press before the November 2 midterm elections, you’re probably reading it after the anticipated Democratic debacle and the attendant speculation about the viability of the Obama presidency. Whether the Democrats have retained slim majority control of one or both houses of Congress obviously matters for some legislative purposes and power relations, but our view of the broad trends is pretty much the same either way.
- The Editors: After the Destruction
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
As Barack Obama mounted the Washington, DC inaugural stage on the euphoric morning of January 20, 2009, in Gaza the sounds of Israel’s invasion — the U.S.-supplied F-16s’ bombing runs, the artillery shells that accurately hit their targets of hospitals and clinics and refugee schools with children inside, the clearly-marked made-in-USA canisters of white phosphorus that burn people alive from the inside, the newly field-tested “DIME” bombs that efficiently tear multiple limbs off the victims — had gone at least temporarily silent.
- The Editors: Apartheid "Peace" Explodes
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
The explosion in Jerusalem, occupied Palestine and the state of Israel is horrific to contemplate—but not at all difficult to understand. Underneath what appeared to begin as rioting over "holy places," the real issue is this: Tens of thousands of Palestinians are risking their lives in the face of live ammunition in defense of their basic human dignity. And in that act, they have posed the greatest challenge to the "stability" of imperialist control of the Middle East that we have witnessed since the 1973 war.
- The Editors: Austerity and U.S. Decline
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The full frontal assault on public workers and their unions in one state after another — stripping collective bargaining rights and dues checkoff, slashing wages and pensions and health benefits, abolishing seniority and tenure for teachers, mandating yearly decertification votes, threatening jail terms for strikers — is as massive and instantaneous as it was unexpected by the labor bureaucracy and many union members. To say “the class war is back” is an understatement. It’s an authentic firestorm sucking the oxygen from labor rights, from Wisconsin to Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and other states.
- The Editors: Behind Murder With Impunity
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
New York City and Los Angeles have become the model for life under capitalism in general, and in late-twentieth century urban America in particular. For the affluent are the booming stock and real estate markets; for the poor, a vista of injustice piled on injustice, atrocity on atrocity, serial police murder with impunity. After Amadou Diallo, Malcolm Ferguson; then Patrick Dorismond: If you are Black in New York you can be shot dead if you stand still, run away, or refuse an offer to sell drugs to undercover cops.
- The Editors: Bigger Slicks, Sicker Society
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Corporate crime is strikingly analogous to the BP slick. The visible stuff is the slime on the surface that gets most of the attention. You can see it, taste it, smell it. The bigger part stays underwater where it poisons and kills silently, out of view, gets caught in the currents and escapes containment — just like those oil “plumes” poised to swirl around the Florida peninsula and head up the Eastern seaboard.
- The Editors: Binge and Hangover
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
The lords of empire set out to show that the United States, not Iran or any other potential rival, will rule the "new" Middle East. Unable to attack Iran directly, however, they instead employed the willing regional branch office of the U.S. military-industrial complex, the Israeli Defense Force, to destroy Lebanon. A war that began as a triumphal imperial binge has ended, at least as of August 14 if the fragile ceasefire holds, with uncertainty and a hangover. (The ceasefire's fate, following the failed Israeli commando raid in the Bekaa Valley, is uncertain as we go to press.)
- The Editors: Budget Woes, Class Wars
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The full frontal assault on public workers and their unions in one state after another — stripping collective bargaining rights and dues checkoff, slashing wages and pensions and health benefits, abolishing seniority and tenure for teachers, mandating yearly decertification votes, threatening jail terms for strikers — is as massive and instantaneous as it was unexpected by the labor bureaucracy and many union members. To say “the class war is back” is an understatement. It’s an authentic firestorm sucking the oxygen from labor rights, from Wisconsin to Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and other states.
- The Editors: Bush-Gore 2000: No Thanks!
Against The Current vol. 87
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
The Republican presidential candidate strongly advocates the Effective Death Penalty Act, the World Trade Organization and "free trade" with China; talks environmental protection while being heavily funded by Occidental Petroleum; supports deportations of non-citizens suspected of "terrorist links" based on secret evidence which the accused cannot hear or refute; and openly pandered to the right-wing lobby in Miami in the Elian Gonzalez affair.
- The Editors: Change of the Century
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The heroes of Tahrir Square in Cairo and other Egyptian cities, and in Tunisia, have already changed the course of 21st century history. They have torn a huge hole in the fabric of imperialist dominion over the Middle East. They have begun to reverse what has been 35 years of almost continuous “permanent counterrevolution” in the region.
- The Editors: Changing for Real
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The United States changed forever on November 4, 2008. It will undoubtedly change even more during the next four years — although just how remains to be determined. There has never been such a convergence of yawning crises facing an incoming U.S. government, including a collapsing credit system and the near-death spiral of the North American auto industry. It’s an entirely open question whether the sheer scale of the objective emergency might impose serious structural changes on the way capitalism is administered in this country.
- The Editors: A Comrade and Friend
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Steffie Brooks, a member of Solidarity in New York, died Monday evening, February 9, 2009 after a struggle with a cancer that had spread from her lungs into her spine. Steffie’s final few months were difficult and painful, but she remained committed to her political activism, which included giving a presentation at a summer school our organization co-sponsored with others last August.
- The Editors: Congress' Phony Health Care War
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
One hundred thousand people in the United States of America lose their health insurance every month. It seems unlikely, however, that this number included the president of Columbia/HCA, the industry leader in for-profit health care, who, as reported in the August 5 New England Journal of Medicine, "resigned in the face of federal fraud investigations ... with a $10 million severance package and $269 million in company stock."
- The Editors: Crisis of the Regime
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
"A government headed by right-wing extremists has been returned to power, to preside over a divided country and a potential for real catastrophe in Iraq!" That's what we wrote a year ago, in the immediate wake of the 2004 election (editorial statement, ATC 113). In other words, the Republicans were firmly installed as the country's ruling party, albeit with a razor-thin majority, unless and until they were to screw something up really, really badly—and have they ever, from Baghdad to New Orleans and back!
- The Editors: The Cuban Five--Injustice Prolonged
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the final appeal of the “Cuban Five,” who were convicted in 2001 and are serving prison terms ranging from 15 years to life for “espionage conspiracy” and acting as illegal agents for the Cuban government.
- The Editors: Doctors Under Attack
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
On May 31, 2009, while handing out church bulletins, Dr. George Tiller was shot to death by an anti-abortion activist. The Women’s Health Care Services clinic Dr. Tiller operated in Wichita, Kansas was one of three in the United States that performed late-term abortions. His clinic, his home and the homes of his staff have been picketed for years.
- The Editors: Elections and Regime Crisis
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Will the Democrats "regain control of Congress"? Will Joseph Lieberman change parties? Will Hillary Clinton be the Democratic frontrunner for 2008? How much does any of this matter?
- The Editors: Empire of Lies and Torture
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
The prohibition of torture in international conventions is absolute. There are no exceptions for so-called "ticking bombs," for "high-value terrorists" or "illegal enemy combatants" or similar improvised fictions—or for extraterritorial prison camps (Guantanamo) where the jailers exercise absolute power but somehow disclaim the legal responsibilities of "sovereignty."
- The Editors: The End of the Regime?
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
The Permanent Detention and Torture Enabling Act of 2006 was the final obscene gesture of a dying Congressional session. (Actually, make that next-to-last: They topped it off with the billion-dollar appropriation to double-fence the Mexican border, even though this means humiliating Bush’s own pals in Mexico, the right-wing politicians whom he helped steal the Mexican election. That’s another crisis we cover elsewhere in this issue.)
- The Editors: Ferguson and After: Where Is This Movement Going?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The movement that has erupted after non-indictments of the cop killers of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and of Eric Garner in New York City, one further fed by relentless continued police killings of black and brown youth on a weekly basis around the country, is without doubt the deepest social movement to emerge in the United States in more than forty years.
- The Editors: From "Occupy" to ...
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The question isn't whether the magnificent “Occupy” movement will continue after police action and the onset of winter have largely emptied the encampments. The righteous rage that made the movement possible, and the enormous social and economic crisis that made it necessary, are not going away anytime soon. Quite the contrary — capitalism’s inherent contradictions, made worse by economic policies in Europe and the United States that seem calculated to maximize the damage, pose the real possibility of a new global financial meltdown and potential world depression.
- The Editors: Gay Marriage Yes!
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Any doubts about the meaning of the struggle for the right of gay and lesbian marriage should have disappeared forever when Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco opened the marriage bureau at city hall to same-sex couples.
- The Editors: A Gran Marcha and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
March, 2006 marked an eruption that hit the streets, showed its strength, and took everyone including its participants by surprise. Millions marched all over the country: 300,000 in Chicago, 50,000 in Denver, 10,000 in Detroit and Milwaukee, 10,000-20,000 in New York, 20,000 in Phoenix—and somewhere between 500,000 and a million in the Gran Marcha in Los Angeles on March 25. As the U.S. Congress and Senate hold their wretched deliberations on "immigration reform," the communities affected have shown they will not be passive objects, but active subjects, in this debate. As this issue goes to press, mass marches have continued and Congress has recessed in deadlock on the issue.
- The Editors: Gun Control: Carnage in Context
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
What "the right to bear arms" means today is murkier in a society which is profoundly unorganized, exceptionally violent, highly racist, and with desperately inadequate care for the mentally ill.
- The Editors: Immigrant Youth Victory!
Against The Current vol. 159
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
President Obama’s directive removing the threat of deportation from hundreds of thousands of young people is a tribute to the heroism of those who have come out as “Undocumented and Unafraid.” It’s still a long way from stopping the terror affecting immigrant communities — but under an administration that frankly has been a disgrace and disaster for civil liberties, human rights and due process, this victory shows the power of well-rooted and courageous activism to make a positive difference.
- The Editors: Introducing the Year 1905: Centennial of Struggle
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The year 1905 stands out as the onset of an era of explosive anticapitalist struggle—all the more so 100 years later, when we feel stranded in a neoliberal ice age. Looking back at the events of that year helps give some perspective on how rapidly consciousness and levels of struggle can change.
- The Editors: Introduction to the POUM's Seven Decades
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
We present this leading participant’s account of the Party Of Marxist Unity (POUM) as an historical document. The POUM was the most important organization of the revolutionary left in the Spanish Revolution of 1936-39. Its historic role is twofold: as a critical political and military force in the struggle against fascism, and as a target of the murderous Stalinist campaign that ultimately destroyed the revolution from within. Wilebaldo Solano was General Secretary of the Iberian Communist Youth — Juventud Comunista Ibérica (JCI) in 1936, member of the Executive Committee of the POUM, imprisoned until 1944 and later elected as General Secretary of the POUM (while in exile). He is the author of El POUM in la Historia. Andreu Nin y la revolución española, and founder of the Fundacion Andreu Nin.
- The Editors: Keeping Independent Politics Alive
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
It's important for us on the left at least to salute the most courageous candidacy of 2008: Cynthia McKinney (former Georgia congresswoman) and Rosa Clemente (Puerto Rican hip-hop cultural activist), the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the Green Party.
- The Editors: LA Teachers Face the Crisis
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Interview with UTLA activist. Against the Current interviewed a longtime activist and current leader in the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) about the impact of California’s devastating budget crisis on public services and on education in particular.
- The Editors: Let Them Eat Cuts
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The good times are flowing again for Wall Street and bank executives, and U.S. corporate profits have rarely if ever looked so lush. But it’s a brutal moment for working people, with much worse possibly to come. These twin realities set the economic and political agenda heading into 2011-12. Everyone knows the Republicans are hell-bent on “making Obama a one-term president,” but few expected that they’d capture the White House in 2010. If that’s an exaggeration, it’s a mild one.
- The Editors: Libya and the Arab Uprisings
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2011
The sweeping upheavals in Arab countries and North Africa continue to unfold. Among these events, the uprising in Libya and the subsequent United Nations/NATO intervention have provoked intense controversy within the international left and antiwar movement. The debate is an inevitable and necessary one — given both the imminent massacre that appeared likely to occur if the Qaddafi regime recaptured Benghazi and other opposition population centers, and what we well know to be the far-from-humanitarian motives of the imperialist intervening powers.
- The Editors: Looking Back -- and Ahead
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The year 1968 stands out as one of those pivotal years on multiple political and cultural levels. Against the Current will devote considerable space to discussing what the upheavals of that year meant then, and now. Conventional media retrospectives will concentrate on the spectacular and appalling visual images — street rioting over the Vietnam War and the Martin Luther King assassination; the murder of Robert Kennedy; the debacle of the Democratic convention in Chicago, with police beating heads while Hubert Humphrey proclaimed “the politics of joy” in his nomination acceptance speech.
- The Editors: Loosing Another Round
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The strike at American Axle, which we reported on in ATC 134, ended when workers voted to go back under a concessionary agreement. The 25% who voted no didn’t feel they were close to winning but they said they couldn’t look themselves in the mirror if they voted yes. Yet the strike idled nearly three dozen assembly plants and put enormous pressure on GM. The UAW did not develop a longterm relationship with the union at the AAM plant in Mexico. All during the strike that plant produced 6,000 axles a day, thus enabling GM to keep some production going.
- The Editors: Julian Mer-Khamis
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
We mourn the tragic and senseless assassination of the brilliant revolutionary filmmaker Juliano Mer-Khamis, who was gunned down April 4 in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. His documentary film “Arna’s children,” about his mother’s lifelong struggle and her work in founding the Jenin Freedom Theater, and the realities of life for Palestinian youth under occupation, is a masterpiece. The Freedom Theater is a priceless center for resistance as well as the healing of these young people.
- The Editors: The Miami Model in Your Face
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
The major police riot in Miami was an operation undoubtedly as thoroughly planned as it was obscene. This was a deliberate, bare-knuckled threat: Assemble in 2004 against war, “free trade,” the Republican Convention or roundup of immigrants under the police-state monstrosity known as Homeland Security, and this is what you'll get.
- The Editors: Obama's Reform, Recovery Stalled
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The Reform agenda of president Obama and the Democrats, such as it was, is exhausted. Two failing wars, a fragile and almost jobless economic recovery teetering on the cusp of a double-dip Great Recession, and an all-out rightwing racial, economic and political offensive have defined the ground for the November midterm election and the period to follow.
- The Editors: On Oil and Quicksand
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The end of 2004 finds the Middle East sliding toward an even bloodier morass, thanks in large part to imperial and colonial arrogance which has rarely been on such open display.
- The Editors: The Poisoned Pill of Obama's War
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The Obama administration looked into the abyss of endless war in Afghanistan, considered all its options, pondered the consequences — and jumped. This is a war without honor, or purpose, or hope.
- The Editors: The Real Costs of Empire
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Vietnam all over again? Yes, it is. The massacres by United States military forces of unarmed civilians in Haditha and, as is finally being revealed despite official lies and coverup, numerous other Iraqi towns, are showing tens of millions of Americans what this war is, and part of what it really costs. The highest costs obviously are borne by the ordinary people of Iraq; but American society will pay for decades as well for this dirty conflict -- and worse is yet to come.
- The Editors: Reform Is Not A Tea Party
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The Nobel peace price notwithstanding, Barack Obama’s presidency, contrary to the hopes of many, has not produced a big political space for the left, let alone “a seat at the table.” Most visibly, it has been the right wing that succeeded in seizing the initiative, in some truly grotesque ways that have thrown a spotlight on the deep paranoia — and straight-up old-style white racism — that persists in this society, and on the ways it can be opportunistically pandered to and manipulated. The tea-party mob phenomenon, however, cannot be dismissed as merely a freak show created by rightwing talk media and massive covert corporate funding, although that is certainly part of the story.
- The Editors: The Road from Copenhagen
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The handwriting about the long-anticipated Copenhagen climate change conference has been on the wall for months, and its message is not promising for our human civilization or the thousands of species we may take down with us. By the time of that frantic final day of backroom arm-twisting, blackmail and president Obama's lead-balloon speech, it no longer really mattered whether the conference's failure would be openly admitted, or thinly disguised behind a “political framework statement” without serious mechanisms for implementation, measurement or enforcement.
- The Editors: Swing of the Pendulum?
Against The Current vol. 159
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The defeat of the Wisconsin recall of anti-labor Governor Scott Walker, along with the Republican jubilation that followed, demands a close examination of the state of U.S. politics. In the post-Citizens United era, it’s certainly true that unlimited Super-PAC funds from the likes of the Koch Brothers and other dark corners of “the one percent” lubricate the political machinery of the right wing’s “ground game,” savage media wars, lying attack ads and voter suppression campaigns.
- The Editors: "This Changes Everything..."
Against The Current vol. 92
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Remember those ads for the Viper, that hyped-up, super-computerized Dodge yuppiemobile that adjusted itself for road conditions, programmed its own itinerary, virtually drove itself and offered more luxury features than the average first-class airline trip? The slogan for that promotional campaign — "This Changes Everything" — fits perfectly the sudden economic downturn and fear of recession.
- The Editors: Those Bush Two Blues
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The imperial investiture of George W. Bush was celebrated with corporate-financed balls through the night. Half a world away in Iraq, the empire burned, and bodies from the Indian Ocean tsunami continued to be retrieved from the surf and the muck of shattered villages from Aceh to Sri Lanka to India to Somalia. The cost of the coronation, a few tens of millions of dollars (but who's counting?), could have paid for a warning system to save the lives of many of the 250-300,000 victims.
- The Editors: Three Years After "Yes We Can"
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
No, he didn't. That’s the epitaph on the tombstone of liberal and left-wing hopes that greeted the historic election of Barack Obama in November 2008. Did anyone imagine then that the election itself, more than anything he’d do in office, would be the high point of the Obama presidency? Or that three years later, the power of “Yes we can” would be the eruption of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) spreading to one city after another — essentially nothing to do with President Obama?
- The Editors: A War on Black Children?
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Two montrous events have opened a window on a daily reality: In the name of safe streets and schools, an undeclared war has been opened on a generation of African-American children. In affluent suburban Oakland County, Michigan, a nearly all-white jury convicted a 13-year-old youth of second-degree murder, tried as an adult in a shooting that occurred when he was 11 years of age. In Decatur, Illinois, seven Black students were expelled from high school by a nearly all-white school board, against the opposition of the only Black member, for a brawl in the stands at a football game.
- The Editors: The War on Women--And Us All
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The war on women’s reproductive rights is being fought in the U.S. Congress, in state legislatures and in the courts, and played out in the media. This war seeks to restrict women’s ability to control their reproductive lives — with each law more outrageous than the last — under the excuse that they are “protecting the unborn.”
- The Editors: War(s) With No Exit
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The raging debate on “war policy” between the corporate presidential campaigns has come down to this:
- The Editors: What Choice in 2012?
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The outcome of the November 2012 election is clear: It will be the most vicious and racist in modern U.S. history, and by far the most expensive of all time. Are critical issues at stake in this political year? Absolutely, yes — but not the questions we’ll get to vote on.
- The Editors: Who Are the Control Rods?
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
After losing a war, one of the worst things that can happen to a society is for its people to be told it was a "victory." The inability or failure to learn the lessons of the United States’ defeat in Iraq enables the plunge into the next disastrous adventure: Can you say "Iran"?
- The Editors: Who's Dysfunctional Now?
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The good news is that the Republicans and the Tea Party movement not only lost the health insurance reform vote, but made such a obscene spectacle of themselves that everyone now knows who and what they really are. The bad news is that the Democrats now take credit for passing “health care reform” when in fact they’ve gutted it — hiding who and what they really are.
- The Editors: Whose Wipeout? Whose Bailout?
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Is this what 1931 looks like? Years ago, we recall, two themes for popular cinema were people trapped in burning skyscrapers ("Towering Inferno") and market sharks engaged in financial manipulations ("Wall Street"). After September 11, 2001 the former disaster movie genre suddenly seemed much less fun, and we suspect that after September 2008 the spectacle of stock market crashes on the big screen may not be so entertaining either.
- The Editors: Women in a Neoliberal Order
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Feminists and historians of the Middle East were a bit surprised last year when Laura Bush made a radio address defending women's rights -- in Iraq. An unlikely champion of women's causes at home (The Economist of London, not a radical magazine, rates her “low” on feminism) from reproductive freedom, affirmative action or equality in employment to social services women need, Ms. Bush found in women's rights a convenient pretext for boosting her husband's imperial crusade in another country.
- The Editors: A World in Revolt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
We are pleased to include in this issue of Insurgent Notes a series of very detailed accounts and analyses of the gilets jaunes or yellow vests movement in France prepared by activists associated with Temps critiques. The texts are informed by a distinctive theoretical perspective (regarding capitalist reproduction and the possibility of revolution) and their sustained involvement in the yellow vests movement from its inception.
- The Editors: The Years of 9/11
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The decade that opened with the attacks of September 11, 2011 may have symbolically closed with the elite U.S. death-squad assassination of Osama bin Laden. But the turmoil of these post-9/11 years, notably the self-inflicted wounds of U.S. capitalism, have exceeded the terrorist mastermind’s wildest dreams. There are the wars that George W. Bush, with the support of congressional Democrats, launched in Afghanistan and Iraq — wars that the government promised wouldn’t have to be paid for — leading to a major U.S. defeat in Iraq, a defeat all the more damaging because it is not acknowledged as such, and a quagmire in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- the editors of Chelovechnost: Stop the Destruction of Chechnya!
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
As we enter the 21st century, Russian society is confronted with the shameful fact of the bloody colonial war in the north Caucasus. The whole might of the "democratic" Russian state has been thrown into subjugating a small people that volunteered to join neither the tsarist or Stalinist empires nor Yeltsin's "federation." Tens of thousands killed or physically or spiritually maimed; masses impoverished or turned into refugees with no rights; towns and villages reduced to ruins-this is the price paid to satisfy the political ambitions of a Russian ruling class bent on reinforcing and redoubling its dominance.
- The Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues (ICIHI): The Vanishing Forest
Resource Type: Book
While loggers, ranchers, road and dam builders destroy forests for short-term gains, the world is losing what could be its long-term economic base. Deforestation threatens irreversible climatic changes and the loss of gene pools. Not an ecological treatise, this report focuses on the suffering endured by the people immediately dependent on dwindling forest land and how this process is affecting their health and livelihood.
- The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption
Millions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A massive leak of documents exposes the offshore holdings of current and former world leaders, politicians , public officials, and wealthy individuals around the world.
- The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: The Highlights of "ChinaLeaks"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Reports by ICIJ and its partners revealing the secretive offshore holdings of China’s political and financial elite have generated a global wave of media coverage and an aggressive censorship campaign by Chinese authorities. These are some of the highlights of a worldwide selection of the original reports and ensuing media coverage.
- The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: Key findings: The Panama Papers by the numbers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The largest cross-border journalism collaboration ever has uncovered a giant leak of documents from Mossack Fonseca, a global law firm based in Panama.
- The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: Panama Papers: The Power Players
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
This interactive presentation produced by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) explores the stories behind the use of offshore companies of politicians and their relatives and associates -- more than 100 in all. Among them are 12 current or former country leaders and 33 other politicians and public officials with direct connections to structures in tax havens. Their names appeared inside a cache of 11.5 million leaked files from Panama's Mossack Fonseca, one of the biggest offshore service providers.
- The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: Stairway to Tax Heaven
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A news role-play game featuring three fictitious characters: Juan Penalti (Soccer Player), Polly Tissien (Politician) and Edmund von Kronen (Business Executive). Welcome to the secret world of offshore. Your goal is to navigate this parallel universe and hide your cash away. Don’t worry! Lawyers, wealth managers and bankers are there to help you. Pick a character and don't get caught.
- The Left Opposition Collective: Manifesto
10 Theses of the Leftist Opposition in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Replacing one set of politicians and oligarchs with another without overall systemic changes will not improve Ukrainian's lives. Instead, the Left Opposition Collective, a group of social and union activists, is proposing ten basic conditions for overcoming the economic crisis and ensuring Ukraine’s future growth.
- The Middle East Project, Democracy and Governance Program: Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid?
A re-assessment of Israel's practicies in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
A study of the Israel-Palestine situation from the standpoint of international law.
- The School of Authentic Journalism: Alice in Migraland
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2013
The story of how undocumented students organized creatively and strategically and got the Federal Government to grant them legal status.
- The School of Authentic Journalism: Gary Webb "It Was Outrageous But It Was True"
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2003 Published: 2014
Part one in a series featuring Gary Webb in his own words. The interview was conducted and filmed by the Guerrilla News Network, scholars, and professors at the 2003 School of Authentic Journalism.
- The School of Authentic Journalism: Two Struggles, One Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Mkhuseli “Khusta” Jack and Oscar Olivera met face to face and shared their stories of strategic organizing with the scholars and professors of the School of Authentic Journalism.
- The School of Authentic Journalism Class of 2013: #131+1: Voices in Movement An Oral History of the Mexican Youth Movement of 2012
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
On May 11, 2012, in the heat of the presidential campaign, history took an unexpected turn: a video, the social networks, and marches and mass actions managed to bring a new moment of hope into the history of Mexico, and the Mexican youth surprised the whole world.
- The Symbiosis Research Collective: What's it like for a social movement to take control of a city?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Ada Colau surprised many when she won the election to become mayor of Barcelona. The housing rights activist was part of a deep social movement aiming for participatory democracy. But this latest article from the Symbiosis Research Collective examines how winning the election was just the first step
- The undersigned: Scientists Write: EPA, Ban 'Agent Orange' Herbicide Mix and GMO Crops!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Thirty-five distinguished scientists urge the US-EPA not to register new mixtures of the herbicides 2,4-D and glyphosate, intended for use on herbicide-tolerant GMO crops. Approval of the herbicide mixtures would endanger both human and environmental health.
- Thede, Nancy; Ambrosi, Alain: Video The Changing World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Theidon, Kimberly: Intimate Enemies
Violence and Reconciliation in Peru
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012 Published: 2013
Theidon explores how Peruvians are rebuilding both individual lives and collective existence following twenty years of armed conflict. A compilation of stories and dialogues of Peruvian peasants and Theidon's own experiences to encompass the broad and varied range of conciliatory practices.
- Therborn, Göran: The World: A Beginner's Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
A comparative/historical sociological review of the world.
- Thieme, Richard: My Last Talk with Gary Webb
"I Knew It Was the Truth and That's What Kept Me Going"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The 'Dark Alliance' series in the Mercury News came under fire by other news organizations, and the paper’s own investigation concluded the series did not meet its standards. Mr. Webb resigned a year and a half after the series appeared in the paper. He then published his book, 'Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.'
- Thiranagama, Sharika: "I have been there before" - For Sri Lankan Christians like me, the Easter attacks revived old
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A personal narrative about the complicated politics of language, ethnicity, and religion in Sri Lanka in the wake of the Easter bombings.
- Thom, Kai Cheng: 7 Ways Social Justice Language Can Become Abusive in Intimate Relationships
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A list of signs that social justice language is being used abusively in a relationship
- Thomas Abowd: Jerusalem: Colonized City
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
An interview with author Thomas Abowd.
- Thomas Mcllwraith: Guidelines For Setting Up A Parish-Based Social Action Committee
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Guidelines is a four step program designed to enable parish-based groups, interested in social justice, to act on their commitment.
- Thomas P. Fenton & Mary Heffron (eds.): Africa
A Directory of Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
- Thomas, Barb; illustrated by Bruun-Meyer, Margie: Multiculturalism at Work
A Guide to Organizational Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
This book is primarily intended for managers of human services organizations and front-line trainers. It offers a chart of the kind of thinking process which has emerged from the YWCA's experience with the Multicultural Development Project.
- Thomas, Barb; Novogrodsky, Charles: Combatting Racism in the Workplace
A Course for Workers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
With the ultimate aim of combatting racism within the labour movement, the Cross Cultural Communication Centre, under the auspices of the Humber Collage for Labour Studies, ran a ten-week, 30 hour pilot course entitled 'Work Racism and Labour.'
- Thomas, Barb; Novogrodsky, Charles: Combatting Racism in the Workplace Readings Kit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Readings and case studies on fighting racism.
- Thomas, Clive: The Poor and the Powerless
Economic Policy and Change in the Caribbean
Resource Type: Book
Argues that another form of development - by the poor and for the poor - is not only possible but necessary.
- Thomas, Clive Y.: Cheddi Jagan's Politics and Legacy
An interview with Clive Y. Thomas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
An inteview with Clive Y. Thomas, an author, economist, and co-founder of the Working Peoples Alliance.
- Thomas, Hugh: The Slave Trade
The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
- Thomas, Hugh: The Spanish Civil War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961 Published: 1965
A history of the Spanish Civil War.
- Thomas, Julia Adeney: Why the Anthropocene is not 'climate change' - and why that matters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Reducing our current predicament to combatting climate change, or even narrower, reducing CO2 emissions fails to show the big picture of how humans have changed the planet. To contend with the Anthropocene we need to get rid of one-dimensional thinking of climate change.
- Thomas, Linda: Your Knife in my Life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
A tale of toil.
- Thomas, Mark L: A house divided: Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Something remarkable happened over the summer of 2015. Immediately after Ed Miliband resigned following Labour's defeat in the general election, the grip exercised by Blairism over the Labour Party had seemed set to continue grimly on. The field competing for the Labour leadership was confined to various shades of uninspiring Blairites, with the supposedly "left" candidate, Andy Burnham, rushing to distance himself from the unions. Even after Jeremy Corbyn threw his hat in the ring, most (including Corbyn himself) assumed he would be soundly beaten.
- Thomas, Mark L: Humans will be remembered for leaving a 'plastic planet'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
- Thomas, Mark L.: Which strategy for the left?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Ed Rooksby, a supporter of the Left Unity initiative, recently put forward his view that a left government can play a key role in the fight for radical change. Mark L. Thomas argues this ignores the role of the state.
- Thomas, Paul: Karl Marx and the Anarchists
Resource Type: Book
Shows the continuity of Marx's political theory in the context of different ideological opponents.
- Thomas, Randy: Saving the Strait
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Thomas, Stephanie: Disabled Activists Seek Freedom
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1996
"I'd rather go to jail than to die in a nursing home".
- Thompson, Allan: The Media and the Rwanda Genocide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
The news media played a crucial role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Local media fueled the killings, while international media either ignored or seriously misunderstood what was happening. This is the first book to explore both sides of the media equation. Examining how local radio was used as a tool of hate, encouraging neighbors to turn against each other, the book also presents a critique of international media coverage.
- Thompson, Bertha, as told to Ben Reitman: Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Memoirs of a woman who lived as a hobo and anarchist.
- Thompson, Brad: The Domestic War on Protesters
It's Not Just Egypt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
While the US claims to uphold right to demonstrate around the world, there have been countless examples throughout the history of this country of protests being shut down by an overwhelming police presence. In recent years, it has become routine for police departments to use a host of tactics to limit and prevent mass demonstrations. These tactics have included mass arrests of demonstrators, preemptive arrests and trumped up charges against protest organizers.
- Thompson, Chris: Subsidizing Contractor Misconduct: Alma's Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Story of Alma Aranda, employee at the customer call center operated by Verizon Communications, where she works an eight-hour shift fielding questions about billing statements or complaints about Internet service from the company.
- Thompson, Dorothy: The Essential Thompson
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
This collection of writings by Thompson, the influential British historian of 18th- and 19th-century England, was compiled by his widow, the historian Dorothy Thompson. Thompson argues that social relationships in the modern Western world are open, dynamic, and evolving categories.
- Thompson, Dorothy; Roberts, Stephen: The Dignity of Chartism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Groundbreaking studies of Britain's first major working-class movement.
- Thompson, E. P.: William Morris
From Romantic to Revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955 Published: 1977
A biography of the nineteenth-century socialist, designer, artist, and intellectual William Morris.
- Thompson, E.P.: Customs in Common
Studies in Traditional Popular Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992 Published: 1993
The companion to E.P. Thompson's landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class, Customs in Common describes the complex culture from which working-class institutions emerged in England — a panoply of traditions and customs that the new working class fought to preserve well into Victorian times. Thompson investigates the gradual disappearance of a range of cultural customs against the backdrop of the great upheavals of the eighteenth century.
- Thompson, E.P.: E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left
Essays and Polemics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Collection of essays advocating for humanistic and democratic socialism along with the value of utopian thinking in radical politics.
- Thompson, E.P.: The Making of the English Working Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963 Published: 1968
Discusses the development of a working class consciousness from the 1790s to the Great Reform Bill
- Thompson, E.P.: Notes on Exterminism, the last stage of civllization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- Thompson, E.P.: Thompson, E.P. - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of E.P. Thompson (1924-1993).
- Thompson, E.P.; Ilott, Terry: Recovering the Libertarian Tradition
Resource Type: Pamphlet
An interview with E.P. Thompson.
- Thompson, E.P.; Smith, Dan: Protest and Survive
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
- Thompson, Edward; Davis, Mike et al: Exterminism and Cold War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
15 articles on the issues of the arms race and the threat of nuclear war, the Cold War and the peace movemennts.
- Thompson, Frank: The Economy After A Half Century
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The object here is to evaluate the current state of the Cuban economy, but for this no insightful perspective is possible without considering its performance historically, especially over the last sixty years and most especially over the half century since the triumph of the Revolution.
- Thompson, Gabriel: America's Social Arsonist
Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Gabriel Thompson provides a full picture of Fred Ross,this complicated and driven man, recovering a forgotten chapter of American history and providing vital lessons for organizers today.
- Thompson, Gabriel: Calling All Radicals
How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing.
- Thompson, Gabriel: Working in the Shadows
A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Combining personal narrative with investigative reporting, Thompson shines a light on the underside of the American economy, exposing harsh working conditions, union busting, and lax government enforcement — while telling the stories of workers forced to live with chronic pain in the pursuit of $8 an hour.
- Thompson, Heather Ann: African Americans' Forced Labor
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
As Americans we are taught that slavery was abolished after the Civil War. A close reading of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution reveals, however, that this was not exactly the case. Although this amendment did outlaw slavery for the majority of American citizens, anyone convicted of a crime could still, quite legally, be kept in a state of bondage without claims on civil liberties and without remuneration for their forced labor.
- Thompson, Heather Ann: Attica from 1971 to Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Interview with Heather Ann Thompson.
- Thompson, Heather Ann: Mass Incarceration and the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Thompson opens up a discussion regarding the American criminal justice system and why incarceration does not lead to rehabilitation back into society.
- Thompson, Helen: It's not just the bees! 'Neonic' pesticides linked to bird declines
The higher the imidacloprid concentration the more severely the bird populations dropped.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A study published today in Nature shows a strong correlation between concentrations of a popular neonicotinoid pesticide in water, and bird declines. Regulators are under pressure to tighten up, but the industry still claims there's 'no substantiated evidence'.
- Thompson, Jon: No Debate
The Israel Lobby and Free Speech at Canadian Universities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
During 2008-2009, Israel lobby organizations made concerted efforts to block a planned conference on statehood for Israel and Palestine at Toronto's York University. Thompson probes the facts and context of the case and explores the meaning of academic freedom in Canada.
- Thompson, Juan: Mississippi Family Faces Jail Time for Cheering at High School Graduation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
When Ursula Miller attended her niece's high school graduation from Senatobia High School in northwestern Mississippi last month, she didn't expect to leave with an arrest warrant. But in a prime example of excessesive criminalization, Miller and three others were charged with disorderly conduct for cheering on their relatives during the ceremony held at Northwest Mississippi Community College.
- Thompson, Juan: Rising Up Against Police Violence, From the Black Panthers to #BlackLivesMatter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
I turned away more than once while watching Stanley Nelson's documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. I averted my eyes from the screen when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's nefarious mug first appeared. I turned away once more when the charismatic and admirable Fred Hampton was first shown, knowing that eventually he would be murdered by Chicago police and federal agents.
- Thompson, Laurie; Burns, Tom: The Potash Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
An analysis of the exploitation of potash resources in Saskatchewan.
- Thompson, Linda: Four Conferences on Matriarchy
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The growth of a diverse and broad international wave of feminism has led to the development of what has been called Modern Matriarchal Studies, which includes research both on ancient societies and on existing communal cultures.
- Thompson, Matt: Tabloids do not represent the working class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
It should come as little surprise that media owned and run by unscrupulous billionaires like Rupert Murdoch and Richard Desmond should be more concerned with protecting the party of big business than it is with the wellbeing or interests of working class people. We need to call out the tabloid media for what it is – run by and for the elites.
- Thompson, Michael S.: Urban Honey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
In the winter of 2003, three Chicago beekeepers joined forces to create a bee farm on the former Sears-Roebuck property right in the heart of our city. We abut an old railroad embankment wall with both prairie remnant and concrete in equal amounts.
- Thompson, Mitchell: Rainbow Capital, Queerness, and Black Lives Matter's Shocking Reformism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Though I support BLM’s policy goals and shock-tactics, their lack of analysis of the forces behind the oppression of Black and other people seems to put them in an awkward place. Their use of shock tactics makes them too radical for the reformists, while their emphasis on piece-meal reforms and little else alienates the radicals. It puts them in a kind of activist nether-space that makes unity difficult.
- Thompson, R.; Brown, H.R.: Social Science and The Ideology of the Status Quo
Resource Type: Pamphlet
This essay is a critique of the institution of social sciences. The authors argue that status quo social sciences are reflective of monopoly capitalism and mass industrialized society.
- Thompson, Wendy: Coming Home to the Struggle
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
I became a political activist at the age of 12, when I marched for open housing in Evanston, Illinois. We lived next to the Black community in Evanston; African-American students made up 40% of my grade school. At the local YWCA girls club my sister and I were the only whites. The young Black women I became close to helped me overcome painful shyness. Later my father, a Methodist minister, was arrested trying to integrate churches in Jackson, Mississippi.
- Thomson, Marily; Wintour, Nora: Women of El Salvador
The Price of Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
A portrait of the lives of women in the Central American country wracked by war. Drawing upon interviews with the refugees in Mexico and Nicaragua, as well as a visit to El Salvador itself, the authors describe the roles, consciousness and struggles of Salvadorian women in the family and at work, in the Church and the trade unions. They stress, in particular, women's participation in the struggle to free their country of US-supported military domination.
- Thomson, Oliver: Easily Led
A History of Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
- Thorburn, Hugh G.: Pressure Group
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
An organization formed by like-minded people who seek to influence public policy to promote an interest.
- Thordarson, Bruce: Banking on the Grass Roots
Cooperatives in global development
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
- Thoreau, H.D.: H.D. Thoreau Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Thoreau, Henry David: Civil Disobedience
Originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1849
An essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849 which argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War.
- Thorkelson, Erika: DFO Library Closures Anger Scientific Community
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
When word first broke that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans was closing seven of their libraries, government officials promised that there would be no loss of vital historical material. Today many are skeptical of those claims.
- Thorkelson, Erika: Loss of Librarians Devastating to Science and Knowledge in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The closure of federal libraries and loss of specialized librarians impacts negatively on the state of science and knowledge in Canada.
- Thorkelson, Nick; O'Brien, Jim: Underhanded History of the USA
Radical America - Volumer 7 No.3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
- Thorpe, Tim: Seaspiracy
Closing the net on industrial fishing
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2021
A review of Seaspiracy; the film lifts the lid on the fishing industry, described as secretive and corrupt. Seaspiracy scrutinizes ocean conservation groups like Marine Stewardship Council and the Earth Island Institute are complicit in the fishing industry, and educates viewers on the complex relationships found in ocean food chains.
- Thorson, Stephanie: Mexican Environment Laws
Resource Type: Article
Mexico's lax environmental laws.
- Thorstad, David: In the US: Imagining Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Book review. This welcome book, Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA, is an important and unique attempt to bridge that gap between the obvious and mass apathy. As an argument for socialism, presented from multiple angles in short essays by some thirty contributors, it is persuasive, passionate, and at times eloquent.
- Thorstad, David: LGBT: a Dissection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
"LGBT" is everywhere these days. But is it here to stay, or is it a passing fad? Where did it come from? Why was it promoted? By whom? And to what end? How did it acquire its seemingly endless variants? The acronym, in its many permutations, designates a movement very different from the gay liberation movement it evolved from. Some might see it as progress, expansion, and greater inclusivity, others as a tombstone for what was once a radical sexual liberation movement.
- Thorstad, David: On "Sweet," "Yellow Head," and "Two-Spirit"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
- Thorsteinsson, Vidar: Iceland's Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
After its financial crisis, Iceland put bankers in jail. But it didn't rein in capital. In reality the responses to the 2008–9 Icelandic banking crash were only modestly progressive and failed to bring about any kind of shift to the left. They have also been much more contested locally than most international media accounts reflect.
- Threlkeld, Simon: Why America's Judges Should be Chosen by Citizen Juries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Judges should not be chosen by popular vote, nor by politicians. Both approaches are undemocratic and deeply flawed, perhaps even absurd, despite the fact that the former is in widespread use at the state level, and the latter has always been used at the federal level (in the form of appointment by the President and confirmation by the Senate). A far better option is for judges to be chosen by juries drawn from the public by random selection.
- Thurman, Hy: In Memoriam: Bobby Lee, Black Panther
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Hy Thurman remembers Bobby Lee.
- Thurman, Scott: The Revisionaries
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
The Revisionaries follows the attempts of a creationist Board of Education member to revise the science and history curricula to better suit a white, Christian nation.
- Tickell, Josh; Tickell, Rebecca Harrell: Kiss the Ground
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2020
Delving into the impact of regenerating the Earth's soil quality and its impact on climate, ecosystems, and food sustainability. Featuring environmental activists, scientists, and celebrities.
- Tickell, Oliver: Brazil: Government to abandon tribes to 'genocide' by loggers and ranchers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Brazil's extreme right wing government is preparing to open up the rainforest territories of uncontacted indigenous tribes to 'free for all' development by defunding the protection they currently receive.
- Tickell, Oliver: Fracking kills newborn babies - polluted water likely cause
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A new study in Pennsylvania, USA shows that fracking is strongly related to increased mortality in young babies. The effect is most pronounced in counties with many drinking water wells indicating that contamination by 'produced water' from fracking is a likely cause. Radioactive pollution with uranium, thorium and radium is a 'plausible explanation' for the excess deaths.
- Tickell, Oliver: Gaza - is annexation Israel's 'permanent solution'?
The real estate of Gaza would be an additional boon - and a highly valuable one, releasing 365 square kilometres of prime development land,
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
As Israel pursues its war on Gaza with ever-increasing ferocity, and with 25% of Gaza's people forced from their homes, what's the final objective? It's unthinkable that Israel's aim is to 'cleanse' the territory of its people, seize its vast gas reserves, and annex some of the Med's hottest real estate. Isn't it?
- Tickell, Oliver: Gaza wrecked by storm, floods, acute cold, sewage overflows and power cuts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The UN has described the Gaza Strip as a 'disaster area' following the onslaught of Storm Alexa and called on the international community to lift the blockade and allow recovery efforts to proceed.
- Tickell, Oliver: Leaked TTIP papers reveal 100% corporate sellout
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Secret documents leaked to Greenpeace from the EU-US TTIP negotiations show that environmental protection, climate change mitigation, consumer protection, public health and sustainability are sacrificed throughout to corporate profit and commercial interests.
- Tickell, Oliver: New GMOs are 'not GM' -- EU folds under US pressure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The EU Commission has caved in to US pressure in TTIP trade talks by deciding to consider organisms modified by new "gene editing" techniques as non-GM -- in violation of the EU's own laws. The move could make the 'new GMOs' exempt from labeling and from health and environmental testing.
- Tickell, Oliver: Nigerian farmers face destitution from 300 sq.km land grab backed by UK aid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Farmers in Nigeria's north eastern state of Taraba are being forced off lands they have farmed for generations to make way for US company Dominion Farms to establish a 300 square kilometre rice plantation.
- Tickell, Oliver: Pandora's box: how GM mosquitos could have caused Brazil's microcephaly disaster
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
In Brazil's microcephaly epidemic, one vital question remains unanswered: how did the Zika virus suddenly learn how to disrupt the development of human embryos? The answer may lie in a sequence of 'jumping DNA' used to engineer the virus's mosquito vector - and released into the wild four years ago in the precise area of Brazil where the microcephaly crisis is most acute.
- Tickell, Oliver: Peru: Amazon tribes sacrificed to gas project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Peru has approved the highly controversial expansion of the Camisea gas project onto the land of isolated Amazon tribes - who will be put at risk of a massive death toll or extinction from introduced diseases.
- Tickell, Oliver: Romania faces $2.56bn claim for failed gold mine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Canadian mining company Gabriel Resources is seeking over $2.5 billion damages from Romania after it rejected a vast gold mine at Rosia Montana.
- Tickell, Oliver: Russian aggression and the BBC's drums of nuclear war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The drums of war are beating on the BBC and other mass media, writes Oliver Tickell -- naked propaganda about fictitious 'Russian aggression' intended to soften us up for a war that could wipe out life on Earth. We must refuse to fall for the endlessly repeated lies, and tell our politicians that our highest priority of all is peace.
- Tickell, Oliver: 'Shooting to Kill:' Operation Get Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
As David Cameron talks tough on shooting terrorists on Britain's streets, bombing Syria, shooting off nuclear weapons at unnamed enemies, over half of the Labour Party's MPs in the House of Commons gaze in admiration, open mouthed, wondering why their leader couldn't be more like that.
- Tickell, Oliver: Tea Party's fake protestors for Big Sugar against Florida Everglades
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The Tea Party of Miami put up a convincing demo last week to oppose a 'land grab' that would see 46,000 acres of sugar farm land restored for Everglades conservation. Just one problem - the 'protestors' were actors each being paid $75 for the two-hour shift.
- Tickell,Oliver: Reclaim the Power! Climate protestors rout security with UK-wide fossil fuel strikes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The fossil fuel industry and its political backers have been left reeling by an unprecedented series of direct action strikes against targets across the country to protest at continuing investment in and official support for fossil fuels, inaction over fuel poverty and the systematic neglect of renewable energy despite the global climate emergency.
- Ticktin, Hillel: Accumulation and Control of Labor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Bob Brenner has written a book that is clearly important and I respect him for tackling the issues and working on them so assiduously. His work is clear and I have found it very useful in clarifying my ideas but I find it hard to agree with it.
- Ticktin, Hillel: Brief Theory of the Present Crisis
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
This article is a summary and development of the argument that I have been writing in the journal Critique, both in the Critique Notes and a number of articles. I have left out two issues discussed in Critique, that of the case against the falling rate of profit as the only or fundamental cause and why the ruling class has opted for austerity.
- Ticktin, Hillel: Karl Marx in the 21st Century
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Looking at how Marx's theories can explain today's global crisis.
- Ticktin, Hillel: Lessons from the 1905 Revolution
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
1905 was a decisive year in Socialist History in that the working class movement developed two crucial weapons in its armory: Soviets (workers’ councils), which were new, and the general strike, which was not. Since that time both political forms have been extensively used and theorized.
- Ticktin, Hillel; Weissman, Susan: From Yeltsin to Putin: Modern Democrat Gives Way to Modern Nationalist
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
The power brokers in and around the Kremlin have orchestrated a transfer of power that could serve as a model for modern democratic rule—the kind of demonstration democracy (demonstrate the form, forget the content) practiced to a high art form in the United States.
- Ticktin, Hillel; Weissman, Susan: Russia's Crisis: Capitalism in Question
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
THE ECONOMIC CRISIS in Russia is a trigger for the world-wide decline in stock markets and currencies rather than its cause. Russia has been in a sharp economic crisis for a decade, since Gorbachev passed the Law on the State Enterprise, which first introduced market disciplines to the USSR. On the other side, the world is in a supply glut with too many products and not enough buyers. The Russian debt default looks like the first of a number to come.
- Tieleman, Bill: Harper's Rule Breaking Rush to Crush Unions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Is there anything more undemocratic than Canada's most tainted organization -- the Conservative-controlled Senate -- breaking its rules and then overturning its own Conservative Speaker's ruling, all to hurriedly impose anti-union legislation before the federal election? That's what happened last week with Bill C-377, an odious private members' bill shepherded from beginning to end by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's own office, passed by Parliament's Conservative majority and sent to the Senate for approval.
- Tierney, Ciaran: Journeying to freedom in a closed-off world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Palestinians know only too well what it’s like to be under lockdown or prevented from traveling, hemmed in by walls, checkpoints and bureaucracy, themes Qumsiyeh tackles in Walled Citizen.
- Tietze, Tad: The Failed Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The failure of Syriza in Greece, and the timidness of other left-social-democratic parties and formations tells us that we must learn the dangers of political shortcut and focus on building radical movements outside of government.
- Tietze, Tad: Towards a Marxist Critique of 'Privilege Theory'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A contribution by Tad Tietze to an ongoing debate on Marxism and 'privilege theory.'
- Tighe, Foss: We're Winning -- Don't Ask Where!
Roll Over George Orwell, And Give Goebbels the News!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Tijen, Tjebba van: Europe Against the Current
Catalogue of Alternative, Independent and Radical Information Carriers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Tilden, Scott W.: Harnessing Desktop Publishing:
How to Let the New Technology Help You Do Your Job Better
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- Tilley, Virginia: Israel's appalling bombing of Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Destroying the only power source for a trapped and defenseless civilian population is an unprecedented step toward barbarity. It reeks, ironically, of the Warsaw Ghetto.
- Tilley, Virginia: A Response to Norman Finkelstein
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A response to Norman Finkelstein's attack on the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Tilley says that Finkelstein's insistence that the movement has to adjust itself to mainstream public opinion is bizarre: "Since when do human rights campaigns adjust their arguments to please mainstream opinion? Changing mainstream opinion is their very task. If activists took mainstream opinion as the proper guide to moral action, we would never have had the anti-slavery abolition movement, or the women’s suffrage movement, and apartheid would flourish in South Africa to this day. Indeed, we wouldn’t have most human rights campaigns. The toughest ones, which are often the greatest ones, must often start small and grow slowly."
- Tillostson, Betty (Edited by): Skills for Simple Living
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Tillotson, Louise: Jamaica's Culture of Fear Allows Police to Get Away With Murder
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
In the past decade, the Caribbean island nation's police have killed more than 2,000 people - until recently an average of four people every single week, mostly young men in inner-city, marginalized communities.
- Tilly, Chris; Kennedy, Marie: Mexico: The Zapatistas' New Fight
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
"We are fighters, but not with guns," said the man in the ski mask, one of a group of masked peasants addressing us and a dozen other visitors. "We invite all of the common people, who are of the left, who are not with the government, to join us in struggle," he continued, speaking in the Mayan Tzotzil language. "Because we know the government will never hear our word, and will never help us."
- Timberlake, Lloyd: Africa in Crisis
The Causes, The Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy
Resource Type: Book
Africa in Crisis looks at the causes of African famine and how it is a symbol of a much deeper crisis. African droughts and famines are not just the results of a lack of rain but the end result of a long deterioration in the ability of Africans to feed themselves caused by mistakes made by governments both inside and outside the continent.
- Timerman, Jacobo: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991 Published: 1981
The story of Timmerman's 30 months as a political prisoner under the Argentine dictatorship in the 1970s.
- Timm, Trevor: The Government Is Trying to Make It Impossible For Reality Winner to Defend Herself in Court
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The Justice Department is engaged in a multi-pronged effort to hamstring Reality Winner's defense against charges of violating the Espionage Act behind cumbersome classification rules.
- Timm, Trevor: The government just admitted it will use smart home devices for spying
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Many consumers are wholly unaware that the smart devices making their home more custom and responsive are making data that can be hacked or collected.
- Timperley, Jocelyn: The Challenge of Defining Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An examination of the ways fossil fuel subsidies are measured and why semantic arguments over definitions may be missing the point.
- Tiny: I am Occupied/Yo Soy Occupado
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- Tirado, Jose M.: The Telegenic Dead
A poem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
- Tirado, M. Jose: The Rise of Fascism in Greece
Waiting is Not an Option
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
In Germany, Spain and Italy (and elsewhere) in the early 1930s during those troubled times, unemployment was high, Left alternatives were weak, resentment against others oozed in the streets, and terrible insecurities pushed nominally good people, the middle classes, into supporting the forces of hatred and nationalistic fervour.
- Tirman, John: How We Ended the Cold War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Peace activists' demand for an end to nuclear madness played a decisive role.
- Tirman, John: Spoils of War
The Human Cost of America's Arms Trade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
- Tischler, Barbara L.: Antiwar Activism and Emerging Feminism in the Late 1960s: The Times They Were A'Changing
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
The efforts of women to end the war in Vietnam have been subsumed into a paradigm that suggests that, some time in the late 1960s, women activists left the antiwar struggle for the new feminist cause, leaving behind the movement that had initially ignited their activist energies. This story of ideological abandonment overstates the case. The variety of organizational, theoretical, and personal lessons learned in the antiwar movement profoundly influenced the organized, theoretically nuanced, and personally impassioned movement of, by, and for women, whose diverse constituent groups shared the idea of liberation from male authority.
- Tisdall, Simon: Filipino women take lead in resolving Mindanao conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Teresita Quintos Deles and Miriam Coronel Ferrer won over Islamic leaders who initially balked at dealing with women.
- Tite, Rosonna: Sex-Role Learning and The Woman Teacher
A Feminist Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
- Tlhagale, Buti; Mosala, Itumeleng (eds.): Hammering Swords into Ploughshares
Essays in Honor of Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
This collection of essays, in the spirit of Tutu's ministry, sees the call to peace not simply as a call to lay down arms, but as a call to transform the tools of violence into materials for peaceful and productive life. This book includes personal tributes to Desmond Tutu, theological discussions on the South African struggle, and essays on the complex political and social life.
- Todd, Joseph: Building a progressive majority
Left strategy after the Brexit vote
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
After the EU referendum we are seeing both horror at anti-migrant sentiment and pandering to it -- but only a radical economic offer can carve a way through.
- Todd, Roxy: Mine Wars Museum Opens, Revives Lost Labour History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Mine Wars museum opens in Matewan to revive West Virginia’s labour history.
- Todenhöfer, Jürgen: I know Isis fighters. Western bombs falling on Raqqa will fill them with joy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Militants in Syria dream of a big showdown with the US and Europe. There are other ways to defeat them.
- Todhuner, Colin: Monsanto: Contamination By All Means Necessary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
What happens when you allow commercial interests free rein over a nation state's food and agricultural policies? Consumers and farmers end up paying the price.
- Todhunter, Colin: Approaching Development: GMO Propaganda and Neoliberalism vs Localisation and Agroecology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at the pro GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) lobby and the reasons why they are pushing GMO technology. The article looks towards agroecology as a better means of achieving genuine food sovereignty.
- Todhunter, Colin: Arms, agribusiness, finance and fossil fuels: the four horsemen of the neoliberal Apocalypse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The world is in the grip of a structural war against people, land, economies and ecosystems, writes Colin Todhunter. It is being waged by a quartet of organised criminal interests bent on monopolizing energy, money, food and violence across the globe. But a deep-rooted resistance against their 'neoliberal' doctrine of death and destruction is fighting back.
- Todhunter, Colin: Beware the GMO Trojan horse! Indian food and farming are under attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Global oilseed, agribusiness and biotech corporations are engaged in a long term attack on India's local cooking oil producers. In just 20 years they have reduced India from self-sufficiency in cooking oil to importing half its needs. Now the government's unlawful attempts to impose GM mustard seed threaten to wipe out a crop at the root of Indian food and farming traditions.
- Todhunter, Colin: Bt Cotton: Cultivating Farmer Distress in India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
To date, cotton is the only officially sanctioned GM crop in India. Those pushing for GM food crops (including the government) are forwarding the narrative that GM pest resistant Bt cotton has been a tremendous success which should now be emulated with the introduction of GM mustard. Ever since its commercialisation in 2002, however, the issue of Bt cotton in India has been a hotly contested issue. Bt cotton hybrids now cover over 95% of the area under cotton and the seeds are produced by the private sector. But critics argue that Bt cotton has negatively impacted livelihoods and fuelled agrarian distress and farmer suicides.
- Todhunter, Colin: The Case Against Glyphosate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
On 13 April, 2016, the EU Parliament called on the European Commission to restrict certain permitted uses of the toxic herbicide glyphosate, best known in Monsanto's Roundup formulation.
- Todhunter, Colin: Countering Pro-GMO Deceptions in the British Press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
In his recent piece for The Times newspaper in the UK, Viscount Matt Ridley argues that a new report from the American National Academies of Sciences (NAS) leaves no room for doubt that genetically engineered crops are as safe or safer, and are certainly better for the environment, than conventionally bred crops.
- Todhunter, Colin: The Crusade in Favor of GMO: Falsehoods and Vilification Will Not Fool the Public
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Pro-GMO campaigners often attack critics of the technology by claiming their negative views of it emanate from well-funded environmentalist groups or commercial interests in the organic food sector. The assertion is that such bodies promote falsehoods and scaremongering about GM to protect their own interests and that the GMO agritech sector has fallen victim to this.
- Todhunter, Colin: Cultural Imperialism and the Seeds of Catastrophe: Ripping Up The Social Fabric of India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Foreign capital is dictating the prevailing development agenda in India. The aim is to replace current structures with a system of industrial agriculture suited to the needs of Western agribusiness, food processing and retail concerns.The plan is for a fraction of the population left in farming working on contracts for large suppliers and large chain supermarkets offering a diet of highly processed, denutrified, genetically altered food based on crops soaked with chemicals and grown in increasingly degraded soils according to an unsustainable model of agriculture that is less climate/drought resistant, less diverse and unable to achieve food security.
- Todhunter, Colin: Entrenching Capitalist Agriculture in India Under the Guise of Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A criticism of the efforts by the IMF and World Bank to change India's agricultural system and its impact on the Indian economy and populace.
- Todhunter, Colin: Forget The Propaganda From Big Agritech, The Key To Reducing Poverty And Ensuring Food Security Lies With Small Farmers
Small farms produce most of the world's food
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A new review carried out by the organization GRAIN reveals that small farms produce most of the world’s food. However, they are currently squeezed onto less than a quarter of the world’s farmland. The world is fast losing farms and farmers through the concentration of land into the hands of the rich and powerful. If we do nothing to reverse this trend, the world will lose its capacity to feed itself.
- Todhunter, Colin: From Albrecht to Monsanto: A System Not Run for the Public Good Can Never Serve the Public Good
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
- Todhunter, Colin: From the Green Revolution to GMOs: Toxic Agriculture Is the Problem Not the Solution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The pesticide industry lobbies governments to allow chemicals that have long been known to be harmful.
- Todhunter, Colin: Global Agribusiness, Dependency and the Marginalisation of Self-Sufficiency, Organic Farming and Agroecology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Is organic-based farming merely a niche model of agriculture that is not capable of feeding the global population? Or does it have a major role to play? In addressing these questions, it would be useful to consider a selection of relevant literature to see what it says about the role of organic farming, how this model of agriculture impacts farmers and whether or not it can actually feed the global population.
- Todhunter, Colin: GMOs, Development and the Politics of Unhappiness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Modern state-corporate capitalism is stripping the environment bare through unsustainable levels of consumption. It is legitimised by a deceitful ideology that attempts to justify and sell a system which by its very nature is designed to benefit a minority at the expense of the majority.
- Todhunter, Colin: GMOs, Global Agribusiness and the Destruction of Choice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
One of the myths perpetuated by the pro-GMO (genetically modified organisms) lobby is that critics of GMOs in agriculture are denying choice to farmers and have an ideological agenda. The narrative is that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies, including GM crops. But GM agriculture is not 'feeding the world', nor has it been designed to do so. The choice for farmers between a technology based on broken promises and conventional non-GMO agriculture is no choice at all.
- Todhunter, Colin: Import and Die: Self-Sufficiency and Food Security in India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
While there are clear signs that India needs to achieve greater food self-sufficiency, there is also a World Bank-backed agenda for the future of India where the majority of farmers don't have much of a role.
- Todhunter, Colin: Journalism, Pro-GMO Triumphalism and Neoliberal Dogma In India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
- Todhunter, Colin: "Lies, Lies and More Lies" - GMOs, Poisoned Agriculture and Toxic Rants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
As as been well documented, it is the pro-GMO lobby/industry that distorts and censors science, captures regulatory bodies, attacks scientists whose findings are unpalatable to the industry and bypasses proper scientific and regulatory procedures altogether.
- Todhunter, Colin: Offering Choice But Delivering Tyranny: the Corporate Capture of Agriculture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Proponents of genetically modified seeds say they are opening up 'choice' to farmers and consumers but end up giving monopolies to powerful corporations with proprietary agricultural tools and methods. This lessens environmental and dietary health and diversity.
- Todhunter, Colin: Philanthropic colonialism: embedding agribusiness and GMOs into African agriculture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Perhaps all the 'do gooders' busy forcing industrial models of agriculture onto poor but independent African farmers really do think they are helping them. But if so they are deeply deluded. All they will achieve is the takeover of export-oriented agribusiness and GMOs, the destruction of agroecological farming systems, and a future of debt and landlessness.
- Todhunter, Colin: Politics on the Plate: Mob Wives, GMOs and Salt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
How can we broaden our movement to appeal to and involve the majority of people out there who do not seem to be aware, do not seem to care or are just too apathetic?
- Todhunter, Colin: The Scourge of Authoritarianism in the Age of Pseudoscience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Questionable science is being used to pursue policies that are essentially 'unscientific' - governments, the policy and the corporate media have become the arbiters of 'truth'.
- Todhunter, Colin: The Seeds of Agroecology and Common Ownership
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
With platitudes about 'feeding the world', the corporate agribusiness/agritech industry is destroying the commons and democracy and displacing existing localised systems of food production. In fact the increasingly globalised industrial food system is responsible for some of the most pressing political, social and environmental crises we are facing.
- Todhunter, Colin: The Seeds of Agroecology and Common Ownership
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A political-economical critique of modern agriculture and the urgent need to establish societies run for the benefit of the mass of the population, as well as a system of food and agriculture that is more democratically owned and controlled.
- Todhunter, Colin: The Seeds of Spin: Decoding Pro-GMO Lies and Falsehoods
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
If you are in some way critical of genetically modified food and agriculture or have some concerns that remain unaddressed, here is a brief interpretive (satirical) guide for navigating the seedy world of pro-GMO spin.
- Todhunter, Colin: Spearheading the Neo-liberal Plunder of African Agriculture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is dangerously and unaccountably distorting the direction of international development, according to a new report by the campaign group Global Justice Now. With assets of $43.5 billion, the BMGF is the largest charitable foundation in the world. It actually distributes more aid for global health than any government. As a result, it has a major influence on issues of global health and agriculture.
- Todhunter, Colin: The Stomach-churning Violence of Monsanto, Bayer and the Argrochemical Oligopoly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Companies like Monsanto, Bayer and Syngenta, which make up the oligopoly that controls an increasingly globalised system of modern food and agriculture, have successfully instituted the notion that the mass application of biocides, monocropping and industrial agriculture are necessary and desirable.
- Todhunter, Colin: Unmasking The GMO Humanitarian Narrative
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Genetically modified (GM) crops are going to feed the world. Not only that, supporters of GM technology say it will produce better yields than non-GM crops, increase farmers' incomes, lead to less chemical inputs, be better suited to climatic changes, is safe for human consumption and will save the lives of millions. Sections of the pro-GMO lobby are modern-day evangelists who denounce, often with a hefty dose of bigoted zeal, anyone who questions their claims and self-proclaimed humanitarian motives.
- Todhunter, Colin: When Will Co-opted Figures and Board Members Be Hauled into Court?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
They promote the message that their products are essential to our survival. They promote a fundamentally ecologically, socially and economically damaging model of agriculture facilitated by Washington, the World Trade Organization, World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
- Todhunter, Colin; Save, Bhaskar: The Passing of Bhaskar Save
What The 'Green Revolution' Did for India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Bhaskar Save died on 24 October 2015 at age 93. Emphasising self-reliance at the farm/village level, Save was regarded as the 'Gandhi of natural farming'.
- Todhunter, Colion: The tremendous success of agroecology in Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A quiet revolution has been working its way across Africa. Agroecological farming, constantly adapting to local needs, customs, soils and climates, has been improving nutrition, reducing poverty, combatting climate change, and enriching farmland.
- Tokar, Brian: COP21, Paris: 'Another world is possible, necessary and urgent'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The greatest danger of the Paris conference is that the global South will be bullied into to accepting a terrible deal rather than leave with none at all. That gives civil society an essential role - to support the resistance of developing country representatives inside the summit to an unjust and ineffective agreement imposed on them by the rich, powerful, high-emitting nations.
- Tokar, Brian: The Green Alternative
Creating an Ecological Alternative
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- Tokar, Brian: Humans are not the problem: Reflections on a "useless" documentary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
With nearly everyone trapped at home for the fiftieth anniversary of the first Earth Day, Michael Moore released a film that picks apart the US environmental movement as it may have looked ten years ago, and then misleadingly presents it as breaking news.
- Tokar, Brian: Inside the Paris Climate Agreement: Hope or Hype?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
It has become a predictable pattern at the annual UN climate conferences for participants to describe the outcome in widely divergent ways.
- Tokar, Brian: The Myths of 'Green Capitalism'
A system based on the accumulation of capital without restraint will require unsustainable growth, however cleverly we measure our ecologica
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Environmental politics in the U.S. appears hopelessly polarized. Liberals and progressives try to sustain and occasionally strengthen environmental legislation, while those on the right are unalterably opposed, even seeking to defund core institutions such as the EPA.
- Toke, Dave: Green Energy
A Non-Nuclear Response to the Greenhouse Effect
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Toke, David: It Doesn't Have To Be Like This
Green Politics Explained
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Tokumitsu, Miya: Forced to Love the Grind
Passion is the new workplace requirement - and one that should be resisted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
In this world, legendary figures are the ones who remain in the office for one hundred hours straight, working through their children's musical recitals and 104-degree fevers. The idea is that workers become superhuman through the refusal of self-care. This phenomenon isn't merely depressing; it's outright dangerous.
- Tolson, Michelle: Healing the Dark Legacy of Native American Families
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA) - educational issues among indigenous families.
- Tolstoy: On Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence
Resource Type: Book
- Tolstoy, Leo: Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence
Resource Type: Book
Here in one volume are most of Tolstoy's major writings on conscience and war. Stressing that the process of peace can only begin with the refusal of the individual to participate in state-organized killing, Tolstoy's writings are particularly relevant in an age when warfare is sanitized, packaged, and sold to a populace finding it increasingly difficult to respond in an ethically meaningful way.
- Tong, Traci: U.S. Coast Guard operating secret floating prisons in Pacific Ocean
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
In the war on drugs, the U.S. Coast Guard is reportedly turning its cutter ships into floating prisons.
- Tonucci, João; Veloso, André; Kipfer, Stefan: Transit Activism and the Urban Question in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The demand for free transit has been an important starting point of recent mobilizations in Brazil, notably those that shook the whole country in the summer of 2013. This interview with local activists and researchers João Tonucci and André Veloso zeroes in on transit organizing in Belo Horizonte, the third largest metropolitan area in Brazil.
- Toomer, George: American Extremes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
- Topazzini, Arusha: Coming out in Kenya
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Rape has always been used to intimidate assertive women in Kenya, like feminists and female politicians.
- Topping, Alexandra: Campaign to Halt Female Genital Mutilation tops 150,000 Signatures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Guardian-backed campaign calls on Education Secretary Michael Gove to launch initiative to protect girls from being mutilated.
- Topple, Steve: How a PR company manufactured the Labour coup - Part I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
As the chaos surrounding Jeremy Corbyn continues at an unprecedented rate, The Canary can exclusively reveal more elements to the Labour coup that has been unfolding since the EU referendum result. In an overarching investigation, more links have come to light between Portland Communications, its subsidiaries and parent company, members of staff both there and at the Fabian Society and the Progress wing of the party.
- Topple, Steve: An ordinary Labour member just gave the most moving speech of the party conference so far
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An ordinary member's speech to the Labour Party conference left the audience stunned. And it's one that everyone needs to hear, as the moving address reflects a crisis in the UK.
- Topple, Steve: The truth behind the Labour coup, when it really began and who manufactured it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
An exclusive investigation by The Canary can reveal that the current Labour 'coup' being instigated against Jeremy Corbyn appears to have been orchestrated by a PR company where Tony Blair's arch spin-doctor, Alastair Campbell, is a senior advisor.
- Tornquist, Olle: Dilemmas of Third World Communism
The Destruction of the PKI in Indonesia
Resource Type: Book
Dilemmas of Third World Communism is a study of the Indonesian Communist Party that aims to answer more general questions about the difficulties, and even defeats, encountered by so many left-wing movements in the Third World. Olle Tornquist argues that one fundamental reason for the Indonesian military's successful destruction of the Party lay in the Party's failure to analyze the nature of the post-colonial capitalist society that was emerging.
- Toronto Liberation School: Our two cents' worth...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Analysis of the Popular Education Conference
- Torrie, Ralph; Woods, Gilen; Blair, Don: Ontario Hydro
The Rising Cost of Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
This four page booklet explains why electricity prices continue to skyrocket and why they will continue to do so unless we opt for a more energy efficient society based on conservation and renewable energy sources.
- Tosstorff, Reiner: Chronicles from the Front
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
This volume consists of carefully edited contemporary texts from the two U.S. socialists Lois and Charles Orr, who joined the revolutionary events in Spain after the outbreak of the Civil War, from fall 1936 to spring 1937. Two newlywed activists from the left wing of the U.S. Socialist Party, they had been traveling through Europe on their honeymoon when the news of the military revolt under General Franco reached them. They rushed to Barcelona not only to take a look but to become an active part of the workers’ revolution, which had erupted as the answer to the pro-Fascist coup.
- Toufic, Haddad; Omar, Hassan: Siege and resistance in Gaza – For more than 10 weeks...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Toufic Haddad, an activist, academic and author of Palestine Ltd: Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory, spoke to Omar Hassan about the meaning of the protests – and what next in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.
- Toussaint, Eric: Auditing the Greek Debt: Unity of Place, Time, and Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The recent debt currently being claimed presents features that make it irregular, illegitimate, illegal, unsustainable, and even odious. Allegedly Greek debts that were accumulated before 2010 were already to a large extent illegitimate and/or illegal.
- Toussaint, Eric: Has Europe's Crisis Peaked Yet?
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
A discussion with Eric Toussaint, president of the Committee for Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM) in Belgium.
- Toussaint, Eric: In the 19th and 20th centuries, Mexico proved that debt can be repudiated
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Mexico's past demonstrates that despite the domination of the major powers and international finance, a country can make major social advances.
- Toussaint, Eric: The International Context of Global Outrage
Part I: Looking back on the movements that preceded the Arab Spring, the Indignados, and Occupy Wall Street
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
- Toussaint, Eric: The Soviets and Tsarist Debt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A history of the Soviet's refusal to honor Tsarist debt afterthe 1971 revolution. Looks at the effect on Russia up to and after the end of the USSR.
- Toussaint, Eric: Why the 1953 cancellation of German debt won’t be reproduced for Greece and Developing Countries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Detailed look at the differences between cancellation of Germany's debt and that of developing countries today.
- Toussaint, Éric: The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
A history of national debt and the international power structures it supports. Calls for the repudiation of illegitimate debt.
- Toussaint, Éric: Facing the left-wing challenge in the European Union - Ten proposals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The left could bring radical change if they could prove themselves capable to people in the Eurozone dissatisfied with austerity measures. Here are ten proposals for social mobilization and actions to be taken by any government that is truly operating in the interests of the people.
- Toussaint, Éric: A Robust Doctrine: Break the Taboo on Odious Debts and their Repudiation
The Challenges for the European Left regarding Debt and the Banks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
An interview with Éric Toussaint, the author of The Debt System. A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation. He discusses debt, illegetimate debt and the instances in history when debts were repudiated.
- Tovish, Aaron: The Okinawa missiles of October
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
John Bordne, a resident of Blakeslee, Pennsylvania, had to keep a personal history to himself for more than five decades. Only recently has the US Air Force given him permission to tell the tale, which, if borne out as true, would constitute a terrifying addition to the lengthy and already frightening list of mistakes and malfunctions that have nearly plunged the world into nuclear war.
- Toweill, Jim: Agrarian-Industrial Revolt
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Reformers and radicals in the post-reconstruction South faced a daunting set of circumstances. Many of these are well known: In the former confederacy, Black laborers were eventually shut out of the electoral process via disfranchisement, terrorized by legislation, a lien system not dissimilar to slavery, and rampant violence. The convict-lease system put the state, via farmers' prisoners (largely Black men), in conflict with free labor that might be organized. Prospects for organizing biracial resistance were slim as the color line was diligently policed by force and ideology.
- Toweill, Jim: Democracy Seized -- and Lost
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Reconstruction was among the messiest, most complex periods in U.S. history, and certainly one of the most emotionally exhausting to revisit. Accounts of the period resonate with hope of almost millenarian proportions and are tainted by tragedy — not the kind of tragedy that brings release, but the kind that leaves one sick with incredulity.
- Towell, Larry: Somoza's Last Stand
Testimonies from Nicaragua
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
These are testimonies from the people who have survived the contra war against the poor of Nicaragua.
- Townesend, Rebecca: Striking back in the "world's factory"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A review of Hao Ren, Eli Friedman and Zhongjin Li (editors), China on Strike: Narratives of Workers' Resistance, which gives a history of labour struggles of Chinese migrant workers.
- Townsend, Mark: Trident rally is Britain's biggest anti-nuclear march in a generation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Thousands of protesters including Jeremy Corbyn and other party leaders gather in London for CND march and rally.
- Townson, Monica: Pensions Under Attack
What's behind the push to privatize public pensions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Townson discusses the forces behind the drive to privatize public pensions and its impact on the financial security of seniors. In doing so, she traces a history from Pinochet's Chile to Thatcher's Great Britain to critique Canada's move toward privatization.
- Townson, Monica: A Report Card on Women and Poverty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Toxic Waste Research Coalition: The Turnaround Decade Toward Sustainable Development
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1989
- Traboulsi, Fawwaz; Kfoury, Assaf: The Two Apartheids
What are the similarities and differences between South African apartheid and the Israeli system?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014 Published: 2015
- Tracey, Michael: Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
In a public system, television producers acquire money to make programmes. In a commercial system they make programmes to acquire money. However simple, this little epigram articulates the divergence of basic principles, the different philosophical assumptions, on which broadcasting is built.
- Tracy: 8 Disturbing Photos of Instruments of Torture Used on Black People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
8 disturbing photos of instruments of torture used on black people.
- Trager, James: The People's Chronology
A Year-by-Year Record of Human Events from Prehistory to the Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992 Published: 1994
- Trainer, F.E: Abandon Affluence
Resource Type: Book
This work reviews the most recent evidence on major global problems, examining resource and energy scarcity, environmental destruction, Third World underdevelopment, international conflict, and the deteriorating quality of life. The author argues these problems are ultimately generated by the West's commitment to affluence and growth inherent in its economic system. Only fundamental social change, not technical solutions, can provide the solution.
- Training/Action Affinity Group: Building Social Change Communities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
Skills for creating and maintaining a collective or cooperative group, especially living communities. Excellent, concise chapters on consensus decision making, facilitation and conflict resolution.
- Trainor, Dennis (director): American Autumn: An Occudoc
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Shot on the front lines and meeting spaces of the Occupy movement in NYC, Boston, and Washington, DC from the earliest days through the end of January 2012, American Autumn: an Occudoc is an inside looking out view of the occupy movement.
- Tramel, Salena: Reclaiming control of Indonesia's oceans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Indonesian activists are building a global movement to resist the financialisation and privatisation of the world's oceans.
- Tran, Delena: Dying for environmental democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
This article is about Peruvian indigenous environmental defenders in Latin America, a region described as one of the world's deadliest areas for enviromental human rights defenders. Tran focuses on the indigenous Ashanika defenders and their plight in fighting for environmental justice.
- Tran, Mark: Authors denounce Tesco over Thai defamation cases
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Nick Hornby and other leading British authors accuse Tesco of mounting a "disproportionate" legal response to criticism over its operations in Thailand.
- Trask, Robyn: Polyamory and Polygamy: Is the Media Right?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
There are a few of repeated themes emerging in many of the articles railing against polyamorous marriage.
- Trask, Robyn L: When Will the Media Really Get Polyamory?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Why do the media so often miss the mark when they write articles or do a feature on polyamory? Why do so many approach the subject with a ready-made idea of what they are looking for?
- Traub-Werner, Marion: Stop Sweatshops-Linking Workers' Struggles
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Nike made a mistake when it aggressively entered the college market through lucrative licensing contracts and exclusive promotions deals. In hindsight, it amazes me that the company never considered the potential for scandal when it linked itself to institutions that purport to be moral leaders.
- Trautman, Brian J.: The ICC Must Investigate Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
The Credibility of the Court is at Stake
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Regardless of the efforts of Israel or its closest ally, the United States, to prevent the International Criminal Court from seeking justice for the Palestinians and international aid workers killed and wounded in Gaza, the Court has a duty to at least open an investigation. The credibility of the ICC hangs in the balance. No individual who violates international law should escape justice. If Israeli officials are not investigated for possible war crimes in Gaza, then the tragic lessons learned from the last century about failures in international criminal justice and the consequences of inaction will have been in vain.
- Trautman, Jack (ed.): Bureaucratic Collectivism
The Stalinist Social System
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
An analysis of the nature of the Stalinist states.
- Trautman, Willaim E.: One Big Union
An Outline of a Possible Industrial Organization of the Working Class, with Chart
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1911
This is the first edition of a booklet that was revised and republished many times by both the I. W. W. and Daniel De Leon's "Detroit I. W. W." (later the W. I. I. U.), to which the author defected in 1913. Later editions are available on this site: 1919 and ca. 1924.
- Traverso, Enzo: Fire and Blood
The European Civil War, 1914-1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Europe's second Thirty Years' War -- an epoch of blood and ashes.
- Traverso, Enzo: Inside the European Cataclysm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
During this second Thirty Years War, from 1914-1945, Europe experienced an extraordinary fusion of conflicts.
- Traverso, Enzo (translated by Bernard Gibbons): The Marxists and the Jewish Question
The History of a Debate 1843 - 1943
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Covers the difficult history of European Marxists' efforts to comprehend what "The Jewish Question" was about. The assumption that Jewish life and religion were a historical anachronism, something that would naturally disappear with the end of their specific economic function in the development of capitalism, also implied that the medieval legacy of Jew-hatred would vanish as well.The possibility of a new and even more virulent, racialist revival of Jew-hatred -- anti-Semitism -- was overlooked by thinkers and parties who envisioned an inevitable evolution toward socialism.
- Treen, Mike: 'Being treated like slaves': Why migrant exploitation exists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at the labour market in modern capitalist society, and how it leads to the exploitation of migrant workers who are sometimes treated as slaves.
- Treen, Mike: Migrant Workers Fight Exploitation in New Zealand
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Unite Union has dealt with several cases of extreme exploitation of migrant workers. It seems that some of the liquor shops around Auckland have been employing students from India and paying a pittance four or five dollars an hour, well below the legal minimum of $13.75 an hour.
- Trefon, Theodore: Congo's Environmental Paradox
Potential and Predation in a Land of Plenty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Congo has natural resources the world needs. Its forests count in the fight against global climate change and Congo's farmers could feed all of Africa's population. The Inga hydroelectric site has the potential to light up the entire continent. Congo's incredible natural wealth has the potential to contribute to development in this troubled central African country -- but structural problems, cultural factors, poor governance and predation remain serious challenges.
- Tremain, Rose: The Fight for Freedom for Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
The fight for women's rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, primarily focusing on Britain and the USA.
- Tremblay, Jean-Philippe: Shadows of Liberty
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2012
Examines the new media monopoly by corporations in America and the public battle for truth and democracy.
- Tremblay, Pierre; Lauren, Jacques: Dossier No.2 Sur les Sans-Foyer ou Hommes Seule du pas de la Ville
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Suite a l'interet formule pour le dossier Homme Seul Itinerant.
- Tremblay, Pierre; Laurin, Jacques: Dossier No. 2 on the Homeless Single Men of the Lower Downtown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Report on an organizing effort by two social workers with single homeless men in Montreal.
- Trenbeth, Richard P.: The Membership Mystigue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
- Trendell-Whittaker, Peggy: In Our Backyard
A Greater Vancouver Environmental Guide...
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
In Our Backyard focuses on environmental problems that apply directly to Greater Vancouver. With detials on local garbage and recylcing facilities, water and energy consumption, sewage disposal, air quality, and more, it is designed to help ordinary people deal with the onslaught of information and value changes that will continue to surround the environmental movement.
- Trewhela, Paul: Inside Quadro
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Tribich, Chloe: Behind the Dirty Cleansing of New Orleans
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Commentaries on the viciousness of Congressman Richard Baker’s (R-LA) oft-cited comment that “we couldn’t get rid of public housing, but God did” often miss the fact that it is, in many ways, an accurate assessment of the intentions of U.S. public housing policy.
- Tribich, Chloe: Fighters with Disabilities
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
At least since the mid-20th century, writers in the United States have publicly debated the place of politics in fiction. Plenty of great authors, Flannery O’Connor among them, warned against saddling fiction with political intent. That some renowned writers have produced work that reveals human truths that belie their detestable politics — Jorge Luis Borges and Ezra Pound are two examples — might support O’Connor’s point.
- Tribich, Chloe: Gay Marriage: End of the World?
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- Tribich, Chloe: Jews of All Colors
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
In The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, a long-time feminist activist, disabuses the Jewish left of its most common assumptions: that Jewish culture is Ashkenazi culture and that Jews are white people.
- Tribich, Chloe: New Challenges to Tenant Organizing in New York City
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
On June 16, 2006, 305 West 150th Street, a rundown 84-unit apartment building in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, sold for $6.95 million. The City of New York has documented 274 housing maintenance code violations on this property, reflecting the presence of leaks, broken front door locks and exposed lead paint. The tenants are mostly poor and working class Latinos from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic; many depend on subsidies, such as Section 8, to pay rent.
- Tribich, Chloe: Opa Nobody
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
In Opa Nobody, Sonya Huber — an activist struggling to reconcile her politics with the demands of human relationships and the realities of contemporary U.S. life — undertakes an ambitious task: the political nonfiction novel.
- Tribich, Chloe: Our Life, Work, Struggles
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
At the time I joined Solidarity about a year and a half ago, I had been involved with activist and organizing work for about five years, which comprised most of my post-college life. Specifically, I was active in an organization called Jews Against The Occupation (a Palestine solidarity organization) and working as staff organizer for a housing group. I wanted a way to understand what I was doing in a bigger context, and to be around people who were thinking about how their current work fit in to a much longer term struggle.
- Tribich, Chloe: Women Stand Up, Fight Back
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
What would it mean to truly end gender-and-race-based violence? How can radicals acknowledge the totalizing violence of white supremacy while also accounting for the very diverse, and sometimes conflicting, experiences and survival strategies of Arab, Asian, Native, Latina and Black women?
- Tribich, Chloe; McGough, John: Fifth World Social Forum
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The fifth World Social Forum convened this year from January 26th through 31st in Porto Alegre, Brazil in the wake of the Bush inauguration and intensifying violence in Iraq, but also some victories for progressive movements in the global south and particularly Latin America.
- Trigger, Bruce: The Children of Aataentsic
A History of the Huron People to 1660
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
The Children of Aataentsic is both a full-scale ethnohistory of the Huron Indian confederacy and a far-reaching study of the causes of its collapse under the impact of the Iroquois attacks of 1649.
- Trigona, Marie: Argentina: Disappearing Farmers, Disappearing Food
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Food sovereignty as defined by Via Campesina is the peoples' right to define their agricultural and food policy, and the right of farmers and peasants to produce food. Worldwide communities are seeking an alternative to a model controlled by Cargill, Monsanto, General Foods, Nestle and Kraft foods. Starved by industrialization and concentration, citizens are now hungry for traditional production methods and diversity in the food system.
- Trimble, Charles: Feeling Racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
I have found that when a person has faced racism and discrimination, he can never forget it, it stays with him always. Seeing my mother treated with such disrespect and rudeness, only because of her race, was worse than being discriminated against myself. It burned into my soul, and it will never go away.
- Tripathi, Sali: No Platform Won't Work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
It is ridiculous for anyone to think that you can defeat the BNP by silencing them. A sinister thought, when silenced, only gets wider currency in the subterranean world where everything 'establishment' is viewed as a conspiracy. Sunlight is the best disinfectant
- Trotksy, Leon: Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1911
A strike, even of modest size, has social consequences: strengthening of the workers’ self-confidence, growth of the trade union, and not infrequently even an improvement in productive technology. The murder of a factory owner produces effects of a police nature only, or a change of proprietors devoid of any social significance. Whether a terrorist attempt, even a ‘successful’ one throws the ruling class into confusion depends on the concrete political circumstances. In any case the confusion can only be shortlived; the capitalist state does not base itself on government ministers and cannot be eliminated with them. The classes it serves will always find new people; the mechanism remains intact and continues to function.
- Trotsky, Leon: Fascism
What it is. How to fight it. (A compilation)
Resource Type: Book
- Trotsky, Leon: For a Workers' United Front Against Fascism
What's Wrong With the Current Policy of the German Communist Party?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1931 Published: 1932
Germany is now passing through one of those great historic hours upon which the fate of the German people, the fate of Europe, and in significant measure the fate of all humanity, will depend for decades. If you place a ball on top of a pyramid, the slightest impact can cause it to roll down either to the left or to the right. That is the situation approaching with every hour in Germany today. There are forces which would like the bail to roll down towards the right and break the back of the working class. There are forces which would like the ball to remain at the top. That is a utopia. The ball cannot remain at the top of the pyramid. The Communists want the ball to roll down toward the left and break the back of capitalism. But it is not enough to want; one must know how.
- Trotsky, Leon: The Lessons of October
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1924
- Trotsky, Leon: Manifesto of the Communist International to the Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1919
Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International (Comintern) in March 1919.
- Trotsky, Leon: My Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1930 Published: 1970
Trotsky's autobiography, published in 1930.
- Trotsky, Leon: 1905
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1922 Published: 1972
For a number of years, when the reaction was triumphant, the year 1905 appeared to us as a completed whole, as the Russian revolution.
- Trotsky, Leon: On the Jewish Problem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1937 Published: 1940
Four statements (1937-1940) by Trotsky during the last years of his life.
- Trotsky, Leon: The Permanent Revolution & Results and Prospects
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1931 Published: 1969
A re-issue of two of Trotsky's works, Results and Prospcts, and The Permanent Revolution.
- Trotsky, Leon: Problems of Everyday Life
And Other Writings On Culture & Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
The focus of this book is the impact of the Russian Revolution of the culture life of the country -- and conversely, the effect of the country's cultural backwardness on the course of the revolution. Among the topics discussed are religion, communications media, language, education, science, industry, cinema, marriage, the position of women, child care, "proletarian" literature, art, philoosphy, primitive rural conditions, the dangers of overspecialization and bureaucracy.
- Trotsky, Leon: Report of the Siberian Delegation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1903
- Trotsky, Leon: Stalin – An Appraisal of the Man and his Influence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1941
Trotsky's unfinished biography of Stalin.
- Trotsky, Leon: The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
A collection of Leon Trotsky's writings on the situation in Germany from 1930 to 1940. From 1930 on Trotsky sounded the alarm about the rise of fascism in Germany, and warned that the policies of the Communist Party and the Social Democrats were likely to lead to disaster. He urged a common front, mobilizing the German working class regardless of party affiliation, against the Nazis.
- Trotsky, Leon: Terrorism & Communism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918 Published: 1969
Trotsky defends the tactics of the Bolsheviks against Karl Kautsky's attacks.
- Trotsky, Leon: The Third International After Lenin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1936 Published: 1972
Trotsky subject the theory of socialism in one country to a merciless criticism, labeling it an apologie fro the interests of the newly previleged strata in the Soviet Union.
- Trotsky, Leon: The Transitional Program: The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1938
Leon Trotsky's program for the founding of the Fourth International.
- Trotsky, Leon: Trotsky, Leon - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Leon Trotsky (1879-1940).
- Trotsky, Leon: Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution
Volume One
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1932 Published: 1967
A combination of dramatic narrative and searching analysis by one of the key figures in the Russian Revolution. Volume 1 cover the period up to the “July Days” – a semi-insurrection followed by attempted stamping out of Bolshevism in Petrograd.
- Trotsky, Leon: Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution
Volume Two
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1932 Published: 1967
- Trotsky, Leon: Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution
Volume Three
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1932 Published: 1967
- Trotsky, Leon: Women and the Family
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
How the 1917 Russian revolution opened the door to new possibilities in the fight for women's liberation.
- Trouillot, Michel-Rolph: Haiti
State Against Nation
Resource Type: Book
After the departure of Haiti's dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, most Haitian and foreign analysts treated the regimes of the two Duvaliers, father and son, as a nightmare created by the leaders and their supporters. Yet the crisis, economic and political, that faces this nation did not begin with the dictatorship.
- Trudeau, Pierre Elliott: Federalism and the French Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
An essay that discusses nationalism and the Quebec seperatist movement.
- Trudel, Marcel: Canada's Forgotten Slaves: Two Centuries of Bondage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Trudel discusses slavery as a part of colonial Canada since 1629, its continuation under the British regime and its official abolition.
- Trudell, Megan: The Changing History of the First World War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The war the Tories and their favourite historians would like to spin is one where nationalism was triumphant and where workers and soldiers did their duty for their country. For other historians, the war is a patchwork of fragmented experiences and stories with no “grand” explanation. A truly historical materialist understanding of the war must be able to encompass and learn from the detail—whether of battles or strikes, psychological trauma or the assassination of royalty—and weave it into a world in which the development of capitalism brought about the bleakest and most horrifying catastrophe. And it must be able to explain how the material experience of that catastrophe drove millions to question and to revolt and to present the system as a whole with the most profound threat of its existence.
- Trudell, Megan: The Occupy movement and class politics in the US
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The Occupy movement that began in New York in September 2011 and has spread with remarkable speed across the country represents a massive shift in the politics of the United States.
- Trudell, Megan: The Women of 1917
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Women weren't just the Russian Revolution’s spark, but the motor that drove it forward.
- Trukhachev, Vadim: What is Lost in Poles' Memories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Trukhachev reflects on Polish attempts to re-write the history of the Second World War.
- Tucker, Fritz: American Autumn Part 2
Occupy Wall Street: Organizing the Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- Tucker, Fritz: A Chill Descends On Occupy Wall Street
The Tangled Purse Strings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Undemocratic movements are vulnerable to being taken over by a vocal minority or a chraismatic individual.
- Tucker, Fritz: A View of the Occupy Wall Street Movement from the Inside
A Participant's Critique of the Occupation of Wall Street
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2011
The Occupy Wall Street movement was supposed to be a revolt against a hierarchal, dehumanizing oligopoly. In reality, all that was created was a microcosm of the same system, but with new leaders. Like our nation's leaders, Occupy Wall Street’s leaders listened to everyone’s grievances, then decided upon a pre-determined plan of action that cleverly borrowed the language of their constituency.
- Tucker, Jerry: U.S. Labor in Crisis
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
There is today a rare open debate going on within the U.S. Labor Movement over its future. Rarer still is the fact that much of it appears on competing internet blogs. The current debate, provoked by some within Labor’s national leadership, has been almost exclusively focused on “restructuring” and resource reallocation. But the leader-led debate has failed to discuss the more fundamental question of the “culture” of unionism in America today.
- Tucker, Scott: Memory, History, and a Pillar of Salt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A personal memoir about art and history in the early days of AIDS and ACT UP.
- Tuckman, Jo: Central American Women Put their Lives on the Line for Human Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Solidarity is at the heart of an initiative that seeks to protect women activists facing harassment, death threats and violence.
- Tudge, Colin: A Food Renaissance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Colin Tudge reports on The College of Real Farming and Food Culture; a project designed to tackle the current issues in global food production. The current system is not fit for purpose but through a holistic approach and an overhaul of current mainstream agriculture, achieving a balance between feeding the world and conserving the environment is within grasp.
- Tudge, Colin: The Founding Fables of Industrialised Agriculture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Governments these days are not content with agriculture that merely provides good food. In line with the dogma of neoliberalism they want it to contribute as much wealth as any other industry towards the grand goal of economic growth. High tech offers to reconcile the two ambitions – producing allegedly fabulous yields, which seems to be what’s needed, and becoming highly profitable.
- Tudge, Colin: Six steps back to the land: an agricultural revolution for people and countryside
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
What's the point of farming? To produce an abundance of wholesome food, writes Colin Tudge, while supporting a flourishing rural economy and a sustainable, biodiverse countryside. Yet the powers that be, determined to advance industrial agriculture at all costs, are achieving the precise opposite. It's time for a revolution in our food and farming culture, led by the people at large.
- Tudge, Colin: So Shall We Reap
What's Gone Wrong with the World's Food System -- And How to Fix It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
How everyone who is liable to be born in the next ten thousand years could eat very well indeed; and why, in practice, our immediate descendants are likely to be in serious trouble.
An expose on the fallout of the present drive for maximum food production at rock-bottom cost, as health scares spiral, rural workers are driven off the land, and poor nations are forced to export their goods in an unsympathetic marketplace.
- Tudge, Colin: WANTED: A different attitude to science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
In our materialist, neoliberal society in which money is the measure of all things science is construed, and taught, almost entirely as a materialist pursuit - as the source of high technologies that can “compete” in the world market and make us all rich. (Or at least make some of us rich - those who are deemed to matter. Who, broadly speaking, are the ones who are rich already).
- Tudge, Colin; Harvey, Graham: The future is agroecology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The way to a sustainable, people-centred agriculture lies in agroecology - farming based on ecological principles, taking account of the interdependence of all living things.
- Tudge, Robin: The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Surveillance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
In the world of CCTV, email and DNA, this book shows the extent to which Big Brother is watching us all.
- Tudiver, Neil: Universities for Sale
Resisting Corporate Control over Canadian Higher Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
A look at corporatism and commercialization at Universities, and the dangers of the private sector's increasing influence on institutes of higher learning.
- Tudor, Dean: Books of Interest - Sources 58
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Reviews of books about journalism, media, and research.
- Tudor, Dean: Dean's Digital World - Sources 58
The Invisible Web
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Article about the "invisible Web" or "Deep Web".
- Tudor, Dean: MegaSources
Resource Type: Website
Dean Tudor's list of gateways and information sites of interest to journalists, ranging from massive indexes and databases to specialized news beats.
- Tugal, Cihan: The End of the "Leaderless" Revolution
A Global Fallacy and the Military Intervention in Egypt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
When movements don't have (or claim not to have) ideologies, agendas, demands and leaders, they can go in two directions: they can dissipate (as did Occupy), or serve the agendas of others. The end of the leaderless revolution does not mean the end of the Egyptian revolutionary process. But it spells the end of the fallacy that the people can take power without an agenda, an alternative platform, an ideology, and leaders.
- Tugal, Cihan: Leninism without the working class? The missing subject in Malm's ecological revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Although scientists have been publishing on the viral consequences of deforestation for decades, Andreas Malm’s Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency is the first publicly accessible book that connects pandemics, climate change, and capitalism.
- Tulloch, Headley: Black Canadians
A Long Line of Fighters
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Discusses the roles played by black Canadians in history.
- Tully, John: Racism in Australia: from 1788 to stopping the boats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
When the First Fleet sailed into Port Jackson on January 26, 1788, it carried more than the physical paraphernalia for European settlement. Along with tools, agricultural implements, chains, handcuffs, the cat-o'-nine-tails and gunpowder, the colonists brought with them an entrenched world-view.
- Tully, John: Silvertown
The Lost Story of a Strike That Shook London and Helped Launch the Modern Labor Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
In 1889, Samuel Winkworth Silver's rubber and electrical factory was the site of a massive worker revolt. The factory was notorious for oppressive working conditions and its largely unorganized, unskilled workers. Eventually they aligned themselves with the socialist-led "New Unionism" movement. This book narrates those events.
- Tummon, John: The Politics of Food and Poverty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The global food crisis is tightly connected to global poverty, climate change, ecological destruction, migrant workers, imperialism, health and the super-exploitation of workers.
- Tupac, Katari: Katari Tupac Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Turbine, Jaz: The First Duty of a Revolutionary is to Survive
An interview with Pat Califia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Pat Califia observes that the first stage in trying to politicize SM people is to make it possible for people to find each other. Within our own community, we need to educate ourselves about each other: "gay men need to educate themselves about feminism; lesbians need to educate themselves about AIDS and sodomy laws; straight people need to address their homophobia, and everybody needs to address biphobia and transphobia." This kind of interaction doesn't have to mean the loss of separate social spaces, which are appropriate. But it is the truth that we hang together or we hang separately.
- Turbulence collective: What Would it Mean to Win?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Where is the movement today? Where is it going? Are we winning? The authors of the essays in this volume pose these and other momentous questions.
- Turk, James: Academic Freedom in Conflict
The Struggle Over Free Speech Rights in the University
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
A look into the changing landscape of the academia, in which government, judges and major donors threaten academic freedom.
- Turk, James: The Corporate Campus
Commercialization and the Dangers to Canada's Colleges and University
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
An in-depth analysis of the commercialization of Canada's universities and colleges and the the threat to quality education this shift posesses.
- Turk, James Ed.: Universities at Risk
How Politics, Special Interests and Corporatization Threaten Academic Integrity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
An anthology examining the relationship bewteen institutes of higher learning and powerful external sponsers, it's implications and threat to academic integrity and intellectual freedom.
- Turk, James L: Ryerson Made a Mistake in Cancelling Panel Discussion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Not only are censorship and suppression fatal to the purpose of the university, they undermine the foundation of democratic society. When individual rights to freedom of expression are diminished or taken away for an allegedly good cause, they are necessarily invested in some higher authority that is given the right to determine what is acceptable. The result is censorship from above – ultimately the state – with the likelihood that the champions of that censorship today are its vulnerable targets tomorrow.
- Turk, James; Manson, Allan: Free Speech in Fearful Times
After 9/11 in Canada, the U.S, Australia & Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
How post-9/11 anti-terror laws have limited free speech in Canada and abroad.
- Turl, Adam: Homeless and Hungry at College
Falling Through the Safety Net
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
With students and their family members losing jobs as tuition increases escalate and social services are cut, more and more students are falling through the tattered social safety net.
- Turner, Chris: The War on Science
Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper's Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Do No Science, Hear No Science, Speak No Science -- that is the Harper agenda. And if this agenda is most evident and most pronounced in environmental science, that's simply because it is the field most likely to uncover evidence that the government's paramount goal -- to free the country's resource extraction industries from oversight in the name of rapid expansion -- is wrongheaded, reckless, and damaging.
- Turner, Peter: The Picket of the Zim Piraeus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
- Turner, Terence: From Ecological Disaster to Constitutional Crisis
The Long Struggle Over the Xingú Dams Comes to a Climax at Belo Monte
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The master plan for damming the Amazon river system, which includes Belo Monte and the Xingú dams, was originally created in the 1970s by the military dictatorship then in power. It essentially treats the Amazon as a reservoir of natural resources to be extracted without regard for the destruction of its riverine and forest environment or the displacement and pauperization of its indigenous and local Brazilian inhabitants.
- Turok, Ben: Africa
What Can Be Done?
Resource Type: Book
Explores the concepts and strategies needed by radical forces in Africa if they are to play an effective role in lifting the continent out of economic stagnation and political repression. The author's investigations are grounded in the thinking of a new generation of African intellectuals. These scholars and political activists often disagree, but they are united in their belief that genuine independence can be guaranteed only if Africa takes a socialist path.
- Turse, Nick: Ghost Nation
An ethnic-cleansing campaign by the government threatens to empty South Sudan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Reporter Nick Turse provides a first hand acount of his time spent covering a refugee crisis in Southern Sudan, where the government's Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) is committing atrocities that include mass rape, mutilation, torture, and the burning down of villages.
- Turse, Nick: In Africa, the U.S. Military Sees Enemies Everywhere
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
From east to west across Africa, 1,700 Navy SEALs, Army Green Berets, and other military personnel are carrying out 78 distinct "mission sets" in more than 20 nations, according to documents obtained by The Intercept via the Freedom of Information Act.
- Turse, Nick: Kill Anything That Moves
The Real American War in Vietnam
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Turse demonstrates that violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the American war against Vietnam. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of orders to "kill anything that moves."
- Turse, Nick: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics... and U.S. Africa Command
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
One of the strangest news developments of our time is the way the media now focus for days, if not weeks, 24/7, on a single event and its ramifications. Omar Mateen's slaughter of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando is only the latest example of this. If no other calamitous or eye-catching event comes along (“‘Unimaginable’: Toddler’s body recovered by divers after alligator attack at Disney resort"), it could, top the news, in all its micro-ramifications and repetitions, for three or four weeks. Such stories -- especially mass killings, especially those with an aura of terrorism about them -- are particularly easy for strapped, often downsizing news outfits to cover. They are, in a sense, pre-packaged.
- Turse, Nick: The Names You'll Never Know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Americans have been killing civilians since before there was a United States. At home and abroad, civilians -- Pequots, African Americans, Cheyenne and Arapaho, Filipinos, Haitians, Japanese, Germans, Koreans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, Yemenis, and Somalis, among others -- have been shot, burned, and bombed to death. So many civilians have been obliterated, incinerated, or "shredded" in America’s forever wars. Who in the United States remembers them? Who here ever knew of them in the first place?
- Turse, Nick: One by One, South Sudan Tries to Name Its War Victims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
In South Sudan, where a vicious civil war has been raging, no government office or nongovernmental organization has kept a tally of the names of those killed by government forces, rebels, and other armed groups. But in a country in which automatic weapons are more plentiful than civil rights, and local journalists are regularly under assault, a tiny civil society group is trying to step into the breach by naming all of the names. It began on the first anniversary of the civil war's outbreak, when a small group of volunteers unveiled a list of 568 names of the people - from toddlers to centenarians - killed in the war to that point. Naming the Ones We Lost was a first step in what the organizers knew would be a long journey to grapple with the immense loss of South Sudanese life over the previous year. Today, the project goes by a slightly different name, Remembering the Ones We Lost, and has a radically expanded mission with a recently launched website [http://rememberingoneswelost.com/main]. The goal of the website is nothing short of remarkable - it aims to name all victims of conflict and armed violence in South Sudan since 1955.
- Turse, Nick: A Secret War in 135 Countries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Turse discusses the U.S. global engagement strategy of covert operations conducted on every continent but Antarctica.
- Turse, Nick: Target Africa
The U.S. military's expanding footprint in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The U.S. military has engaged in a largely covert effort to extend across Africa with a network of low-profile camps. These facilities allow U.S. forces to surveil and operate on large areas of the continent and to strike targets with drones and manned aircraft.
- Turse, Nick: Tomorrow's Battlefield
U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
U.S. military is fighting shadow wars in Africa and claims that Africa is the "battlefield of tomorrow".
- Turse, Nick: The U.S. Will Invade West Africa in 2023 After an Attack in New York - According to Pentagon War Game
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
By 2021, according to the war game's scenario, AQIM boasts an estimated 38,000 members spread throughout Algeria, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger, and a network of training camps in Mauritania, as well as outright bases in Western Sahara.
- Turse, Nick; Englehardt,Tom: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The U.S. has been warring with the Islamic State (IS) for more than a year now. The centerpiece of that war has been an ongoing campaign of bombings and air strikes in Syria and Iraq, thousands upon thousands of them.
- Turton, Peter: Jose Marti
Architect of the Cuban Revolution
Resource Type: Book
This book looks at Marti as both thinker and man of action in relation to his own country (Cuba), Latin America as a whole, and the United States. Turton presents Marti as a contradictory man, avoiding the hagiographical tendencies of many biographers. An original and readable portrait of this great patriot of the Americas and forerunner of the Cuban Revolution.
- Tussey, Jean Y. (ed.): Eugene V. Debs Speaks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
- Tutchell, Eva; Edmonds, John: On our way to the moon? A snapshot of feminist marches which shook the world.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The authors tell the story of the Midsummer's day 1908 'Votes for women' Suffragist rally and the March 1971 Women's Liberation Movement Demonstration in Hyde ParK, London.
- Tutt, Daniel: Recentering the Lumpen Question Today
Understanding Lumpenization and Bonapartism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
To name a class "lumpenproletariat" is to reveal something that would otherwise prefer to stay hidden. The lumpenproletariat is not merely defined by its non-relation to production, which is the most common definition of the term in Marxist thought, nor is lumpenization reserved only to a process that occurs within the proletariat. Lumpenization is a process of active decomposition, a verb, not merely an analytic or descriptive category.
- Tutu, Desmond: Archbishop Desmond Tutu to UC Berkeley: Divesting is the Right Thing To Do
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
- Tutu, Desmond: ¿Desinvertir?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
- Tutu, Desmond: Do I Divest?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
If apartheid ended, so can this occupation, but the moral force and international pressure will have to be just as determined.
- Tutu, Desmond: Desmond Tutu Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Tutunjian, Jirair: Truth Is The First Casualty Of War: Nagorno-Karabakh And Media Misinformation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The Crimean War, in mid-19th century, introduced the world to the cardigan, the raglan jersey, and the balaclava headdress. It also introduced a new profession: the foreign correspondent. And almost immediately after the war the axiom "truth is the first casualty of war" was born because of the falsehoods spread by foreign correspondents on both sides.
- Tvetten, Julianne: The Blue-Collar Hellscape of the Startup Industry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The tactics and work environments at tech companies, including Amazon, show a disregard for the fundamental health, safety and humanity of low-tier workers, demonstrating what laissez-faire startup-styled late capitalism really looks like.
- Twain, Mark: Mark Twain Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Tweedie, Jill: Jill Tweedie Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Two members of the Toronto Liberation School: Organizing in a Small Town
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Experiences in organizing in a small town in Ontario in the early 1970s.
- Tzabiras, Marianna: Reflections on a whistleblower: Two years after Snowden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Two years after Snowden, the international state of surveillance and the ranks of whistleblowers both continue to grow.
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