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- wa Kinyatti, Maina (ed.): Kenya's Freedom Struggle
The Dedan Kimathi Papers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Here, for the first time, as a result of years of village-level research, historian Maina wa Kinyatti has recovered some of the most important papers of the Mau Mau and its leader, Dedan Kimathi. Translated into English, they make clear the movement's own perspectives on their struggle and its difficulties, the advanced nature of their goals as a national liberation movement, and their radical vision of a liberated Kenyan society.
- Wachernagel, Mathis ; Rees, William: Our Ecological Footprint
Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
The authors discuss how to make calculations of the amounts of material required to sustain an individual, a community and a nation.
- Wachtel, Paul: The Poverty of Affluence
A Psychological Portrait of the American Way of Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Wade, Robert H.; Sigurgeirsdottir, Silla: Iceland's Loud No
Can't Pay Back, Won't Pay Back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The people of Iceland have now twice voted not to repay international debts incurred by banks, and bankers, for which the whole island is being held responsible. With the present turmoil in European capitals, could this be the way forward for other economies?
- Wadi, Ramona: The School Of The Americas Is Still Exporting Death Squads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Although rebranded as WHINSEC, the School of the Americas uses the same brutal tactics to destabilize governments in Latin America.
- Wagenknecht, Sahra: Die Selbstgerechten
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021 Published: 2022
Wagenknecht grenzt die traditionellen Linken, zu denen sie heute zum Beispiel Jeremy Corbyn und Jean-Luc Mélenchon zählt und die vor allem von der Arbeiterschicht unterstützt worden sei, von den Lifestyle-Linken ab, die das öffentliche Bild der gesellschaftlichen Linken heute dominieren und die vor allem bei der akademischen Mittelschicht Anklang finden würden. Die Lifestyle-Linken würden zwar für Diversität, Antirassismus, eine lockere Einwanderungspolitik und gegen den Klimawandel eintreten, sich aber im Gegenzug kaum mehr für Klassenpolitik interessieren. Ihre Ziele würden sie auch nicht mehr durch Umverteilung von Vermögen erreichen wollen, sondern durch "Fragen des Lebensstils, der Konsumgewohnheiten und der moralischen Haltungsnoten."
- Wagenknecht, Sahra: Frieden für die Ukraine - Wie der Krieg beendet werden kann
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
- Wagenknecht, Sahra: Zeitenwende - Der Linksliberalismus und der Abschied von der liberalen Gesellschaft
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
- Wages Due Lesbians: The Lesbian Mothers' Defence Fund: A Resource for Women Fighting Child Custody Cases
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
This fund is a project of "Wages Due Lesbians", a gay women's group active in the International Wages for Housework campaign. It will provide gay women with legal advice and help them to keep or win custody of their children.
- Wahl, Asbjorn: The Crisis of Social Democracy: From Norway to Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
With social democratic parties in Europe suffering poor election results and significant setbacks, this article puts the current crisis in historical context, and how resolution and success will depend on more radical solutions.
- Wahl, Asbjørn: Europe: Reactionary Working Class? "Could it be that the Left have failed their constituencies"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
There is no lack of condemnation and moralizing to those who go to the far right. An increasing number of commentators, however, are now beginning to suspect that the march of large groups of workers toward the far right can be an expression of protest against the prevailing social development. Not all have received the benefits from the globalization success story.
- Wahnich, Sophie: In Defence of the Terror
Liberty or Death in the French Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
A discussion about the causes and consequences of revolutionary violence, with the premise that dismissive disgust at bloodshed is an overly simplistic response.
- Wainer, Kit Adam: Bloomberg and NYC's Education Wars
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The New York City school system averted catastrophe on June 24, 2011 when mayor Michael Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew reached an accord to prevent more than 4000 teacher layoffs. Under the deal, the teachers’ union agreed to suspend sabbaticals for one year and to reorganize the way in which teachers without full programs are assigned.
- Wainer, Kit Adam: Ernest Mandel's Legacy
Against The Current vol. 93
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Ernest Mandel was perhaps the best known revolutionary Marxist of the second half of the twentieth century. As an activist and leader of the Fourth International for most of his adult life, Mandel became the living vessel of post-war Trotskyism. Noted for his intellectual versatility, Mandel ventured into the fields of economics, political theory, history, even literary criticism.
- Wainer, Kit Adam: Looking at Che Guevara
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
That Che Guevara's silhouette has found its way onto walls and T-shirts around the world is nothing new. A traveler through Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s would have seen Che’s face spray-painted onto walls in working-class neighborhoods. In revolutionary Nicaragua Che graffiti was officially sanctioned, as was the massive outpouring of pro-Sandinista, anti-contra wall art. As a fallen martyr Che symbolized commitment and hope for anti-imperialist guerilla organizations throughout the Americas.
- Wainer, Kit Adam: Obama's RTTT vs. Teacher Unions
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The 165 Washington, DC public school teachers terminated for poor evaluations on July 23 may be the first victims of the Obama reform agenda. The teachers were fired because of low scores on the DC school system’s new evaluation procedure — one which ties teacher evaluations to student scores on standardized tests.
- Wainer, Kit Adam: Pappe and Israel's New Historians
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
An irony of Israeli political culture is that Zionism is exceptionally rigid in comparison to the democratic philosophy that legitimizes the U.S. political system, yet the breadth of political debate that appears in Israeli mainstream media is much wider than one would find in the United States.
- Wainer, Kit Adam: Roads to the Arab Uprisings
Book review of "The Journey to Tahrir" eds. Sowers and Toensing and "The Arab Revolts" eds. McMurray and Ufheil-Somers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The strength of all the essays in these two collections is that the principal trends the authors analyzed have become critical background to recent events in Egypt and Syria during the summer of 2013, even as the nature of these events continue to shift.
- Wainer, Kit Adam: The Unraveling Middle East
Shifting Sands: The Unraveling of the Old Order in the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Raja Shehadeh's and Penny Johnson's Shifting Sands: The Unraveling of the Old Order in the Middle East.
- Wainer, Kit Adam: Yugoslavia Dismembered
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
All of the various international plans for Bosnia, from the ill-fated Vance-Owen arrangement to the current Dayton Accords, codify ethnic cleansing. In each scenario, Bosnia is to be partitioned along national lines. The logic of this is to continue the population transfer processes in order to carve out contiguous territories dominated by the right nationalities. How artificial are these new borders which carve up a mixed republic into ethnic cantons! Yet the enforcers of this round of ethnic cleansing are not the nationalist militias but the NATO peacekeepers.
- Wainright, Hilary: We need popular participation, not populism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Wainright dissects the problems with liberal democracy and argues for real democratic self-government.
- Wainwright, Hilary: Electoral reform will give us a voice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
The democratic case for electoral reform is fundamental, and to attack it
as somehow a 'right wing' issue is a betrayal of the radical democratic tradition.
- Wainwright, Hilary: Greece: Syriza Shines a Light
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Like a swan moving forward with relaxed confidence while paddling furiously beneath the surface, Syriza, the radical left coalition that could become the next government of Greece, is facing enormous challenges calmly but with intensifed activity.
- Wainwright, Hilary: More than equality: reasons to be a feminist socialist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Equality? Feminist socialism has something better in mind: using power to transform hierarchies.
- Wainwright, Hilary: A search for roots and connections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The post-third-way Labour Party is trying to encourage its many new activist members, especially among the young, to turn the party into a social movement.
- Waisbrooker, Lois: A Sex Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1893 Published: 1985
A dynamic speaker and writer, anarchist, spiritualist, feminist and mentor of Emma Goldman, Lois Waisbrooker was arrested several times for advocating 'women's control over their own bodies.' In her 1893 novel, A Sex Revolution, women demand control of the world for fifiy years to see whether it leads to the abolition of war. This work is strikingly contemporary condemnation of the masculine concept of 'defense by the State' which has brought us all to the bring of annihiliation.
- Walberg, Eric: ISIS and the IDF: Canada's Double Standard
Who are the Real Terrorists?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Why can westerners join the Israeli Defense Forces while westerners joining Islamic State are despised and killed? In what sense is the IDF scenario any less reprehensible than the IS one?
- Walberg, Eric: Johnstone Brings her Moral Compass to our Dantesque World
Review of Diana Johnstone, Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Diana Johnstone's memoir is a classic, and will be read and quoted as long as we keep struggling for peace and justice. It is one of the great personal accounts of the anguished decline of our uncivilization, both a riveting eye-witness account of many of the horrors and perfidies, and a primer for students of history and all those struggling to not only dismantle the beast, but to prepare us for what follows it.
- Walberg, Eric: Zionist Theatre
From Zundel to Topham
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The trials of Arthur Topham, Canadian journalist and publisher of Radical Press, for "hate crime" (2007) and "hate propaganda" (2012) under new Criminal Code "Hate Propaganda" legislation, have resulted in exactly the opposite of what the prosecution and B'Nai Brith, wanted. Instead of quietly muzzling the gadfly critic, the result has been the highlighting of past Jewish hate crimes, and the increasing control by Zionist groups of Canadian politics to promote Israel and censor anti-Zionist criticism.
- Wald, Alan: BDS Versus Settler-Colonialism
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Review of two books about pro-Palestinian political activism known as BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions.) Contains detailed discussion of history and current events covered in the books.
- Wald, Alan: A Bend in the Labyrinth - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 160
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Book review of 'The Century’s Midnight: Dissenting European and American Writers in the Era of the Second World War' by Clive Bush.
- Wald, Alan: Between the Power and the Dream
Leon Trotsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Book review of Paul Le Blanc's Leon Trotsky.
- Wald, Alan: B.J. Widick, 1910-2008
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
On June 28, 2008, Branko J. Widick, known to everyone as “B.J.” or “Jack,” died at age 97 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Widick was a prominent figure in the history of U.S. Trotskyism and above all in the unorthodox political tendency known as the “Shachtmanites.” In the Great Depression, he was directly involved in the rise of the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) and was a participant in General Motors sitdown strike of automobile workers.
- Wald, Alan: H. Chandler Davis Was a Lifelong Radical and a Moral Touchstone for the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Chan Davis, who died last month at the age of 96, faced down McCarthyite blacklists and imprisonment to pursue a brilliant academic career. Davis knew how to change and learn from political experience, but he always remained loyal to his socialist principles.
- Wald, Alan: The Costs of McCarthyism
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Many Are the Crimes is far more than just an incisive diagnosis of the interlocking components of the historical era known as “McCarthyism.” Yeshiva University historian Ellen Schrecker has also produced a unique anti-witch-hunt study acknowledging that the vast majority of the legal targets of repression were, as the McCarthyites claimed, variously associated with the Communist movement.
- Wald, Alan: Disciplined for Acting with Integrity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The smear campaign against two profs at University of Michigan participating in BDS harks back to McCarthyist attempts to silence the left at that same institution.
- Wald, Alan: Fascinating Antifascism
Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914-1945
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Book review of Enzo Traverso's Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914-1945.
- Wald, Alan: Franz Kafka: In His Times and Ours
Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Michael Lowy's Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer.
- Wald, Alan: From "Triple Oppression" to "Freedom Dreams" - reviews
Against The Current vol. 162
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Reviews of 'Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995' by Cheryl Higashida, 'Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War' by Dayo F. Gore, and 'Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism' by Erik S. McDuffie.
- Wald, Alan: The Indiana "Subversion" Case 50 Years Later
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The case of the Bloomington Three began at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis with updates on the case appearing in the state and national press for several years. Alan Wald assesses the case as a foreshadowing of the mass radicalization of the late 1960s.
- Wald, Alan: The Journey of James Neugass
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
At the age of 32, Isidore James Newman Neugass (1905-49), a lesser poet of the Lost Generation crowd who published as “James Neugass,” departed New York City to spend six months mostly on the front lines of the Spanish Civil War. In late 1937 and early 1938, Neugass, serving as a volunteer ambulance driver as part of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, was present at Teruel, one of the conflict’s bloodiest battles, claiming over 100,000 casualties.
- Wald, Alan: Berta Langston, 1926-2010
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Berta Langston (1926-2010), a founder and member of Solidarity, died of lung cancer at age 84 in Norwalk, Connecticut on June 23. Born Berta Green on the Lower East Side of New York City, she was one of four sisters. She joined the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the mid-1940s and throughout nearly four decades of activity she was widely esteemed on the Left as one of the party’s most devoted and capable militants, a person who could work with sundry individuals to develop coalitions and political defense committees of national and international import. From time to time she used the party name “Berta Graham,” and she received a Marxist education at the “Trotsky School” at Mountain Spring Camp in New Jersey. During the mid-1960s she served briefly on the SWP National Committee.
- Wald, Alan: A Mandel for All Seasons
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The German New Left activist Rudi Dutshcke declared just prior to his death in 1979 that his friend Ernest Mandel “continues to surprise and yet remains the same.” Dutshcke’s appraisal draws attention to the appeal of Ernest (born Ezra) Mandel (1923-95), the Belgian Marxist economist and revolutionary activist, for a generation of young people impelled toward Leftist politics in the 1960s era of decolonization, civil rights activism, and the student revolt.
- Wald, Alan: Nicolas Calas: The Trotskyist Time Forgot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A lengthy, detailed look at modern Trotskyist poet Nicolas Calas (1907-88).
- Wald, Alan: On Richard Wright's Centennial: The Great Outsider
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
In the spring of 1940, Richard Wright’s Native Son was published to such acclaim that Black Marxist C.L.R. James decreed the novel “not only a literary but also a political event.” By means of a riveting naturalist fictional technique, depicting the world through the eyes and ears of a 20-year-old unemployed African American named Bigger Thomas, Wright evokes the volatile brutality of poverty and segregation on Chicago’s South Side during the latter part of the Great Depression.
- Wald, Alan: The Passion of Richard Seymour
Book Reviews of "The Liberal Defence of Murder" and "UnHitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchen" by Richard Seymour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The books of Richard Seymour skewer the predictable platitudes and puncture the sanctimonious pretensions of the "Pro-War Left," what was a transatlantic confederacy of journalists, public intellectuals, and bloggers that championed the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq as a "humanitarian intervention."
- Wald, Alan: A Political Witch-Hunt in the Name of "Academic Freedom": In Defense of the American Studies Association
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Wald provides insight into the American Studies Association's decision to boycott Israeli universities and defends the group's decision against the backlash given by the media and academia.
- Wald, Alan: The Prophet Alarmed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A review of Tariq Ali's book "The Extreme Centre: A Warning."
- Wald, Alan: The Prophet Alarmed
The Extreme Center: A Warning (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Review of Tariq Ali's The Extreme Center: A Warning. In The Extreme Center, Ali gives more than just a pungent and entertaining smack-down of corruption in British politics.
- Wald, Alan: Race and the Logic of Capital
Review of Class, Race, and Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A review of Review of Class, Race, and Marxism by David Roediger.
- Wald, Alan: Reading Red: Art & Social Revolution
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Throughout much of the 20th century, distinguished painters and muralists were habitually adjoined to revolutionary movements, sometimes producing monumental works expressive of socialist dreams, as well as of the aims and struggles of working people and anti-fascist fighters. One thinks immediately of Spain’s Pablo Picasso (1881- 1973), Mexico’s Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), and the Russian avant-garde of the early Soviet Union.
- Wald, Alan: Requiem for a Black Trotskyist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
News of the death of former United Auto Workers staff member Ernie Dillard came by way of a phone call on Bastille Day 2016. The subsequent silence about his passing in the radical and mainstream press is an accusatory reminder of the extent to which the memory of the Left has been confiscated from those who require it most.
- Wald, Alan: Review Essay: Reaching for Revolution
Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Book review of Howard Brick's and Christopher Phelpss Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World War.
- Wald, Alan: Reviewing Red: Love and Revolution
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
At the dawn of the 1960s, the modest tradition of novels depicting men and women active in Marxist movements morphed abruptly from a comparatively marginal to a mainstream phenomenon.
- Wald, Alan: A Theater for the Poor
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Each phase in the nine-year-history of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) now reads like a chapter from a cautionary tale for future generations of young radicals.
- Wald, Alan: Understanding Genocide
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
In 1944, a gifted young Jewish-American Marxist playwright, scenarist and fiction writer, Albert Maltz (1908-1985), published the novel that would become the most esteemed work of his professional life. The Cross and the Arrow, praised in the New York Times for “the scope of its vision of humanity” (September 22, 1944), adopted the form a fast-paced political mystery to reveal the events underlying an act of sabotage in Nazi Germany.
- Wald, Alan: A Winter's Tale Told in Memoirs
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The Socialist Workers (SWP), now a curious sidebar in the history of radicalism, is a linear descendant of the political movement initiated in the United States by pro-Bolshevik followers of Leon Trotsky on the eve of the Great Depression. For 45 years, until the mid-1970s, the movement associated with the SWP was at the crossroads of the Far Left.
- Wald, Sarah: Cascadia Rising to Save the Forest
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Protests in nine cities across California, Oregon and Washington took place February 23rd, coordinated by the Cascadia Rising Project, in response to the Bush Administration's removal of protections on federal lands for over 100 rare and uncommon species associated with the old growth forests of the Pacific Northwest.
- Wald, Sarah D.: The Power of Story, the Evidence of Experience
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Review of a book of oral histories of migrant farmworkers.
- Waldram, James B.: As Long as the River Runs
Hydroelectric Development and Native Communities in Western Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Waldram examines the politics of hydroelectric dam construction in the vast hinterland of the Canadian Northwest, focusing particularly on the negotiations and agreements between the developers and the Native residents.
- Waler, Richard: The Conquest of Bread
150 Years of Abribusiness in California
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
California has been the world's most advanced agricultural zone that not only out-produces every state in America, but also most countries. Its success has come at significant costs for a family-farm region like the Midwest manipulated and exploited to serve modern business interests.
- Walker, Chris; Tickell, Oliver: Ghana's farmers battle "Monsanto law' to retain seed freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Ghana's government is desperate to pass a Plant Breeders Bill that would remove farmers' ancient 'seed freedom' to grow, retain, breed and develop crop varieties - while giving corporate breeders a blanket exemption from seed regulations. But the farmers are fighting back.
- Walker, Corey D.B.: SNCC at 50
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is vitally important not just for learning and understanding the past but, more importantly, for imagining and working for a more righteous future.
- Walker, Eugene: France Spring 1968
Masses in motion Ideas in free flow
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1968
- Walker, Jesse: Rebels on the Air
An Alternative History of Radio in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
- Walker, John: Orphans of the Storm
Peacebuilding for Children of War
Resource Type: Book
- Walker, Kira: Hitting nature where it hurts: Iran feels the pernicious effects of US sanctions on biodiversity conservation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Iran is home to a rich and complex array of biodiversity. Efforts to protect its biodiversity have been challenged by decades of economic sanctions and political isolation.
- Walker, Pat (Ed.): Between Labor and Capital
The Professional/Managerial Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Essays on those between the working class and the capitalist class: technicians, managers, administrators, professionals, service workers, sicentists.
- Walker, Peter: After Malheur, the end of the beginning: war for America's public lands rages on
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Those who value public lands - for economic, environmental, recreational and aesthetic values - owe a debt of gratitude to Harney County, Oregon, writes Peter Walker. A violent branch of the Sagebrush Rebellion came to town, and the community told it to go away: the decisive factor in the occupiers' defeat. But the greater war for America's public lands has only just begun.
- Walker, Richard: Capital's Global Turbulence - Study Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
ROBERT BRENNER'S THE Economics of Global Turbulence, a book-length study published as issue 229 of the Journal New Left Review, has attracted unusual attention for at least two reasons. Not only is Brenner's factual and theoretical argument formidable in its own terms, but its publication coincided fortuitously with the stock and financial market upheavals triggered by the Asian collapse.
- Walker, Richard: An Introduction: Capital's Global Turbulence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
A JOYLESS IRONY of our time is that just as capitalism seemed all-triumphant and the sirens of neoliberalism had declared history to be at an end, the crisis rolling out of Asia has brought the self-regulating global market to its knees. Add to this that at the same time as Marxism as political doctrine has been declared dead, Marxist economics has never been better argued and empirically defended than today.
- Walkom, Thomas: Rae Days
The Rise and Follies of the NDP
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
An account of Bob Rae's New Democratic Party government in Ontario.
- Wall, Derek: Getting There
Steps to a Green Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Wall, Derek: The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
In the near future there will be no politics but green politics…
- Wall, Derek: The Rise of the Green Left
Inside the Worldwide Ecosocialist Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Climate change and other ecological ills are driving the creation of a grassroots global movement for change. From Latin America to Europe, Australia and China a militant movement merging red and green is taking shape.
- Wall, Naomi Binder; Diemer, Ulli: Naomi Binder Wall Interview
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2020
Three interviews with left political organizer Naomi Binder Wall conducted by Ulli Diemer in May 2020. An audio recording of this interview is in the Connexions Library & Archive.
- Wallace, Barbara: Citizens Group Scores Success in Anti-lead Battle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986 Published: 1987
Through self-education, out-reach, and activism, the Niagara Neighbourhood Lead Committee has successfully worked to reduce lead risks in their neighbourhood and throughout Canada.
- Wallace, Barbara: The Citizen's Guide to Lead: Uncovering a Health Hazard
Resource Type: Book
- Wallace, Deborah; Wallace, Rodrick: A Plague on Your Houses
How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
A scorching indictment of the decision to close fire companies in New York in the 1970s and a frightening study of the way misguided and malevolent social policy can spark a chain reaction of enormous and unforeseen urban collapse.
- Wallace, Helen: Genetic Testing of Citizens Is a Backdoor into Total Population Surveillance by Governments and Companies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The new Chief Executive of the National Health Service (NHS) in England, Simon Stevens, was recently reported arguing that the NHS must be transformed to make people’s personal genetic information the basis of their treatments.
- Wallace, Kathleen: The Raid on Lawrence, Kansas
A Midwest Gothic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Bizarre and gruesome moment in the life of Lawrence, Kansas should give pause to us all when we consider the small and the large of our own lives.
- Wallace, Leonard: The Leninist Facade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
In direct oppostion to what Marx advocated, the Bolsheviks tried to institute socialism without democracy. The damage to the socialist movement resulting from this was immense.
- Wallace, Rob: Big Farms Make Big Flu
Dispatches on Influenza, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
An examination of the relationships between infectious disease, agriculture, economics, and the nature of science.
- Wallace, Rob: Neoliberal Ebola: The Agroeconomic Origins of the Ebola Outbreak
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Wallace describes the rise of Ebola, connecting its outbreak to capital-driven shifts in land and changes in the agroeconomic context.
- Wallace, Rob: Ten Theses on Farming and Disease
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
There’s a growing understanding of the functional relationships health, food justice, and the environment share. They’re not just ticks on a checklist of good things capitalism shits on.
- Wallace, Rob; Pabst, Yaak: Capitalist agriculture and Covid-19: A deadly combination
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The real danger of each new outbreak is the failure -- or better put -- the expedient refusal to grasp that each new Covid-19 is no isolated incident. The increased occurrence of viruses is closely linked to food production and the profitability of multinational corporations. Anyone who aims to understand why viruses are becoming more dangerous must investigate the industrial model of agriculture and, more specifically, livestock production. At present, few governments, and few scientists, are prepared to do so. Quite the contrary.
- Wallace, Robert G.: Industrial Production of Poultry Gives Rise to Deadly Strains of Bird Flu H5Nx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Debunking the claims of industrial poultry producers that multiple outbreaks of bird flu are due to wild waterfowl, instead providing evidence that industrial farming practices are responsible for the outbreak.
- Wallach, Alan: Marxist Art Historian: Meyer Schapiro, 1914-1996
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Schapiro will no doubt be remembered for his brilliance, for the extraordinary range of his mind, but his legacy as a scholar belongs to those willing to engage his most profound and most challenging work, in particular the Marxist studies he produced during the 1930s.
- Wallach, Alan: When Men Become Gods
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Wallach, Lori: The Corporate Invasion
Government by Big Business Goes Supranational
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A new treaty being negotiated in secret between the US and the EU has been specifically engineered to give companies what they want -- the dismantling of all social, consumer and environmental protection, and compensation for any infringement of their assumed rights. Under the treaty, foreign companies could sue governments directly for cash compensation over earnings lost because of strict labour or environmental legislation.
- Wallberg, Eric: Postmodern Imperialism
Geopolitics and the Great Games
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
An analysis of the development of imperialism over the past century.
- Wallerstein, Immanuel: Power and Protest: The Electoral Tactics of Leftist Social Movements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The central difficulty for left social movements is determining electoral tactics that will enable them to win both in the short run and in the middle run. On the surface, it seems that winning in the short run conflicts with winning in the middle run.
- Wallerstein, Immanuel: Utopistics
Or, historical choices of the twenty-first century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
The twentieth century has witnessed both the triumphs and failures of the dreams that have informed the modern world. In Utopistics, Immanuel Wallerstein argues that the global order that nourished those dreams is on the brink of disintegration.
- Wallis, Victor: To overcome climate paralysis, unite for system change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at how to break through the climate paralysis that has led to the environmental crisis that mankind is currently facing. Wallis indicates that by having identified who the enemy is, we know who our potential allies are- the other 99%.
- Walljasper, Jay: All That We Share
A Field Guide to the Commons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons is a wake-up call that will inspire you to see the world in a new way. As soon as you realize that some things belong to everyone -- water, for instance, or the Internet or human knowledge -- you become a commoner, part of a movement that's reshaping how we will solve the problems facing us in the twenty-first century.
- Walljasper, Jay: 12 Reasons You'll Be Hearing More About The Commons In 2012
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
"We Power" stands at the convergence of economic and cultural trends.
- Walls, David: The Activist's Almanac
The Concerned Citizen's Guide to the Leading Advocacy Organizations in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Waln, Nora: The Approaching Storm
One Woman's Story of Germany 1934-1938
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1939 Published: 1988
Nora Waln, a Quaker journalist, chronicles her experience living in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. During those four years, she took covert notes, bearing witness to the rise of Hitler.
- Walsh, Barbara: Understanding the News Business
A media kit for community groups
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
- Walsh, David: The ignorant, repressive attack on Frank Loesser's "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at Frank Loesser's 1944 song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" and the social forces which have aggressively pushed the new 'Puritanism' that seeks to have the song banned.
- Walsh, David: An interview with Mike Leigh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Working on the film, there were people of various generations, from their twenties to people of my age, from the area, who said, 'I didn’t know about this.' And yet the massacre was widely reported and is a famous and significant, seminal event in the history of democracy in Britain, the labour movement, etc., etc.
- Walsh, David: Racialism, art and the Academy Awards controversy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Should artwork be categorized and presumably appreciated according to whether it represents a male or female, black or white perspective? Many critics, influenced by the prevailing ideology, set up this basic standard: women gain more from art produced by women, Jews from work created by Jews, African-Americans from "African-American art," etc. In ideological terms, these critics, in their obsession with race, are spouting a conception of society and art identified historically with the extreme right.
- Walsh, David: The right-wing, racialist attacks on the film Free State of Jones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The new film written and directed by Gary Ross, Free State of Jones, about a white farmer in Mississippi, Newton Knight, who led an insurrection against the Confederacy from 1863 to 1865, has come under sharp attack by right-wing elements in the American media. By right-wing elements, we mean the "new right" of identity politics advocates.
- Walsh, John: Threatened with Censorship and Ouster by PEN's Henchmen
Sign the Petition to Remove Suazanne Nossel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Nossel's appointment may be seen as the most visible and overt symptom of Western subversion that goes back to the very founding of the "human rights" NGO’s
- Walsh, Michael; Jordan, Don: White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
White Cargo is the story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies.
- Walsh, Tom: Social Teaching Incarnate at ICI
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
From economic grassroots organizations, Latin Americans of every creed, race and colour gather under the one ICI roof for three month periods of intensive sharing and learning. Community and society problems are examined and their causes analyzed from a Latin American perspective.
- Walters, Jonah: FSNL, 1979 and today: Nicaragua's compromised revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The Sandinista revolution happened over 30 years ago, but FSLN has completely altered within the past few years to a neoliberal organization.
- Walters, Suzanna Danuta: Academe's Poisonous Call-Out Culture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
I cannot help thinking that something has gone seriously wrong when a scholar who is not transphobic or working against the interests of trans people, but, in fact, considering an important question, is labeled as "doing harm."
- Walton, Richard: Interpersonal Peacemaking: Confrontations and Third Party Consultation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Provides a model for diagnosing recurring conflict between two parties and shows how a third-party facilitator can help interrupt and resolve the conflict. The theory is demonstrated with three in-depth case studies drawn from standard work situations.
- Walton, Sam: Our Lives are Militarised
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Sam Walton examines the PR strategy of placing soldiers at civil society events.
- Wang, Hui (director): Last Harvest
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Last Harvest follows the riveting journey of an elderly Chinese farming couple whose relocation is imminent as a result of China's controversial South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the largest of its kind in the world. Wang captures a remarkable and engaging human story at the intersection of connection and disconnection from land and culture and of old and new China.
- Warburton, Nigel: Free Speech
A Very Short Introduction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Covers a wide-range of controversial free-speech issues, from Holocaust denial and pornography to the status of modern copyright law. Offers a concise quide to many of the vexing issues concerning our right to speak freely.
- Warchus, Matthew (director): Pride
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
Based on a true story, the film depicts a group of lesbian and gay activists who raised money to help families affected by the British miners' strike in 1984, at the outset of what would become the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign.
- Ward, Barbara: Down to Earth
Environment and Human Needs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
- Ward, Barbara; Dubos, Rene: Only One Earth
The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
- Ward, Colin: Anarchy in Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
With chapters on the family, topless federations, schools, housing, crime, employment, welfare, deviancy, planning, and more, this is probably the best practical example of anarchist ideas in action.
- Ward, Colin: Housing
An anarchist approach
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
- Ward, Colin: Talking Schools
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Ten lectures which highlight the essentials of libertarian thought and practice concerning schooling and education, more widely, provide vivid illustrations of the effects of the important State legislation in Britain on education since 1945, and pose a serious challenge to contemporary educational orthodoxy.
- Ward, Colin: Work (Illustrated)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
- Ward, Sue: Organising Things
A Guide to Successful Political Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
A comprehensive guide to practical political action, packed with information and handy checklists.
- Ware, Helen (ed.): The No-Nonsense Guide to Conflict and Peace
Resource Type: Book
- Ware, Lawrence; Buhle, Paul: Insurrectional Black Power
CLR James on Race and Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
During the exhilarating and dangerous late 1960s and early 1970s, no world historical figure of older generations had a more militant defense of Black Power than CLR James. But it was always a vision within a context, and after all these years have passed (along with James himself who died in 1989), the context remains crucial.
- Ware, Reuben: The Lands We Lost
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
The Lands We Lost is a history of the cut-off lands and land losses from Indian reserves in British Columbia.
- Wark, Julie: A Terribly Human Challenge
Joshua Oppenheimer's "The Act of Killing"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
To make the movie, Joshua Oppenheimer approached the regime’s henchmen and spent eight years interviewing some of these killers.
- Warland, Betsy: Inversions
Writing by Dykes, Queers & Lesbians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Warne, Randi: Literature as Pulpit
The Christian Social Activism of Nellie McClung
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Warnke, Brett: Unlawful Dissent
New Laws Around the Globe Don't Curb Inequity, They Undercut Social Protests and Gag Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The state is increasingly encroaching upon dissent as social conditions worsen.
- Warnock, John: Free Trade and the New Right Agenda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
A useful snapshot of the 'free trade' debate at the time of the 1988 Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada.
- Warnock, John: The Other Mexico
The North American Triangle Completed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
- Warnock, John: The Politics of Hunger
The Global Food System
Resource Type: Book
Warnock's book is an attempt to explain within the context of the global food market why famine, malnutrition, poverty and disease are the flip side of affluence and waste. He examines the political question of who controls the production, processing and marketing of food products and the social and environmtntal impact on societies. He calls for a just food system that recognizes the needs of the people not just the profit demand of the corporate sector .
- Warnock, John W.: Leamington, Ontario: Growing Tomatoes in the Era of Free Trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Southwestern Ontario is the historic home of Canadian tomato growers. The bulk of the crop goes to processing, and since 1909 the dominant corporation had been H. J. Heinz, a food giant based in Pittsburgh. But in 2013 the Heinz Corporation was bought by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (26%) and 3G Capital (51%), based in Brazil. It was soon announced that they were planning to close their plant in Leamington. The story has been a snapshot of what has happened to the manufacturing industry in Ontario following the "free trade" agreements with the United States.
- Warnock, John W.: A Socialist Alternative For Canada
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
A discussion on the future of the sociliast left in Canada and its relationship to the New Democratic Party.
- Warraq, Ibn: Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
A methodical deconstruction of Edward Said's Orientalism.
- Warren, Bill: Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Argues that the accepted theories of imperialism are profoundly flawed.
- Warren, Ron: Slums, 21st Century Wars
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
How have homo sapiens managed to achieve a highly technological, seemingly advanced “civilization,” while producing the horrors described by Mike Davis in Planet of Slums?
- Warren, Rosie; Nair. Yasmin: The Political Is Political: In Conversation With Yasmin Nair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
An activist and writer based in Chicago, Nair is one of the founders of Against Equality, a group that was born in 2009, initially as an online archive of pieces that were critical of the gay-marriage movement and mainstream gay politics.
- Warschawski, Michael: A Commentary from Israel: Peace Camp - Dead or Alive?
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
A few weeks ago my friend Ilan Pappé published an article under the title "There is no peace camp in Israel." These words were originally spoken in a lecture delivered by the intellectual activist—or the activist intellectual—at a conference that took place in Fribourg, in the framework of the Swiss Social Forum.
- Warschawski, Michael: Free Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Now!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
In a sense, Bilin is the Soweto, the Derry and the Chiapas of the beginning of the 21st century, with two specificities: it is a civic non-violent mobilization and it is based on a strong alliance between the local Palestinian population, the Israeli anti-colonialist movement and active international solidarity.
- Warschawski, Michael: George Bush's Unending War and Israel
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
The present U.S. strategy, defined by the neo-cons at the end of the 1980s, is no longer a strategy of stabilizing world order and building a “new Middle East” through multilateral negotiations, but imposing the “American age,” i.e. U.S. total hegemony, by a global non-ending preemptive war. The Israeli war against the Palestinian people and against Lebanon is part of this global war; indeed, it is the United States’ most advanced and important front.
- Warschawski, Michael: Palestinian Democracy
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Few elections throughout the world have been perceived by the local population, as well as international observers, as democratic and transparent as the Palestinian ones. At first glance, Palestine seems to be the perfect example of the “democratization of the Middle East” that President George W. Bush and his administration are fighting for.
- Warschawski, Michael: Toward an Open Tomb
The Crisis of Israeli Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Warschawski focuses especially on the effects of the occupation on the occupiers - that is, on Israeli society - rather than its victims.
- Warschawski, Michael: Towards a 'Israeli War Criminals Watch'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
It is upon us, every woman and man, in Israel and abroad, who fear for international public hygiene and international law, to unite forces in order to place before those war criminals the dilemma: risk being tried if they are found in countries in which the law permits this or remain locked in Israel.
- Warschawski, Michael: A View from Israel
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Michael Warschawski, a founder of the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem, spoke with The Real News Network on Israeli reactions to the Egyptian uprising.
- Waseef, Amani: Misogyny reflected in Grocery Line
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Checking out the popular media at the grocery checkout.
- Washington, Linn Jr.: Dividing the Races to Benefit the Rich
Prison Populism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Race baiting broadcast agitators like Beck and Rush Limbaugh have their audiences believing the factually flawed foolishness that the reason they are falling behind economically is because the federal government is fawning over blacks lavishing them with unearned benefits. The reason for the loss of jobs, homes and dreams of comfortable futures driving white working class (and middle class) ire is not benefits to blacks but naked greed on Wall Street and in the suites of mega-corporations that triggered America's economic collapse.
- Washington, Mary Helen: Black Women's Writing Recovered
An Interview with Mary Helen Washington
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Interview with Mary Helen Washington.
- Washington, Mary Helen: Racial Terror & Totalitarianism - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A review of Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination
by Vaughn Rasberry.
- WashingtonsBlog: How to Spot - and Defeat - Disruption on the Internet
The 15 Rules of Web Disruption
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Over a number of years, we've found that the most effective way to fight disruption and disinformation is to link to a post such as this one which rounds up disruption techniques, and then to cite the disinfo technique you think is being used.
- Wasley, Andrew: Deformities, sickness and livestock deaths: the real cost of GM animal feed?
Deformities, Sickness and Livestock Death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Feeding animals a diet containing genetically modified (GM) ingredients or more specifically feed made from GM soya and sprayed with the controversial herbicide glyphosate is responsible for deformities and other defects in pigs.
- Wasserman, Harvey: Hard Core Green
How to Kick Corporate Butt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Two uncompromised green activists and writers completely focused on winning, and utterly void of bullshit.
- Waters, Mary Alice: Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
A selection of speeches and writings by Rosa Luxemburg.
- Watkins, Mel: Madness and Ruin
Politics and Economy in the Neoconservative Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Watkin's book, based on his monthly articles in This Magazine is a scathing attack on the Mulroney government's adoption of neo-conservative economics. With their adoption of Reaganite policies they have cut back on transfer payments to the provinces thus hitting secondary school funding and medicare. They have also linked Canada to the United States with the adoption of the Free Trade Agreement and launched a full scale attack on the welfare state. The NDP is not spared his criticism and is blasted for its "appalling" performance in the free- trade election. It is a poweful jounalistic book that stands up well despite the passage of years.
- Watkins, Mel: Waffle
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A group established in 1969 as a left-wing caucus within the New Democratic Party.
- Watkins, Peter: La Commune
(Paris, 1871)
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2000
A historical drama about the Paris Commune in 1871 set in the style of a documentary. The Paris rebels offer their own thoughts and feelings on social and political reforms while a journalist for Versailles Television provides an official view of events.
- Watson, Bill: Counter-Planning on the Shop Floor
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
- Watson, Debra: PBS's Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913 commemorates Michigan's bitter labor past
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
One hundred years ago, a major strike by copper miners was continuing in the Keweenaw Peninsula, which protrudes into Lake Superior in northern Michigan. In the middle of the months-long battle against intransigent mine owners, at least 73 people, mostly children, were killed in a horrific incident at a celebration on Christmas Eve in 1913.
- Watson, Louise: She never was afraid
The biography of Annie Buller
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
The story of Annie Buller, a Canadian trade union activist and Communist.
- Watson, Mary Ann; Whitlock, Flint: Breaking the Bonds
The Realities of Sexually Open Relationships
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
An examination of the lives of (American) people involved in socially and/or sexually open relationships.
- Watson, Patrick: The Struggle for Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
A sweeping illustrated survey of the growth of democracy, its heroes and heroines, its enemies, its failures and successes.
- Watson, Paul Joseph: Provocateur Cops Caught Disguised As Anarchists At G20
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
At every single major summit over the past few years, authorities have inserted agent provocateurs into protest groups in order to spy on them and if necessary, provoke violence to justify oppressive police brutality in the eyes of the watching world.
We have documented numerous different occasions where the leadership of the black bloc anarchists were actually working with the authorities to provide a pretext for a police state crackdown.
During the previous G20 protest in London, black bloc anarchists were allowed by police to smash up bank buildings while being accompanied by more press photographers than other protesters in what was obviously a stage-managed spectacle for mass consumption
- Watson, Paul Joseph: Who Controls The Black Bloc Anarchists?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Whose interests do the violent actions of the black bloc benefit? The interests of the general public in using free speech as a means of political change? Or the interests of the authorities in providing the perfect pretext with which to crush and outlaw that free speech? You can't overthrow the entire system by smashing one bank and starting a bonfire. Real political change takes generations of struggle, decades of building respected educational platforms, and a gargantuan grass-roots movement focused on taking power on the local level and expanding upwards. Throwing a brick through a window isn't going to achieve anything other than making the vast majority of the general public despise you even more, and support the very systems of power that you are supposedly opposing. The black bloc sect exist to provide the media with violent footage with which to demonize legitimate protesters.
- Watson, Steve: SPP Agent Provocateur Cops Caught Red Handed Attempting To Incite Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Peaceful protestors at the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Montebello have captured sensational video of hired agent provocateurs attempting to incite rioting and turn the protest violent, only to encounter brave resistance from real protest leaders.
- Watts, Jonathan: The Amazon tribe protecting the forest with bows, arrows, GPS and camera traps
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
With authorities ineffective, the 2,200-strong Ka'apor, in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, are taking on the illegal loggers with technology and direct action. Now the Ka'apor are seeking support through NGOs and the media.
- Watts, Jonathan: Berta Cáceres, Honduran eco-defender, murdered
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Berta Cáceres, Honduran indigenous and environmental rights campaigner, has been murdered, days after she was threatened for opposing a hydroelectric project. Her death has prompted international outrage, and a flood of tributes to a courageous defender of the natural world.
- Watts, Jonathan: Kenya's 'Erin Brockovich' defies harassment to bring anti-pollution case to courts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Phyllis Omido is leading a landmark class action demanding a clean-up and compensation from a lead-smelting factory accused of poisoning local residents - including her own son.
- Watts, Jonathan: Water resources - 'The river is dying': the vast ecological cost of Brazil's mining disasters
Water resources are tapped with often reckless abandon and poor regulation. And it looks set to go on under new president.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Brazil's worst mining disaster in decades has prompted calls to create stronger regulations and enforce them with real consequences rather than small fines that often go unpaid.
- Watts, Josh: The Representation of Torture in the 'War on Terror'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A nation cannot claim to act to promote democracy and human rights whilst it kidnaps citizens the world over, places them in secret detention and tortures them.
- Waubageshig: The Only Good Indian
Essays by Canadian Indians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
The authors of this book are native people, mostly young, from coast to coast in Canada. They are thoughtful, angry, poetic, full of a generous passion to improve their lives.
- Way, Jamie: The Property Waiver Regime: Nicaragua's Continued Punishment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
- Way, Jamie (Director): School Zone
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2008
Humourous video that explores the benefits and protection the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation has gained for members through advocacy and collective bargaining.
- Wayman, Tom: Money and Rain: Tom Wayman Live!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
- Wayne, Leslie: Paradise of Untouchable Assets
Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Trusts held in the Cook Islands can put money beyond the reach of the American legal system.
- Wayne, Leslie; Carr, Kelly; Guevara, Marina Walker; Cabra, Mar; Hudson, Michael: Leaked Documents Expose Global Companies' Secret Tax Deals in Luxembourg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Pepsi, IKEA, FedEx and 340 other international companies have secured secret deals from Luxembourg, allowing many of them to slash their global tax bills while maintaining little presence in the tiny European duchy, leaked documents show.
- Wayne, Randy; Staves, Mark: Model scientists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
In contrast to the plethora of day-to-day conversations on how to fit into the
administrators directives, this essay provides a historical context, particularly though its extensive bibliography, to encourage today's biologists to question authority and question nature.
- Wazna, Yasser Abu: One Palestinian Man's Mission to Make Urban Agriculture More Sustainable
Life and Health are the most precious things humans can have
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Introducing Said Salim Abu Naser, a proponent of sustainable agriculture living and working in Gaza City, Palestine, along the Mediterranean Coast. Abu Nasser has created a 200-square-meter (2,000-square-foot) micro-farm using a hydroponic system and homemade organic pest-control solutions consisting of garlic, pepper, soap and more.
- WB: White Collar Blues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
An article about working in a Canadian government office (the Unemployment Insurance Commission).
- Weaver, Matthew: How Brown Moses exposed Syrian arms trafficking from his front room
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A Leicester-based blogger's monitoring of weapons used in conflict has been taken up by media and human rights groups. Never having been near a warzone has not stopped him from breaking some of the most important stories on the Syrian conflict in the last year.
- Weavers, Cisco Houston, Odetta, Baez, Ian & Sylvia, Judy Collins, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Kingston Trio: This Land is Your Land
Songs of Freedom
Resource Type: Audio
- Webb, Simon: The British Camps
Though it reached its horrific heights at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the British, not the Nazis, pioneered the concentration camp.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Today, the expression "concentration camp" evokes the horrors of Nazi Germany, conjuring up black-and-white images of Auschwitz and Belsen. But Germans were neither the first nation to make use of concentration camps nor the last.
- Webb, Whitney: Coronavirus: What Newsweek Failed to Mention About "Continuity of Government"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Last week, Newsweek published a report entitled “Inside The Military’s Top Secret Plans If Coronavirus Cripples the Government,” which offers vague descriptions of different military plans that could be put into effect if the civilian government were to be largely incapacitated, with a focus on the potential of the current novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to result in such a scenario.
- Webb, Whitney: Thousands Of Israelis Take To The Streets Calling For Palestinian Genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Massive rallies and Facebook campaigns calling for Palestinian genocide are ignored by Western mainstream media and Facebook despite concerns and collaborations aimed at stopping "calls to violence".
- Webber, Jeffery: Revolution against "progress": the TIPNIS struggle and class contradictions in Bolivia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Evo Morales's green light to a decades-old project to build a highway connecting Villa Tunari north to San Ignacio de Moxos through the indigenous territory and national park known as TIPNIS (Territorio Indígena del Parque Nacional Isiboro-Sécure), was the catalyst of his government's unpopular ratings.
- Webber, Jeffery R.: Bolivia After the Referendum
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The month following Bolivia's recall referendum on August 10, 2008 tragically confirmed the class polarization of that country. The right-wing autonomists of the Santa Cruz, Pando, Beni, Tarija and Sucre departments (states or provinces) escalated their destabilization campaign against the Morales government, while the latter singularly failed to assert its rightful democratic control over all Bolivian territory. A small, racist and virulently right-wing minority has been able to shut down large parts of the country and spill indigenous peasant blood with impunity.
- Webber, Jeffery R.: Bolivia: Evo Morales' First 100 Days
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
On December 18, 2005 the Movimiento al Socialismo (Movement Toward Socialism, MAS) party won an historic 54% of the popular vote in the Bolivian general elections. MAS leader Evo Morales, an indigenous man of mixed Aymara-Quechua descent who came of age politically as a peasant union leader in the anti-imperialist cocalero (coca grower) movement of the Chapare region, became president. MAS assumed the governance of Bolivia on January 22, 2006.
- Webber, Jeffery R.: Bolivia's Autonomist Right -- A Dangerous Threat
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Autonomist right-wing forces in the Bolivian department (state) of Santa Cruz — acting through the offices of the prefecture (governorship) and Santa Cruz Civic Committee — held an illegal May 4 rerendum on departmental autonomy. According to the consulting agency Captura Consulting the “yes” side won 85% of the votes cast, with 15% against. However, many organizations within the left-indigenous bloc of the department had called for a boycott of the referendum, and were successful in obtaining an abstention rate of over 40%. Compare that to the remarkably low abstention rate of 15% in the December 2005 general elections that brought Evo Morales, the country’s first indigenous president, to office at the national level. Nonetheless, the right declared results a triumphant victory.
- Webber, Jeffery R.: Empire, Religion and Liberation
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
“At least 10 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on Sunday by Israeli fire,” today’s New York Times reports as I write this review, “bringing the number of Palestinians killed since Wednesday… to more than 100.” One Palestinian in Gaza laments, “There is an attack every five or ten minutes. It keeps our nerves on edge and our senses strained. There is so much rage at what is happening; especially the scenes of murdered children and babies.” According to the Israeli human-rights group, B’Tselem, approximately half of the dead were unarmed civilians, and a quarter were children.
- Webber, Jeffery R.: Liberation, Then What?
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
In a lucid contribution to our understanding of contemporary Africa, David Seddon and Leo Zeilig recently charted that continent's two waves of popular protest and class struggle over the last 40 years, as well as pointing to signs of a nascent third wave.
- Webber, Jeffery R.: The Rebellion in Bolivia
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
From the inspiring rebellion of the indigenous and popular classes of the Bolivian altiplano (high plateau),(1) the eruption of the 690,000-strong shantytown of El Alto, and the popular neighborhoods in the hillsides of the capital La Paz in the “Gas War” of October 2003, emerged the “October Agenda,” a list of popular demands to remake the country in the name of the poor and the indigenous majority.
- Webber, Jeffery R.: Where Is Venezuela Going?
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Steve Ellner's latest book, Rethinking Venezuelan Politics, is an important contribution to our understanding of Venezuela under Hugo Chávez. It brings a deeply historical perspective to the topic, something almost universally lacking in the growing number of short-sighted texts on the country’s politics. It also offers the opportunity for a discussion of the complexities of the “Bolivarian process” as it unfolds.
- Webber, Jeffery R.; Spronk, Susan: Venezuela: Voices on the Struggle
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
In mid-June 2010, we caught up with three revolutionary socialist activists, Gonzalo Gómez, Stalin Pérez Borges, and Luis Primo in Caracas, Venezuela to discuss their views on the contradictions and prospects of the Bolivarian process.
- Webber, Marlene: Food for Thought
How Our Dollar Democracy Drove 2 Million Canadian into Foodbanks to Collect Private Charity in Place of Public Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Food for Thought tackles tough questions about hunger and poverty in Canada and dishes up disturbing answers. Answers that come from people on both sides of the breadlines, from the people throughout the foodbank movement.
- Weber, Max: Max Weber Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Webster, David: Canada to allow new arms sales
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Canada is expanding its exports of arms.
- Webster, Dennis: Dunlop Factory (South Africa): The workers who won't snitch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Metalworker union Numsa files legal arguments in the Constitutional Court on on behalf of Dunlop factory workers from Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, after workers were dismissed because they did not snitch on fellow workers during a protected strike.
- Wedderburn, Robert; McCalman, Iain D.: The Horrors of Slavery: and Other Writings by Robert Wedderburn
Resource Type: Article
Robert Wedderburn was one of the first promoters of black power by revolutionary force, if necessary. His publications had an enormous impact in his time. The Horrors of Slavery is a vivid record of the history, ideas, and rhetoric of a leader in the movement to abolish slavery in the West Indies.
- Wedes, Justin: We Must Support Detroit's Fight for the Right to Water
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Detroit is shutting off water to 40% of residents to prepare the water system for a corporate buyout. Residents are organizing to resist the water shuttoffs, anti-democratic rule and the demands of Wall Street - but they need our help.
- Weedall, Gemma: Capitalism is failing the planet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
If we continue with capitalist business as usual, there will be disastrous consequences for humanity. Capitalism is in unavoidable conflict with environmental sustainability because of three key features that are inherent to the system.
- Weeks, John: For an easy win on carbon emissions - cut global trade!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
If the world's leaders really cared about climate change, there's one easy way to reduce emissions -- drop the obsession with increasing trade, and all the pollution that goes with it. A world based on local production, consumption and finance will be a better one for people and the environment.
- Weeks, John et al.: What is to be done with the banks? Radical proposals for radical changes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Nine years after the outbreak of the financial crisis that continues to produce damaging social effects through the austerity policies imposed on victim populations, it's time to take another look at the commitments that were made at that time by bankers, financiers, politicians and regulatory bodies. Those four players have failed fundamentally in the promises they made in the wake of the crisis – to moralise the banking system, separate commercial banks from investment banks, end exorbitant salaries and bonuses, and finally finance the real economy. We didn't believe those promises at the time, and for good reason.
- Wegemer, Chris: Letter to the Editors
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The argument for sweatshops comes not only from “free market” ideologues but sometimes from voices of establishment liberalism. An argument against.
- Wehrle, Cole: Public Universities in Peril
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
It's hare to imagine that only a year ago the privatization of a public university would emerge as a major political issue in Bloomington, Indiana. That is not to say the topic took the community by surprise. As early as 1994, the Indiana University’s Board of Trustees formed various tasks forces to evaluate the university’s potential for privatization.
- Wei Jingsheng: The Fifth Modernization
China's Spirit of Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Wei Jingsheng, a 28-year-old electrician, posted this on the “Democracy Wall” in Beijing in 1978.
- Weil, Janet: Gunman as Hero, Children as Targets, Iraq as Backdrop
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
American Sniper, directed by Clinton Eastwood about Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle,
is not only the latest blockbuster but also a war propaganda.
- Weil, Robert: Red Cat, White Cat
China and the Contradictions of 'Market Socialism'
Resource Type: Book
Begins by examining the tensions growing within "market socialism." Weil provides background on marketization, the class forces that produced it, and the polarization and social dislocation that it is generating.
- Weinberg, Martin S.; Williams, Colin J.; Pryor, Douglas W.: Dual Attraction
Understanding Bisexuality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
800 residents of San Francisco participated in interviews about the nature of bisexual attraction, and how sexual preference can change.
- Weinberg, Paul: Hassan Diab, trial in absentia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Hassan Diab's supporters are demanding that the government not put him through another unfair extradition hearing based on thin evidence.
- Weinberg, Paul: The Last Post Files: Fighting subversion or protecting the government from embarrassment?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The Last Post was one of the best alternative publications of the 1970s. While the small team of journalists was creating solid investigative journalism, the RCMP Security Service was keeping a close watch. One of its aims? Protect the government from embarrassment.
- Weinberg, Paul: Political activist Ken Stone takes CSIS to task for alleged harassment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
What is it like to be targeted by Canada's spy agency? Veteran anti-war and environmental activist Ken Stone knows firsthand and is willing to talk about it.
- Weinberg, Paul: The Praxis Affair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A cautionary story of what might happen if we return to the bad old days of the RCMP Security Service, which was caught disrupting and using dirty tricks against a wide range of unsuspecting groups before it was eventually disbanded.
- Weinberg, Paul: The Praxis Affair
There's a reason we put limits on spying within Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
This is a cautionary story of what might happen if we return to the bad old days of the RCMP Security Service, which was caught disrupting and using dirty tricks against a wide range of unsuspecting groups before it was eventually disbanded, its spying responsibilities handed to a newly formed Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
- Weinberg, Paul: Remembering the Committee of Concerned Canadian Jews and their fight for Palestinian rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Sometime in the summer of 1982, Jews in their 20s and 30s in Toronto, including myself, came out in droves to meetings of the new Committee of Concerned Canadian Jews (CCCJ). (Yes, our name was a bit awkward and wordy.)
- Weiner, Tim: Enemies
A History of the FBI
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012 Published: 2013
A history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations.
- Weiner, Tim: Growing Poverty Is Shrinking Mexico's Rain Forest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
The struggle for land has started to pit the Zapatista rebel movement against ecologists who want to save the remains of the forest. The Zapatistas declared war on Mexico's government nearly nine years ago over the poverty of peasants in Chiapas. Today the movement criticizes efforts to conserve the bioreserve as a "war of extermination against our indigenous communities."
- Weinrib, Laura: The Radical Roots of Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Interview with Laura Weinrib author of "The Taming of Free Speech: America's Civil Liberties Compromise."
- Weinroth, Michelle: Liberals' Neglect of Hassan Diab a Scar on Canada's History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An innocent Canadian citizen has been wrongly incarcerated by foreign powers and torn away from his family, but our country's leader seems unfazed.
- Weinroth, Michelle: UN's 1947 Partition Plan made Palestine a deal it had to refuse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Weinroth analyzes the reasons behind Palestinians' refusal of the Partition Plan, reasons that have been largely dismissed in favour of casting their actions in an unfavourable light and thereby justifying Israeli colonization.
- Weinstein, Allen; Gatell, Frank Otto; Sarasohn, David (eds.): American Negro Slavery (Third Edition)
A Modern Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1979
Incorporating significant and at times controversial literature on questions about the institution of slavery and the social and cultural response of the slaves to their enslavement, this collection offers thirteen readings, eight of them new to this edition.
- Weinstein, Harvey: Father, Son and CIA
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Weintraub, Laura S.: No Place Like Home
A Discussion Paper about Living and Working in Ontario's Long-Term Care Facilities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
- Weir, Alison: Against Our Better Judgement
How the U.S. was used to create Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
An account of how U.S. support enabled the creation of modern Israel, and of how U.S. politicians pushed this policy over the forceful objections of top diplomatic and military experts.
- Weir, Alison: Calling Bono
Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist ... in Graves and Prisons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Palestinians have been engaging in nonviolence for decades. The reality is that nonviolence is only as powerful as its visibility to the world.
- Weir, Alison: Christian Evangelicals Increasingly Support Palestinian Human Rights
David Brog, the Attorney Behind CUFI
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Support for Israel is eroding among American evangelical Christians, with only 30 percent in a recent survey stating support for Israel above Palestinians.
- Weir, Alison: Introduction to the Israel Lobby
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The Israel lobby is one of the most powerful and pervasive special interest groups in the United States. It consists of a multitude of powerful institutions and individuals that work to influence Congress, the president, academia, the media, religious institutions, and American public opinion on behalf of Israel.
- Weir, Alison: Israel's New Travel Ban
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Weir calls attention to the bizarre state of affairs in which the recent Israeli travel ban denying entry to anyone supporting Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment against Israel is denied entry to Palestine as well as Israel. What right does Israel have, asks Weir, to decide who may or may not visit Palestine?
- Weir, Alison: Shot in the Head
Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestinian Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In the past 10 years Israeli forces have killed at least 255 Palestinian minors by fire to the head, and the number may actually be greater, since in many instances the specific bodily location of the lethal trauma is unlisted. In addition, this statistic does not include the many more Palestinian youngsters shot in the head by Israeli soldiers who survived, in one form or another.
- Weir, Alison: Strip-Searching Children
Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Checkpoints
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for decades.
- Weir, Alison: The UN did NOT create Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
UN General Assembly Resolution 181, the Partition Plan, was a recommendation that was to go to the Security Council. The resolution requested that the Security Council take it up. This never happened, and the partition plan has no force of law. Israeli propagandists, however, perpetrated the myth that the UN created Israel, and this interpretation was then been repeated by numerous others.
- Weir, Alison: Which came first? Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Since US media are reporting the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza as though it is a defensive action, I thought I would set the record straight. Israeli forces shelled and invaded Gaza BEFORE the rockets began. Rockets were fired only after numerous Palestinians, including many children, had been killed.
- Weir, David; Schapiro, Mark: Circle of Poison: Pesticides and People in a Hungry World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
- Weir, Doug: Why Did the US Use Depleted Uranium Weapons in Syria?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The recent confirmation by the US that DU ammunition was used in two attacks in Syria in late 2015 raises a number of troubling questions. Firstly, why was DU used? Has it been used again? Will it be used again?
- Weir, Jean: Angry Brigade: Documents and Chronology, 1967-1984
Resource Type: Article
The eight libertarian militants on trial in the Old Bailey in 1972 who were chosen by the British State to be the 'conspirators' of the Angry Brigade, found themselves facing not only the class enemy with all its instruments of repression, but also the obtusity and incomprehension -- when not condemnation -- of the organised left.
- Weir, Stan: The Informal Work Group
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Stan Weir on some of his life experiences at work and what he saw as the "the only organizational form opposed to formal bureaucracies which cannot be captured by them", the informal work group.
- Weir, Stan: Just a Matter of Gloves
Resource Type: Article
An account of a work stoppage over the issue of gloves being supplied in a factory.
- Weir, Stan: Meetings with James Baldwin
Resource Type: Article
Stan Weir writes about his relationship with writer James Baldwin.
- Weir, Stan: The Oakland General Strike of 1946
Resource Type: Article
An account of the General Strike in Oakland, California.
- Weir, Stan: Rank and File Networks: A Way to Fight Concessions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Suggests rank and file networks to fight workplace closings and to circumvent the official unions.
- Weir, Stan: The Role of the Individual and the Group in the Creation of Work Cultures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Stan Weir compares wildcat strikes in Poland and San Diego and their basis in the 'informal work group'.
- Weir, Stan: Singlejack Solidarity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Gathered here for the first time, Weir's writings are equal parts memoir, labour history, and polemic; taken together, they document a crucial chapter in the life story of working-class America.
- Weir, Stan: Unions with Leaders Who Stay on the Job (a.k.a. Class War Lessons)
Resource Type: Article
Stan Weir writes about direct action and on-the-job union leadership as a merchant marine in the 1940s.
- Weisbrot, Mark: America Likes Democracy, Except In Venezuela
Chavez in the Crosshairs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Venezuelans can be sure that their vote counts. The government in Venezuela has done everything to increase voter registration and participation.
- Weisbrot, Mark: Beat off the vulture's swoop
The judge who took an economy hostage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Emerging economies need to issue their state bonds in financial centres where the law blocks vulture funds from profiting from financial woes. New York is off the list.
- Weisbrot, Mark: The Class Conflict in Venezuela
A Classic Struggle of Left v. Right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The current protests in Venezuela are reminiscent of another historical moment when street protests were used by right-wing politicians as a tactic to overthrow the elected government. It was December of 2002, and I was struck by the images on U.S. television of what was reported as a “general strike,” with shops closed and streets empty.
- Weisbrot, Mark: Obama Pushes for Regime Change in Venezuela
Once Again, South America Says No
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
When is it considered legitimate to try and overthrow a democratically-elected government? In Washington, the answer has always been simple: when the U.S. government says it is. Not surprisingly, that’s not the way Latin American governments generally see it.
- Weisman, Alan: The World Without Us
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
- Weiss, Kenneth R: Poisoned: A dying bald eagle and its healers fight for a second chance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Nearly three-quarters of the 22 lead-poisoned birds that had reached the Teton Raptor Center in recent years either died or were so far gone they had to be euthanized. But this eagle had so far survived what could have been a lethal dose.
- Weiss, Philip: Clinton lost because PA, WI, and MI have high casualty rates and saw her as pro-war, study says
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A new study appears to show that Hilary Clinton lost the battleground states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan in the 2016 presidential election because they had some of the highest casualty rates during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and voters there saw Clinton as the pro-war candidate.
- Weiss, Philip: In Hebron, a South African Compares Israeli Occupation to Apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Israelis have generally blinded themselves to the apartheid in the back yard because if they did acknowledge it they would have to do something. This complacent blindering recalls the American south during the civil rights movement, or the founding fathers during slavery.
- Weiss, Philip: Joyless in Zion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Israel is held in contempt by much of the western world, and Israelis know it even as they get down to the hard business of shooting border-crossers. The New York Times did a piece suggesting that Israelis have a conscience about the violence they poured forth at the Gaza border, and they hope that it was the right thing to do. But Gideon Levy says they have lost their conscience; and that was my impression too from interviewing Israeli Jews in West Jerusalem. I talked to 20 people. Every one expressed support for the killings. There was simply no dissent.
- Weiss, Philip: Michael Ratner's inspiring activist life culminated with dramatic change on Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Michael Ratner personally changed human rights law, and in doing so he let go childhood views of Israel. "I thought of [Israel] as the home of my people. I had my bedroom ceiling painted with the seven wonders of the world and a huge map of Israel. I had no idea how my view of Israel would change later in life."
- Weiss, Philip: Struggle for equal rights for Palestinians is 'right choice,' and will lead to 'significant exodus of Jews' - Henry Siegman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Everyone should read Henry Siegman's long piece in the National Interest on the "Implications of President Trump's Jerusalem Ploy." Siegman is a great leader because he has bucked the American and Jewish establishment, of which he is a member, to declare that the two-state solution is dead and buried. He is also a prophet inasmuch as he is counseling American Jewry to give up its attachment to Zionism as a dead letter, no different from a Christian state here, and so prepare itself for a future in which Israel is isolated as a pariah state and there is a "significant exodus of Israel’s Jews." His words are astounding because Siegman, a Holocaust survivor now in his late 80s, was himself a Zionist, and head of the World Jewish Congress. His bravery in renouncing the animating political faiths of his life-- it's inspiring.
- Weiss, Philip: 'Zionism is nationalism, not Judasim,' a former Hebrew school teacher explains
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Former Hebrew school teacher, Tziva Thier clarifies the distinction between Zionism as a political movement and Judaism as a religion, and explains why Israel's acts cannot be condoned by the religion.
- Weiss, Philip: Zionism's endgame has begun
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
All around us today we hear these blows falling on the central creed of Israel: the supposed right of a Jewish collective to national self-determination in a land populated by others.
- Weiss, Suzanne: Anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the Defense of Palestinian Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Weiss, Suzanne: Holocaust survivor - why I support Palestinian rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
For me, the Israeli government's actions toward the Palestinians awaken horrific memories of my family's experiences under Hitlerism: the inhuman walls, the check points, the daily humiliations, killings, diseases, the systematic deprivation. There's no escaping the fact that Israel has occupied the entire country of Palestine, and taken most of the land, while the Palestinians have been expelled, walled off, and deprived of human rights and human dignity.
- Weiss, Suzanne: How to really fight anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
- Weiss, Suzanne Berliner: Holocaust to Resistance
My journey
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
A memoir by Suzanne Berliner Weiss, a holocaust survivor born in France, who came to North America and was active in radical causes in the United States and Canada.
- Weissman, Susan: Economic Crisis & Fundamentalism
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Susan Weissman interviews John Daly.
- Weissman, Susan: The Ideas of Victor Serge
A Life as a Work of Art
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Victor Serge devoted his life and his brilliant pen to the revolution which for him knew no frontiers. An anarchist turned Bolshevik, he was unorthodox by nature, often a heretic but never a renegade. This important collection presents a still insufficiently known revolutionary figure through testimonials and essays on his literary praxis.
- Weissman, Susan: Interview with Gilbert Achcar
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
On the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Susan Weissman interviewed Gilbert Achcar for her program, "Beneath the Surface," on KPFK, Pacifica radio in Los Angeles. In the following excerpt, Achcar discusses the questions of immediate withdrawal and civil war in Iraq.
- Weissman, Susan: Kyrgyzstan After Akayev
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Kyrgyzstan’s March 2005 “Tulip Revolution,” if something less than really a revolution, resulted in its president, Askar Akayev, fleeing the country. Once hailed as the most democratic leader in the region, Akayev was overthrown by spontaneous demonstrations of a population angered by corruption, nepotism, economic despair and demoralization.
- Weissman, Susan: The Russian Revolution Revisited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION is dead. The last of its veterans and contemporaries are gone, and the working class of today has little or no connection to the revolutionary movements of the inter-war generation that were inspired by the Russian Revolution. Revolutionary leftists may still debate the "Russian Question," but the workers and students of the present have little idea what the quarrels are about.
- Weissman, Susan: Russia's Chechnya Syndrome
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
The near-genocidal war that Russia's Putin-Yeltsin government is waging in Chechnya is cynical on many counts. Some might compare it to U.S. efforts to end the “Vietnam syndrome” by engaging in small wars certain of victory without U.S. casualties.
- Weissman, Susan: Scamming Social Security
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Susan Weissman interviews Michael Hudson. Susan Weissman, an editor of Against the Current, interviewed author Michael Hudson this past April on her program “Beneath the Surface” on radio station KPFK, Pacifica in Los Angeles. Many thanks to Walter Tanner for transcribing. The following is an abridged and edited text of the interview.
- Weissman, Susan: Seattle: "What Democracy Looks Like"
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Susan Weissman interviews Dana Frank, Leone Hankey and Lisa Fithian. The explosive significance of the mobilization against the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle has altered the terms of the "free trade" debate. We present here brief edited excerpts from a discussion broadcast on KPFK-FM in Los Angeles, on the program "Beneath the Surface" hosted by Suzi Weissman, December 13, 1999.
- Weissman, Susan: South Africa After Marikana - Interview
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Suzi Weissman interviews Leonard Gentle.
- Weissman, Susan: Victor Serge: For Our Time
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Weissman, Susan: Vlady: ¡Presente!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
He belonged to a unique generation who saw clearly, fought tenaciously, but were defeated. Vlady was generous of spirit and intellect, an artist and a revolutionary to his core; he refused compromise yet socialized in wide circles of poets, politicians, writers, artists and dignitaries.
- Weissman, Suzi: Remembering a Revolutionary Artist: Vlady Presente!
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Vlady Kibalchich, born in Petrograd, Russia in June 1920, died on July 21, 2005 at home (in his studio) in Cuernavaca, Mexico after a difficult battle with cancer which began as a melanoma, but spread to his brain. He was 85.
- Weissman, Suzi: The Russian-Georgian Clash
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Interview with Ronald Grigor Suny.
- Weissman, Suzi: The Russian Revolution and Workers Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The Russian Revolution of February and October 1917 opened up a new historical epoch, and was greeted with enthusiasm by workers around the world.
- Weissman, Suzi: A Short History of Big Brother
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Interview with Christian Parenti.
- Weissman, Suzi: Surviving When the State Disappeared: Community vs. Katrina
Against The Current vol. 119
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Suzi Weissman interviews Mike Davis. Suzi Weissman interviewed author Mike Davis for her "Beneath the Surface" program on KPFK, Pacifica radio in Los Angeles. The discussion was transcribed by Alice Taylor and edited for publication.
- Weissman, Suzi: 25 Years After the Gdansk Uprising
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Suzi Weissman interviews David Ost. The occupation of the Gdansk shipyard by Polish workers in 1980, demanding recognition of their independent trade union Solidarnosc, rocked the Eastern bloc and inspired the world. A quarter century later, Communist rule is only a bad memory but the present realities for the Polish working class are a grim choice between neoliberalism and reactionary psedo-populism. The following interview with David Ost, conducted by Suzi Weissman November 28, 2005 for her radio program “Beneath the Surface” on KPFK in Los Angeles (90.7 FM), explores what’s happened to post-Solidarity Poland. It has been edited for publication here.
- Weissman, Suzi: What's the Matter with the System?
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Weissman, Suzi: Wilebaldo Solano As I Knew Him
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
I first met Wilebaldo Solano in Paris in 1997 after corresponding with him since the late 1980s. I had translated an article Wilebaldo wrote about Victor Serge and the POUM,(1) and finally meeting him was an inexplicably emotional occasion, a moment of warmth, solidarity and enthusiasm for us (Wilebaldo, his wife Maria Teresa and myself).
- Weissman, Suzi; Ahmed, Hisham: Palestine's Unfolding Horror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Weissman interviews Dr. Hisham Ahmed regarding the Israeli bombing of Gaza in 2014, its underlying causes, and possible impact on the political prospects for the future of Hamas and Israel.
- Weitz, Don: How Canada’s Prisons Killed Ashley Smith
A National Crime and Shame
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013 Published: 2014
- Weitz, Don: An Inside Look at Our Penal System
Review of Go-Boy! Memoirs of a Life Behind Bars, by Roger Caron
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
GO-BOY! can be read as a major social document which cries out for long–overdue prison reforms in Canada. It's a major contribution to prison literature and criminology. But GO-BOY!, like much concentration camp literature, can also be read and appreciated as a forceful witness to survival in hell. Caron has been there and come back to life whole, human and still fighting.
- Weitz, Don: Resistance Matters
The Radical Vision of an Antipsychiatry Activist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Don Weitz writes "Antipsychiatry organizing saved my life once, and has always given it meaning. This book is an invitation to join me and other psychiatric survivors (and our allies) in exposing psychiatry’s coercive, life-destroying practices and utter lack of scientific validity; and creating and promoting life-affirming alternatives."
- Weitz, Don; Diemer, Ulli: Don Weitz in conversation with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Activist Don Weitz interviewed by Ulli Diemer, December 8, 2016.
- Weizman, Eyal: The Hollow Land
Israel's Architecture of Occupation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Groundbreaking exposé of Israel's terrifying reconceptualization of geopolitics in the Occupied Territories and beyond.
- Weizman, Eyal and Sheikh, Fazal: The Conflict Shoreline
Colonization as Climate Change in the Negev Desert
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
The village of al-'Araqib has been destroyed and rebuilt more than seventy times in the "battle over the Negev," an ongoing Israeli state campaign to uproot the Bedouins from the northern threshold of the desert. Unlike other frontiers fought over during the Israel–Palestine conflict, however, this threshold is not demarcated by fences and walls but advances and recedes in response to cultivation, colonization, displacement, urbanization, and climate change.
- Weller, Ken: The BLSP dispute: the story of the strike
Resource Type: Article
A detailed account and analysis of an important strike at the British Light Steel Pressings plant against job cuts in 1961, which was undermined by the unions and eventually defeated.
- Weller, Ken: The Lordstown Struggle and the Real Crisis in Production
Solidarity Pamphlet 45
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
An attempt to document some important tendencies developing in the motor car industry but which are relevant to modern production as a whole.
- Weller, Nathan: Farmer Cooperatives, Not Monsanto, Supply El Salvador With Seeds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
In the face of overwhelming competition skewed by the rules of free trade, farmers in El Salvador have managed to beat the agricultural giants like Monsanto and Dupont to supply local corn seed to thousands of family farmers. Local seed has consistently outperformed the transnational product, and farmers helped develop El Salvador’s own domestic seed supply–all while outsmarting the heavy hand of free trade.
- Weller, Phil: Fresh Water Seas
Saving the Great Lakes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Weller takes readers on a tour of the Great Lakes region, tracing its natural history from the time before human habitation. He describes how the region has been affected by uncontrolled development to the point where it now contains one of the planet's most intensive concentrations of industrial and agricultural activity.
- Wells, Don: Soft Sell
Quality of Working Life Programs and the Productivity Race
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Quality of Working Life is a grab-bag of programs that promise workplace improvements and greater job satisfaction in exchange for increased productivity on the part of Canadian workers. But, says Don Wells, the promise of a new way to satisfy workers' needs has been proven false. Wells shows that QWL programs can present a direct, though carefully hidden, threat to the union movement.
- Wells, H.G.: A Modern Utopia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905
- Wells, H.G.: The Time Machine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1895
- Wells, Tom: The War Within
America's Battle over Vietnam
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
- Wellstone, Paul: How the Rural Poor Got Power: Narrative of a Grassroots Organizer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
The author's experiences as an activist in rural Minnesota.
- Welton, Michael: The Canadian Social Gospel: 1880-1960
What is the social gospel?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
What is the social gospel? It is an attempt to apply Christianity to the collective ills of an industrializing society, and was a major force in Canadian religious, social and political life from the 1880s to the 1960s.
- Welton, Michael: Capitalism is the West's Dominant Religion
Reflections on the Religion of the Market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Welton describes capitalism as the dominant religion in the West, where Economics is the new theology of this global religion of the market and consumerism its highest good.
- Welton, Michael: Communist Dictatorship in Our Midst
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A kind of undercurrent of thought about workplace democracy has bubbled beneath the surface of public discourse of our current "crisis of democracy." Beneath the surface: one can hardly identify any serious public discourse these days on the anti-democratic nature of most work under Neo-liberal conditions.
- Welton, Michael: Education in the Service of Assimilation: The Founding Vision of Residential Schools in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A look at some scholarly histories of residiential schools that put paid to Canada's kinder, gentler reputation.
- Welton, Michael: Information is Everywhere and Everywhere We are Ignorant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
An international survey of young people in the US and other countries asked 56 questions about geography and current events. The organization’s survey discovered that about 87% of Americans could not place Iraq on the map. Americans could find on average only seven of the 16 countries in the quiz. Only 71% of the surveyed Americans could locate the Pacific Ocean, the world’s largest body of water.
- Welton, Michael: That Couldn't Be True: Restorying and Reconciliation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
To achieve reconciliation with Indigenous people Canada must let go of the myth of itself as a benevolent force in the world.
- Welton, Michael: They Stripped Us of Our Clothes and Assigned Us a Number
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
How can one begin to excavate the horrors of a radical resocialization project (from roughly 1876 to 1986) to transform "savages" into "civilized" citizens? In turning First Nations societies upside down, the government and the churches ended up turning themselves upside down, evident in the spiritual and moral degradation of themselves and students under their care.
- Welton, Michael: Violet McNaughton: the Mighty Mite Reformer From Saskatchewan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Violet McNaughton deserves recognition as one of Canada's greatest and most formidable adult educators and co-operator of the twentieth century bar none
- Welzenbach, Chris: The Dreadful Chronology of Gaddafi's Murder
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Since 2003, Gaddafi had worked hard to repair his reputation for financing terrorism; his proposal for a trans-African banking system never reached fruition. Freedom and justice were never part of the West's agenda.
- Welzenbach, Chris: Force of Evil: Abraham Polonsky and Anti-Capitalist Noir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Policy lies at the heart of Abraham Polonsky’s Force of Evil, arguably the most anti-capitalist film ever to emerge from Hollywood. Released 70 years ago to puzzled critics and an indifferent public, over time it would achieve cult status among devotees of film noir while offering a tantalizing glimpse of what might have been accomplished by Polonsky and other members of the Hollywood Left had the blacklist not intervened.
- Wende, Hamilton: 'Our Auschwitz, our Dachau'
Reckoning with Germany's genocide in Namibia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
- Werner, Maximilian: Why (Mostly) Men Trophy Hunt: a Biocultural Explanation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A review of several studies offering insights into the biological basis of human behavior, specifically trophy hunting, and the biologically responsive strategies for changing it.
- Wesangula, Daniel: Kenyans Forced Off Tea Highlands By British Colonialists Seek Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Kericho -- One of hundreds of elderly Kenyans seeking to sue the British government for alleged displacement and torture by its colonial predecessor in 1934 to plant tea on their family land, in a case that could encourage other former colonies to press similar claims.
- West, Cornell: Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Coates represents the neoliberal wing of the black freedom struggle that sounds militant about white supremacy but renders black fightback invisible. This wing reaps the benefits of the neoliberal establishment that rewards silences on issues such as Wall Street greed or Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and people. The disagreement between Coates and me is clear: any analysis or vision of our world that omits the centrality of Wall Street power, US military policies, and the complex dynamics of class, gender, and sexuality in black America is too narrow and dangerously misleading. So it is with Ta-Nehisi Coates’ worldview.
- West, Jon: What Socialists Stand For
An introduction to resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
An introduction to socialism which tries to answer questons such as "Isn't it against human nature? Won't it mean an end to democracy? Doesn't it only apply to poor countries?
- West, Mae: Mae West Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- West, Michael O.: The Targeting of Walter Rodney
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
On October 15, 1968 the government of Jamaica barred Walter Rodney from returning to the island. A lecturer at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Rodney had been out of the country attending a Black Power conference in Canada. The Guyanese-born Rodney was no stranger to Jamaica, having graduated from UWI in 1963. He returned to his alma mater as a faculty member at the beginning of 1968, after doing graduate studies in England and working briefly in Tanzania.
- West, Michelle: The No-Bull Guide To Getting Published and making it as a writer
Everything you need to know to break into and prosper in this exciting and lucrative field
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
A guide to making it as a freelance writer.
- West, Sarah Myers: Research Shows Internet Shutdowns and State Violence Go Hand in Hand in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
When an oppressive regime blocks Internet access during social unrest, violence usually follows. This is a pattern that has become famous with the Arab Spring but is the violence that follows a response to the repression of free speech? Or is the repression of free speech a means to another end? New research suggests the latter. Using Syria as a case study, it seems that governments blackout the Internet as a means for security forces to gain some tactical advantage when they violently engage protesters.
- West, W. Gordon and Ruth Morris, eds.: The Case for Penal Abolition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
A collection of essays on various aspects of the penal abolition movement and its arguments.
- West, W.J. [ed.]: Orwell
The War Broadcasts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
- Westberg, Gunnar: Close Calls: We Were Much Closer to Nuclear Annihilation Than We Ever Knew
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The proposition that nuclear weapons can be retained in perpetuity and never used -- accidentally or by decision -- defies credibility. This unanimous statement was published by the Canberra Commission in 1996. Among the commission members were internationally known former ministers of defense and of foreign affairs and generals.
- Westbrook, Stephanie: A Concerted Effort From Europe Against Israeli Produce Exporter Agrexco
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In Montpellier, France, over 100 activists from 9 countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco. Delegates from Italy, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Palestine joined the French organizers for two full days of workshops aimed at strengthening the boycott campaign against the Israeli agricultural export giant.
- Westen, Van Dirk: No Unity of the Police and the Community is Possible or Desirable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
After the police murders of Alton Sterling, 37, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile, 32, of St. Paul, Minnesota, we are asked to embrace the police, to form a partnership, to work together. From President Barack Obama on down, Democratic and Republican party politicians have called upon the police and communities to unite to solve our common problems.
- Westmaas, Nigel: Revolutionary Centennial: Guyana's 1905 Rebellion
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
1905 was a landmark year in the history of Guyana, as it was for several places around the world. In Russia, the Tsar and his troops shot workers delivering a petition in St. Petersburg. In Bengal there were communal shootings; in South West Africa the German massacre of the Herero people was in full progress.
- Westmoreland, John: The Dignity of Chartism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Dorothy Thompson's writing on Chartism showed early working-class politics as it really was, a real challenge to the ruling class of the time, says John Westmoreland.
- Weston, Anthony: How to Re-Imagine the World
A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
A conceptual toolbox for imagining and initiating radical social change.
- Weston, Joe (ed.): Red and Green
The New Politics of the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
In order for green politics to work, we need to develop a total policy for the environment, a social policy which views capitalist industry as the destroyer of the world we live in.
- Wetzel, Tom: The Capitalist City or the Self-Managed City?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
The opposite of gentrification should not be decay and abandonment but the democratization of housing. Community land trusts may be a way of working towards this goal.
- Wetzel, Tom: The Case Against the Auto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
The issue of transportation cannot be separated from how communities are organized. The way in which worksites and residences are laid out on the earth’s surface presupposes a means of getting around.
- Wetzel, Tom: Debate with the International Socialist Organization Continued
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2010
From a libertarian socialist point of view, the "self-emancipation of the working class" can't happen unless the working class builds organized mass movements that they control, such as labor organizations. This is the fundamental basis of syndicalism as a revolutionary strategy.
- Wetzel, Tom: From Self-managed Solidarity Unionism to a Self-managed Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Capitalism is built on various forms of oppression and structural inequality. But the subordination and exploitation of the working class remains at the heart of the system. A liberatory program and strategy for a remake of society needs to explain how workers can escape the class cage.
- Wetzel, Tom: From the right-wing to the revolutionary left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Tom Wetzel answers the question 'How were you radicalized?'.
- Wetzel, Tom: Gramsci & Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article
In a polemic against the syndicalists, Antonio Gramsci argued that the syndicalists were wrong in maintaining that unions were capable of being organs of workers' revolution. He said this confused a marketing organization of labor within capitalism -- the trade unions -- with an organization for running production in a socialized economy -- the workers councils. Because the function of a union is to affect the terms and conditions of the sale of labor to the employers, he argued, it is an organization specific to a capitalist society.
- Wetzel, Tom: The Hidden Costs of the New Economy
A Study of the Northeast Mission Industrial Zone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Wetzel, Tom: The Italian Factory Occupations of 1920
When 600,000 workers seized control of their workplaces
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
During the month of September, 1920, a widespread occupation of Italian factories by their workforces took place, which originated in the auto factories, steel mills and machine tool plants of the metal sector but spread out into many other industries: cotton mills and hosiery firms, lignite mines, tire factories, breweries and distilleries, and steamships and warehouses in the port towns. But this was not a sit-down strike; the workers continued production with their own in-plant organization. And railway workers, in open defiance of the management of the state-owned railways, shunted freight cars between the factories to enable production to continue. At its height about 600,000 workers were involved.
- Wetzel, Tom: Learning from Vienna
Resource Type: Article
The city housing program was the work of the Vienna social-democratic movement, based on the city's unions. At the end of World War I, Vienna had lost direct access to its markets in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Because Austria now had to export to the world market, the Austrian unions faced a difficult task if they tried to raise wages to enable workers to afford high rents. Faced with becoming uncompetitive, Austrian employers would put up a stiff fight and some might go bankrupt. This led the social-democrats to develop a strategy for improving workers' standard of living by lowering rents.
- Wetzel, Tom: Mussolini & Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article
Mussolini succeeded in persuading thousands of syndicalists including the main leaders of the syndicalist movement to support Italy's entry into the First World War. A majority of syndicalists, however, opposed the war.
- Wetzel, Tom: On Imperialist Barbarism & the Need for World Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Four articles in Ideas & Action #16 (Fall 1991):
1. The Destruction of Iraq: Why?
2. The Rise and Decline of the American Empire
3. Every Nation-State is Imperialist by Nature
4. For National Autonomy within a World-wide Democracy
- Wetzel, Tom: On Organization
Resource Type: Pamphlet
Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
- Wetzel, Tom: Organizing Around Transit: At the Intersection of Environmental Justice and Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
For the older big cities in North America, public transit is critical to their daily functioning. Organizing among workers and riders on public transit has a strategic importance.
- Wetzel, Tom: The Origins of the Union Shop
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986 Published: 1989
Though the typical union contract nowadays contains some sort of union shop provision, union membership was voluntary under almost all CIO contracts prior to 1942. The dues "check off" was virtually unknown in the late '30s and dues were collected on the shop floor by shop stewards and committeemen.
- Wetzel, Tom: Review: International Socialist Review on "Contemporary Anarchism"
Resource Type: Pamphlet
The word "anarchism" is a rather vague word that covers such a wide variety of political views and approaches it is often hard to see how they have anything in common. This means it is also probably not very productive to produce "critiques" of anarchism that lump the many different viewpoints together.
- Wetzel, Tom: San Francisco Transit Fight
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
- Wetzel, Tom: A Self-management Approach to Housing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Community land trusts (CLTs) have been formed in a number of communities in the USA in response to either disinvestment or gentrification. The CLT acquires land to take it permanently off the market and make it available for the use of the community. As a democratic organization, the CLT is intended to empower the community in determining what is done with land in that area. The CLT may rehab existing buildings, build new houses or apartment buildings, or do other types of development work.
- Wetzel, Tom: Small Is Not Beautiful: Life at the Bay Guardian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
- Wetzel, Tom: Social Anarchism, Individualist Anarchism, the State and Leninism
A Reply to the International Socialist Organization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
I take it that social or Left-anarchism and libertarian socialism are the same thing. Both stand opposed to Leninism, and both stand opposed to individualist anarchism.
- Wetzel, Tom: Talk on Anarchism and Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Wetzel, Tom: Venezuela from Below
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
A review of Venezuela: Revolution as Spectacle by Rafael Uzcategui
- Wetzel, Tom: What is anarcho-syndicalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Libertarian syndicalism interprets liberty as self-management or control over one's life, and believes that freedom for the working class requires the elimination of working class subordination to capitalist or state bosses.
- Wetzel, Tom: What is gentrification?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Both gentrification and disinvestment are processes made up of the activities of certain kinds of social agents or institutions. Landlords, developers, and banks all play key roles. To understand how both decay and gentrification of urban neighborhoods happen, we need to look at the dynamics of capital flows into and out of the built environment.
- Wetzel, Tom: Why Consensus Decision-making Won't Work for Grassroots Unionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Wetzel contrasts consensus decision-making with democratic decision-making to explain why the latter is more suited to activist groups.
- Wetzel, Tom: Workers' Liberation and Institutions of Self-management
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Power can't be "abolished" any more than gravity can be. Rather, building a self-managing society means a shift from hierarchical structures that concentrate power at the top to new structures through which the mass of the people collectively exercise the power to control their work and the society as a whole.
- Wetzel, Tom: Workers Power and the Russian Revolution
A review of Maurice Brinton's For Workers Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
- Wetzel, Tom: Workers Power and the Spanish Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987 Published: 2006
- Wetzel, Tom; Edwards, Jake: UFCW: Strategy of Appeasement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
- Wexler, Alice: Emma Goldman in Exile: From the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Volume 2 of a biography of Emma Goldman.
- Wexler, Alice: An Intimate Life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Volume 1 of a biography of Emma Goldman.
- Wexler, Emma: Emma Goldman in Exile
Resource Type: Book
The second and final volume of Wexler's life of Emma Goldman tells the story of her forced exile to Russia in 1919, the Spanich Civil War and finally her death in 1940 in Toronto. She became an eyewitness to the new Soviet state but had no qualms about airing her disagreements with their policies. Goldman would become dissolusioned with Lenin and Russia and ended up in political limbo-seen as pariah by the left and courted by the conservatives. The great triumph of the period was the brief time in Barcelona in 1936 when anarchism went from theory to reality. That moment however was fleeting as the communists defeated their leftist allies then themselves were destroyed by Franco. Goldman returned to North America a disappointed woman. As Wexler points however out she was one of the few who spoke out against the purges and massacres while others hid their cowardice behind cant.
- Weygman, Lorraine: Surviving and Thriving in a Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Surviving and thriving in a crisis means joining hands for support and sharing information clearly, effectively and with respect for the human condition. Remember, you're never alone in a crisis - it just feels that way.
- Weymouth, Adam: Redemption Road
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A four-month-long walk on an ancient pilgramage route offers young offenders a different pathway. Adam Weymouth reports on the slow healing of Oikoten.
- Whalan, Matthew Vernon; Finkelstein, Vernon: An Interview with Norman Finkelstein: "I'm Not Betraying the Legacy of My Parents in Order to Make Myself Palatable."
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Norman Finkelstein is among the leading scholars on the Israel-Palestine conflict in the United States. His work primarily focuses on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the Nazi Holocaust. For decades, he has advocated for a two state solution on the June 1967 borders, a "just solution to the refugee question," an end to the Israeli settlements in Palestine, the deconstruction of the border wall, the right to clean water, and an end to the occupation, the Gaza blockade, and the use of force against the Palestinians.
- Wharton, Billy: The Sun Behind The Clouds Gives A Voice To Tibetan Dissidents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam's The Sun Behind the Clouds is the latest offering in a long line of documentaries about Tibet. The distinctiveness of this edition derives from its willingness to portray the internal debates of the Tibetan movement and in the movie's attempts to give voice to Tibetans living in Tibet. These features moved the film from a typical propaganda piece about the oppression faced under the brutal grip of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to a serious examination of resistance strategies in Tibet and in its influential Diaspora.
- What's Left Editors: Has the meaning of "organizing" been forgotten?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Rising inequality, US anti-union laws crushing organized labour south of the boarder, and the slow unrelenting decline of union density here in Canada has renewed the focus on labour union organizing. The response from the leadership of the movement has been focused -- rightly -- on changes to law regulating labour unions that make it harder to organize. However, changing labour laws will not undo the slow decline in union density alone. Unions will also have to actually go out and talk to workers, sign them up, establish a local, bargain a first agreement, and enforce those terms.
- Wheeler, Ashley: Farmers join to save the seeds that feed us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Farmers and growers in south-west England have united to reclaim the lost skill of seed saving. They are determined to grow, develop, share and disseminate open-pollinated seeds, and oppose EU laws granting commercial plant breeders a legal monopoly on the seeds that sustain our lives.
- Wheen, Francis: Karl Marx
A Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
A biography of Karl Marx that shows the human side as well as the intellectual and political dimensions.
- Wheen, Francis: Marx and the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Francis Wheen's 1999 biography of Marx, from which this is extracted, painted a warts-and-all portrait which shatters all the romantic and orthodox-Marxist idealisations of the founder of modern communism, while leaving intact and perhaps clearer than ever, Marx’s essential humanist and critical insights into the trajectory of modernity.
- Wheldon, Anne: Solar heat - transforming rural enterprises around the tropics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Solar energy is not just about electricity. It's also about heat - and three innovative projects highlighted by the Ashden Awards are showing how solar heat can dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of food processing and farming, while helping agricultural businesses increase profits.
- Whitaker, Brian: Unspeakable Love
Gay amd Lesbian Life in the Middle East
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
- Whitaker, Cathy Seitz: Alternative Publications
A Guide to Directories, Indexes, Bibliographies and other Sources
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
A listing of bibliographies, indexes, review journals, directories and other sources about the alternative or small press world.
- Whitaker, Reg: Double Standard
The Secret History of Canadian Immigration
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
A focused examination of the right-wing political bias and dishonesty that has charecterized Canada's post-war immigration and refugee policies. Policies were profoundly influenced by the Cold War. The RCMP served as the chief screening instrument, relying heavily on the American-Counter Intelligence Corps which was cooperating closely with the Gehlen group staffed by ex-Nazis. While belonging to a Communist party was grounds for exclusion being an ex-Nazi as early as 1950 was no longer regarded as such. The acceptance of 60,000 "boat" people was applauded by Canadians because they were fleeing Communist opression but the efforts of a few thousand Central Americans were stymied by two repressive refugee bills because they were fleeing the "oppression of our side". Whitacker grants that Canada is a safe haven of peace and freedom but only to those who are ideologically correct.
- Whitaker, Reg: The End of Privacy
How Total Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Whitaker argues that we live in a surveillance society; in order to get rewards and privileges, we have to give up our personal privacy to the government and corporations.
- Whitaker, Reg: Political Protest
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Political protest is the kind of political activity, eg, demonstrations, strikes and even violence, usually but not always undertaken by those who lack access to the resources of organized pressure groups, or by those whose values conflict sharply with those of the dominant elite.
- Whitaker, Reg; Kealey, Gregory S.; Parnaby, Andrew: Secret Service
Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
A history of political policing in Canada.
- White, Ben: Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
A readable introduction to the history and practice of apartheid in Israel.
- White, Ben: Israeli torture of Palestinian children 'institutional'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Investigation of the practice of torture by Shin Bet interrogators, revealing the practice as systematic.
- White, Ben: Israel's atrocities in Gaza prompt unprecedented political fallout
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
"Carnage" in Gaza – "the killing of children and the slaughter of civilians". Not the words of a Palestinian spokesperson but rather French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. Australia's FM Julie Bishop condemned what she called "shocking" and "indefensible" incidents, with "hundreds of innocent people" killed.
- White, Ben: Shocked by Donald Trump's 'travel ban'? Israel has had a similar policy for decades
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Describing how President Trump's stances and policies on immigration, borders and torture draws heavily from existing policies and tactics of the Israeli state.
- White, Damien: Murray Bookchin's New Life
Whatever their limits, Murray Bookchin's ideas should be studied by today's left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Murray Bookchin spent fifty years articulating a new emancipatory project, one that would place ecology and the creative human subject at the centre of a new vision of socialism. Here is a thinker, who in the early sixties, declared climate change as one of the defining problems of the age. Bookchin saw the environmental crisis as capitalism's gravedigger.
- White, Harry: Anatomy of Censorship
Why the Censors have it Wrong
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Bringing together diverse disciplines such as literary and legal history, modern psychology and contemporary feminism, Anatomy of Censorship sorts out the many confusing explanations and often misleading justifications for censorship to reveal the underlying conditions and motivations that lead to the suppression of various forms of communication.
- White, Jerry: Former UAW vice president pleads guilty to conspiracy in bribery scheme
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Norwood Jewell, former vice president of the United Auto Workers pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to violate labor laws. There could be even higher ranking officials charged, highlighting the conflicting interests of union bosses vs workers.
- White, Jerry: Judge approves Detroit bankruptcy plan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The more than yearlong bankruptcy case in Detroit concluded Friday with a US judge sanctioning a savage restructuring plan for the city, which creates a new precedent for an assault on public workers throughout the United States.
- White, John K.: How Big is My Tribe? The Crisis in Catalonia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A look at recent divisive events in Catalonia, Britain and the US, proposing that we should really be concentrating more on important universal issues such as inequality, influence peddling, profit-only deregulation, and offshore tax havens.
- White, Philip: The Supermarket Tour
A Handbook for Education and Action
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1978 Published: 1990
A handbook for action on food issues in Canada which guides people through the store and gives summaries of many of the products on the shelves.
- Whitehead, Alfred North: Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Whitehead, John: The Attack On Civil Liberties In The Age Of COVID-19
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
You can always count on the government to take advantage of a crisis, legitimate or manufactured. This coronavirus pandemic is no exception.
- Whitehead, John: Freedom for the Speech We Hate: a Legal Guide to Your Protest Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A list of Constitutional questions and answers, including laws and guidelines for peaceful protesting, aimed at promoting the effectiveness of the First Amendment.
- Whitehead, John W.: Battlefield America: The War on the American People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Police forces across the United States have been transformed into extensions of the military. Towns and cities have become battlefields, and the American people are now the enemy combatants to be spied on, tracked, frisked, and searched. For those who resist, the consequences can be a one-way trip to jail, or even death. Battlefield America: The War on the American People is constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead's terrifying portrait of a nation at war with itself. In exchange for safe schools and lower crime rates, we have opened the doors to militarized police, zero tolerance policies in schools, and SWAT team raids.
- Whitehead, John W.: Comply or Die: the Police State's Answer to Free Speech Is Brute Force
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Forget everything you’ve ever been taught about free speech in America. It's all a lie.There can be no free speech for the citizenry when the government speaks in a language of force.
- Whitehead, John W.: Coronavirus vs. the Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses the Greater Threat?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Emboldened by the citizenry's inattention and willingness to tolerate its abuses, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expands its powers. The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on illegal immigration, asset forfeiture schemes, road safety schemes, school safety schemes, eminent domain: all of these programs started out as legitimate responses to pressing concerns and have since become weapons of compliance and control in the police state's hands.
- Whitehead, John W.: D is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
American government is much like show business: empty entertainment with smoke and mirrors hiding the string-pullers behind the scenes.
- Whitehead, John W.: Don't Call the Cops If You're Autistic, Deaf, Mentally Ill, Disabled or Old
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
When people entering the police service are trained to be military warriors instead of peace officers, tense situations involving some of our society's more vulnerable people will more likely end violently.
- Whitehead, John W.: The FBI: Silent Terror of the Fourth Reich
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Lately, there's been a lot of rhetoric comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. The concern is that a Nazi-type regime may be rising in America. That process, however, began a long time ago.
- Whitehead, John W.: How Evil Wins: the Hypocritical Double Standards of Political Outrage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The injustices carried out under Trump are not new and people who believe they are or that partisan politics will fix things are being fooled.
- Whitehead, John W.: Institutionalizing Intolerance: Bullies Win, Freedom Suffers When We Can't Agree to Disagree
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
As America has become ever more polarized, and those polarized factions have become more militant and less inclined to listen to -- or even allow for the existence of -- other viewpoints, we are fast becoming a nation of people who just can't get along. Here's the thing: if Americans don't learn how to get along--at the very least, agreeing to disagree and respecting each other's right to subscribe to beliefs and opinions that may be offensive, hateful, intolerant or merely different--then we're going to soon find that we have no rights whatsoever (to speak, assemble, agree, disagree, protest, opt in, opt out, or forge our own paths as individuals). In such an environment, when we can't agree to disagree, the bullies (on both sides) win and freedom suffers.
- Whitehead, John W.: Killer Instincts: When Police Become Judge, Jury and Executioner
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Those responsible for this policing crisis are none other than the police unions that are helping police officers evade accountability for wrongdoing; the police academies that are teaching police officers that their lives are more valuable than the lives of those they serve; a corporate military sector that is making a killing by selling military-grade weapons, equipment, technology and tactical training to domestic police agencies; a political establishment that is dependent on campaign support and funding from the powerful police unions; and a police state that is transforming police officers into extensions of the military in order to extend its reach and power.
- Whitehead, John W.: Lynching Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
In Charlottesville, as in so many parts of the country right now, the conflict is over how to reconcile the nation's checkered past, particularly as it relates to slavery, with the present need to sanitize the environment of anything -- words and images -- that might cause offense, especially if it's a Confederate flag or monument.
- Whitehead, John W.: The Militarized Police State Opens Fire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Police and government agents are often left out of the conversation on gun violence, despite being among the greatest purpotrators of gun violence in America.
- Whitehead, John W.: The People are Not the Enemy: Police Anarchy in America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
With alarming regularity unarmed American men, women, children and even pets are dying at the hands of police who are trained to shoot first and ask questions later, yet government seems to do little to resolve this crisis in policing.
- Whitehead, John W.: Policing for Profit: Jeff Sessions & Co.'s Thinly Veiled Plot to Rob Us Blind
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Commentary on 'policing for profit', or civil asset forfeiture, which allows police and prosecutors to seize property and sell it to help fund agency budgets.
- Whitehead, John W.: Say No to 'Hardening' the Schools with Zero Tolerance Policies and Gun-Toting Cops
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The last thing the school system needs is harsher penalties and armed guards which turn students into 'inmates'. Schools in the Unites States are already heavily policed, with School Resource Officers (SRO) funded by the Deptartment of Justice, and harsh penalties for kids as young as 4-5 years old.
- Whitehead, John W.: "Show Me Your Papers!" Roundups, Checkpoints and National ID Card
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
With the government empowered to carry out transportation checks to question people about their immigration status within a 100-mile border zone that wraps around the country, you're going to see a rise in these "show your papers" incidents. That's a problem.
- Whitehead, John W.: When Welfare Checks Turn Deadly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The disabled and mental ill encur growing risks and dangers when interacting with police as their actions are often interrupted as hostile or dangerous. Such misinterruption often result in a fatal encounter with law enforcement.
- Whitehead, John W.: Who Inflicts the Most Gun Violence in America? The U.S. Government and Its Police Force
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Statistical analyses of gun violence in America consistently fail to account for the number of victimes of police killings. The militization of policiing has led to a greater number of victims, particularly among young black men and the mentally ill.
- Whitehead, John W.: You Want a Picture of the Future? Imagine a Boot Stamping on Your Face
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The author explains why the dystopian future dreamed up by such authors as George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and Margaret Atwood has already arrived.
- Whitehead, John W.: Zombies R Us: the Walking Dead of the American Police State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The author examines zombies in American popular culture, and notably how zombies also embody the government's paranoia about citizenry as potential threats that need to be monitored and controlled.
- Whitehorn, Alan: Canadian Socialism
Essays on the CCF and the NDP
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Whitehorn, Alan: New Democratic Party
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A social democratic party and a member of the Socialist International.
- Whitehorn, Alan: Social Democracy
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Social democracy could be defined by its opposition not only to capitalism but also to communism. Social democrats are resolute in their defence of individual rights and constitutional methods, and in their repudiation of the Marxist concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
- Whitehorne, Ron: Defending Public Education in Philadelphia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Philadelphia has a proud tradition of struggle around its schools dating back to the civil rights and Black Power movements. The African American churches also played a critical role. But this alliance proved short lived. While education organizing groups, advocacy organizations and, less frequently, unions have sought to work together on some campaigns, there has been no effort to develop a shared strategy and organizational vehicle for realizing it.
- Whitford, Ben: Protect our sacred water!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The curse of Uranium has fallen once again on the Black Hills of South Dakota, ancestral home to the Lakota Indians - now fighting a massive mining project that threatens land, rivers and groundwater.
- Whitman, Elizabeth: In Home Gardens, Income and Food for Urban Poor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A slowly but steadily growing phenomenon in Jordan, urban agriculture has vast potential for reducing poverty and improving food security, and it has the added benefit of greening and cleaning up more rundown sections of cities.
- Whitman, James Q: Why the Nazis studied American race laws for inspiration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
On 5 June 1934, about a year and half after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of the Reich, the leading lawyers of Nazi Germany gathered at a meeting to plan what would become the Nuremberg Laws, the centrepiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi race regime. The meeting was an important one, and a stenographer was present to take down a verbatim transcript. That transcript reveals a startling fact: the meeting involved lengthy discussions of the law of the United States of America.
- Whitney Jr., W.T.: On the Warpath in Venezuela
Against the Bolivarian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Nicolas Maduro won Venezuela’s presidential election in April by a slim margin, a result still unrecognized by the U.S. government. Opposition demonstrations quickly spread, killing 13 people. Now his government faces municipal elections on December 8, and engineered social turmoil has returned.
- Whitney, Joel; Scheer, Robert: The CIA's 60-Year History of Fake News: How the Deep State Corrupted Many American Writers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
In this week's episode of "Scheer Intelligence," Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer interviews Joel Whitney, author and co-founder of Guernica magazine.Whitney's new book, "Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers," explores how the CIA influenced acclaimed writers and publications during the Cold War to produce subtly anti-communist material. During the interview, Scheer and Whitney discuss these manipulations and how the CIA controlled major news agencies and respected literary publications.
- Whitney, Mike: Afghanistan: the Smell of Defeat
Cut-and-Run Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The United States hasn’t liberated Afghanistan. It hasn’t rebuilt Afghanistan. It hasn’t removed the warlords from power, curtailed opium production, established strong democratic institutions, or improved life for ordinary working people. The US hasn’t achieved any of its strategic objectives.
- Whitney, Mike: Anthem Protestors Should Stop Mucking Around and Make Their Demands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The "anthem protests" have gone on for two years now, but so far the players have not presented a specific set of demands.Why? Do the players simply want to use Sunday football as a platform for raising awareness of racial injustice and police brutality or is there something else going on here?
- Whitney, Mike: Assad's Death Warrant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The war in Syria did not begin when the government of Bashar al Assad cracked down on the uprisings in the spring of 2011, but rather the war began in 2009, when Assad rejected a Qatari plan to transport gas from Qatar to the EU via Syria.
- Whitney, Mike: Beating Uncle Sam at His Own Game
The Skirmish in the Spratlys
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Washington has thrown down the gauntlet in the South China Sea. If Beijing wants to preserve its independence and surpass the US as the world's biggest economy, it's going to have to meet the challenge, prepare for a long struggle, and beat Uncle Sam at his own game. It won’t be easy, but it can be done.
- Whitney, Mike: The Biggest Heist in Human History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The only way stimulus can work is if its put where it’s needed. And we can now say with 100 percent certainty, that the Fed’s stimulus wasn’t put where it was needed which is why it hasn’t worked.
- Whitney, Mike: Can You Figure Out What This Chart Means?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The U.S. economy is in the throes of the lousiest recovery since World War 2. The so called monetary stimulus has failed to lift the economy out of the doldrums or produce the robust recovery that they promised. Instead, US gross domestic product, (GDP) has been plodding-along at an abysmal 2.2% since 2009, which is far below the 3.6% average of the prior 60 years.
- Whitney, Mike: Comey's Lies of Omission
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An examination of testimony by FBI Director James Comey, which pitted President Donald Trump against the powerful US foreign policy establishment that aims to punish the President for not being 'sufficienty hostile' to the Kremlin.
- Whitney, Mike: The Crisis in Ukraine Is Not About Ukraine. It's About Germany
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
- Whitney, Mike: The Fallujah Option for East Ukraine
The Real Reason Washington Feels Threatened by Moscow
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Washington needs a war in Ukraine to achieve its strategic objectives.
- Whitney, Mike: The Foreclosure-to-Rental Screwjob
Bernanke's Double-Whammy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The US government is preparing to bail out the banks once again.
- Whitney, Mike: How Putin Derailed the West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Whitney argues that Washington is involved in a grand project to remake the world in a way that better meets the needs of its elite constituents, the international banks and multinational corporations.
- Whitney, Mike: Is This Class Warfare?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Is there a conspiracy to keep wages from rising or is it just plain-old class warfare? Well, what do you know? Everywhere the global bank cartel has its tentacles, wages are either flatlining or drifting lower."Coincidence", you say? Not bloody likely, I say. There's either policy coordination between the various heads of state and their central banks or wealthy elites have secretly seized the levers of power and imposed their neoliberal dogma when no one was looking.
- Whitney, Mike: Liberals Beware: Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An examination of the dishonesty in the New York Times' efforts to undermine President Trump, and broader criticisms of other tactics used by the liberal establishment to the same end.
- Whitney, Mike: Markets Gone Mad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Until recently, stocks had been on a tear that pushed valuations into the stratosphere. Volatility stayed low because Bernanke's easy money and QE made investors more placid, serene and mellow. They ventured further out on the risk curve and took more chances because they were convinced that the Fed "had their back" and that there was nothing to worry about. Then things began to fall apart.
- Whitney, Mike: Obama's "We Got No Money" Rap
Why It Augurs a Sinister Banksters' End Game
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Obama is deliberately precipitating another crisis on the advise of his chief lieutenants. Summers and Geithner are steering the economy back into recession so they can implement the same austerity measures and "structural adjustment" programs which have been used throughout the developing world. It's "starve the beast" all over again. As the stimulus dries up, revenue-depleted states will be forced to auction off public lands, resources, parks and other assets to the highest bidder. The banksters and robber barons will feast on the country's treasures while the middle class is crushed by the freefalling dollar, lost home equity, and persistent high unemployment.
- Whitney, Mike: The Professor of Torture
Dershowitz for the Defense -- of Waterboarding
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Whitney exposes the hypocrisy of Alan Dershowitz, who claims to support civil liberties while advocating the use of torture. Dershowitz seems to believe that he should be considered a liberal because he says that prisoners should only be tortured by "nonlethal means, such as sterile needles, being inserted beneath the nails to cause excruciating pain wthout endangering life." Whitney characterizes this as "barbarism".
- Whitney, Mike: The Russian Hacking Story Continues to Unravel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An examination of the text from a recent report by an IBM executive, which disproves the claim that Russia interfered in the US elections or hacked the servers at the DNC.
- Whitney, Mike: Seth Rich, Craig Murray and the Sinister Stewards of the National Security State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Security leaks and the murder of a Democratic National Committee staff member.
- Whitney, Mike: The Strange Death of Hugo Chavez: an Interview with Eva Golinger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
I believe there is a very strong possibility that President Chavez was assassinated. There were notorious and documented assassination attempts against him throughout his presidency. Most notable was the April 11, 2002 coup d'etat, during which he was kidnapped and set to be assassinated had it not been for the unprecedented uprising of the Venezuelan people and loyal military forces that rescued him and returned him to power within 48 hours. I was able to find irrefutable evidence using the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), that the CIA and other US agencies were behind that coup and supported, financially, militarily and politically, those involved. Later on, there were other attempts against Chavez.
- Whitney, Mike: The U.S. Pushed North Korea to Build Nukes: Yes or No?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Washington's policy toward North Korea for the last 64 years entirely based on the assumption that you can persuade people to do what you want them to do through humiliation, intimidation and brute force.
- Whitney, Mike: Wall Street's Role in Narco-Trafficking
"Business is Booming"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Every major bank in the US has served as an active financial partner of the murderous drug cartels.
- Whitney, Mike: A Warning From the B.I.S.: the Calm Before the Storm?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is worried that recent ructions in the equities markets could be a sign that another financial crisis is brewing. In a sobering report titled "Uneasy calm gives way to turbulence" the BIS states grimly: "We may not be seeing isolated bolts from the blue but the signs of a gathering storm that has been building for a long time."
- Whitney, Mike: What the Media isn't Telling You About North Korea's Missile Tests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Here's what the media isn't telling you about North Korea's recent missile tests.
Last Monday, the DPRK fired a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan's Hokkaido Island. The missile landed in the waters beyond the island harming neither people nor property.The media immediately condemned the test as a "bold and provocative act"
- Whitney, W. T.: As Pandemic Rages, US Economic Sanctions Against Cuba are Deadly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
We know that for almost 60 years the U.S. government has blockaded Cuba and, in the process, has damaged Cuba's economy and threatened the health and safety of the Cuban people.
- Whitney, W. T.: The Burning of Highlander Center: a Fascist-like Attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The Highlander Research and Education Center was burned to the ground in New Market, Tennessee in an act of arson by the white power movement.
- Whitney, W. T.: How Capitalist Globalization Forecloses on Health Systems
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Discussion of the multi-author collection "Health Care under the Knife." The book criticizes many aspects of medicine under capitalism but falls short of promoting radical alternatives.
- Whitney, W.T.: UN General Assembly in One Voice (Almost) Rejects U.S. Cuban Blockade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The United Nations General Assembly on October 27, 2015 voted on a Cuban resolution calling for "an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba." Approval was all but unanimous: 191 nations voted in favour and two voted against, the United States and Israel. There were no abstentions for the first time since the voting on the resolution began in 1992.
- Whitney, W.T.: U.S. Imperialists Deprive Cuba of Syringes That Are Needed Now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Cuba, the first Latin America country to develop its own COVID-19 vaccines, presently is short of syringes for immunizing its population against the virus. It’s not feasible for Cuba to make its own syringes. The U.S. blockade prevents Cuba from importing them from abroad.
- Whitney, W.T. Jr.: Slavery, Cotton and Imperialism
When Slave-Owners, Tied to a Globalized Economy, Turned to Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Whitney reviews River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom by Walter Johnson, on cotton production and slave ownership in the Mississippi River Valley prior to the U.S. Civil War.
- Whittaker, Shaun: Forward to a mass workers' party in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The conference of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), held in December 2013, was indisputably a momentous occasion in the struggle in South Africa. It epitomizes an extraordinary separation not only from the African National Congress (ANC), the oldest organisation of conservative ‘black’ nationalism, but also from the South African Communist Party (SACP), one of the last so-called communist parties from the Soviet era.
- Whittaker, Tom: A People's History of the German Revolution 1918-19 - book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
William Pelz’s People’s History of the German Revolution is a vivid and accessible introduction to socialism's greatest lost revolution.
- Whyman, Ritch: In the Aftermath of the G20: Reflections on Strategy, Tactics and Militancy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The tactics of the Black Bloc make it clear that, for them, it is more important to smash windows than to try and march with thousands of workers and engage them in arguments about how to move struggles forward or that the problem is capitalism. How radical is it to trash a few windows? For us, radical is about workers gaining confidence and consciousness to fight back, not just at work, but in solidarity with others. Radical is about developing a sense of mass power, organising based on moving others into struggle, winning others to challenge the power in their workplace or community collectively, beyond the individualization of our society. Radical is about going to the roots of the system - not trashing its symbols.
- Whyman, Ritch; Whitney, Shawn: The NDP: Can it make a difference?
A marxist analysis
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1997
How is it possible that the NDP, the only party which is not funded by big business, has been unable to capitalize on the anger amongst ordinary people? This pamphlet examines the roots of the collapse of the NDP and why it has been so slow to recover.
- Whyte, Christina: Christopher's Movie Matinee
A Review by Christina Whyte
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Seventeen year old Point Blank School student Christina Whyte reviews the National Film Board production "Christopher's Movie Matinee". Whyte screened the film at Point Blank and Everdale Schools and provides excerpts of the students' reactions.
- Wichert, Susanne: Keeping the Peace
Practicing Co-operation and Conflict Resolution with Preschoolers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Wicked Messengers: Away With the Murder of the Body
Resource Type: Pamphlet
An illustrated pamphlet whose text is "an unauthorised transformation of a section from 'Trois Milliards de Pervers: Grande Encyclopedia des Homosexualites' by Recherches".
- Wickens, Jim; Paraic O'Brien, Paraic: Romania - a Peasants' Revolt against Fracking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Earthquakes and poisoned wells are setting off a revolt against fracking in Romania, revealing deep fault lines between the rural heartlands and the urban political elite.
- Wicker, Tom: A Time to Die
The Attica Prison Revolt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975 Published: 2011
A first-hand account of the Attica prison riot of 1971.
- Wickrematunge, Lasantha: And Then They Came For Me
Final Words from Lasantha Wickrematunge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
An editorial by Lasantha Wickrematunge shortly before he was murdered on January 8, 2009, and published three days after his death.
- Widgery, David: Some Lives
A GP's East End
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
The author, a Marxist and a doctor, writes about the patients he treated in Canary Wharf - a community in East London plagued by poverty and crime.
- Wiebe, Sarah Marie: Everyday Exposure
Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada's Chemical Valley
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Surrounded by Canada's densest concentration of chemical manufacturing plants, members of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation have expressed concern about a declining male birth rate and high incidences of miscarriage, asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular illness. Everyday Exposure uncovers the systemic injustices they face as they fight for environmental justice.
- Wieder, Alan: Studs Terkel
Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Drawing from over one hundred interviews of people who knew and worked with Studs, Alan Wieder creates a multi-dimensional portrait of a run-of-the-mill guy from Chicago who, in public life, became an acclaimed author and raconteur, while managing, in his private life, to remain a mensch.
- Wieditz, Thorben: Waterfront Toronto: Google's de facto Development Arm in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Big tech’s smart city initiatives aim at taking over governance and decision-making functions in cities around the world.
- Wien, Fred; Williams, Rick (eds.): Contested Waters
The Struggle for Rights and Reconciliation in the Atlantic Fishery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2023
- Wiggins, Cynthia: Canada Post: Profits Before People
Resource Type: Article
- Wiggins, Cynthia: It's tough at the top
So THAT's Why They Can't Afford a Decent Wage Increase...
Resource Type: Article
Top CEOs struggle to get by.
- Wight, John: Breaking Yugoslavia: How the US Used NATO as Its Battering Ram
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The United States used NATO to break up the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- Wight, John: London Terror Attack: It's Time to Confront Wahhabism and Saudi Arabia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
In the UK people are dealing with the aftermath of yet another terrorist attack in which innocent civilians were butchered and injured, this time in London. It is time for an honest conversation about Wahhabism, specifically the part this Saudi-sponsored ideology plays in radicalizing young Muslims both across the Arab and Muslim world and in the West.
- Wight, John: Why Sitting Bull was right about Washington's lack of integrity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
That integrity is a foreign land where Washington is concerned is an inarguable fact. In the latest example, the failure to complete the construction of a nuclear disposal plant agreed with Russia once again leaves Washington's credibility in tatters.
- Wijkman, Anders; Timberlake, Lloyd: Natural Disasters
Acts of God or Acts of Man?
Resource Type: Book
The authors argue that natural disasters are not so natural. Surveying the rising damage caused around the world by floods, draught, cyclones, earthquakes and tidal waves, they conclude that these events are "disaster triggers," magnified by the three major contributors to disasters in the Third World: poverty, environmental degradation, and rapid population growth. This book offers new directions and planning for a more sustainable world community.
- Wilbert, Max: How to Organize
15 Key Points
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
I would like to share with you this list of points on organizing. I'm by no means an expert organizer, but I have gained some experience in the past decade. This list is not definitive or faultless. If you think I got it wrong, or if you have more points to add, let me know.
- Wilbur, Tom; Lembke, Jerry: Dissenting POWs: From Vietnam's Hao Lo Prison to America Today
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
A fresh look at the how US troops played a part in the resistance of US troops to the American war in Vietnam.
- Wilce, Rebekah: Poison Papers Snapshot: HOJO Transcript Illustrates EPA Collusion With Chemical Industry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A commentary on the "Poison papers", chemical industry and regulatory agency documents and correspondence stretching back decades, which shed light on what was known about chemical toxicity and practices in the often-incriminating words of the participants themselves, and which still have implications for us today.
- Wilcox, Alana; Palassio, Christina; Dovercourt, Jonny: GreenTOpia
Towards A Sustainable Toronto, uTOpia Volume Three
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
The third volume of the uTOpia series features a collection of essays that look at innovative and imaginative ways to promote sustainability in Toronto. Also included is a directory of resources, organizations, incentives and programs in and around the GTA.
- Wilde, Alan: Defeat of Reconstruction and the Betrayal of Black Freedom Part One
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Reconstruction was a tumultuous, brief and extraordinary period of American history defined by an unprecedented experiment in interracial democracy. It was an era of exceptional developments, all taking place simultaneously and impacting one another.
- Wilde, Alan: Defeat of Reconstruction and the Betrayal of Black Freedom Part Two
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
During Reconstruction, black people fought to assert their American-ness. Throughout the South, it was blacks and their allies who would march, parade and celebrate the Fourth of July, but not out of gross and vulgar American patriotism. Rather, it was part of a struggle to uphold the ideals of freedom and liberty that came with the Civil War and the promise of equality that came with Reconstruction.
- Wilde, Allan: The Nat Turner Rebellion and the Fight Against Slavery - Part One
Black History and the Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
In 1831, American slaveowners learned what it means to have the fear of God put into them. In August of that year, an insurrection was launched by rebel slaves led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia. Before their suppression, the rebels killed up to 60 whites in the course of a few days -- the highest number to die in a slave uprising in the U.S. It was the unmistakable justice and vengeance of revolutionary terror. And it was met with the reactionary terror of the slaveowners.
- Wilde, Lawrence: 'The creatures, too, must become free': Marx and the Animal/Human Distinction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
It has been claimed that Marx lacked respect for animals, thinking of them as inferior beings. Lawrence Wilde argues that, on the contrary, Marx had a respectful attitude towards animals and non-human nature in general. Marx’s attitude to the non-human is intrinsic to his humanistic outlook, grounded in an understanding of the human essence, for which maltreatment of animals is contrary to a communistic vision. Wilde approaches the question of Marx’s attitude to animals and nature within the wider context of Marx’s ethics.
- Wilde, Oscar: Cold as Ice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
An excerpt from a letter written in 1897 to the editor of the British newspaper the 'Daily Chronicle'. The letter is included in "The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde", published by Harvard University Press. The letter is an appeal and commentary on the harsh and cruel treatment of children being held in English prisons.
- Wilde, Oscar: The Soul of Man under Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1891
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
- Wilde, Oscar: Oscar Wilde Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Wildeman, Jeremy: Charting a New Path for Canadian Engagement with the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Canada is criticized today for not having a coherent Middle East policy that adequately reflects the realities of the region or defines a long-term strategy to protect and advance its interests in this part of the world. This article offers recommendations on how to address such a deficit by first reviewing Canada's historical engagement with the Middle East, particularly its effective role in influencing regional events during the Cold War and in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union.
- Wildeman, Jeremy: Harper government silences pain of Gazan children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
This past summer Israel's advanced military bombarded the tiny, impoverished and overpopulated Gaza Strip for a third time in six years...Nowhere was safe as schools, hospitals and mosques were targeted...Ignoring pleas from hospitals, health-care workers, the Ontario government and a petition by over 40,000 Canadians, his government refuses to grant the 100 visas Dr. Abuelaish needs.
- Wildeman, Jeremy: How Canada could use the Saudi quarrel to help the Middle East - and itself
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Saudi Arabia's overreaction to Canadian criticism on human rights provides an opportunity for Canada to rethink Middle East policy. Such a policy, based on universal human rights, would greatly benefit not just Saudi Arabians but those in the broader Middle East, and also Canada.
- Wildeman, Jeremy: Undermining the Democratic Process: The Canadian Government Suppression of Palestinian Development Aid Projects
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
This paper examines the government suppression of Canadian development sector organisations running Palestinian aid projects from 2001 to 2012; based on document analysis, policy analysis and original interviews with coordinators running aid projects, it describes how their work was almost universally undermined by the Canadian government.
- Wildeman, Jeremy: Why aid projects in Palestine are doomed to fail
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
So long as aid in Palestine remains detached from the everyday realities of occupation and operates on the aggressor’s terms, it will continue to be ineffective.
- Wildeman, Jeremy; Ayyash, M. Muhannad (eds.): Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2023
An exploration of Canada-Palestine relations through a settler colonial perspective. The authors argue that there are direct parallels between Canada's settler colonial project and its support for the Israeli settler colonial dispossession of Palestinians.
- Wildeman, Jeremy; Badarin, Emile: How the EU's principled pragmatism sows strife in the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at how the European Union is creating greater instability, distrust, and casualties like Jamal Khashoggi, by trading fundamental values such as human rights for more practical avenues coined as "principled pragmatism".
- Wildeman, Jeremy; Mazzoleni, Matteo: Giving a Voice to Local NGOs in a Flawed Global Aid Environment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Driven by wealthy donor countries, the global aid environment is flawed and unbalanced, and evidence suggests it is taking advantage of the regions they are supposed to be helping.
- Wilford, Allen: Farm Gate Defence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Describes how farmers have been driven to come together to defend their farms in the face of high interest rates, mounting production costs and low prices.
- Wilford, Hugh: The Mighty Wurlitzer
How the CIA Played America
Resource Type: Book
Wilford's illuminating book reveals a largely unknown history of the CIA during the Cold War. Using the Soviet Union's technique of "front organizations" the agency spent millions creating organizations with names such as the Congress for Cultural Freedom, or the Free Trade Union Committee. Few people in the groups, the artists and writers suspected that the CIA were meeting with their leaders and paying their bills. His book is a systematic look at the agency from the 1940's to the investigative report in Rampart's Magazine 20 years later that explained their cultural offensive. With wit he also describes that few of the fronts behaved as the agency desired and that they couldn't "play" the opinionated citizens raised on the First Amendment. They were not like a disciplined Stalinist cadre.
- Wilkerson, Isabel: The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Wilkerson chronicles the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of the United States.
- Wilkerson, Richard: The Impact of Inequality
How to Make Sick Societies Better
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
- Wilkerson, Travis: An Injury to One
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2002 Published: 2003
AN INJURY TO ONE provides a corrective -- and absolutely compelling -- glimpse of a particularly volatile moment in early 20th century American labour history: the rise and fall of Butte, Montana. Specifically, it chronicles the mysterious death of Wobbly organizer Frank Little, a story whose grisly details have taken on a legendary status in the state.
- Wilkerson, Travis (director): An Injury to One
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2002
Documentarian Travis Wilkerson reconstructs the story of his hometown of Butte, Montana. After a brief period as a gold rush town, Butte comes of age during the 1880s, when its vast reserves of copper are discovered by the nascent electricity industry, which is dependent on the mineral. The town's resources are soon monopolized by the Anaconda Mining Company. In 1917, union organizer Frank Little comes to town to organize worker resistance against the business -- which fights back violently.
- Wilkins, Bret: A Brief History of American Torture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The recent appointment of Gina Haspel as Head of the CIA reopens a dark chapter in US history -- the "enhanced interrogation", or torture of men, women and children. It also emphasizes the fact that no American officials who sanctioned, devised, supervised or implemented torture have ever been brought to justice for these crimes against humanity.
- Wilkins, Brett: AIPAC's Dark Money Arm Unleashes $100 Million
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
Amid Israel's assault on Gaza and intensifying repression in the West Bank, AIPAC is showing zero tolerance for even the mildest criticism of Israel during the 2024 U.S. elections.
- Wilkins, Brett: A Brief History of US Concentration Camps
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
An overview of ethnic cleansing and civilian concentration camps in the US starting with the Trail of Tears.
- Wilkins, Brett: Killing for Credibility: A Look Back at the 1999 NATO Air War on Serbia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A detailed look back at NATO's 1999 war on Yugoslavia.
- Wilkinson, Charles: Peace Out
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
Charles Wilkinson explores the costs of damming, fracking, and extracting, and how they implicate every gas tank and light switch in this country.
- Wilkinson, T.P.: Journalism and Pornography
Real crime is always organised
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
As long as we cannot name something that is bothering us, we have an enormous if not insurmountable impediment to action. The capacity for titillation, for erotic stimulation even with simultaneous pain, is enhanced by suspension of belief or cognition. This is what pornography does and it is also the function of compatible journalism.
- Wilkinson, T.P.: The State as Protection Racket
Chapters in the History of Daylight Robbery
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2010
The debate about the current global economic "crisis" is obscenely counterintuitive and illogical to the point of incoherence. Who is willing to 'follow the money"? This dictum appears utterly forgotten, despite recurring astronomic fraud perpetrated by US corporations.
- Wilkinson, T.P.: Trustworthy, loyal, obedient, clean and reverent...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of 'The Hotel Tacloban' by Douglas Valentine.
- Will: The Rise of the Fast Food Worker
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
- Will-Harris, Daniel: Desktop Publishing with Style
A complete guide to design techniques and new technology for the IBM PC and Compatibles
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- Willcocks, Paul: Who, or What, Is Behind Postmedia's Election Endorsements?
When hedge funds own newspapers, it's difficult to know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Did thoughtful editors at Postmedia's daily newspapers across Canada consider the needs of their communities and then unanimously decide to endorse the Conservatives in election editorials?
- William Domhoff, G: The Higher Circles
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
- Williams, Amie: We Are Wisconsin
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
When a Republican Governor’s bill threatens to wipe away worker rights and lock out public debate, six (extra)ordinary citizens join the growing protest at the Wisconsin State Capitol, and spend the next twenty-six days building a movement that not only challenges the bill, but the soul of a nation.
- Williams, Carol J.: Framing the West
Race, Gender and the Photographic Frontier in the Pacific Northwest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Examines a wide range of photographic forms and the purposes to which they were put.
- Williams, Charles: Capitalism as Robbery
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Review of Peter Linebaugh's 'The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance."
- Williams, Charles: Introduction to When the UAW Was Young
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
- Williams, Charles: The Making of Jericho Road
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
- Williams, Chris: Are there too many people?
Population, hunger, and environmental degradation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
A number of liberal writers and publications have raised the specter of growing population as an unpleasant yet necessary topic of conversation.
- Williams, Chris: Ecology and Socialism
Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
The current environmental movement is at an impasse, stuck on false panaceas like cap-and-trade, cutting individual consumption (“live other so that others may simply live”), and outright reactionary “solutions' that revolve around some form of population control (as if the number of people on the planet was the problem rather than the nature of the relationship between said people and the planet). Williams does an excellent job debunking these notions with a plethora of factual information and empirical data.
- Williams, Chris: How will we get to an ecological civilization?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Capitalism's infrastructure, which is designed to dominate nature, cannot simply be taken over and used for an ecological transformation. Only a complete, root-and-branch change will do the job.
- Williams, Chris: Marx and Engels on ecology: A reply to radical critics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A review of the book "Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique" authored by Paul Burkett and John Bellamy Foster, who respond to critics of ecological Marxism with a comprehensive examination of what the founders of historical materialism wrote and thought about mankind's relationship to the earth.
- Williams, Chris: Mass murder in a Turkish coal mine
Over 300 miners have been killed by a system that values fossil fuels and profits above the lives of those who are paid poverty-level wages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Think about the last time you reached the top of a mountain one mile high. Now think about descending that distance below the surface of the earth, foot by dark foot, far below all life, light or oxygen. You go down there to dig.
- Williams, Chris: On the nature and causes of environmental violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
We need a much broader definition of violence than is allowed for by limiting its meaning to a physical and immediate brutal act of aggression, and one that includes an environmental dimension.
- Williams, Daniel: Forsaken
The Persecution of Christians in Today's Middle East
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Across the Middle East, Christian communities today find themselves the victims of widening repression: massacres, expulsions, and brutally enforced restrictions on the right to worship have all become commonplace. Such persecution has now reached the point where, in the region that was once its birthplace, Christianity's very existence is under threat.
- Williams, David: Bitterly Divided
The South's Inner Civil War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Historian David Williams lays bare the myth of a united confederacy, revealing that the South was in fact fighting two civil wars — an external one that we know so much about and an internal one about which there is scant literature and virtually no public awareness.
- Williams, Douglas: For true liberation, Black Lives Matter is not enough
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A movement that held true to a goal of liberation would challenge the fundamental assumptions of social, economic, and political organization under capitalism.
- Williams, Emma; Quraishi, Ibrahim (illustrator): The Story of Hurry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Fictional Story of Donkey who helps children in Gaza
- Williams, Eric: Capitalism and Slavery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1944
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide.
- Williams, Gwyn A.: Proletarian Order: Antonio Gramsci, Factory Councils and the origins of communism in Italy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
Williams' book is sympathetic to the libertarian contribution to the Italian movement after World War I and I highly recommend it.
- Williams, Jeffrey, J.: Innovation for What? The Politics of Inequality in Higher Education
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Williams discusses why American universities' current trend of advocating innovation ends up prioritizing corporate interests over the gola of accessible education.
- Williams, Joan: Community Economic Development in Rural Canada
Resource Type: Book
- Williams, John R.: Canadian Churches and Social Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
- Williams, Karen: An introduction to the Indian Ocean slave trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The Indian Ocean slave trade encompassed Africa, Asia and the Middle East, with people from these areas involved as both captors and captives. The numbers of people enslaved and the exact length of the trans-Indian slave trade have not been definitively established, but historians believe that it preceded the transatlantic enslavement by centuries. Even though it is largely ignored as an international slave trade, examples of its impact abound. Writing on Indian Ocean slavery frequently mentions African people in China and Persia as well as in the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina, which also served as central slave markets.
- Williams, Kristian: American Cartoonists Rap on the Danish Flap
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
"It's really surreal," cartoonist Matt Wuerker observed. "It's like something out of a Kurt Vonnegut novel."
- Williams, Kristian: American Methods
Torture and the Logic of Domination
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
A damning audit of the US record in underwriting human rights violations around the globe and at home, and about the centrality of rape, racism, and conquest to both the state and US national culture.
- Williams, Kristian: Anarchism's Mid-Century Turn
A Review & Response: Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century,
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
No matter how one feels about it, the current state of anarchism has represented something of a mystery: What was once a mass movement based mainly in working class immigrant communities is now an archipelago of subcultural scenes inhabited largely by disaffected young people from the white middle class.
- Williams, Kristian: Critical Resistance at 10
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
On the weekend of September 26-28, 3,500 people gathered in Oakland, California to hasten the death of the prison system.
- Williams, Kristian: Occupy: The Fall of the Oakland Commune
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
For many people, the Occupy movement was an initiation into radical politics, an experiment in decentralized and nonhierarchical movement-building, and a glimpse at the possibility for a new kind of society. Yet the whole thing was over in just a few weeks -- a crisis quieted, a moment of hope extinguished.
- Williams, Kristian: Police Violence, Resistance and The Crisis of Legitimacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
What clearly sets a number of recent cases apart is not the fact of police violence, but the fact that that violence is being challenged. The controversy, in other words, is not only about violence, but about authority. It is a crisis of legitimacy.
- Williams, Kristian: Police Violence, Resistance and The Crisis of Legitimacy
Against The Current vol. 150
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
On September 5, 2010, Los Angeles police shot and killed a Guatemalan day laborer named Manuel Jamines.
- Williams, Kristian: Witness to Betrayal: Scott Crow on the Exploits and Misadventures of FBI Informant Brandon Darby
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Scott Crow tells the story of his friendship with Brandon Darby, an anarchist militant and FBI informer.
- Williams, Lance: Recording Reveals Oil Industry Execs Laughing at Trump Access
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A 2017 recording of Independent Petroleum Association of America executives reveals them revelling in their access to high levels of government. Since then many environmental protections have been rescinded.
- Williams, Margot: Beginner's guide to improving online security
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Investigative journalists like the members of ICIJ are facing growing concerns about security. Our members often work with leaks or other materials requiring protection of sources, collaborate across borders with colleagues at risk for their physical safety, and communicate with devices and services open to surveillance or attack.
- Williams, Randall; Wells, Lyn (eds.): When Hate Groups Come to Town
A Handbook of Model Community Responses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
A handbook for dealing with hate groups in communities across North America, dealing with the nature of such groups and how they work and how communities can band together to combat them.
- Williams, Ray: The cult of ignorance in the United States: Anti-intellectualism and the "dumbing down" of America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It's the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility.
- Williams, Raymond: Keywords
A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Williams examines more than 100 familiar words and explores how they are used.
- Williams, Rhys: In the belly of the beast
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
In these days of intense state and media racism, any book that offers a deeper understanding of the role of anti-racist and black liberation struggles is invaluable. Høgsbjerg’s book provides a thorough and engrossing account of such struggles in the colonial world and in the belly of the imperial beast -- where C L R James lived from 1932 to 1938. James left Britain ten years before the Windrush docked in London; the story of his time in the UK is a valuable insight into the vibrant political organisations built by black people in Britain before what is generally considered to be the start of "Black British History".
- Williams, Rick: Teaching Underdevelopment
Resource Type: Article
Development studies is outlined here as one basic approach to education. This article arises out of the 1970 Third World Project at the Ontario Institue for Studies in Educaiton.
- Williams, Rick: What's Left? Environmentalists and Radical Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Environmentalist activism as radical practice.
- Williams, Rick: Winter of Discontent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
Whole communities are being plunged into a poverty culture that is very difficult to escape.
- Williams, Robert F.: Negroes with Guns
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965 Published:
First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups.
- Williams, Ross Roger (Director): God Loves Uganda
Resource Type: Film/Video
Uganda has become a battleground between human rights groups and the American Evangelical movement, which uses money and fabrications to promote anti-homosexuality laws, many of which carry mandatory death sentences and create a modern theocracy.
- Williams, Selma R.: Red-listed
Haunted by the Washington Witch Hunt
Resource Type: Book
The first exploration of the thousands of civil servant workers - lawyers, economists, engineers, social workers - whose lives and careers were disrupted and often destroyed by the federal loyalty program designed to root out communists in government. Untold energy, funds, and time were wasted on a hunt that began in the 1930s and continued through the '60s, yet never uncovered a single spy or subversive. Government, the core of any nation, became obsessed with the communist scare; and America turned from a compassionate country into a colder, more cynical society - and it remains so today. Here are haunting unforgettable interviews with those who were falsely accused, those who were informers, as well as former communists. Throught the use of congressional hearings and transcripts, FBI dossiers, news clippings, and never-published material from the private files of victims, Williams offers a fascinating look inside a shameful period of American history.
- Williams, Steve: Ideas for the Struggle: required reading for activists in these challenging times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Arguing why the ideas presented in Marta Harnecker's collection of essays, 'Ideas for the Struggle', are essential and important for present-day activists and organizers.
- Williams, Terry Tempest: Divine ecstasy of Nature: Selected Writings by John Muir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A new collection of John Muir's (1838-1914) writings promises to inspire another generation to fall in love with wild nature, to care for it, to know that wilderness is not optional but central to our survival in the centuries to come. His words survive him. "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike."
- Williams, William Appleman: The Contours of American History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961 Published: 1966
An interpretation of the social, moral, constitutional and economic development of the United States.
- Williams, William Appleman: The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952 Published: 1962
- Williamson, Janice: A Power We Have Been Taught to Bury
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Published in In Up and Doing: Canadian Women and Peace, Janice Williamson and Deborah Gorham, eds. Toronto: Women's Press, 1989
- Williamson, Janice and Gorham, Deborah eds.: Up and Doing
Canadian Women and Peace
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Willis, William S.: Divide and Rule: Red, White, and Black in the Southeast
The Journal of Negro History July 1963
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1963
Examines the relationship between indigenous and black people in the colonial American Southeast.
- Wills, Emily Regan; Wildeman, Jeremy; Bueckert, Michael; Abu-Zahra, Nadia: Advocating for Palestine in Canada
Histories, Movements, Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
- Wills, Garry: Certain Trumpets
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
- Wills, Jane: A Living Wage in London
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
At a time when the United States is associated with the export of neoconservatism in the form of George Bush, readers will be heartened to read this tale of a more positive export as the living wage movement has leapt across the Atlantic over to the United Kingdom.
- Willson, Brian S.: On Third World Legs
An autobiography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
The humble autobiography of Brian Willson. Working class stiff. Vietnam vet. Who became an anti-prison activist, Veteran counselor, and finally, non-violent activist against Empire.
- Wilow, Norma: Canary Islands vs. Big Oil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Thousands of Canary Islands residents and activists have begun campaigning against Spanish oil company Repsol, and the potential oil spill that could devastate the wildlife and tourist and fishing industries.
- Wilpert, Greg: Changing Venezuela By Taking Power
The History and Policies of the Chavez Government
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Explores the historical and socioeconomic roots of the Venezuelan initiatives of recent years, the conflicts they have engendered, the achievements and pitfalls, the animating ideals of a genuinely participatory society, and the prospects for realizing them.
- Wilpert, Gregory; Hudson, Michael: How Western Military Interventions Shaped the Brexit Vote
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Michael Hudson argues that military interventions in the Middle East created refugee streams to Europe that were in turn used by the anti-immigrant right to stir up xenophobia.
- Wilson, Allison: The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Many fracking chemicals are known carcinogens, endocrine disruptors or other classes of toxins. Studies carried out during the ongoing fracking boom, uncovered serious adverse effects including respiratory, reproductive, and growth-related problems in animals and a spectrum of symptoms in humans that they termed “shale gas syndrome”.
- Wilson, Allison: Goodbye to Golden Rice? GM Trait Leads to Drastic Yield Loss and "Metabolic Meltdown"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
While proponents of Golden rice have blamed its failure to reach the market on "over-regulation" of GMOs and on "anti-GMO" opposition, the latest research suggests that problems intrinsic to GMO breeding are what have prevented researchers from developing Golden Rice suitable for commercialization.
- Wilson, Bill: Letter to the Joint Clerks of the Special Joint Committee on the Constitution of Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
The Letter to the Joint Clerks of the Special Joint Committee on the Constitution of Canada is an official response of the United Native Nations to Bill C-60, the Act to amend the Canadian Constitution.
- Wilson, Carla: Black Women's Narratives of Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Anyone who has ever wondered how black people managed to struggle and survive the hideous tortures meted out during slavery and afterward would gain from reading these books. They offer inspiration to a new generation of fighters.
- Wilson, Colin: Marxism and LGBT politics: a new wave of discussion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Colin Wilson reviews Peter Drucker's book Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anti-Capitalism.
- Wilson, Colin: Michel Foucault: friend or foe of the left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Examines why a man who was a technocrat working for the state came to appeal to people both on the left and the right of the political spectrum.
- Wilson, Colin: Queer theory and politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Queer theory and politics originated in the 1990s and continue to be influential today. This article traces the development of queer theory and politics, and assesses their claim to provide a radical alternative to what they see as the LGBT mainstream.
- Wilson, Colin: Sexuality and capitalism
The Italian Renaissance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Revolutionary struggles against capitalism have raised, time and again, the issue of sexual liberation. Right at the start of capitalism, the English revolution of the 1640s and 1650s involved what historian Christopher Hill has called a “sexual revolution” against the old order.
- Wilson, Doug: Over the hill and picking up speed
An interview by Doug Wilson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985
An interview with three older gay activists about aging and society.
- Wilson, Edmund: To The Finland Station
A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1940 Published: 1953
The revolutionary tradition in Europe and the rise of socialism.
- Wilson, Jeff: Trump not "Exceptional"
Trump: A Graphic Biography
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Ted Rall's Trump: A Graphic Biography.
- Wilson, John: Myth of Political Correctness
The Conservative Attack of Higher Education
Resource Type: Book
- Wilson, Michael S.: Noam Chomsky - Everyday Anarchist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Interview with Noam Chomsky.
- Wilson, Nigel: Eleven years of protesting Israel's occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Al Jazeera spoke with 11 villagers on the anniversary of Bilin's weekly protests against Israel's separation wall.
- Wilson, Robert Anton: Four Trends That Scare the Hell Out of Me
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
To paraphrase H.G. Wells, modern history has become a race between education and miseducation. There are very few people around who really don't know anything, but there are multitudes who know many things that don't happen to be true.
- Wilson, Sean Michael; Dickson, Benjamin; Emerson, Hunt; Spelling, John; Pasion, Adam; cartoons Polyp: Fight the Power!
A Visual History of Protest Among the English-Speaking Peoples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Throughout history, ordinary people have risen up against oppression and injustice. Fight the Power visualizes 14 key moments in the last 200 years when people across the English-speaking world stood up and fought for a better life for all.
- Windau, George: Already in Hell: Labor After Communism
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Factory workers in the former Soviet Union have a saying: “Things can’t get any worse, we are already in hell.” David Mandel’s book Labour After Communism documents the realities of working-class life in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: factories with no central heating, where workers to maintain body heat build fires in metal drums or large metal toolboxes, the smoke of these fires rising up through holes in the roof.
- Winder, Daniel Espinosa: Where is this Digital Watergate Propaganda Campaign Going?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Intelligence sources point out Russian interference in recent elections. However, WikiLeaks-related sources say the Democratic Party’s mail leak was the working of a whistleblower within that institution.
- Wine, Jeri Dawn & Ristock, Janice L. (eds.): Women and Social Change
Feminist Activism in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Wineland, Slyvia: Pressing for Press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
A serious attempt to get press coverage can be a campaign in itself. If you really want it, go after it methodically and shamelessly.
- Wingard, Jennifer: Harvey's Toxic Aftermath in Houston
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Wingard exposes the enviromental devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey. The hurricane caused chemical spills and explosions which Wingard says forecast a pending enviromental crisis.
- Wingerter, Eric; Delacour, Justin: Playing the 'Anti-Semitism' Card Against Venezuela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Even after the attack on a Caracas synagogue was shown to be an inside job, a robbery perpetrated by employees of the synagogue's security firm, the international media has continued to portray the incident as an anti-Semitic attack, while suggesting that the Chavez government is somehow to blame.
- Wink, Walter: Violence and Nonviolence in South Africa
Jesus' Third Way
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
In this provocative work, Walter Wink suggests that the injunctions of the 'Sermon on the Mount' which seem to counsel passivity in the face on injustice were actually deliberately mistranslated by Biblical scholars. Winks argues that Jesus actually offered a systematic and strategic third way of nonviolent resistance of particular relevance to today's political activist.
- Winks, Robin W.: Blacks in Canada
Resource Type: Book
- Winnipeg Labour Collective: Advanced Capitalism and the Revolutionary Left
Towards a New Practice
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
The programme of the Winnipeg Labour Collective, its understanding of socialism's past forms and its conception of socialism's future.
- Winship, Michael: Chevron's Crude Attacks
Court Sides With Big Oil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Yet another instance of the increasingly pro-business stance of the US legal system.
- Winslow, Barbara: E.P. Thompson: Feminism, Gender, Women and History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Winslow reflects upon her experiences working with E.P. Thompson at the University of Warwick in 1969, especially in relation to his support for the women's liberation movement.
- Winslow, Barbara: The Year of Awakening
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Against the Current: Which events of 1968 were you involved in? How did that event/those events affect you personally and politically at the time?
- Winslow, Barbara and Baldree, Alison: Women's Monumental Struggle
Suffragette
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Barbara Winslow and Alison Baldree respond to Sarah Gavron's controversial 2015 film Suffragette.
- Winslow, Cal: The Case of Occupy and the Longshoremen's Union
Who's Speaking for Whom?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Occupy Oakland should not be pretending to speak on behalf of Oakland's dockworkers, and should not be telling the dockworkers when and how they should strike. Occupy Oakland's actions are the opposite of democratic, and an affront to the basic notiions of worker's self-activity, workers' empowerment, and workers' control.
- Winslow, Cal: A Special Obscenity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Picasso painted Guernica eighty years ago this spring. It still stands as a searing protest against the brutality of war and fascism.
- Winslow, George: Capital Crimes
Resource Type: Book
Reveals how the occurrence, extent, and type of crime committed, as well as society's response to the problem, are largely shaped by economic elites.
- Winslow, Samantha: Transit Irony: The More You Rely on It, the More They Cut
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Transit ridership is at its highest since 1956, with 10.7 billion trips in 2013, according to the American Public Transportation Association. This is despite widespread cuts to bus and rail service -- and rising fares. The 2008 economic crisis started the pinch, but federal and local officials have continued to squeeze.
- Winslow, Samantha: Transit Irony: The More You Rely on It, the More They Cut
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Winslow discusses the transit situation in Pittsburgh, where officials are implementing a series of budget cuts and fare hikes without improving service to the large number of riders who depend on the service.
- Winstanley, Asa: How Israel lobby manufactured UK Labour Party's anti-Semitism crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Last year, socialist stalwart Jeremy Corbyn won the leadership of the UK’s Labour Party by a landslide. Since then, there has been a steady flow of claims by Israel’s supporters that Corbyn has not done enough to combat anti-Semitism.
- Winstanley, Asa: Israel is arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A report on Israeli weapons and training being provided to anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi soldiers in the Ukraine.
- Winstanley, Asa: Israeli fury at unofficial ads on London Underground
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Activists from London Palestine Action put up these posters criticizing Israel’s apartheid policies against Palestinians all over London's underground train network early Sunday morning. An activist from the group told The Electronic Intifada that they posted 150 copies around at least four different lines on the network.
- Winstanley, Asa: When Israel's friends in Labour advocated genocide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Every so often Labour Friends of Israel pays tribute to Richard Crossman, an early activist with the British pressure group and one of the best known British politicians of the mid-20th century. The tributes to the late cabinet minister are not entirely informative.One detail that tends to be omitted is that, when it came to Palestine, Crossman advocated genocide.
- Winstanley, Gerrard: The Law of Freedom in a Platform
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1652
- Winstanley, Gerrard and the Diggers: The True Levellers Standard Advanced
Or, The State of Community opened, and Presented to the Sons of Men
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1649
Winstanley and 14 others published this pamphlet in which they called themselves the True Levellers to distinguish their ideas from the Levellers. Once they put their idea into practice and started to cultivate common land, they became known as "Diggers" by both opponents and supporters. The Diggers' beliefs were informed by Gerrard Winstanley's writings, which encompassed a worldview that envisioned an ecological interrelationship between humans and nature, acknowledging the inherent connections between people and their surroundings. Winstanley declared that "true freedom lies where a man receives his nourishment and preservation, and that is in the use of the earth".
- Winter, Alex: Deep Web
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
A documentary that explores the history and context of the world that these darkened online areas burgeoned from. Focusing on the recent court case of the alleged founder of the online market Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, it's a far more complex and multifaceted story than the media portrays. Deep Web investigates the greater implications for how we will all experience the internet in the future.
- Winter, James: Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
- Winter, James: Lies The Media Tell us
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Outlines the extent to which the mainstream media is subject to its corporate publishers and advertisers.
- Winter, James: Media Think
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
- Winter, James P.: The Silent Revolution
Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Winter, Jana: How Law Enforcement Can Use Google Timeline To Track Your Every Move
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The recent expansion of Google's Timeline feature can provide investigators unprecedented access to users' location history data, allowing them in many cases to track a person's every move over the course of years. The expansion of Google's Timeline feature, launched in July 2015, allows investigators to request detailed information about where someone has been -- down to the longitude and latitude -- over the course of years.
- Winterfilm Collective: Winter Soldier
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 1972
A chronicling of the Winter Soldier Investigation - about war crimes during the Vietnam War - that took place in Detroit, Michigan, from January 31 to February 2, 1971.
- Winther, Karen: The Betrayal
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
The filmmaker's personal journey to confront her past, baring her soul to those most hurt by her troubled youth when she ricocheted from far-left radicalism to neo-Nazi fascism out of a desperate need to belong.
- Wise, David: The American Police State
The Government Against The People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
How the CIA, FBI, IRS, NSA and other agencies have spied on Americans during seven administrations.
- Wise, Sarah: The Blackest Streets
The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
- Wise, Tim: Of National Lies and Racial America
Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and the Unacceptability of Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
To some, the horror of 9/11 was not new. To some it was not on that day that "everything changed." To some, everything changed four hundred years ago, when that first ship landed at what would become Jamestown. To some, everything changed when their ancestors were forced into the hulls of slave ships at Goree Island and brought to a strange land as chattel. To some, everything changed when they were run out of Northern Mexico, only to watch it become the Southwest United States, thanks to a war of annihilation initiated by the U.S. government. To some, being on the receiving end of terrorism has been a way of life.
- Wise, Timothy A.: Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness. Family Farmers and the Battle for the Future of Food
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wise's Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests.
- Wiseberg, Laurie S.: A Guide to Establishing a Human Rights Documentation Centre
Report of a UNESCO-UNU International Training Seminar on the Handling of Documentation & Information on Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
- Wiseman, Jay: Jay Wiseman's Erotic Bondage Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
A compendium of advice on how to tie up your sweetie, or get tied up yourself.
- Wiseman, Jay: SM 101
A Realistic Introduction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992 Published: 1996
- Wiseman, Nelson: Social Democracy in Manitoba
A History of the C.C.F- NDP
Resource Type: Book
- Wiseman, Robert: Slamming the World Bank and IMF
Resource Type: Article
Activists and NGOs converge on Washington. to protest the World Bank and IMF.
- Wismer, Susan; Pell, David: Community Profit
Community Based Economic Development in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Pell and Wismer look at seven community owned and controlled businesses that reinvest their profits back into their local communities. Resource for community groups, co-ops, credit unions, social organizations, and individuals interested in new approaches to economic development.
- Wismer, Susan; Pell, David: Community Profit
Community-Based Economic Development in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Pell and Wismer look at seven community owned and controlled businesses that reinvest their profits back into their local communities. Resource for community groups, co-ops, credit unions, social organizations, and individuals interested in new approaches to economic development.
- Wisner, Ben: Power and Need in Africa
Basic Human Needs and Development Policies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Ben Wisner makes a case for giving the poor of Africa the means to develop their own future. He shows how a new African renaissance could spring from a radical basic-needs approach. A renaissance which has as its constituent elements environmental sustainability, women's emancipation and social justice, will stand as a refutation of the new, conservative pragmatism popular among development experts.
- Wisotsky, Steven: Beyond the War on Drugs
Overcoming a Failed Public Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Beyond the War on Drugs argues persuasively for a fundamental reassessment of drug control policy. The thrust of the book is simply that the 'war on drugs' cannot be won by trying to dry up the source, since there will always be demand to create supply.
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Lectures on Philosophy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1932 Published: 1933
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Wittner, Lawrence: How Rich Are the 400 Richest Americans?
And What They Do With Their Money
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
According to Forbes, a leading business magazine, the combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans has now reached the staggering total of $2.3 trillion. This gives them an average net worth of $5.7 billion – an increase of 14 percent over the previous year.
- Wittner, Lawrence: Scapegoating by the Political Right: A Mask for Privilege
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A historical context for the role of scapegoating of minorities in the 2016 US election examining similar practices by privileged groups to maintain power in modern history.
- Wittner, Lawrence S.: Resisting the Bomb
A History of World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954-1970
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Describes the gradual development of the worldwide movement for nuclear disarmament and research records from peace groups and government agencies.
- Wolf, Eric R.: Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
- Wolf, Michael; Wise, Yaakov: Fascism and anti-fascism in 1930s Manchester
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An account of the growth of fascism in Manchester in the early 1930s, and working class resistance to it.
- Wolf, Naomi: The Beauty Myth
How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Writer and Journalist Naomi Wolf calls the current all pervasive need for women to attain an intangible physical beauty ideal the "beauty myth". It is calculated to disenpower women and is a complex pervasive backlash againts feminism. Women are seduced by the beauty myth because it holds promise of power. Women will remain tied to this myth until they realize that power may be revoked as easily as granted. The beauty myth was created to hold women's progress back not to liberate it.
- Wolf, Sherry: Sexuality and Socialism
History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
An accessible analysis of many of the most challenging questions for those concerned with full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Essays on the roots of LGBT oppression, the construction of sexual and gender identities, the history of the gay movement, and how to unite the oppressed and exploited to win sexual liberation for all. Sherry Wolf analyzes different theories about oppression — including those of Marxism, postmodernism, identity politics, and queer theory — and challenges myths about genes, gender, and sexuality.
- Wolf, Sherry: Using a Black Icon to Sell Apartheid
Israel's Chutzpah
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Apologists for Israel are now using fabricated 'quotes' from Martin Luther King to make it seem that King supported Israeli apartheid.
- Wolfe, Ross: Dialectics and Difference: Against the 'Decolonial Turn'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
"Decolonial" criticism is an example of vogue academic approach, which can be grafted onto preexisting disciplines and practices with relative ease. Still further, in so doing, it offers the semblance of radicalism, because it appears to challenge the tacit erasures and hidden presuppositions of prior revolutionary perspectives.
- Wolfe, Ross: "Identity”" -- the bane of the contemporary Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Historically, identitarian ideology is a product of the failure of the Left. The various forms of identity politics associated with the “new social movements” coming out of the New Left during the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s (feminism, black nationalism, gay pride) were themselves a reaction, perhaps understandable, to the miserable failure of working-class identity politics associated with Stalinism coming out of the Old Left during the ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s (socialist and mainstream labor movements). Working-class identity politics — admittedly avant la lettre — was based on a crude, reductionist understanding of politics that urged socialists and union organizers to stay vigilant and keep on the lookout for “alien class elements.” Any and every form of ideological deviation was thought to be traceable to a bourgeois or petit-bourgeois upbringing. One’s political position was thought to flow automatically and mechanically from one’s social position, i.e. from one’s background as a member of a given class within capitalist society.
- Wolfe, Ross: Noel Ignatiev, 1940-2019
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Yesterday I learned that my friend and comrade Noel Ignatiev passed away. He’d been in poor health for some time, diagnosed with a rare form of gastrointestinal cancer that made it difficult for him to swallow properly or digest, but it still caught me off guard.
- Wolferen, Karel Van: The Insidious Power of Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
To study the effects of political propaganda in what used to be called the 'free world' there could hardly be a better time than now. We are living through an instance of insidious propaganda that has clean contours. It fills a common need. In a period of large-scale slaughter and other man-made disaster the morally conscious person can do with some clear categories of good and bad, desirable and despicable.
- Wolff, Charlotte M.D.: Bisexuality
A Study
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977 Published: 1979
- Wolff, Richard D.: COVID-19 Exposes the Weakness of a Major Theory Used to Justify Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Wolff argues that COVID-19 exposed orthodox economics -- the idea that capitalists' decisions about investing and producing are inherenty "efficent" -- as a sham.
- Wolff, Richard D.: How Racism is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2020
U.S. capitalism survived because it found a solution to the basic problem of its instability, its business cycles. Since capitalism never could end cyclical downturns and their awful effects, its survival required making those effects somehow socially tolerable. Systemic racism survived in the post-Civil War United States partly because it helped to achieve that tolerability. Capitalism provided conditions for the reproduction of systemic racism, and vice versa.
- Wolff, Robert Paul: A Critique of Pure Tolerance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965 Published: 1969
- Wolff, Robert Paul: The Poverty of Liberalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1969
- Wolin, Richard: France's National Front Draws Strength From Brexit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The party has long shrouded racism in the language of "self-determination" -- now, they feel vindicated.
- Wolke, Howie: Thoughtful Radicalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
If it lacks a sound ethical and biological basis, environmental radicalism can be a double-edged sword: a threat to the enemy, yes, but a danger to its wielder, too. In order to avoid self-defeating radicalism, Wolke suggests a commitment to what he simply calls "thoughtful radicalism," whose cornerstones are: 1) Thwart. 2) Protect. 3) Restore. 4) Educate.
- Wolkomir, Richard; Wolkomir, Joyce: Noise Busters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Good neighbors keep their noise to themselves.
- Wollison, Mary Anne: Affairs: The Secret Lives of Women
Resource Type: Book
- Wollman, Neil (ed.): Working for Peace
A Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
A survey of the attitudes and tools that can be used in working for peace.
- Wollstein, Janet: Freedom of Speech Under Siege
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991 Published: 1999
Censorship is the handmaiden of a police state.
- Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1792
Published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was the first great feminist treatise. Wollstonecraft preached that intellect will always govern and sought to persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body.
- Wolmar, Christian: Wanted: A new model of public ownership
Resource Type: Article
The challenge to the left is to develop an alternative model of ownership.
- Wolochatiuk, Tim: We Were Children
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
A 2012 documentary film about the experiences of First Nations children in the Canadian Indian residential school system.
- Wolpe, Harold: Race, Class & the Apartheid State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The rise of mass political opposition has put in question all the major issues of social change-relationship of race and class, challenges to apartheid in the economy and the nature of the state.
- Womack Jr., John: Rebellion in Chiapas
An historical reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
The revolutionary activities of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation have drawn attention to a 500-year struggle between the majority Mayan population and the Spanish and Mexican rulers of the region. Womack has brought together a collection of readings and documents that illuminate this difficult and important struggle.
- Women's Research Centre: Recollecting our Lives
Women's Experiences of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Women's Self-Help Network for Change: Working Collectively
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1984 Published: 1985
A handbook for people wishing to form collectives, or established collectives seeking solutions to problems such as power imbalances, conflict meditation, and setting priorities.
- Women's Skill Development Society: Tools for Change
A Curriculum about Women and Work
Resource Type: Book
- Wong, Angie: Laughing Back at Empire
The Grassroots Activism of the Asianadian Magazine, 1978-1985
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2023
- Wong, Dukesang; McIlwraith, David (ed.), translated by Wanda Joy Hoe: The Diary of Dukesang Wong
A voice from Gold Mountain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
A window into the lives of Chinese workers who built the transcontinental railways across North America, a glimpse into the racism, starvation, and disease they faced every day while working the most difficult and dangerous jobs. The diary of Dukesang Wong, speaks vividly about his experiences and emotions during six years working on the Canadian Pacific Railway. It is the only first person account known to exist.
- Wong, May: Domestic Work and Rights in China
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
When China adopted the “open door” policy in 1978, south China, especially the Pearl River Delta area, was the first industrial area created to attract foreign investment, particularly from Hong Kong. In the late 1990s, China accelerated this policy, opening consumer markets to foreign investment. Since 1999, the average annual gross domestic product grew 10%, far ahead of other developing countries.
- Wood, Daniel: Slime, Shorebirds, and a Scientific Mystery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Examining the impact of large developments near the Fraser River estuary in British Columbia on migrating populations of shorebirds, which have been found to depend on a biofilm in the area to sustain their long flights.
- Wood, Ellen Meiksins: Back to Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Maybe it's time for the left to see the universalization of capitalism not just as a defeat for us but also as an opportunity -- and that, of course, above all means a new opportunity for that unfashionable thing called class struggle.
- Wood, Ellen Meiksins: Capitalism and Social Rights
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
We're talking here about rights and how to guarantee them in an unequal globalized society. I’m just going to take it for granted that all of us here believe in human rights in some sense of the term. Let’s start from the premise that all human beings, just by virtue of being human, are entitled to certain basic conditions of freedom and dignity which have to be respected by others, not just by other individuals but also, and especially, by people in power and by states.
- Wood, Ellen Meiksins: Democracy Against Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Wood provides a brilliant explication and defense of the key theoretical concepts relevant to socialism, understood to be the most radical social and economic democracy.
- Wood, Ellen Meiksins: The Demos Versus 'We, the People': from Ancient to Modern Conceptions of Citizenship
From Democracy Against Capitalism, Chapter 7
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
- Wood, Ellen Meiksins: Empire of Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood. So, surely, even the most seasoned White House hawk would prefer to exercise global hegemony in this way, without costly colonial entanglements. Yet, as the author powerfully demonstates, the economic empire of capital has also created a new and unlimited militarism.
- Wood, Ellen Meiksins: Eurocentric Anti-Eurocentrism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
What is so puzzling about anti-Eurocentric histories, especially the histories of capitalism, is that, without exception, they are based on the most Eurocentric -- not to mention bourgeois -- assumptions.
- Wood, Ellen Meiksins: Interview with Ellen Meiksins Wood
Democracy & Capitalism: Friends or Foes?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Postmodernist pluralism, just like the old variety, obscures the realities of power in capitalist societies. It also disarms and disintegrates the opposition to capitalism. Postmodernism brings us back to the old and uncritical forms of capitalist ideology, which leave the system fundamentally unchallenged. Marxism -- historical materialism -- is the best foundation for an understanding of the society in which we live and therefore also the best guide in our search for a better one.
- Wood, Ellen Meiksins: An interview with Ellen Meiksins Wood - co-editor of Monthly Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
The strength of the Marxist project is that it does recognize difference, specificities, and grounds its project in a real social word, but that it has a unifying principle - class - based upon lived experience. Obviously class can't cover all emancipatory struggles, but it can provide some sort of unifying principle among emancipatory struggles that's completely lacking in the postmodernist perspective. It can bring together women and men, black and white, based on their common experience of work and exploitation and common interest in a classless society.
- Wood, Ellen Meiksins: Modernity, postmodernity, or capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
- Wood, Ellen Meiksins: The Origin of Capitalism
A Longer View
Resource Type: Book
Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state. Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce. Rather, it is a late and localized product of very specific historical conditions, which required great transformations in social relations and in the relationship between humans and nature.
- Wood, Ellen Meiksins: Peasant, Citizen and Slave
The Foundations of Athenian Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Wood argues that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labour. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically and politically independent, accounts for much that is remarkable in Athenian political institutions and culture.
- Wood, Ellen Meiksins: Politics and the Communist Manifesto -- Part 1
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Marxists used to be attacked from the right as "reductionists." Today, that accusation has become a favorite of the (postmodernist) left. We've reached a point where any attempt at explanation, any tendency to think in terms of causality, is "reductionist."
- Wood, Ellen Meiksins: The Retreat from Class
A New 'True' Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986 Published: 1999
- Wood, Ellen Meiksins: The Retreat of the Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Ellen Meiksins Wood saw a great danger in the reluctance of today's intellectuals to criticize capitalism.
- Wood, Ellen Meiksins; Meiksins, Peter; Yates, Michael D.: Rising from the Ashes
Labor in the Age of "Global" Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Takes on the issues of changing composition of the international working class, patterns of work under contemporary capitalism, the relationship of race and gender to class, the promise and limitations of recent eruptions of labour militancy, and the strategic options available to working people in an age of "global" capitalism.
- Wood, John (Director): Just Another Cog in the Machine
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
Using wordplay & a photocopier to promote starting a union.
- Wood, Linda Solomon: Success, sex, and morality in the tar sands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A glimpse of what life is like for a certified electrician who is one of three women among 500 employees working on a site in the tar sands.
- Wood, Zachary R.: The Living Legacy of Cornel West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
To some of his critics, West is a bitter intellectual prizefighter past his prime who feels the need to broadcast his paroxysms of rage over feeling snubbed by Obama.
- Woodard, Stephanie: Warnings from First Americans: Insidious Changes Are Underway that Will Affect Us All
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Rural America In These Times spoke to Native Americans--people whose survival requires being extremely well informed about what all branches of the federal government are up to. From their vantage point as sovereign entities with direct government-to-government relationships with the United States, the tribes have a unique perspective on issues including voting rights, the economy, the extractive industries' hold over this administration and more.
- Woodcock, George: Anarchism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962
Woodcock presents anarchism as a political philosophy, a system of social thought which aims at fundamental changes in the structure of society and particularly at the replacement of authoritraian states by co-operation between free individuals.
- Woodcock, George: Power To Us All
Constitution or Social Contract?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Woodcock calls for a true participatory democracy.
- Woodcock, George: The Rejection of Politics and other essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
"The rejection of politics" is a basic tenet of all anarchism. Woodcock however does not discuss anarchism as such but the path that his own political interests have taken: from international anarchist to Canadian patriot. Two recurrent themes in the book are his antipathy to Marxism and his ambivalent attitude toward Canadian nationalism. Woodcock believes that the "Left" is dead and that modern anarchists have to shed outdated concepts of the past.
- Woodcock, George: Walking through the Valley
An Autobiography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Woodcock, George: William Godwin
A Biographical Study
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
A biography of the influential writer and thinker described by Woodcock as the first prophet of libertarian socialism.
- Woodcock, George; Avakumociv, Ivan: From Prince to Rebel
Peter Kropotkin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A bigraphy of the anarchist intellectual Peter Kropotkin.
- Woodcock, George; Avakumovic, Ivan: Peter Kroptkin
From Prince to Rebel
Resource Type: Book
- Woodford, John: Apocalypse of Our Times
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Review of Gerald Horne's "Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism," a look at the 17th century origins of the slave trade.
- Woodford, John: Lessons from James Baldwin
Review of James Baldwin: The FBI File; Against the Current vol. 192
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A review of James Baldwin: The FBI File, a novel edited by William J. Maxwell which sets out an interpretive frame,through which readers may study his excerpts his file from the FBI.
- Woodford, John: Snoops in the Reading Room
F. B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Book review of William J. Maxwell's F. B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature.
- Woodhouse, Leighton: The Ugly Side of Antifa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
When you criticize Antifa members or their defenders for the tactic of mob violence, the reflexive response is usually something like, "There are literal Nazis marching in the streets, and you're attacking us over your precious little non-violence principles?" But Antifa doesn't have a monopoly over concern for what's happening in this country.
- Woodrow, Peter: Clearness
Processes for Supporting Individuals and Groups in Decision-Making
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
- Woods, Alan: Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
An in-depth analysis of the history of Bolshevism and the many programmatic, tactical and organisational lessons to be drawn from that history.
- Woods, Alan: Marx versus Bakunin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- Woods, Chris: Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Traces the growing use of armed drones. Woods examines the multiple legal and ethical issues that surround the drone wars.
- Woodward, C. Vann: The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955 Published:
This book offers a clear and illuminating analysis of the history of Jim Crow laws, presenting evidence that segregation in the South dated only to the 1890s. Woodward convincingly shows that, even under slavery, the two races had not been divided as they were under the Jim Crow laws of the 1890s. In fact, during Reconstruction, there was considerable economic and political mixing of the races. The segregating of the races was a relative new development in the region.
- Woodward, C. Vann: Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963
A biography and political history of the Populist American leader Tom E. Watson.
- Woodworth, Elizabeth: 'What can I Do?'
Citizen Strategies for Nuclear Disarmament
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- Woolford, Andrew: This Benevolent Experiment
Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in the United States and Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
A multi-layered comparative analysis of indigenous boarding schools in the US and Canada.
- Worcester, Kent: C.L.R. James
A Political Biography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
A biography of C.L.R. James, an important figure in Marxist theory, revolutionary history, classical and popular culture, political activism and national independence movements.
- Workers Vangaurd: Ukraine Turmoil
Capitalist Powers in Tug of War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The ongoing aim of the Western imperialists is to establish a client state on the border of Russia, which under the rule of capitalist strongman Vladimir Putin has increasingly become a thorn in their sides. And Ukraine would be a big prize. Its industrial base supplies the Russian market, and its Black Sea and Crimean peninsula territories are of strategic importance to the Russian military.
- working class self organisation: Bulgarian fascists run nightly patrols targeting immigrants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
In the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, groups of fascists in paramilitary uniforms are conducting what they describe as ‘civil patrols’. The purpose of the patrols is to stop people in the street and then demand to see their identification or immigration documentation.
- Working Lives Collective: Working Lives
Vancouver 1886-1986
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
- Working Unit on Social Issues and Justice, Division of Mission in Canada: The Control of the Canadian Economy and the Human Problem of Unemployment:
A Christian Perspective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
This statement is printed as a fold-out on one sheet with an insert.
- Working Women Community Centre: Making the City
Women Who Made a Difference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
- World Commission on Environment and Development: Energy 2000
A Global Strategy for Sustainable Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- World Commission on Environment and Development: Food 2000
Global Policies for Sustainable Agriculture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
World food production is characterized by unsaleable surpluses in Europe and North America, alongside mass hunger in the Third World. This report to the WCED argues this pattern is ecologically destructive and morally unacceptable and that the loss of cropland, forests and fertility is not inevitable. It proposes solutions to meet the growing demand for food, and to improve the environment in areas lost to agricultural production.
- World Rainforest Movement: FAO: Plantations are not forests!
Since 1948 the UN's Food and Agriculture has been clinging to an outmoded definition of 'forests' that includes industrial wood plantations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The FAO definition considers forests to be basically just 'a bunch of trees', while ignoring other fundamental aspects of forests, including their many other life-forms such as other types of plants, as well as animals, and forest-dependent human communities. Equally, it ignores the vital contribution of forests to natural processes that provide soil, water and oxygen.
- Worpole, Ken: Towns for People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Examines the pressures, lifestyle changes, and social factors that contributed to the decline in urban public life in the late 20th century.
- Worster, Donald: Rivers of Empire
Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A history of the agribusinessmen and engineers who financed and built the system of damns, reservoirs, and canals which transformed the American West from a sparsely inhabited dry region to the site of massive farms and sprawling cities. Worster argues that control of scarce water resources gave rise to a capitalist/bureaucratic elite and to a modern day empire. This elite established and perpetuated itself on the backs of impoverished wage labourers. He criticizes the waste of water for swimming pools, casino fountains, and ill-suited crops like alfalfa, the depletion of aquifers, and the salinization of rivers. Worster points out the vengeance of nature in the form of the sedimentation and collapse of dozens of dams.
- Worth, Jess: Bloody Oil
Canadian First Nations internationalize their struggle against the most destructive project on earth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The extraction of oil from tar sands is perhaps the most ecologically insane idea on the planet. Four First Nations representatives from Canada travelled to Britain to participate in the London climate camp and the country's biggest annual gathering of climate activists. Organized by the Indigenous Environmental Network and supported by the New Internationalist, the group's aim was to internationalize the campaign for a complete tar sands moratorium.
- Worth, Jess; Chivers, Danny: Why we should feel positive about Paris
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
As the final text of the Paris deal was being wrestled into shape, we were standing near the Arc de Triomphe, underneath a huge red line. This stretch of scarlet fabric was one of many held aloft by chanting and singing members of a 15,000-strong crowd. They - we - were there to demand climate justice; to condemn an international deal that we already knew would cross crucial red lines for the climate. Though the deal was a dud, this was no Copenhagen, argue Jess Worth and Danny Chivers.
- Wright, Albion Rev., United Church of Canada: Mission and Ministry Workbook: Metropolitan Core
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
This workbook is being used by the Task Group on The Church in the Metropolitan core as part of a process to develop a policy statement on Urban Mission for the 1980 Council of The United Church in Canada.
- Wright, Chris: The Inspiring Outrage of Norman Finkelstein
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
A few thoughts on the new book, "I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!"
- Wright, Chris: A libertarian Marxist tendency map
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
This tendency map was produced by Chris Wright for endpage.com, now part of the libcom.org library - it is designed to trace some of the important tendencies in libertarian Marxism. Contains a brief written history with links to key individuals, groups and publications, and a graphic map.
- Wright, Chris: On 'Bullshit Jobs'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A review of the book "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory" by anthropologist David Graeber, which provides a classification for the many forms of employment, some which he deems not only meaningless and unfullfilling, but ultimately harmful to society.
- Wright, Chris: Privatization is Killing Us: Dispatches from the Capitalist War on Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at various sectors of society that are suffering under privatization in the United States- including education, the prison system, healthcare, and the environment.
- Wright, Chris: An Updated and Improved Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
An article that criticizes the stubborn immersion in the past by current Marxists and left wing intellectuals, and to comprehend activism and set goals in the twenty-first century requires a revision of the Marxian conception of revolution.
- Wright, Chris: Worker Cooperatives and Revolution
History and Possibilities in the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Wright believes that the 'solidarity economy', fits within a Marxist understanding of what is needed to bring about a grassroots transformation of the economy.
- Wright, Christopher; Nyberg, Daniel: Corporate climate risk is about profit, not fixing the problem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Corporate 'risk management' is concerned with protecting profits, not with protecting the planet or human beings.
- Wright, Cynthia: Between Nation and Empire
The Fair Play for Cuba Committees and the Making of Canada-Cuba Solidarity in the Early 1960s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Published in In Our Place in the Sun: Canada and Cuba in the Castro Era, Robert Wright and Lana Wylie eds. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2009
- Wright, Cynthia: Feminism in Canada
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Last year, on International Women’s Day in Toronto, several hundred people — many veteran feminist activists — packed an auditorium in the city’s Ryerson University for the launch of Judy Rebick’s oral history of the women’s movement in Canada, Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution. The fact that the book had just been reviewed in the conservative Globe and Mail, Canada’s most influential newspaper, also widened the audience.
- Wright, Erik Olin: Capitalism and Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
In the United States, many take for granted that freedom and democracy are inextricably connected with capitalism. Milton Friedman, in his book Capitalism and Freedom, went so far as to argue that capitalism was a necessary condition for both.
- Wright, Judy: The Coral Battleground
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977 Published: 2014
A fight for the preservation of the Great Barrier Reef, located in the coast of Queensland. In the late 1960s the reef began to be threatened with limestone mining and oil drilling.
- Wright, Richard: What Is America?
A Short History of the New World Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
"All who delve into American history must contend with a language of misnomer and condescension," Wright states in his author's foreword. "Whites are soldiers, Indians are warriors; whites live in towns, Indians in villages; whites have states, Indians have tribes."
- Wright, Richard; Endres, Robin: Eight Men Speak
And Other Plays from the Canadian Workers' Theatre
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Eight plays presented by the Canadian Worker's Theatre in the 1930s.
- Wright, Ronald: A Short History of Progress
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
- Wright, Ronald: Stolen Continents
The "New World" Through Indian Eyes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A history of the Americas through Native eyes.
- Wright, Steve: Storming Heaven
Class composition and struggle in Italian autonomist Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Offering a critical and historical exploration of the tendency's emergence in post-war Italy, "Storming Heaven" moves beyond the crisis of traditional analytical frameworks on the left, and assesses the strengths and limitations of autonomist Marxism as first developed by Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti, Sergio Bologna and others.
- Wright, W. John & DuVernet, Christopher: The Canadian Public Affairs Handbook
Maximizing Markets, Protecting Bottom Lines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
- Writers to Reform the Libel Law: Libel Law is dangerous
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Libel laws threaten freedom of speech.
- Wuerthner, George: Anthropocene Boosters and the Attack on Wilderness Conservation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A number of academics, commentators, and groups argue that humans have so completely modified the Earth that concepts such as 'wilderness' or 'nature' have become meaningless, and that therefore there is no point in talking about 'preserving' wilderness or natural areas. The idea of 'nature', they say, is just a human cultural construct. Those advancing these ideas use different progressive-sounding labels, such as "pragmatic environmentalists" or "green postmodernism," but their message is that we should forget about wilderness conservation and just get on with the business of 'managing' the planet for human benefit. Not surprisingly, corporate and industry leaders have been jumping on the bandwagon.
- Wuerthner, George: Antidote For Rural Sprawl: Land Use Zoning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
There will always be people who will argue that zoning is an infringement upon their freedom to build a home where they choose. Speed limits and traffic lights are an infringement of our freedom to drive at any speed we want, but society recognizes that we would have chaos without such limits. The same principles apply to land use. Most of us recognize that zoning has value. Who doesn’t believe keeping structures out of a river's flood plain or keeping a pig farm out of a residential neighborhood isn’t reasonable? We need to extend that idea to the entire landscape, or we will lose much of what we consider valuable.
- Wuerthner, George: The Attack on Wilderness From Environmentalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Wildlands are being lost across the globe, and some conservation groups are assisting in that loss by proposing lesser protective status.
- Wuerthner, George: The Chainsaw Collaboratives
The Newest Threat to Our National Forests
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Given the membership of the typical collaborative it is hardly surprising that most support greater logging/grazing of our public lands.
- Wuerthner, George: The Collaboration Trap
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Most of environmental/conservation groups in the West are participants in various public land collaboratives.Most participating collaborative members are made up of people who generally believe in exploiting natural landscapes for human benefit. As a generalization, there is overwhelming representation in such collaboratives by people who speak for the resource extraction industry or their sympathizers like rural county commissioners, ORV enthusiasts, and so forth.
- Wuerthner, George: A Collective Ignorance of Ecosystems
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Loss of genetic diversity is one consequence of the Industrial Forestry Paradigm that dominates the U.S. timber industry and all public agencies from the state forestry agencies to the federal agencies like the Forest Service.
- Wuerthner, George: Corporate Welfare in the Forest
Post-Fire Logging Loses Money and Damages the Health of the Ecosystem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The Forest Service is under extreme political pressure to log our national patrimony, whether it makes any economic or ecological sense. A good example of a needless, ecologically damaging, and economically wasteful logging proposal is the proposed $1.4 million Pole Creek post-fire logging sale.
- Wuerthner, George: The Moronic Sport: ORVs on Public Lands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
I do not accept the premise that abuse of our lands is something that we must tolerate as inevitable. It is our land. It is our children's land, and their children's land. We have a responsibility to pass these lands on to the next generation in better condition than we found them.
Talking about promoting 'responsible' ORV use is like suggesting we ought to promote "responsible wife abuse" or "responsible child abuse."
- Wuerthner, George: The Problem With Conservation Easements
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The Washington Post recently published an article that repeated the old and flawed idea that ranching will "protect" the land and suggesting conservation easements are the solution to sprawl.
- Wuerthner, George: Ranchers, the Real Eco Terrorists?
Malice Toward Wildlife
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Analysis on acts of "eco-terrorism" on public lands and towards wildlife.
- Wuerthner, George: The Real Cost of a Hamburger
The Ecological Consequences of Welfare Ranching
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Do you know what a Big Mac costs? If you say $2.50 or whatever the current price posted at the McDonald’s restaurant may be, you are vastly under-estimating the real price. That’s because $2.50 does not reflect the genuine cost of production. Every hamburger price tag should include a calculation of animal suffering, human health costs, economic and ecological subsidies. None of these bona fide costs is included in the price one pays for a hamburger (or other meats eaten by consumers for that matter).
- Wyatt, Rachel: Agnes Macphail
Champion of the Underdog
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- Wyckoff, Hogie: Solving Women's Problems (Through Awareness, Action, And Contact)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
The lowdown on radical therapy principles and practice, positive personal change that empowers individuals to work effectively for social change. Describes the philosophy, theory and practical application of problem-solving groups.
- Wyckoff, Hogie (Editor): Love, Therapy And Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
This ia a collection of articles compiled from the first year of "Issues in Radical Therapy." It includes political perspectives on therapy, group dynamics, male/female sex roles, and other concerns relevant to the practice of radical therapy.
- Wylie, Paul R.: Blood on the Marias
The Baker Massacre
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
An in-depth depiction of the 1870 Baker Massacre in a small Piegan town by the Euro-American Major Eugene Baker who attacked the wrong town killing 173 innocent citizens.
- Wyman, Ken: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started in Direct Mail Fundraising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Wyman, Ken: Guide to Special Events Fundraising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Wyns, Arthur: A million species 'threatened with extinction'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A summary of a dire climate report on the decline in global biodiversity.
- Wyns, Arthur: Air pollution now 'largest health crisis'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The WHO estimates that seven million premature deaths are linked to air pollution every year, of which nearly 600,000 are children who are uniquely vulnerable.
- Wynter, Coral: The terrible legacy of Agent Orange and dioxin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Agent Orange was manufactured by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemicals to use as a herbicide and defoliant in the Vietnam War.
- Wypijewski, Joann: Eye in the Sky
Surveillance and the Art of Arnold Mesches
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Round about the turn of this century Arnold Mesches, who is neither monk nor medievalist nor Christian, began illuminating manuscripts from the world that long since had killed God but appropriated or accommodated to a version of His all-seeing eye. The manuscripts in question: Mesches’ FBI file, 1945 to 1972.
- Wypijewski, Joann: Milton Rogovin: Portraitist to the People
He Gave Them Respect
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
His photography did not turn people into victims, nor did it make them heroes.
- Wypijewski, Joann: Oscar Hangover Special: Why "Spotlight" Is a Terrible Film
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
I am astonished (though I suppose I shouldn't be) that, across the past few months, ever since Spotlight hit theatres, otherwise serious left-of-centre people have peppered their party conversation with effusions that the film reflects a heroic journalism, the kind we all need more of. I was in Boston in the Spring of 2002 reporting on the priest scandal, and because I know some of what is untrue, I don't believe the personal injury lawyers or the Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team or the Catholic "faithful" who became harpies outside Boston churches, carrying signs with images of Satan.
- Wypijewski, JoAnn: What Brett Kavanaugh Really Learned in High School: Make the Rules, Break the Rules and Prosper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The accusations against Kavanaugh may be an open question but his behaviour in handling them proves he is unfit for the Supreme Court. This is reinforced by his previous evasiveness about his role in the Bush administrations torture policy which called his integrity into question long before Christine Blasey Ford made her accusations.
- Wypijewski, Joanne: Primitive Heterosexuality
Carnal Knowledge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
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