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- Yachir, Faysal: The World Steel Industry
Dynamics of Decline
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
This book covers the profound changes undergone by the world steel industry since the mid-1970s oil price rise. Faysal Yachir combines technological explanation, economic argument and awareness of the class implications of the changes in the global steel industry to throw light on what is happening to the world economy. His analysis raises questions about the future of traditional manufacturing sectors, and explores the prospects for Third World countries of developing their own industries.
- Yakupitiyage, Tharanga: Indigenous Women: The Frontline Protectors of the Environment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Indigenous women, while experiencing the first and worst effects of climate change globally, are often in the frontline in struggles to protect the environment.
- Yakupitiyage, Tharanga: Myanmar Rohingya Face "Textbook Example of Ethnic Cleansing"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
As hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State, thousands that remain in the country face mass atrocities at a scale never seen before.
- Yakupitiyage,Tharanga: TPP is "Worst Trade Agreement" for Medicine Access, Says Doctors Without Borders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] will…go down in history as the worst trade agreement for access to medicines in developing countries, said Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a statement following the signing of the TPP trade deal.
- Yalnizyan, Armine: Canada's Great Divide
The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Over the course of the 1990s, Canada's growing gap has become a slippery slope for a growing number of middle income familes sliding towards the bottom of the income ladder.
- Yan, Wong Kam: China's Worker Protests: A Second Wave of Labor Unrest?
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
There has been a 30% rise in collective riots in China in recent years. Whereas in 1993, there were 10,000 reported cases with 700,000 participants, in 2003 it jumped to 60,000 with 3 million participants. Among these examples, labor unrest has been quite outstanding, though it is difficult to get official statistics.
- Yang, Mauel: Breadking the Grid, Making Our Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Yang provides a reading of E.P. Thompson's "The Making of the English Working Class" through the lens of contemporary and historical working-class revolutions and struggles.
- Yanowitz, Jason: The Makhno Myth
Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Starting in the 1970s, a new consensus emerged among serious scholars of the Russian Revolution. Instead of seeing the rise of Stalinism as the predetermined outcome of Leninism or workers' power, "revisionist" historians looked instead to the devastating effects of civil war and international isolation. They discovered that the early years of the workers' state were far more complicated and rich than the standard right-wing inevitable-march-to-totalitarianism version. In its broad outlines, their work confirmed that material conditions, rather than Bolshevik original sin, transformed a mass, popular revolution into its opposite, Stalinism.
- Yap, Nonita T.: Sustainable Community Development
An Introductory Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Yassin, Jaime Omar: Demonizing the Victims of Katrina
Coverage painted hurricane survivors as looters, snipers and rapists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Hurricane Katrina led many media reporters and commentators to reveal themselves and their deep-seated prejudices.
- Yates, Michael: Lock 'Em Up
The Prison State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Without a doubt, most of those enmeshed in the (in)justice system are not dangers to society and would not have been in it at all in a society that wasn't so racist and so shot through with every kind of social and economic inequality. Unfortunately, whatever the reasons why so many men and women have been denied their freedom, once the numbers began to rise dramatically, constituencies came into being: lawyers, police, probation officers, prison guards and staff, drug and alcohol rehabilitation counselors, sex offender counselors, vendors of all sorts, clerks and other clerical support staff, court officers, judges, community service employers that have a strong stake in milking the new cash cow.
- Yates, Michael: Longer Hours, Fewer Jobs
Employment and Unemployment in the United States
Resource Type: Book
Explains how employment and unemployment are inextricably connected in an economic system where employers are driven by the search for profits.
- Yates, Michael: Naming the System
Resource Type: Book
The economic boom of the 1990s created huge wealth for the bosses, but benefitted workers hardly at all. Michael D. Yates seeks to explain how this happened, and what can be done about it.
- Yates, Michael: Police are the Enemy Within
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Yates argues that the police are the enemy of the working class, and that "law enforcement" has a long history of violence against Black and Indigenous individuals and communities. Moreover, in the capitalist system where the law is biased in favour of property over persons, the role of the police continues to be the protection of business from damage, and that harm to persons is simply collateral damage.
- Yates, Michael: Why Unions Matter
2nd Edition, 10th Anniversary Update
Resource Type: Book
Shows why workers need unions, how unions are formed, how they operate, how collective bargaining works, the role of unions in politics, and what unions have done to bring workers together across the divides of race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation.
- Yates, Michael: Year of the Strike
A Short Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A short story about a boy's money-making scheme during the year his father and other workers go on strike at the town glass factory.
- Yates, Michael (ed.): More Unequal
Aspects of Class in the United States
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Yates looks at class from a global vantage point integrating discussions of race, gender, and class, and the emergence of an international capitalist class.
- Yates, Michael D: Just Wait Until I Get Tenure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A Facebook friend, Steven Salaita, recently wrote a post about academe arguing that tenure-track professors are kidding themselves if they say they will become more radical once they get tenure. I agreed with his post, and I made a long reply. Here, I incorporate what I said into a more coherent commentary.
- Yates, Michael D.: Can the Working Class Change the World?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
A look at how the working class and its allies can oppose capitalism to bring radical change.
- Yates, Michael D.: The Great Inequality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
A growing inequality in income and wealth marks modern capitalism, and it negatively affects nearly every aspect of our lives, especially those of the working class. Michael Yates explains what inequality is, why it matters, how it affects us, what its underlying causes are, and what we might do about it. This book was written to encourage informed radical action by working people, the unemployed, and the poor, uniquely blending the author’s own experiences with his ability to make complex issues comprehensible to a mass audience.
- Yates, Michael D.: The Promises and Limitations of Radical Local Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Steve Early's most recent book, Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of An American City (Beacon Press), describes the building of a what is very likely the most successful progressive political organization, The Richmond Progressive Alliance, in the United States, in Richmond, California, a blue collar city long dominated by Chevron Corp.
- Yates, Michael D.: Wisconsin Uprising
Labor Fights Back
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
A collection of essays describing the working class uprising that occurred in Wisconsin, in February and early March of 2011.
- Yates, Michael D.: Work Work Work
Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2022
Yates looks at the reality of labour markets, the nature of work in capitalist societies, and the nature and necessity of class struggle, which alone can bring exploitation -- and the system of control that makes it possible -- to a final end.
- Yates, Michael D. (ed.): Wisconsin Uprising
Labor Fights Back
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
A collection of accounts from the early stages of the Wisconsin uprising against the corporate world in the of spring 2011.
- Yellessety, Leela: Women in the Black Panther Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
While much that has been written about the Black Panther Party (BPP) is focused on the role of certain prominent male leaders, lesser known is that during peak membership women made up nearly two-thirds of the party. Leela Yellessety spoke to three authors of recent books that highlight the contribution of women in the Black Panther Party.
- Yeoman: The World Bank Group's Uncounted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances. Over the last decade, projects funded by the World Bank have physically or economically displaced an estimated 3.4 million people, forcing them from their homes, taking their land or damaging their livelihoods.
- Yepe, Manuel E.: The Return of the Coup in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Venezuela and Brazil are the scenes of a new form of coup d'etat that would set the continent's political calendar back to its worst times. Meanwhile, in Argentina, the brutal model for the demolition of democracy is set forward by the continental oligarchic right and the hegemonic forces of US imperialism who wish to impose their model in the region.
- Yermiya, Dov: My War Diary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
In this passionate and humane diary, Dov Yermiya, a lieutenant colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces, provides eyewitness accounts of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
- Yoder, Andrew: Pirate Radio Stations
Tuning In Underground Broadcasts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- York, Geoffrey: The High Price of Health
A Patient's Guide to the Hazards of Medical Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- York, Geoffrey; Pindera, Loreen: People Of The Pines
The Warriors And The Legacy Of Oka
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
An account of the 78-day standoff in the summer of 1990 between Mohawk warriors and Quebec Police and the Canadian Army.
- York, Jillian: Net freedom 'at stake' on WikiLeaks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Internet service providers are cutting access to the whistleblower site, raising broader concerns about online freedom.
- York, Richard; Clark, Brett: The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Stephen Jay Gould was not only a leading paleontologist and evolutionary theorist, he was also a humanist with an enduring interest in the history and philosophy of science. The extraordinary range of Gould’s work was underpinned by a richly nuanced and deeply insightful worldview. Richard York and Brett Clark engage Gould’s science and humanism to illustrate and develop the intellectual power of Gould’s worldview, particularly with regard to the philosophy of science.
- Young, Allyson: Alternative Energy Association
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
A group that discusses energy conservation issues.
- Young, Art: Pro-Israel Lobby Alarmed by Growth of Boycott, Divestment Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel is emerging as one of the most important ways to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine.
- Young, Art (ed.): Making a Killing
The Canada-Israel Military-Industrial Partnership
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2009
Canadian companies supply many essential components to Israel's war machine. This pamphlet provides information on the arms trade that will help to strengthen the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
- Young, Charles M.: Nim and Noam
Skinner, Chomsky and the Chimp
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
How psychologists abused a chimpanzee in a failed attempt to prove that Noam Chomsky was wrong about language.
- Young, Charles M.: Watching the Pentagon Channel
The New Socialist Realism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The oddest aspect of the Pentagon Channel is how completely they shield their audience - potential soldiers, current soldiers and former soldiers - from what they are defending, which is to say: capitalism.
- Young, James D.: Reply to A Reviewer
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
My old friend Paul Buhle has developed a neat general formula for reviewing the books he is out of sympathy with. Paul begins by making laudatory comments and concludes by expressing overwhelmingly negative judgments. But he has gone too far in his review of my The Rousing of the Scottish Working Class by falsely accusing me of using “a club to beat [E.P.] Thompson.”
- Young, Joyce: Fundraising for Non-Profit Groups
How to Get Money from Corporations, Foundations, and Government
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
- Young, Kevin: Drug War Winners and Losers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A review of Dawn Paley's book "Drug War Capitalism."
- Young, Kevin: Indians, Leftists, and Rebellion in Bolivia - review
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A review of 'Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia' by Jeffery Webber.
- Young, Kevin: A Partial Peace in Colombia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Colombia's peace accord serves capitalist interests, but may also open new space for the grassroots left.
- Young, Kevin: The Rise of the Tea Party
Where Did They Come From?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The Tea Party has never been a genuine social movement or political outsider but rather an elite-dominated group that was closely linked to the Republican establishment from its inception.
- Young, Kevin (Reviewer); Paley, Dawn (Author): Drug War Winners and Losers
Drug War Capitalism (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
State officials are portrayed as wholly separate from criminal groups. To the contrary, Paley shows that the worlds of state officials, large business interests and drug lords are in fact thoroughly integrated. Far from being inimical to business investment and the modern state, illicit drug economies and drug-related violence are simply a part of capitalism-as-usual.
- Young, Kevin; Becerra, Diana C. Sierra: Hillary Clinton and Corporate Feminism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Feminist enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton is reflective of a profound crisis of U.S. liberal feminism, which has long embraced or accepted corporate capitalism, racism, empire, and even heterosexism and transphobia.
- Young, Nigel: An Infantile Disorder?
The Crisis and Decline of the New Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
- Young, Patrick: Getting Serious About Keeping Fossil Fuels in the Ground Means Getting Serious About a Just Transition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
If the climate movement is going to get serious about keeping fossil fuels in the ground, the movement needs to get serious about cultivating a real vision for a just transition. If we’re going to see coal-fired power plants and oil refineries and chemical plants shut down we need to have a real vision about what the future looks like for those workers, their families and their communities.
- Young, Walter D.: The Anatomy of a Party
The National CCF 1932-1961
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
A history of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation focusing on the relationship between the CCF as a movement and as a political party.
- Young, Wayland: Eros Denied
Sex in Western Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964 Published: 1966
Spanning 2000 years of Western culture, Eros Denied explores the multitude of forces which through the ages have tended to suppress and pervert the sexual instincts.
- Younge, Gary: How to fight reactionaries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Fundamentalists of all kinds only thrive when their communities feel besieged. Understanding why is not an indulgence.
- Younis, Rami: We're facing unprecedented horror. Why is Biden adding fuel to the fire?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
With the climate in Israel-Palestine reviving the fears of May 2021, the U.S. should be preventing further massacres, not allowing Israel to take revenge.
- Yu, Au Loong: The New Chinese Nationalism
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Corporate globalization has been remarkably successful in driving down wages and the welfare of working people across the world. Resistance to this is necessary and inevitable, hence the birth of the anti-globalization movement. The movement is vastly heterogeneous, but internationalist aspirations are strongly visible.
- Yu, Au Loong; Ruixue, Bai: Resistance in China Today
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Cases of resistance in China continue to grow.
- Yu, Au Loong; Ruixue, Bai: Resistance in China Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Cases of Resistance in China continue to grow. Protests both large and small are extremely frequent. These range from workers’ protests against unpaid wages and demands for labor rights to protests against corrupt officials and environmental abuses. While these struggles have often been brought to a swift end through repression, they have also frequently led to protestors being granted concessions.
- Yu, Mok Chiu and Harrison, J. Frank (ed.): Voices from Tiananmen Square
Beijing Spring and the Democracy Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Yuen, Eddie: Confronting Capitalism
Dispatches from a Global Movement
Resource Type: Book
- Yurkevych (Lev Rybalka): The Russian Social Democrats and the National Question
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1917
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