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- Abandoning the Public Interest
![](/Graphics/CxLibraryIcon.gif) Resource Type: Article First Published: 2000 Published: 2001 The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
- Against All Odds
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1985 The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
- Anarchism vs. Marxism: A few notes on an old theme
![](/Graphics/CxLibraryIcon.gif) Resource Type: Article First Published: 1978 Anarchist critiques of Marxism typically reveal a lack of knowledge of what Karl Marx actually wrote, resulting in sterile denunciations of a straw-man opponent.
- Bain Co-op Meets Wages for Housework
A political thriller Resource Type: Article First Published: 1977 The story of the struggle that gave birth to a housing co-operative and destroyed the credibility of the 'Wages for Housework' sect.
- Bakunin vs. Marx
![](/Graphics/CxLibraryIcon.gif) Resource Type: Article First Published: 1978 The anarchist-Marxist split started with Bakunin, who systematically misrepresented Marx's positions.
- The Capital Punishment Debate
![](/Graphics/CxLibraryIcon.gif) Resource Type: Article First Published: 1984 The death penalty make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society.
- Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks
![](/Graphics/CxLibraryIcon.gif) Resource Type: Article First Published: 2000 The story of Ontario's right-wing Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
- Dances with Guilt: Looking at Men Looking at Violence
![](/Graphics/CxLibraryIcon.gif) Resource Type: Article First Published: 1991 Why are some men violent?
- 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
![](/Graphics/CxLibraryIcon.gif) Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression: they are for it - in principle - but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e. who gets to censor who.
- Free speech for me - you shut up
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
- Grassroots Cells, Devil's Architects Defend Communities
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1973 Published: 1989 Organizational principles and campaign tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
- Green Municipalism
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1991 A green municipalist analysis offers valuable perspectives but can become a straightjacket if it is seen as 'the' answer.
- How they shot those campus bums
Review of The Truth About Kent State Resource Type: Article First Published: 1973 How Ohio National Guard troops out to "get" campus radicals and teach them "what law and order is all about" shot down students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others.
- Hungary 1956: A workers' revolt crushed by the "workers' state"
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1973 The Hungarian revolution, brief though it was, did as much as a century of socialist theorizing to show what a united and determined people could do to transform their society.
- Inclusion or exclusion
![](/Graphics/CxLibraryIcon.gif) Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
- The Iraq Crisis in Context
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2003 A rogue state, heavily armed with weapons of mass destruction, openly contempuous of international law and the United Nations, plunges the world into crisis.
- Keep raising the issue of democracy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1989 Socialists should keep hammering away at the issue of democracy.
- Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
![](/Graphics/CxLibraryIcon.gif) Resource Type: Article First Published: 1989 Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
- Looking for Democracy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1989 Instead of sitting on the sidelines congratulating ourselves on how wonderfully free and democratic we are, we should be pressing for a radical democratization of our own society.
- Rosa Luxemburg
![](/Graphics/CxLibraryIcon.gif) A letter about Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to Marxism Resource Type: Article First Published: 2000 In a time when the socialist movement was evolving in directions increasingly removed from Marx's positions -- Social Democratic reformism on the one hand, and Leninist bureaucratic centralism on the other -- Luxemburg was the leading exponent of a Marxism in the spirit of Marx.
- The Meaning of Democracy
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1996 Our democratic system: a safe election every four years or so in which voters choose between corporate-dominated parties whose policies are virtually indistinguishable on all fundamental issues.
- Medicare Myths and Realities
![](/Graphics/CxLibraryIcon.gif) Resource Type: Article First Published: 2012 Since medicare is an extremely popular social program, the media and right-wing politicians have learned that it is unwise to attack it directly. Instead, they propagate myths designed to undermine public support for, and confidence in, the health care system, with the goal of gradually undermining and dismantling it.
- The myth of a free market in publishing and high-tech
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1999 The high-tech industries, in the U.S. in particular, owe their very existence to massive levels of government subsidies and intervention.
- National Post columnist traumatized by having to wait his turn
Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors? Resource Type: Article First Published: 2006 Published: 2012 Columnist thinks people with money should get quicker treatment in emergency rooms than people who are poor.
- One Vote for Democracy
![](/Graphics/CxLibraryIcon.gif) Consensus vs. democracy Resource Type: Article First Published: 1986 Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
- Polluted Logic
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1998 The business of allowing polluters to buy their way out of complying with the law is an innovation with vast untapped potential.
- Preface to Martin Glaberman's Four Essays on the Working Class
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1975 Glaberman insists that the working class is not merely a victim of capitalism. Working people are active participants in creating their own consciousness, their methods of struggle and their own history.
- Progressives shouldn't be begging the police to take more power
Resource Type: Article First Published: 1984 The last thing we need is to hand the police even more power to decide what we are allowed to see or read.
- Radical Digressions
![](/Graphics/CxLibraryIcon.gif) Resource Type: Website First Published: 2006 Published: 2017 Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
- Rights and Liberties
Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue) Resource Type: Article First Published: 1984 Civil liberties and human rights appear as a key dimension in almost every other field of social justice and social change, but those who seek a freer and more just society cannot rely on the state to achieve their goals.
- Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
![](/Graphics/CxLibraryIcon.gif) Resource Type: Article First Published: 2009 The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
- Thinking About Self-Determination
![](/Graphics/CxLibraryIcon.gif) Resource Type: Article First Published: 1994 Does that familiar canon of the left, 'the right to self-determination', actually mean anything, or is it an empty slogan whose main utility is that it relieves us of the trouble of thinking critically?
- Trotskyism and the vanguard party
![](/Graphics/CxLibraryIcon.gif) Resource Type: Article First Published: 1974 One of the most consistent achievements of the Trotskyists over the years has been to drive people away from radical politics. The number of burned-out and alienated ex-Trotskyists greatly exceeds the number of active Trotskyists. Their transparently manipulative tactics in the organizations they infiltrate tend to drive ordinary members away, forever wary of anyone identified as a Trotskyist.
- What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
![](/Graphics/CxLibraryIcon.gif) Resource Type: Article First Published: 1989 We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
- What is Libertarian Socialism?
![](/Graphics/CxLibraryIcon.gif) Resource Type: Article First Published: 1977 Revolution is a collective process of self-liberation: people and societies are transformed through their struggles for freedom and for a better world.
- Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl?
Resource Type: Article First Published: 2008 History gives us numerous examples of social movements which come, over time, to adopt positions directly opposed to the principles on which they were founded. It appears this has happened to the 'feminists' who seek to silence those who speak out about violence against Muslim women.
- Yes Means No?
![](/Graphics/CxLibraryIcon.gif) Resource Type: Article First Published: 1992 The anti-sex moralists say one thing but mean another.
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