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"M" Titles
- M: Gentle Men for Gender Justice
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
- M is for Miriam
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
An illustrated children's book about the Canadian physician and activist Miriam Garfinkle. Each page is devoted to some page of her life: C is for Community, D is for Doctor, G is for Garden, L is for Laughter, N is for Nature, P is for Piano, Q is for Questions, S is for Solidarity, W is for Waffles....
Identifiers: Canadiana 20190236663 - ISBN: 9781927470077
Subjects: LCSH: English language - Alphabet - Juvenile literature - LCSH Alphabet books. - LCSH: Garfinkle, Miriam, 1954-2018.
Classification: LCC PE1155.D54 2020 - DDC j421--dc23
- Ma Commande Me Fait Mourir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Ce dossier a été préparé par un groupe de mères de Pointe St-Charles.
- MA Stops Charter School Expansion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Despite their $24 million, the charter forces - which in March had more than a 20-point lead in the polls - lost by an amazing 24 points, 62% to 38%.
- Maathai, Wangari
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Winner of the1984 Right Livelihood Award and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1940).
- Maathai, Wangari
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article
Winner of the 1984 Right Livelihood Award and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. (1940-2011).
- Wangari Maathai Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Macaroni & Cheese and Revolution
The Anarchist Cookbook
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Keith McHenry's and Chaz Bufe's The Anarchist Cookbook.
- Macdonald, Dwight
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American writer, editor, social critic, philosopher, and political radical. (1906-1982).
- Machines
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
The documentary captures the hardships and daily life of workers in a large textile factory in Gujarat, India. Director Jain takes the audience to a place of pre-industrial working conditions and dehumanizing labour that ultimately shows the huge divide between the first world and developing countries. Runtime: 75 min.
- Machismo and Its Discontents
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The one clear memory I have of 1968 (as opposed to all those other antiwar and pro-civil rights struggles in which I was engaged in the 1960s and ‘70s) is that I was a member of a faculty ad-hoc group, mostly from UMass Amherst (but there was also someone who taught at Amherst college and his wife).
- Machsom Watch
Resource Type: Website
Israeli women's organization which monitors the behaviour of Israeli soldiers and police at checkpoints and which attempts to ensure that the human and civil rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories are protected.
- MacInnis, Angus
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Canadian social democratic politician. (1884-1964).
- Grace MacInnis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Canadian politician and feminist: obituary in the Connexions Digest.
- MacInnis, Grace Winona
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Canadian politician and feminist.
- MacInnis, Grace
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Canadian politician and feminist. (1905-1991).
- Mackandal, François
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Haïtian Maroon resistance leader. (died 1758).
- Mackenzie
A political biography of William Lyon Mackenzie
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
History has often dismissed William Lyon Mackenzie as a comical figure, or as the political hothead who bungled the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. Former Toronto mayor John Sewell suggests he may actually be the best model this country has ever had of a responsible politician.
- The Mackenzie - Papineau Battalion
Canadian Participation in the Spanish Civil War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
The story of over twelve hundred Canadians who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War.
- Mackenzie-Papineau veterans organize
Organization profile published 1991
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1991
- The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Series
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1977
- The Mackenzie Valley: Native Land Claims and Corporate Growth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
An overview of the demands on the Dene Nation regarding the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline proposal.
- Mackenzie, William Lyon
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Journalist, politician, rebel. (1795-1861).
- Mackenzie, William Lyon
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Journalist, politician, rebel. (1795-1861).
- The Macmillian Atlas of Irish History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
A full-colour atlas of Irish history.
- Macphail, Agnes
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Canadian political and activist. (1890-1954).
- Macphail, Agnes Campbell
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Canadian polician. (1890-1954).
- Macpherson, C. B.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Canadian political scientist. (1911-1987).
- Macroanalysis Bibliography For Canadian Groups
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
A collection of Canadian materials to accompany a seminar programme to develop social change programs.
- Macrocosm USA
Possibilities for a New Progressive Era
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
An environmental, political and social solutions handbook and directory.
- Mad dogs and Englishmen
Resource Type: Article
- Mad Marx: The Class Warrior
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 2017
- Mad, Passionate Love - and Violence: Occupy Heads Into the Spring
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The Occupy movement had its glorious honeymoon when old and young, liberal and radical, comfortable and desperate, homeless and tenured all found that what they had in common was so compelling the differences hardly seemed to matter. Until they did.
- The Mad Violence of Casino Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
American society is morally bankrupt and politically broken, and its vision of the future appears utterly dystopian. As the United States descends into the dark abyss of an updated form of totalitarianism, the unimaginable has become imaginable in that it has become possible not only to foresee the death of the essential principles of constitutional democracy, but also the birth of what Hannah Arendt once called the horror of dark times.
- Madagascar: At the Bottom of the Capitalist Abyss
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Madagascar is a country still too little known today and yet, in many ways, it is an emblematic victim of contemporary capitalist pillage. Set in the Indian Ocean, the size of France, with a population of more than 20 million people, Madagascar shows symptoms of advanced general degradation.
- The Madder Trump Gets, the More Seriously the World Takes Him
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The more dangerous America's crackpot President becomes, the saner the world believes him to be. Just look back at the initial half of his first 100 days: the crazed tweeting, the lies, the fantasies and self-regard of this misogynist leader of the Western world appalled all of us. But the moment he went to war in Yemen, fired missiles at Syria and bombed Afghanistan, even the US media Trump had so ferociously condemned began to treat him with respect. And so did the rest of the world.
- Made-in-China fake news overwhelms Taiwan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Since 2016, when Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was elected as Taiwan's president relations between Taiwan and China have been increasingly strained. In parallel, a series of fake news campaigns have captured Taiwanese media, with experts tracing several of these stories back to China.
- Made in the USA: Report Shows ISIS Using US Arms from 'Syria Rebels'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
From the moment the US began sending lethal arms to Syrian rebel factions, there was a chorus of people expressing fears that those arms would end up in the “wrong hands,” and US officials insisted they were going to carefully vet everyone who got those weapons.
- Madiba in Palestine
Apartheid Died on the Sharp Edge of Principles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The profound political ties between Palestinians and South Africans are quite strong, matched, perhaps, only by the deep connections to the black freedom movement in the U.S. Madiba’s death has generated an outpouring of mourning and remembrance from Palestinian activists.
- Madison Revisited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Published in Radical History Review, 57 (1993)
- Madison: Sitting Down for Justice
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
These words aptly describe recent events at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At 2:00 PM. on Wednesday, February 16, 2000, seven students walked into UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward's office in Bascom Hall. The students-Brendan O'Sullivan, Molly McGrath, Mark Brakken, Sarah Turner, Riza Falk and Adam Klaus, chairperson of the Associated Students of Madison-demanded that the university change its sweatshop practices.
- 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.
- The Magic and Deadly Dust: Asbestos and Your Health
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Magic or Medicine?
An Investigation of Healing & Healers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- A Magical Moment
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Penelope Rosemont, poet, artist and essayist, is the well known author of Surrealist Women. An International Anthology. Her new book is a lively and fascinating document, based on her personal notes from the 1960s, a time when a window to the impossible seemed to open. The story begins in Chicago, and takes us to Paris, London, and back to the United States; the author did not make it to the Seven Cities of Cibola, because they exist only in an Uncle Scrooge comic strip…
- The Magna Carta
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1215
The Magna Carta consists of concessions wrung from the unwilling King John by his rebellious barons in 1215. It established for the first time a very significant constitutional principle: that the power of the king could be limited by a written grant.
- The Magna Carta Manifesto
Liberties and Commons for All
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Linebaugh shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny -- and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture -- are being abridged. In providing a sweeping history of Magna Carta, the source of these protections since 1215, this book demonstrates how these ancient rights are repeatedly laid aside when the greed of privatization, the lust for power, and the ambition of empire seize a state.
- Magnificent FIght: the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
In Magnificent Fight, Dennis Lewycky lays out the history of this iconic event, which remains the biggest and longest strike in Canadian history. He analyzes the social, political and economic conditions leading up to the strike.
- The Mahatma: a Marxist Symposium
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
- The Mahatma and the Ism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958
- Mahatma Gandhi
An Apostle of Applied Human Ecology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
- Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
Tackles some of the myths of about Gandhi, such as the idea that he was a "saint", or the idea that non-violence is the same as passivity, or that non-violence may have worked in India but wouldn't work anywhere else.
- Mahmoud Darwish, A Poet's Complex Trajectory
Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Book review of Khaled Mattawa's Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation.
- The MAI and capitalist crisis - a Marxist analysis
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1998
The MAI is nothing more than a "bill of rights" for corporations.
- The Maidan Massacre, Censorship & Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Natylie Baldwin interviews Ivan Katchanovski, a Canadian-Ukrainian professor whose research focuses on the Ukraine coup of 2014 and the killing that year of protesters in Kiev.
- Mailing list know-how
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Your mailing list is one of the cornerstones of a good communications strategy.
- Mailing List of Individuals Interested in Diversion Process
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Main Currents of Marxism
Volume 1: The Founders
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Kolakowski gives his interpretation of the origins of Marxism, and analyses the development of Marx's thought and its divergence from other forms of socialism.
- Main Currents of Marxism
Volume 2: The Golden Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Kolakowski examines the theories of the leading Marxists, and the controversies between them, in the era of the Second International.
- Main Currents of Marxism
Volume 3: The Breakdown
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Kolakowski examines the origins and development of Stalinism, as well as the contributions of Trotsky, Gramsci, Lukacs, Marcuse, and others, and traces developments in Marxism it period after the Second World War.
- The main enemy is at home
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
The outbreak of war is always a human disaster with unforeseeable consequences. The 'fog of war,' incessant propaganda, rapidly changing events, our own confused thoughts and emotions, all make it exceedingly difficult to know how to react.
- The Main Issue in the French Presidential Election: National Sovereignty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The 2017 French Presidential election marks a profound change in European political alignments. There is an ongoing shift from the traditional left-right rivalry to opposition between globalization, in the form of the European Union (EU), and national sovereignty.
- The main problem with Israel is that it is based on religion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
- The Main Street Group for Cooperative Development
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
- Mainspring of the Arab Revolt
A review of Lineages of Revolt by Adam Hanieh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
This book ought to be read — or better, studied — by every socialist interested in the Middle East.
- Mainstream Media And The Propaganda Machine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Mainstream media, especially the American media plays a vital role in shaping the world public opinion.
- Mainstream Media Bias on 2020 Democratic Race Already in High Gear
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Mainstream media pundits undermine the chances of progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders despite the defeat of centrist politicians by the right.
- Mainstream News And USA's Heroics In Vietnam
Why The Silence About The 7 Million Dead?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An account of the media's role in suppressing information about US military actions in Indochina from the 1940s and onward, and how the same tactics persist in the present.
- Maintenant qu'est ce qu'on fait?
Établir un mouvement social suite aux conséquences du libre échange
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Nous savons que l'accord du libre échange va éroder l'indépendance Canadienne qui est déjà limitée. Ce qui rendra encore plus difficile de résister la croisade néo conservatrice qui tien à éliminer tout ce qui se tient devant un profit sur le marché.
- Maji Maji Rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A violent African resistance to colonial rule in the German colony of Tanganyika.
- Major Challenges of New Orleans Charter Schools Exposed at NAACP Hearing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
New Orleans is the nation's largest and most complete experiment in charter schools. After Hurricane Katrina, the State of Louisiana took control of public schools in New Orleans and launched a nearly complete transformation of a public school system into a system of charter schools.
- Major confrontation looms over rent controls removal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Support for an end to rent controls is growing among government officials who say that apartments aren't being built because developers no longer find it profitable enough. Critics of this line of thinking agree that apartment construction isn't keeping up with demand, but argue that rent controls are not the cause. They point to similar apartment shortages in cities without rent controls, and note that the construction slowdown began before the controls were introduced.
- Major League Losers
The Real Cost of Sports and Who's Paying For It
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1999
- Major study shows species loss destroys essential ecosystems
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Long term research by German ecologists proves that loss of biodiversity has "direct, unpleasant consequences for mankind."
- Major Universal Problems of Living
A New Approach to Information
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1936 Published: 1967
- A Majority Black Police Force - It's Not Enough
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Although 61% oF Detroit's police force is Black - and headed by a Black police chief - between 1995-2000 police shot 47 people; from 2009-14 there were 18 additional shootings. Perhaps the most publicized case has been the SWAT-like raid on a home that resulted in the death of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones, killed as she lay sleeping on the couch next to her grandmother.
- Make 2015 the Year of the Bonobo!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
We humans have much to learn from our kissing cousins, the peaceful, empathic, playful, sensual and highly sexual Bonobo. Rather than play out the myth of ancestral 'killer apes', better follow the 'Bonobo Way', and extend our love to all living beings and Earth herself.
- Make a Difference
Student Activities for a Better Environment
Resource Type: Book
Make a Difference is book for students in grades 6, 7 and 8. It provides educational material on a variety of environmental concerns through exercises, charts and tables, illustrations and a glossary of environmental terms. The students can evaluate their lifestyle at school, at home, in the community and learn practical ways to use our resources sensibly.
- Make Art! Change the World! Starve!
The Fallacy of Art as Social Justice - Part I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
- The Make-Believe Crisis in Iran
More lies and Misinformation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The Iranian nuclear program scenario has been in place for years and is becoming tedious, but we now seem to have arrived at a new plateau of mass hysteria thanks to the 2012 U.S. Presidential campaign. Why?
- Make Sure You Don't Fall: Perspectives on the Recent Social Agitation in Chile, Part One
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Discontent and rage have always been there, but while Social Democracy was in power, the supporters of the regime -- well placed in the open spaces for action and thought in high schools, universities and companies -- were able to use them to channel protests into directions that did not endanger the political credibility of the ruling parties.
- Make Sure You Don't Fall: Perspectives on the Recent Social Agitation in Chile, Part One
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
To understand and make sense of the recent wave of social unrest in Chile, we have to refer to the history of the last half century of this country: the revolutionary upsurge that had its peak in late 1972, the destruction of the social movement after the military coup, the neo-liberal restructuring imposed by the Pinochet regime and the consolidation of that legacy by successive civilian governments.
- Make the Don a Museum of Horrors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
A museum depicting what prison is really like might motivate us to demand radical changes to the way we deal with offenders.
- Make the World a Home
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
A pamphlet with the theme "Live simply that others may simply live".
- The Makeover Book
101 Design Solutions for Desktop Publishing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Makers of our Daily Bread
An interview with two bakery workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
- 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.
- Makhno, Nestor
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Ukrainian anarcho-communist guerrilla leader. (1888-1934).
- Making A Killing
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1980
A slide-tape program dealing with Canada's role in the global arms industry.
- 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.
- Making a Living - Ten Days for World Development 1980.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
- Making a Sow's Ear from Palestinian Protest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The recent decision by the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) to place a pig's head in what was assumed to be the kosher section of Woolworths, and then, in fact, turned out to be the halal section, could be written off as a mere "fail of the week."
- Making Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
How to effect community change as an individual or as a member of a support group, a neighborhood organization, a board of directors, or other political group. Organizing skills, conflict diagnosis and resolution, communication skills, and running meetings are a few of the skills described in the context of neighbourhood/community change.
- Making Common Cause
A Statement and Action Plan By US-Based Development, Environment and Populations NGOS
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1988
- Making Connections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
The pressure to view things narrowly and out of context is a form of social control. Without seeing connections, we can't make sense of the world, and if we can't make sense of the world, we can't change it. "Making connections" among the many different issues and areas of our experience is a vital task of the revolutionary movement.
- Making Conservation Strategy: Can Greens Learn from Military?
Resource Type: Article
- Making Ends Meet
A History of Women's Economic Contributions to the Family Farm in Manitoba
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Based on hundres of interviews with Manitoba farm men and women, Making Ends Meet reconstructs the common history shared by modern farm women as well as by their mothers and grandmothers.
- Making the Future
Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
- Making Gay Redundant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Peter Tatchell suggests that gay identity has nothing to do with biology and everything to do with homophobia. Winning gay freedom will make gay identity redundant.
- Making Green Jobs Good Jobs
Unions organize the clean energy sector
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Jobs versus the environment -- it's an old dilemma that pits unions seeking work for their members against activists rallying against projects like the Keystone XL. An expanding renewable energy sector might provide a way out of this quandary. Solar and wind energy projects can put people to work without imperiling the planet. But will these jobs be friendly to workers, as well as the environment?
- Making It Visible to Ourselves
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Cheryl Harris reflects on Ferguson and the current and persisting issues Black people are facing in the U.S.
- Making mid-life changes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
"I'm so much more myself." So says Miriam Garfinkle, a family physician who recently left her busy private practice to work in a community health centre.
- Making mid-life changes - Chinese translation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
- Making Money Off of Green Debt: Cory Morningstar Finds Corporate Wolves Behind Environmental Sheep
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Building through the privatization-friendly Reagan-Bush era of the 1980s, ramping up significantly with Bill Clinton's signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the 1990s, and solidified through the de facto repeal of the post-Great Depression separation between investment and commercial banks at the end of Clinton’s scandal-plagued final term in office at the turn of the millenium, the United States went through a very noticeable shift in how its economy functioned.
- Making Monsters
False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
An exposee of the damage and falsity of recovered-memory therapy.
- Making Nuclear Weapons Usuable Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A chilling look at the urge of both President Trump and key figures in the Pentagon to normalize nuclear weapons as a basic war-fighting tool in the American arsenal.
- The Making of a Counter Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Roszak examines some of the leading influences on the youthful counter culture of the late 1960s - Herbert Marcuse and Norman Brown, Allen Ginsberg and Alan Watts, Timothy Leary and Paul Goodman -- and shows how each has helped call into question the conventional scientific world view and in so doing has set about undermining the foundations of the technocracy.
- The Making of C.L.R. James
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A short, positive review of a graphic novel about CLR James.
- The Making of Corporate Empire
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Review of a book covering Henry Ford's "ethos of the assembly line" and how his racist views shaped it in different places.
- The Making of E.P. Thompson
Marxism, Humanism, and History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
This study is an analysis of E.P. Thompson's humanism and Marxism as they are woven throughout his politics, theory, and historical studies. Arguing against a "purely academic reading" of Thompson, Palmer examines the criticisms of Thompson's work and defends the view of history and human agency that leads to a politics of practice, rather than a politics of theory.
- The Making of Egypt's Revolution
People Power in Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- 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.
- The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela's Coup Leader
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A detailed account of US-backed groups that positioned Juan Guaidó to declare himself president of Venezuela.
- The Making of New World Slavery
From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Traces the development of slavery in the new world, with its origins in trade and business enterprise.
- The Making of the English Working Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963 Published: 1968
Discusses the development of a working class consciousness from the 1790s to the Great Reform Bill
- The Making of the Modern World
An Introductory History
Resource Type: Book
This book's global approach to world history puts the major political, economic and social transformations of the past hundred years into context. Focusing on the growth and transformation of capitalism as a world system, and its accompanying dialectic of uneven development, Dr. Robertson shows how the Western industrial powers and the underdeveloped Third World form a single continuum of change.
- The Making of the Muslim World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Review of Christopher de Bellaigue's 'The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason', Cemil Aydin's 'The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History' and Tariq Ramadan's 'Islam: The Essentials'.
- Making Race Disappear
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Black lives are discounted in the eyes of whites and official arms of the state. It is not conspiracy theory to say this. It is hard fact.
- Making Schools Matter
Good Teachers at Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
An anthology of articles and interviews relevant to combating racism and sexism in the classroom as well as tips for making history and social studies relevant and including social justice to the curriculum.
- Making Sense of Sex and Gender
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Feminist politics is not a denial of trans people’s experiences but an alternative way to understand those experiences that does not involve drugs, cross-sex hormones, and surgery. Feminist politics is an embrace of our differences and a way to live with those differences collectively, as we struggle to eliminate the hierarchies that impede our ability to thrive.
- Making Sense of the Media
A Handbook of Popular Education Techniques
Resource Type: Book
A handbook for teaching critical analysis of the mass media. It is designed for classroom use in any group setting, including high school, adult literacy, ESL, labour, and community organizing.
- Making Sense of This Economic Crisis
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
While it now is generally agreed that the main source of the 2008 financial implosion was the accumulation of too much toxic debt, there is little agreement on the factors that precipitated the buildup of all that unsustainable debt. Whereas neoclassical/neoliberal economists blame the “irrational behavior of the agents” (both lenders and borrowers), Keynesian economists blame financial deregulation and insufficient public policy.
- Making the Abolition of War a Realistic Goal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980 Published: 1990
This popular essay provides a brief introduction to civilian-based defense, a policy in which civilians are prepared to use nonviolent resistance as a means of national defense.
- Making the City
Women Who Made a Difference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
- Making the most of spontaneous rebellions at work
Advice on how to react when a big issue immediately angers a large number of people at your workplace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
It would be nice if we always had tested and trusted structures in place able to respond to unexpected situations at work. Unfortunately this doesn’t describe many workplaces where structures tend to be weak and disorganised or slow and bureaucratic. The situations that upset us the most are likely to be unanticipated. Sudden rebellion is most likely to develop as a response to unexpected decisions or circumstances i.e. unfair sackings, shift changes etc, and our actions need often be rapid and ad hoc.
- Making the News: A Guide for Activists and Nonprofits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Salzman explores ways in which organizers can be creative and innovative in using the media to publicize their cause.
- Making the Promises Real: Labor and the Paris Climate Agreement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
As nearly 200 nations gathered in Paris approved the UN Climate Change Agreement, the AFL-CIO issued a statement that broke new ground on climate. While the AFL-CIO opposed the Kyoto climate agreement and never supported the failed Copenhagen agreement, it applauded the Paris climate change agreement as "a landmark achievement in international cooperation" and called on America "to make the promises real."
- Making the Rulers Obey
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A book review of "Until the Rulers Obey: Voices from Latin American Social Movements" edited by Clinton Ross and Marcy Rein.
- Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto, 1960-1970
PhD Thesis, Queen's University, 2007
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
- Making Their Own Freedom
Book Review of Rediker's "The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A review of Rediker's re-centering of The Amistad Revellion toward a bottom-up perspective from that of the African slaves involved.
- Making Their Own History
A People's History of Modern Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of William A. Pelz's A People's History of Modern Europe.
- Making Their Voices Heard
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986 Published: 1987
An account of international solidarity work in El Salvador.
- Making Trouble
Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Making Trouble Today
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Activists who read the first A Troublemaker’s Handbook, published by Labor Notes in 1991, recognized themselves in the stories of courageous workers who fought to improve their workplaces and their lives. They were gratified that they were not alone, that there was a whole network of troublemakers out there, and even a handbook that took the lessons they’d learned and made them accessible to thousands of other workers.
- Making Trump's America Ungovernable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The goal of opponents, including those of the far left, should be to make the Trump presidency ungovernable. In that struggle revolutionary change is possible.
- Making Waves
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1984
Making Waves tells the history of Grindstone Island, first as an active summer home, then as a peace education centre run by the Quakers, and finally the present co-operative centre.
- Making Waves: The Grindstone Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
- The Malaise on the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Let us take it for granted that meaningful activity needs to be collective, that social transformation needs emancipated individuals, and that the institutional framework of any new society will probably be based, in part at least, on those forms which the struggle itself has repeatedly thrown up at its moments of deepest insight and creativity. What we now need to think about - and to discuss widely throughout the libertarian left - is the political content of an activity that consciously seeks both to avoid recuperation and to be relevant to the conditions of today.
- Malatesta, Errico
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Italian anarcho-communist. (1853-1932).
- Malawi: Women Fight Harmful Cultural Practices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Combatting traditional practices that harm women.
- Malcolm X Research Site
Resource Type: Website
A comprehensive website on the life and legacy of Malcolm X , with text, film, video, graphics and more, plus a large listing of African American scholars on the left, with links to their sites and works.
- Malcolm X Speaks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965.
- Male Chauvinism!
How it Works and How to Get Free of it
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
- The Malevolent Hypocrisy of Selective Sanctions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at why the US government is steadfast in its support of the Saudi dictatorship no matter what criminal excesses may be perpetrated by the Riyadh regime, while on the other hand it is determined to punish other countries like Cuba and Venezuela with severe economic sanctions.
- Mali, Wahabis, and Saudis
Following the Money
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The impact of the Wahabi movement in Mali.
- Malik, Kenan
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Writer, lecturer and broadcaster. (Born 1962).
- Kenan Malik Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Mall of America Security Catfished Black Lives Matter Activists, Documents Show
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Documents indicate that security staff at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota used a fake Facebook account to monitor local Black Lives Matter organizers, befriend them, and obtain their personal information and photographs without their knowledge.
- Mama Illegal
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
They gave the smugglers all their money and risk their life on their journey across borders: Three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in Austria and Italy as cleaning women. On top of their hard job they live a life in illegality without documents, far away from their children and family for years.
- A Man Apart
The Life of Henri Curiel
Resource Type: Book
Curiel was a key figure in founding the Egyptian and Sudanese communist movements; he trained and influenced most of the left militants in Nasser's Free Officer movement. Curiel remained one of the most prominent figures on the Middle East scene until he was assassinated in 1978. Eqypt, and especially the radical movement within it, is the backdrop.
- Man, Beast and Zombie
What Science Can and Cannot Tell Us About Human Nature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000 Published: 2001
Drawing upon the ideas of evolutionary biology, cognitive science and artificial intelligence, Malik questions many of our assumptions about human nature.
- Man fired for AIDS gets damages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Man for Himself
An Inguiry into the Psychology of Ethics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Fromm reaffirms the validity of humanistic ethics, to show that our knowledge of human nature does not lead to ethical relativism but, on the contrary, to the conviction that the sources of norms for ethical conduct are to found found in human nature itself.
- The Man the Media Loved to Hate
The US Press and Hugo Chavez
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Chávez was a “classic petro-dictator”, a “charismatic demagogue” whose chosen successor guaranteed “that the combination of buffoonery and thuggery that Chávez pioneered will continue past his grave.”
- Man of the Trees: Richard St. Barbe Baker
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
- The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
A biography of John Brown.
- 'The Man Who Knew Everyone' - Gore Vidal Through The Eyes Of The One Per Cent Press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Since Gore Vidal's death the corporate media have had nothing serious to say about his political dissent warning against the dominance of corporate power. As Vidal himself put it: ‘The bullshit just flows and flows and flows, and the American media is so corrupt and so tied into it that it never questions it.’
- The Man Who Recorded the World
A Biography of Alan Lomax
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Documentarian of the folk culture of American life,, Lomax was diligent and tireless in preserving the irreplaceable vernacular cultures that have fallen into the past.
- The Man Who Was Chemically Tortured
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The torture of David Hicks at Guantanamo.
- Management Assistance Program - Management Library
Resource Type: Website
Large and well-organized collection of online resources dealing with nonprofit management.
- Management of protected areas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Managing Crisis
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1982
- Managing the Media: A Lesson in Making Publicity Come First
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Case study of media relations strategy.
- Managing Volunteers, Building Consensus, Nurturing Creativity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
Techniques for managing volunteers, staff and board members for positive results; how to make everyone more effective; and methods to reduce conflict while building consensus.
- Managing Wastes
A Guide to Citizens' Involvement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985 Published: 1992
Second editon of booklet first published in 1984, outling how citizens can involve themselves in decision-making about waste management.
- Manchester's Radical History
Exploring Greater Manchester's Grassroots History
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
Manchester Radical History Collective is a small group of politically active people living in Manchester. We share an interest in the city’s radical and grassroots history – the local struggles and campaigns that have shaped the city of Manchester and the towns that make up Greater Manchester, and the people that live in them. And we’re inspired by the way that Manchester’s people have maintained a spirit of independence and resistance which has endured down the years.
- Mandate for Change
Or Business as Usual
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
In light of the newly elected President Clinton, Chomksy illustrates why the key word of his campaign, "change", really meant that nothing would indeed. He covers issues including some which he a categorzes as broken campaign promises and others which escape this label.
- The Mandate of Heaven
Marx and Mao in Modern China
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
China’s transformation from a poor country devastated by war into a major world power is a modern legend. But how did this change come about? What are the real living conditions of the peasants and workers? Why, when apparently united in their beliefs, are Russia and China enemies? And why, if Mao is right, must Marx be wrong? Using publications from the People’s Republic and his own extensive research, Nigel Harris has written a serious critique of the history, aims and actions of the communist Party in China.
- 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.
- Mandela, Nelson
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Anti-apartheid leader, first black to be elected President of South Africa. (Born 1918).
- Nelson Mandela Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Mandela the radical
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Nelson Mandela will be celebrated principally for the dignity with which he emerged onto the world stage after decades in prison and for the forgiveness that he displayed towards his former enemies in forging a democratic, multi-racial South Africa from the poisoned legacy of apartheid.
- The Mandela Years in Power
Did He Jump or Was He Pushed?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
South Africa's democratization was profoundly compromised by an intra-elite economic deal that, for most people, worsened poverty, unemployment, inequality and ecological degradation, while also exacerbating many racial, gender and geographical differences.
- Mandela's art of 'understanding the enemy'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A senior correspondent reflects on decades of covering the savvy political operator who became an African icon.
- Mandela's Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Nelson Mandela's ideological legacy — in South Africa and globally — is startlingly complex. He has provided inspiration for the struggles of oppressed people throughout the world, and he has made himself a symbol of reconciliation in a world in which their oppression continues. To understand his historical role, and come to terms with his legacy, we need to see how his greatness and his limitations stem from the same source.
- Mandela's Long Walk To Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
- Mandela's Paradoxes Made His Journey Even Greater
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Mandela was in it to win it. He sought concrete, historic and “big” change, knew that it could not be achieved without the support of public opinion, and proved expertly flexible in, through trial and error, discovering what worked and what did not work, and embracing what did work.
- Mandel's Economics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
- Manhunting in the Hindu Kush
Civilian casualties and strategic failures in America's longest war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
U.S. military forces set out to destroy the Taliban and al Qaeda forces that remained hidden in Hindu Kush. Dubbed Operation Haymaker, the campaign has been described as a potential model for the future of American warfare. Devereaux explains how this looks.
- Manifest Destiny? A Native Perspective on 1992
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
1992 will be a year of mourning for North American Indians; a mourning for the fragmentation and loss of our traditional way of life.
- Manifestations And Declarations
Of the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
This collection of original documents describes what significance they had for the social change and political movements of the twentieth century.
- Manifeste de l'Anarchie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1850
Le Manifeste est une intervention passionnante contre la folie politique que, sous le nom de démocratie, prétend que nous cédions nos droits à la liberté et à l'autonomie à des représentants élus pour qu'ils fassent ce qu'ils veulent.
- Manifeste - la Situation economique des retraites au Quebec
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Manifesto
10 Theses of the Leftist Opposition in Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Replacing one set of politicians and oligarchs with another without overall systemic changes will not improve Ukrainian's lives. Instead, the Left Opposition Collective, a group of social and union activists, is proposing ten basic conditions for overcoming the economic crisis and ensuring Ukraine’s future growth.
- Manifesto - Ecology Action East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Root and Branch puts forward a communist approach to environmental issues.
- Manifesto for the Green Mind
Jules Pretty sets out a plan to engage people with Nature and create more sustainable and enjoyable living for everyone.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Jules Pretty sets out a plan to engage people with Nature and create more sustainable and enjoyable living for everyone. The first call to action is: "Every child outdoors every day".
- Manifesto of a Tenured Radical
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Divided into three parts: "The Politics of English," "The Academy and the Culture Debates," and "Lessons from the Job Wars."
- A Manifesto of Emancipation
Marx's "Marginal Notes to the Programme of the German Workers' Party" after One hundred and twenty-five years
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
The Critique of the Gotha Program contains a condensed discussion of the most essential elements of the capitalist mode of production, its revolutionary transformation into its opposite and a rough portrayal, in a few bold strokes, of what Marx had called in Capital the “union of free individuals” destined to succeed the existing social order.
- Manifesto of Indian Farmers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Adopted by an assembly representing the farmers of India, the manifesto outlines Indian farmers convictions, principals, concerns, rights and calls on the parliament of India to hold a Special Session to address the agrarian crisis by passing and enacting the two Kisan Mukti Bills and address additional demands.
- Manifesto of Surrealism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1924
Surrealism is the invisible ray which will one day enable us to win out over our opponents.
- Manifesto of the Communist International to the Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1919
Adopted by the founding congress of the Third International (Comintern) in March 1919.
- Manifesto of the Makhnovists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1918
We must win - win not so that we may follow the example of past years and hand over our fate to some new master, but to take it in our own hands and conduct our lives according to our own will and our own conception of truth.
- The Manifesto of the Network of Alternative Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Contrary to the defensive position in which rebel and alternative groups and movements often find themselves, we believe true resistance must include the creation, here and now, of the ties and pioneering alternative forms of movements, groups and persons who, through an activism for life, overcome capitalism and reaction.
- Manifesto of the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1871
Published in Paris Libre, April 21, 1871.
- The Manifesto of the People's Global Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998 Published: 1999
We assert our will to struggle as peoples against all forms of oppression. But we do not only fight the wrongs imposed on us. We are also committed to building a new world.
- Manifesto of the Second Congress of the Third International
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1920
Adopted in Moscow, August 1920, at the Second World Congress of the Communist International.
- Manifesto of the Sixteen
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A document drafted in 1916 by eminent anarchists Peter Kropotkin and Jean Grave which advocated an Allied victory over Germany and the Central Powers during the First World War.
- The Manifesto of The Socialist League
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1885
Advocating the principles of Revolutionary International Socialism; that is, we seek a change in the basis of Society - a change which would destroy the distinctions of classes and nationalities.
- Manifesto of the Socialist Party of Canada - 1910
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1910
Tthe Socialist Party of Canada is the nucleus of the revolt of the slaves of Canada against capitalism. Its policy is to educate the slaves of Canada to an understanding of their position and organize them for concerted political action, to the end that they may wrest the powers of State from the hands of capital, and use them to strip the master class of its property rights in the means of production and to make these the collective property of the producers.
- Manifesto of the Third Camp against US Militarism and Islamic Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
The human and genuine solution to the problem of nuclear weapons, to Islamic terrorism and its horrific crimes against the people of the world, and to the militaristic bullying of the US and Western governments lies in the hands of us people.
- Manifesto: Together Facing the New Totalitarianism
Writers' statement on cartoons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.
- Manifestos, Programs, Visions
Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1649 Published: 2016
A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
- Manifiesto de Cartagena
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1812
- The Manipulation of Fear
Resort to Fear
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Chomsky discusses the effects of using fear as a control mechanism to manipulate the population.
- Manitoba anti-poverty organization (MAPO)
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
- Manitoba Council For International Co-operation (MCIC) Development Education Programmes
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
- Manitoba Indian Agricultural Program
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
- Manitoba Indian Cultural Education Centre
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
- Manitoba Interchurch Coaltion On Resource Development
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
- Manitoba Interchurch Committeee For World Development Education (Ten Days)
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
- Manitoba Labour Education Centre
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
- Manitoba Public Interest Research Group (MPIRG)
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
- The Manitoba Women's Newspaper
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
- Manituana
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
1775. The conflict between the British Empire and the American colonies erupts in all-out war. Meanwhile, in the secluded Mohawk Valley, a utopian community thrives: white Irish, Scots and Native Americans live harmoniously together in "Iroquireland."
- Mann, Tom
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
British trade unionist. (1856-1941).
- Manning Marable and Malcolm X: The Power of Biography
Against The Current vol. 154
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Social movement theorists have written much about the political opportunities, constraints, and levels of organizational readiness enabling or inhibiting popular insurgency. We still know less, however, about the complex framing processes involved in forging and maintaining activist identities and self-narratives.
- Manoeuvres from above, movements from below: Greece under Tsipras
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The Syriza left is at a crossroads. For all the belief that Syriza is a different kind of party, one that transcends the division between reform and revolution and therefore should be the home for the entire left, its left faces exactly the same problem as the reformist left in social democracy -- the trap of impotence. This article is written in the spirit of offering an alternative, around which the left as a whole can unite.
- Manoir Richelieu Dispute
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Few labour disputes have included such dramatic developments as the eventful Manoir Richelieu conflict, which shook Quebec in December 1985 when the Parti Québécois government sold the property, a renowned tourism heritage site, to businessman Raymond Malenfant for $555 555.55.The new owner maintained that he had purchased only a building and was not bound through the transaction by any obligation to the union or the existing collective bargaining agreement.
- Manorama, Ruth
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article
Advocate for the right of Dalit women. (Born 1952).
- Missak Manouchian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Missak Manouchian (1906 - 1944) was a French-Armenian poet and communist activist.
- Man's Worldly Goods
The Story of the Wealth of Nations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1936 Published: 1968
Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed.
- The Mantle of Struggle
A Biography of Black Revolutionary Rosie Douglas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2023
A biography of a little known figure in Canadian black radical politics: Rosie Douglas.
- Manual for Amnesty International, Canadian Section Members & Groups
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
The Canadian appendix of the Amnesty International manual.
- A Manual for Group Facilitators
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1977
- A Manual for Group Facilitators
The Center for Conflict Resolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
The values, assumptions and techniques of group facilitation. Especially useful to people planning workshops. Includes sections on communication, conflict, problem solving, what can go wrong and what to do about it, and many other relevant topics.
- Manual for Revolutionary Leaders
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
A devious satire aimed at Leninists, Trotskyists, Maoists, and vanguardists of all stripes.
- A Manual for Tenant Organizers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
This manual examines the problems of evictions, rent increases, reduction of services and lack of repairs encountered by Montrealers and provides information on possible recourses and action.
- Manual For The Jobless Worker
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
A manual that describes the rights of unemployed and the unemployment insurance process.
- A Manual on Nonviolence and Children
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977 Published: 1984
The authors felt that an important way of building a peaceful world would be to develop a program for young children. It would help children and their caregivers develop non-violent attitudes and skills.
- Manual teaches intelligence agency employees how to spy on problem journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The weekly Semana has revealed the existence of an instruction manual for employees of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS), Colombia's leading intelligence agency, that explains how they should spy on, threaten, intimidate and discredit NGOs, judges and journalists who create problems for the government.
- George Manuel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
Obituary in the Connexions Digest
- Manufactured Consent
Power, Media and Thinktanks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Corporations don't just shape our politics or economics, they also seek to change public opinion to serve their interests. Which corporations play the biggest role in shaping knowledge and news? What do they fund? Who do they represent? What role have they played in the rise of authoritarian populists? This infographic for State of Power 2017 exposes those 'manufacturing consent'.
- The Manufactured Doubt Industry And The Hacked Email Controversy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The fossil fuel industry has been working for years to create a smokescreen of doubt to obscure the facts of global warming.
- Manufactured Landscapes
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2006
Photographer Edward Burtynsky travels the world observing changes in landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing.
- Manufactured Revolutions?
A look at the dynamics of US imperial manipulation, internal opposition and and popular revolt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005 Published: 2014
When is a revolution not a revolution? That is the question commentators have been asking following a wave of regime changes that has zigzagged its way progressively eastwards over the last five years.
- Manufacturing Bankruptcy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The authors analyze the politics behind Detroit's manufactured bankruptcy through an analysis of capitalism's expropriation of assets in order to produce wealth -- a process that is at the expense of the working-class majority.
- Manufacturing Consensus - Hilary Benn's Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Everyone laughs when dictators claim 'Victory!' having secured fully 99 per cent of the vote. The deception is so naked, so obvious - nobody is fooled by this supposed 'national consensus'.
- Manufacturing Consent
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1992
A film about Noam Chomsky's ideas about the media, ideology, propaganda, and elite control of society's institutions.
- Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
- Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Part 1: Thought Control in a Democratic Society. Part 2: Activating Dissent
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Mainstream media in the United States for the past 60 years has converged with the neo-colonial foreign policy objectives of the state to create a misinformed, biased narrative against the Cuban revolution. Using extensive examples, including pre-revolutionary historic coverage, journalist Keith Bolender reveals how the national press has established an anti-Cuba chronicle in adherence to Washington's unrelenting regime change policies.
- The Many Faces of Bank Nationalization
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Calls for nationalization of the banking industry have been bubbling since at least September 2008, when the current banking panic began in the wake of the Lehman Brothers' collapse, the initial AIG bailout, and the quick absorption of Merrill Lynch-Wachovia-Washington Mutual banks by their larger competitors, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase.
- The Many-Headed Hydra
The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
With the expansion of trade and colonization around the Atlantic in the seventeenth century, sailors, indentured servants, market women, prostitutes, and slaves came to inhabit European cities, American colonies and trade ships. Linebaugh and Rediker show how this motley crew had their own versions of democracy.
- The Many Lessons of Ukraine War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Combatting Russia to the last Ukrainian was always an odious strategy.
- Many Minds, One Heart
SNCC's dream for a new America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007 Published: 2009
Wesley Hogan explores what SNCC accomplished and, more important, how it fostered significant social change in such a short time.
- The many shades of Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
When is an invasion not an invasion? When is sovereignty not sovereignty? When is an unelected regime more legitimate than an elected government? The answer, it seems, is when we are discussing Ukraine.
- Mao as a Dialectician
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1968 Published: 1971
- Mao's China
Economic and Political Survey
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957
- Maple syrup farmers lose fight against fracking pipeline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A family of maple syrup farmers in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania cannot stop their trees being cut down to make way for a new fracking pipeline project owned by billion dollar oil companies, a federal judge ruled Friday. The Holleran family opposes the seizure of their maple grove to make way for the new 124-mile-long Constitution Pipeline. The group faced contempt of court charges for obstructing tree cutting on their property.
- Mapoon - Book Three
The Cape York Aluminum Companies (Alcan, Comalco, R.T.Z., Kaiser, C.R.A., Billiton, Pechiney, Tipperary) and the Native Peoples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Chronicle of the policies and actions of the Aluminium Companies with respect to the native peoples and their land claims.
- Mapping American Social Movement Through the 20th Century
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
This collaborative project features maps and other visualizations showing the chronological geography of dozens of social movements that have influenced American life and politics during the 20th century, including radical movements, labor movements, women's movements, many different civil rights movements, environmentalist movements, and more. Includes interactive maps of more than 1,500 underground, alternative, and other kinds of unorthodox publications from the decade between 1965 and 1975.
- Mapping American Social Movements Through the 20th Century
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
These interactive maps below more than 1,500 underground, alternative, and other kinds of unorthodox publications from the decade between 1965 and 1975.
- Mapping UFW Strikes, Boycotts, and Farm Worker Actions 1965-1975
Resource Type: Unclassified
When ethnic Mexican farm workers led by Cesar Chavez joined with Filipino American workers led by Larry Itliong in 1965 to strike grape growers in Delano, California, the modern farm workers movement was born. Operating initially as the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and later as the UFW, the union spread beyond California as it launched a national grape boycott and inspired farm worker organizing in other states. Researched by Katie Anastas, these maps show the geography of UFW activism, locating more than 1,000 farm worker strikes, boycotts, and other actions.
- Mapquest
Resource Type: Website
Map site.
- Maps and Dreams
Indians and the British Columbia Frontier
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981 Published: 1997
Brody's account of his extraordinary eighteen-month journey through the world of a people who have no intention of vanishing into the past.
- Mapuche Support Group
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
- Mapuches: People of the Land
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- Jean Paul Marat
Tribune of the French Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Biography of Jean Paul Marat and his contributions to the French Revolution.
- Marat, Jean-Paul
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Radical journalist and politician from the French Revolution. (1743-1793).
- Marathon de Montreal
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
- Marc Lamont Hill's Detractors are the True Anti-Semites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Temple University's administration announced the unsurprising news that it has found no grounds to punish or investigate Professor Marc Lamont Hill for his speech on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Yet, the university's Board of Trustees felt compelled, nonetheless, to issue a statement further maligning Dr Hill, albeit indirectly this time.
- Marc Morano's Climate Hustle Film Set For Paris Premiere With Same Old Denial Myths
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Marc Morano is never short of a superlative or two, but when it has come to promoting his long-gestating documentary Climate Hustle, the climate science denialist extraodinaire has been outdoing himself.
- The March
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986 Published: 1987
An account of a peace march.
- The March 29 Strike Against Labor Law Reform in Spain
Outline of the Conjuncture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The general strike of March 29, although it mobilized a good part of the population, apparently took place with more pain than glory. Once the day of the strike was over, everything seemed to continue as before: namely, the continuation of an aggressive policy against the wage-labor population, in an economic context characterized by recession.
- The March 29 Strike Against Labor Law Reform in Spain: Outline of the Conjuncture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The general strike of March 29, although it mobilized a good part of the population, apparently took place with more pain than glory. Once the day of the strike was over, everything seemed to continue as before: namely, the continuation of an aggressive policy against the wage-labour population, in an economic context characterized by recession.
- The March of Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
A view of the history of socialism.
- March of the Vouchers - What Should the Left Learn from School Choice Debates?
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
In April, Florida became the first state to adopt a statewide school voucher plan. By a vote of 25-15 the State Senate adopted the absurdly named “A+ Plan for Education” which had previously been passed in the House by a vote of 70-48.
- The March on Blair Mountain
A Historic Day in West Virginia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The coal industry is an industry which has admitted it can not make a profit without breaking laws.
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963 at which Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech advocating racial harmony at the Lincoln Memorial.
- March to Freedom, 1963 and Beyond
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Charles Simmons recounts his participation in the Walk to Freedom with Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963.
- Marching for Science and Humanity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
On April 22, 2017 the March for Science took place in Washington DC, which I attended. It was a dreary rainy day that was lit up by the large crowd of scientists and concerned citizens gathered at the Washington Monument. The atmosphere was festive and defiant despite the weather.
- Marching Once a Year is Not Enough
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Argues against the levels of immobilism that characterize the Canadian left, and for the transcendence of the these immobilisms.
- Marching to Jerusalem
Searching for Dignity in Occupied East Jerusalem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
46 years ago, Israel seized East Jerusalem. Since then, Israel has undertaken measures to restrict Palestinian movement.
- Marcos, Subcomandante
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
- Marcus Garvey
Anti-Colonial Champion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Marcus Garvey articulated ideas about self-reliance, about the relationship between oppressed people throughout the world regardless of colour; he put forward ideas which are central to the process of decolonialization.
- Marcus Gee's Confusion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
The United States didn't 'fail to intervene' in East Timor -- it intervened massively, on the side of the Indonesian invaders.
- Marcuse, Herbert
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Marxist philosopher, political theorist and sociologist. (1898-1979).
- Marek Edelman: A True Mensch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.
- Margaret Benston
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Obituary in the Connexions Digest.
- Marginal Distribution
Resource Type: Website
Book distributor.
- The Margins and the Center: For a New History of the Cultural Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Repost of an informative reflection on the lessons to be learned from China's "Cultural Revolution" in light of China's grim political situation circa 2014, centered on a review of Yiching's Wu's pathbreaking new book, Cultural Revolution at the Margins.
- Mariátegui, Jose Carlos
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article
Peruvian socialist. (Born 1894).
- Marikana A Point of Rupture?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
South Africa, despite 18 years of majority rule, continues to be one of the most unequal societies on an increasingly unequal planet and is in crisis. Around half the population, mostly black Africans, live below the poverty line. Almost half of all black African households earned below R1670 a month in 2005–06, while only 2 percent of white households fell in that income bracket.
- Marikana, Gaza, Ferguson - 'You Should Think of Them Always As Armed'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In colonial wars the occupying power invariably reaches a point where it has to acknowledge that its true enemy is not a minority - devil worshipers, communists, fanatics or terrorists - subject to external and evil manipulation, but the people as a whole. Once this point is reached every colonised person is taken as a potential combatant and the neighbourhood and the home are cast as legitimate sites of combat.
- Maritime Energy Coalition
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
This Coalition consists of 22 independent environmental, producer and consumer organizations in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and P.E.I.
- Maritime Radical
The Life & Times of Roscoe Fillmore
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- The Mark
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1892
A short essay on the primitive form of collective land ownership in Germany and the subsequent development of private property.
- Mark Bray on Anarchist Revolution In Spain & Lessons for Today
Resource Type: Audio
In this episode of the It's Going Down podcast, we speak again with historian Mark Bray about the anarchist movement in Spain as well as the Spanish Civil War and Revolution that broke out in 1936 against a fascist coup. We discuss how the movement grew, in all its complexities, and Bray describes the discussions and tensions over tactics and methods of struggle contemporary anarchists with find many similarities with.
- Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order
Doctrines and Reality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Noam Chomsky illustrates the importance of considering doctrine against the background of reality. He reveals that the political and economic principles that have prevailed are often remote from those that are proclaimed.
- The Market Tells Them So
The World Bank and Economic Fundamentalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Mihevic asserts that World Bank policy can be viewed as a powerful fundamentalist quasi-religion whose effect is to perpetuate and even worsen inequities between developed and developing countries.
- Market Uber Alles
Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Lester K. Spence's Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics.
- The Market vs Human Need
A Marxist analysis of the WTO and the FTAA
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2000
Recent 'trade' deals include measures that severely threaten the lives and rights of the workers, small farmers and students who live in the countries covered by these deals.
- The market vs. the family
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Marketing Mirage
How To Make It A Reality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- Marketing Your Books
A collection of profit-making ideas for authors and publishers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Marketing Your Books
A Collection of Profit-Making Ideas for Authors and Publishers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Marketplace Medicine
the Rise of For-Profit Hospital Chains
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
An expose of America's health-care system, focusing on the growing corporatization of American medicine in the form of for-profit hospital chains run by large corporations.
- 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.
- The Marquis Project
Organization profile published 1982 (May)
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
- Marriage and the Capitalist State
For the Right of Gay Marriage...and Divorce!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Gays and lesbians ought to have the right to marry - but they shouldn't have to.
- Married to Another Man
Israel's Dilemma in Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Karmi argues that Israel has never been able to solve the original and unresolved Zionist quandary of how to create and maintain a Jewish state in a land inhabited by another people. She maintains that the problem is unsoluble and that the only solution is a single secular state in which Jews and Palestinians are equal.
- Marshall, Donald, Jr
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Accused of murder, Marshall, a 16-year old Micmac, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. After he had served 11 years in a penitentiary, a re-examination of the case found him innocent. (1953-2009).
- Martha (Marty) Quinn, 1939-2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Obituary for Martha Quinn, a founding member of Solidarity.
- Martí, José
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Cuban poet and rebel. (1953-1895).
- Martial Matters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A selection of commentaries on Australian martial experience at radical odds with mainstream Australian histories.
- Brian Martin: publications
Resource Type: Website
Articles and research rleated to power, technology, and social change.
- Martin Glaberman: 1918 - 2001
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
- Martin Glaberman: La Classe Ouvrière - Préambule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
- Martin Kramer, Harvard and the Eugenics of Zion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
At Herzliya the cream of the Zionist security elite gather to raise the alarm about Arab births and hear scholarly analyses of family size and fertility rates among Jews and Arabs as 'existential' threats to the State. Meanwhile, in the Israeli Knesset there are elaborate debates on how to define who is a Jew and who is not - along with legislating what extra privileges should be allocated to the former and denied to the latter. It would be hard to imagine another modern country where such discussions are part of the intellectual mainstream, rather than isolated in the more shadowy fringes of racist right-wing politics. Similar attitudes are expressed in the Zionist Diaspora, where bemoaning Jewish assimilation, promoting Jewish childbearing and financing Aliya to strengthen Israel's Jewish demography are common themes. Early eugenicists (and their successors) once warned against 'miscegenation' and 'mongrelization' as a danger to the White Aryan Race. Today, Jewish charities like the Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation announce their prime mission as education against 'intermarriage.'
- Martin Luther King Jr's Radicalism Muted by MLK Archives' Corporate Sponsors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The MLK Archive, sponsored by JPMorgan Chase and Co., omits Martin Luther King Jr's speech delivered at Carnegie Hall on February 23, 1968 on the 100th anniversary of W.E.B Du Bois' birth. The speech is included in its entirety here.
- Martin Luther King (Revised Edition)
The Inconvenient Hero
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995 Published: 2008
In these eloquent essays that reflect upon King's legacy over the past two decades and the meaning of his life today, a portrait emerges of a man constantly evolving and going deeper into the roots of violence and injustice -- a man whose challenge remains as timely and necessary as ever.
- Martin Luther King's Speech on Vietnam
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
On January 20, President Bush made a photo-op visit to Atlanta, Georgia, to participate in the celebration of the life of the greatest civil rights figure in American history, Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther the Man-Devil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A review of the book 'Manteuffel' by Danish author and public intellectual Peter Tudvad, a work of popular fiction that also takes on religious and social-political issues.
- Martinique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1902
Written after the volanic eruption in May, 1902 at the port of St. Pierre.
- Martov and Zinoviev
Head to head in Halle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
A new chapter in understanding the significance of a congress that shaped the 20th century European workers’ movement.
- Marx & Engels
The Intellectual Relationship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Carver looks at the early years before Marx and Engels met, assesses the contribution each made to their joint works, pinpoints Engels' divergences from Marx, and examines the ways that Engels created a Marx to match his Marxism.
- Marx and Engels
Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 3
Marx and Engels 1843 - 1844
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1844
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 4
Marx and Engels 1844 - 1845
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1845
Includes The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Criticism, and The Condition of the Working-Class in England.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 5
Marx and Engels 1845 - 1847
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1847
Includes The German Ideology.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 6
Marx and Engels 1845 - 1848
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1848
Includes the Poverty of Philosophy and The Communist Manifesto.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 7
Marx and Engels 1848
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1848
Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, June 1 - November 7, 1848.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 8
Marx and Engels 1848 - 1849
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1849
Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung November 8, 1848 - March 5, 1849.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 9
Marx and Engels 1849
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1849
Includes articles from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung March 6 - May 19, 1849.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 10
Marx and Engels 1849 - 1851
Resource Type: Book
Includes The Peasant War in Germany.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 11
Marx and Engels 1851 - 1853
Resource Type: Book
Includes Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany and The Eighteenth Brumaire
of Louis Bonaparte and Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 12
Marx and Engels 1853 - 1854
Resource Type: Book
Articles mainly on British colonialism.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 13
Marx and Engels 1854 - 1855
Resource Type: Book
Includes Revolutionary Spain
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 14
Marx and Engels 1855 - 1856
Resource Type: Book
Includes material on British politics and the Crimean War.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 15
Marx and Engels 1856 - 1858
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1858
Mainly articles about Europe, colonialism, and India.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 16
Marx and Engels 1858 - 1860
Resource Type: Book
Mainly events in Europe.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 17
Marx and Engels 1859 - 1860
Resource Type: Book
Includes Herr Vogt and articles on military matters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 18
Marx and Engels 1857 - 1862
Resource Type: Book
Articles for The New American Cyclopaedia.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 19
Marx and Engels 1861 - 1864
Resource Type: Book
Colonialism, slavery, and the American Civil War.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 20
Marx and Engels 1864- 1868
Resource Type: Book
Includes The Prussian Military Question and the (German Workers' Party), and Value, Price and Profit, and articles and Reviews written in connection with the publication of Volume One of Capital.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 21
Marx and Engels 1867 - 1870
Resource Type: Book
Materials related to the International Workingmen's Association.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 22
Marx and Engels 1870 - 1871
Resource Type: Book
Includes The Civil War in France and other materials on the Franco-Prussian War.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 23
Marx and Engels 1871 - 1874
Resource Type: Book
Articles on the International, Bakunin, and the Housing Question.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 24
Marx and Engels 1874 - 1883
Resource Type: Book
Includes the Critique of the Gotha Programme, and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 25
Engels
Resource Type: Book
Anti-Dühring & Dialectics of Nature
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 26
Engels 1882 - 1889
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1889
Includes Manuscripts on Early German History and The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, and Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, and The Role of Force in History
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 27
Engels 1890 - 1895
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1895
Includes The Foreign Policy of Russian Tsardom, and A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Program of 1891, and On the History of Early Christianity, and The Peasant Question in France and Germany
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 33
Marx 1861 - 1863
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1863
Economic Manuscript of 1861-63. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (Continuation).
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 34
Marx 1861 - 1864
Resource Type: Book
Economic Manuscripts of 1861-64 (Conclusion). A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 35
Capital Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
Capital. Volume 1.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 38
Marx and Engels 1844 - 1851
Resource Type: Book
Letters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 39
Marx and Engels 1852 - 1855
Resource Type: Book
Letters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 40
Marx and Engels 1856 - 1859
Resource Type: Book
Letters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 41
Marx and Engels 1860 - 1864
Resource Type: Book
Letters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 42
Marx and Engels 1864 - 1868
Resource Type: Book
Letters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 43
Marx and Engels 1868 - 1870
Resource Type: Book
Letters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 44
Marx and Engels 1870 - 1873
Resource Type: Book
Letters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 45
Marx and Engels 1874 - 1879
Resource Type: Book
Letters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 46
Marx and Engels 1880 - 1883
Resource Type: Book
Letters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 47
Engels 1883 - 1886
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1886
Letters.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 48
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1890
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 49
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1892
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 50
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1895
- Marx and Engels on Philosophy
Resource Type: Website
Early philosophical works.
- Marx and Freud
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1956
Marcuse's book renews the endeavor to read Marx into Freud. Marcuse wants to resurrect the 'explosive' revolutionary content of Freud's theories.
- Marx & Keynes
The Limits of the Mixed Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
According to Mattick, "Keynesianism merely reflects the transition of capitalism from its free-market to a state-aided phase and provides an ideology for those who mementarily profit by this transition. It does not touch upon the problems Marx was concerned with. As long as the capitalist mode of production prevails, Marxism will retain its relevance, since it concerns itself neither with one or another technique of capital production, nor with the social changes within the frame of capital production, but only with its final abolition".
- Marx and the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1848-49)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1884
- Marx and the Rift in the Universal Metabolism of Nature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The rediscovery over the last decade and a half of Marx’s theory of metabolic rift has come to be seen by many on the left as offering a powerful critique of the relation between nature and contemporary capitalist society. The result has been the development of a more unified ecological world view transcending the divisions between natural and social science, and allowing us to perceive the concrete ways in which the contradictions of capital accumulation are generating ecological crises and catastrophes.
- 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.
- Marx as a Food Theorist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Marx developed a detailed and sophisticated critique of the industrial food system in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, in the period that historians have called "the Second Agricultural Revolution." Not only did he study the production, distribution, and consumption of food; he was the first to conceive of these as constituting a problem of changing food "regimes" -- an idea that has since become central to discussions of the capitalist food system.
- Marx at 200; Capital at 150
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Holmstrom discusses the relevance of Marx's Das Capital in understanding modern and historical economic systems. Specifically, she looks at the themes of exploitation, gender, race and capital.
- Marx at the Margins
On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010 Published: 2016
Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
- Marx, Bakunin, and the question of authoritarianism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Marx characterized the International as "a bond of union rather than a controlling force" and considered it "the business of the International Working Men's Association to combine and generalize the spontaneous movements of the working classes, but not to dictate or impose any doctrinary system whatever."
- Marx and the Earth
An Anti-Critique
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016 Published: 2017
John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett respond to recent ecosocialist criticisms of Marx, offering a full-fledged anti-critique. They thus extend their earlier pioneering work on Marx’s ecology, providing the basis for a new red-green synthesis.
- Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
The real Jewish question in Marx's time was: For or against the political emancipation of the Jews? For or against equal rights for Jews?
- Marx, Eleanor
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Socialist author and activist. (1855-1898).
- Marx, Eleanor - Writings - Archive
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Eleanor Marx (1855-1898).
- Marx and Engels and the 'Red Chemist'
The Forgotten Legacy of Carl Schorlemmer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
New studies of Marx’s long-unavailable notebooks, now being published in the massive Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (Marx-Engels Complete Works), decisively refute claims that Marx was uninterested in the natural sciences or considered them irrelevant to his politics.
- Marx and Engels Belong to the Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Lawrence & Wishart, the British publisher of the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (MECW), has compelled the Marxists Internet Archive to remove free digital versions of this 50-volume treasure from its Web site. This step is meant to further the publisher’s pursuit of private, profitable licenses with paying customers.
- Marx-Engels Chronicle, The
A Day-by-Day Chronology of Marx and Engels' Life and Activity. Vol. 1 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 1
Marx 1835 - 1843
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1835
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 2
Engels 1838 - 1842
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1842
Works of Frederick Engels, August 1838-December 1842.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 28
Marx 1857 - 1861
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1861
Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 29
Marx 1857 - 1861
Resource Type: Book
Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 30
Marx 1861 - 1863
Resource Type: Book
Economic Manuscripts of 1861-63.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 31
Marx 1861 - 1863
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1863
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 32
Marx 1861 - 1863
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1863
Economic Manuscript of 1861-63 (Continuation). A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
- Marx-Engels Glossary, The
Glossary to the Chronicle & Register, & Index to the Glossary. Vol. 2 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
- Marx Engels Internet Archive
Resource Type: Database
- Marx, Engels and the National Question
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A historical look at the role of class and nation-states in socialism.
- 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.
- Marx & Engels papers
Resource Type: Website
The original papers of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, World Classics, are digitized and now online accessible. The papers can be consulted from anywhere and by anyone who logs into the catalogue website of the International Institute of Social History. Access is open and free.
- Marx & Engels papers completely available online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The original papers of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, World Classics, are digitized and now online accessible. The papers can be consulted from anywhere and by anyone who logs into the catalogue website of the International Institute of Social History. Access is open and free.
- Marx-Engels Register, The
A Complete Bibliography of Marx Engels' Individual Writings. Vol. 3 of the Marx-Engels Cyclopedia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
The Marx-Engels Register contains a detailed bibliographical listing of all the individual writings of Marx and Engels. Each entry in the Register gives all the basic data about a given work: English-language title, language of the original text, original-language title (if not English), date and circumstances of writing, date and circumstances of publication, reprints or republications of the original text, etc. The volume alsp provides "Sources and Translations" lists and some appendiices. An inclusive title index provides access to the Register by title alone.
- Marx and the Family Revisited
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A book review: Marxism and the Oppression of Women Toward a Unitary Theory, by Lise Vogel.
- Marx for Beginners
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976 Published:
- Marx for Today: A Socialist-Feminist Reading
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
In-depth look at the relationship between feminism and Marxism.
- Marx, Freud, and the Critique of Everyday Life
Toward a Permanent Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
The theory and practice of revolutionary social transformation, Brown argues, must encompass the subjective, psychological dimensions of the revolutionary process.
- Marx, Hegel, Ricardo; The "Inverted World" in the Heart of the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
- Marx in 1968 in France
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
In a personal essay, Coleman describes his personal experiences in France from 1966-1968.
He highlights significant number of Marxists teaching in both high schools and secondary settings. Furthermore, he discusses how the working class perceived in the Marxist far left, Trotskyist and Maoist press before May 1968.
- Marx in 1968: Report on a Journey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Harvey Goldman discusses his intellectual jounrey during the 1960s in relationship to Marism. As a member of SDS, Goldman was engaged actively in student activism.
- Marx and the "International"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A rebuttal of the idea of Marx as Eurocentric and a white supremacist.
- Marx is dead, long live Marx!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Duran describes 1968 as an an "ideological revolution which unquestionably affected the dominant revolutionary ideology, Marxism, and here begins my contribution, which I will divide into two large sections: an account of the situation in Spain, and then the rebirth of
Marxism, and why we can say: 'Long live Marx!'"
- Marx, Karl
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article
Brief biography of Karl Marx. (1818-1883).
- Marx, Karl
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist, and revolutionary, whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism. (1818-1883).
- Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Karl Marx Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Marx and Keynes: The Limits of Mixed Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
A look back at Paul Mattick's book Marx and Keynes, ten years after its original publication.
- Marx et Makhno a la rencontre de McDonald's
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
A Paris, les travailleurs précaires qui sont sortis vaniqueurs de plusieurs grèves en ont perud d'autres avec les honneurs à cause des méthodes à la fois légales et illégales des syndicats et des ultra-syndicalistes.
- Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald's
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Over the last several years, a revolving network of militants in Paris, France, have developed a strategy and tactics for winning strikes by marginal, low-paid, outsourced and immigrant workers against international chains, in situations where the strikers are often ignored by unions to which they nominally belong, or are actually obstructed by them.
- Marx and Marxism in Berkeley in 1968
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Setting context by describing the early twentieth century political landscape in Berkeley, Goldner continues to describe his experince as a student at UC Berkeley by discussing local, national and international contexts for my encounter with Marx in Berkeley, 1968.
- Marx Myths & Legends
Resource Type: Website
A critical reading of the work of Karl Marx now requires us to lay to one side the myths and legends which have obscured his ideas over the past one hundred and twenty years- distortions and misinterpretations to which perhaps no thinker has been more prone. In one sense, this is not difficult, because there is enough of his writing preserved, albeit in translation, for any of us to read Marx in his own words. Most however have been unwilling or unable to do this. The fifty volumes of the Marx-Engels Collected Works are forbidding, and when beginning as one almost inevitably does, with the received wisdom surrounding Marx’s name, there is much to discourage a reader from seriously taking on the task of understanding Marx. The aim of this project is thus to begin to challenge some of those myths in order to clear the way for a fresh reading of Marx that will hopefully be less prone to the distortions, misunderstandings and blatant falsehoods that have so far surrounded Marx. We believe that what Marx had to say remains of considerable relevance to an understanding of problems we face today, but that a reading of Marx now must maintain a critical caution which does not merely reproduce received ideas- positive or negative- about Marx’s work.
- Marx and Nature
A Red and Green Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999 Published: 2014
While recognizing that production is structured by historically developed relations among producers, Marx insists that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by natural conditions. Paul Burkett shows that it is Marx's overriding concern with human emancipation that impels him to approach nature from the standpoint of materialist history, sociology, and critical political economy.
- Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Essential reading for ecosocialists. Paul Burkett shows that humanity's relationship to nature is central to Marx’s critique of capitalism and vision of socialism.
- Marx on Children (and on Forgiving Christianity)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
An exploration of Marx's and Christianity's views on children.
- Marx on Democratic Forms of Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Marx's socialism (communism) as a political programme may be most quickly defined, from the Marxist standpoint, as the complete democratization of society, not merely of political forms. For Marx, the fight for democratic forms of government - democratization in the state - was a leading edge of the socialist effort; not its be-all and end-all but an integral part of it all.
- Marx on Economics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
A systematic compilation of extracts drawn from Marx's publications with brief summaries of their arguments.
- Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
A study devoted exclusively to Marx's perspectives on gender and the family.
- Marx on the Planet
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
We have arrived at a turning point in human history. Scientists feel that we have until perhaps 2050 before the multiple and massive environmental problems we face will become irreversible. After that, the planet will not support the existing global capitalist civilization.
- Marx and Organization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Lause examines Marx's involvement in different organizations and argues that he seems never to have had a problem not being in an organization -- not because he accorded organization no importance, but rather that the importance he accorded it depended entirely on the demands of the class struggle around him.
- Marx rediscovered
A review of Heather A Brown, Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Sheila McGregor states that Heather Brown has written an important study of Marx’s writings on women’s oppression. Brown situates her book in the current economic and political context, noting the role that women play both in the world economy and in recent tumultuous struggles such as the Occupy movement and, not least, in the revolutions in the Middle East beginning in 2011. At the same time, parts of Brown's book are contraditory and frustrating.
- Marx the Feminist?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
In the face of global economic crisis and the dismantling of social programs under austerity policies, many feminists are re-engaging Marx's critique of capitalism. This return to Marx is necessary if we are effectively to overcome gender oppression, especially since the latest trends in feminism -- or at least those "fit to print" and discussed in the popular press -- place the onus of equal treatment squarely on women's shoulders. Newfound feminists like Sheryl Sandberg advise women to "lean in" and adjust their behaviour to suit the aggressively entrepreneurial norms rewarded in the real world that men lead. As Nancy Fraser aptly puts it, these tendencies within feminism serve as "capitalism’s handmaiden": such identity-centered, cultural critiques have helped obscure capital's dependency on gendered oppressions.
- Marx, theoretician of anarchism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
Under the name communism, Marx developed a theory of anarchism; and further, in fact it was he who was the first to provide a rational basis for the anarchist utopia and to put forward a project for achieving it.
- Marx Turns 200: A Mixed Gift
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A mixed but detailed review of a biography of Karl Marx. The author likes the Life material but has problems with the treament of the Works.
- Marx versus Bakunin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- The Marxian Legacy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977 Published: 1979
Working within the Marxian legacy, Howard poses is problems across the fields of philosophy, sociology, political science and history.
- A Marxian Oddity
A review of Marxiam and Freedom. From 1776 Unitl Today, by Raya Dunayevskaya
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1958
Paul Mattick says although Raya Dunayevskaya’s interpretation of Marxian doctrine is occasionally true and eloquent, this book as a whole is a scatterbrained hodge-podge of philosophical, economic and political ideas that defy description and serious criticism.
- Marxism
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A world view developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the 19th century and further developed by various theorists and political activists.
- Marxism 2.0: New commodities, new workers?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Ursula Huws, 'Labor in the Global Digital Economy: The Cybertariat Comes of Age' and Nick Dyer-Witheford, 'Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex'.
- Marxism: A Re-Examination
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
A study of the social and political theory of Karl Marx, by an academic sociologist.
- Marxism & Alienation
Resource Type: Article
Documents on alienation and Marxism.
- Marxism and Anarchism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Remarks in our meeting in the London Anarchist Bookfair.
- Marxism & Anarchism: Documents in the Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Article
Resources on the theory and practice of anarchism and the unity and conflict between Marxists and Anarchists over the past 150 years.
- Marxism and Anti-Imperialism in Africa
Resource Type: Website
A collection of writings by leaders of the Anti-Imperialist and Anti-apartheid movement and Marxists in Africa, and documents by and about all varieties of socialism in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Marxism and Anti-Imperialism in Bangladesh
Resource Type: Website
Writings of Bangladeshi Communists and about the Anti-Imperialist struggle in Bangladesh.
- Marxism and Anti-Imperialism in India
Resource Type: Website
Writings of Marxists on India and the writings of important Indian Communists and freedom-fighters.
- Marxism and Anti-Imperialism in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
Selected documents.
- Marxism and Bourgeois Economics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Just as the proletariat opposed the bourgeoisie, so Marx confronted bourgeois economic theory: not in order to develop it, or to improve it, but to destroy its apparent validity and, finally, with the abolition of capitalism, to overcome it altogether.
- Marxism and Ecology: Common Fonts of a Great Transition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Socialist thought is re-emerging at the forefront of the movement for global ecological and social change.
- Marxism and Freedom
From 1776 to Today
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1958 Published: 2000
Dunayevskaya argues that Marx's theory is the generalisation of the instinctive striving of the proletariat for a new social order, a truly human society.
- Marxism and Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Miliband sets out to present an overview of the main themes and problems of the Marxist approach to politics.
- Marxism and the Critique of Scientific Ideology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983 Published: 1992
- Marxism and the Fate of the European Jews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Enzo Traverso's The Marxists and the Jewish Question; is valuable not only for what it says about Jews in one region or one period, though it is particularly strong on Eastern European Jews and their role in the workers movement in the early 20th century.
- Marxism and the Mass Media
Toward a Basic Bibliography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
- Marxism and the Oppression of Women
Toward a Unitary Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983 Published: 2014
Lise Vogel revisits classical Marxian texts, tracking analyses of “the woman question” in socialist theory and drawing on central theoretical categories of Marx's Capital to open up a theorization of gender and the social production and reproduction of material life.
- Marxism and the Party
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Molyneux examines the views of Marx, Lenin, Luxemburg, Trotsky, and Gramsci on the question of party organisation. He takes as his central theme their concern with the relationship between the party and the working class.
- Marxism and the Russian Anarchists
Resource Type: Book
Studies of the ideas of Russian anarchists, including anarcho-syndicalists, anarchist-communists, Makheavists, council anarchists, Makhnovism, and soviet anarchists.
- Marxism and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
- Marxism and women's oppression today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Times reflect how much in society in relation to women has changed, but also how much appears to have stayed the same.
- Marxism and Workers' Organisation
Writings of Marxists on Trade Unions, the General Strike, Soviets and Working Class Organisation
Resource Type: Website
Writings of Marxists on Trade Unions, the General Strike, Soviets and Working Class Organisation.
- Marxism, the Arab Spring, and Islamic fundamentalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
While Islamic fundamentalists are united by a reactionary worldview, the movements are not the same and must be approached differently. The Left must stake out an independent view based on democracy, social justice, equality, and liberation and freedom from oppression.
- Marxism as Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1915
Now is the time to bring to the fore the other part of Marxism which has been so neglected; now, when the workers movement must find a new direction, in order to overcome the narrow views and the passivity of the old era, if it wants to overcome the crisis. Men must themselves make history, or else history will be made by others for them. Of course, they cannot build without taking the circumstances into account, but they build nonetheless.
- Marxism as if the planet mattered
A Return to Marx's Ecological Critique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels held that capitalism inevitably tears apart the natural conditions that sustain life. They argued capitalism's exploitation of working people, and the unsustainable exploitation of nature, were linked and part of the same process.
- Marxism, class and revolution in Africa: the legacy of the 1917 Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
This article assesses the influence of 1917 on African liberation movements and explains how it influenced struggles against and beyond colonialism.
- Marxism and the Dialectics of Ecology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The recovery of the ecological-materialist foundations of Karl Marx’s thought, as embodied in his theory of metabolic rift, is redefining both Marxism and ecology in our time, reintegrating the critique of capital with critical natural science. Marx's materialist conception of history is inextricably connected to the materialist conception of nature, encompassing not only the critique of political economy, but also the critical appropriation of the natural-scientific revolutions occurring in his day.
- Marxism and the Earth: A defence of the classical tradition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A review of John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique.
- Marxism and the Earth: A defence of the classical tradition
Book review of Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Marxist analyses of the natural world have been the focus of intense debate recently, and the publication of any book that further explores what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels thought about the subject is something to be welcomed. John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett have proven track records of writing some of the clearest books on the subject, and while Marx and the Earth is not a specific response to some of their recent critics, it is an important defence of Marx’s and Engels’s original work.
- Marxism and Ecological Economics
Towards a Red and Green Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
A general assessment of ecological economics from Marxist point of view, demonstrating the potential contributions of Marxist political economy to ecological economical theory.
- Marxism, ecology and human history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Land and Labour: An important new book explores humanity’s contradictory relationship with the environment: our role in destroying nature, and our potential to for positive change.
- Marxism & Education
Resource Type: Website
Documents on education and Marxism.
- Marxism and Feminism in the student movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The ideas of Feminism have traditionally found support in universities, and these ideas are currently enjoying a surge in popularity amongst students. At a time when the ideas of Marxism are also finding a growing echo in the student movement, what attitude do Marxists take towards different feminist ideas? How far are these schools of thought compatible? What are the points of contention between them? And what does it mean to call yourself a "Marxist-Feminist"?
- Marxism, Feminism, the State
Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Includes essays on the sexual division of labour, and socialist organizing in the 80s, referring to Engels, Ryerson, and MacPherson.
- Marxism, feminism and transgender politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An examination of feminism and transgender politics through a Marxist lens.
- Marxism and the Fight Against Native Oppression in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014 Published: 2015
Our political tendency has always emphasized the need to combat the special oppression of Natives, blacks, women and others. Such oppression is intimately connected with the “normal” capitalist exploitation of the workers and must be fought by means of the class struggle. Most of our opponents on the left these days reject historical materialism, just as they reject the perspective of working-class revolution and instead push variants of Native cultural nationalism and "ecosocialism."
- Marxism in Japan
Resource Type: Article
Selected documents.
- Marxism and the Intellectuals
A review of Raymond Williams' Culture and Society and The Long Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1962
Raymond Williams has shown the origins of British socialism in the history of Britain itself. He has concentrated on the manner in which British writers and the British workers have created what exists in Britain today. He has developed the idea of culture from an exclusive possession of the educated and intellectuals and shown that the only meaning the word has for today is a total way of life of the whole people.
- Marxism: an Introduction to a Misunderstood Philosophy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An introduction to fundamental principles of Marxism, and and examination of how these principles have been misrepresented by dictators and war criminals, leading to widespread misunderstanding.
- 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.
- The Marxism of C.L.R. James
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1996
James is generally acknowledged to have been one of the most original Marxist thinkers to emerge from the Western hemisphere, yet essential aspects of his identity came from the other side of the Atlantic, from Europe and Africa. He offered penetrating analyses on the interrelationships of class, race and gender, and his discussions of colonialism and anti-colonialism could be brilliant. C.L.R. James also embraced the heritage of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and the working-class and socialist movements of Europe and North America.
- The Marxism of Karl Korsch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1964
- The Marxism of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1923
It is characteristic of the unity of theory and practice in the life work of Rosa Luxemburg that the unity of victory and defeat, individual fate and total process is the main thread running through her theory and her life. As early as her first polemic against Bernstein’s she argued that the necessarily ‘premature’ seizure of power by the proletariat was inevitable. She unmasked the resulting opportunist fear and lack of faith in revolution as “political nonsense which starts from the assumption that society progresses mechanically and which imagines a definite point in time external to and unconnected with the class struggle in which the class struggle will be won”.
- The Marxism of the First International
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1924
On 28 September 1864 it was decided at an international meeting of workers in London to found the International Workingmen's Association. On 25 July 1867, Karl Marx wrote the preface to the first edition of the first volume of Capital. Within one single period of history, in the 1860s, both aspects of Marxism attained their full realization: the new autonomous science of the working class attained its developed theoretical form in literature at the same time as the new autonomous movement of the proletariat achieved its practical form in history.
- Marxism and organization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- Marxism Page
Resource Type: Website
Information about Marxism, and some Marxists classics. Marxism is understood here as the theory and practice of working class self-emancipation. "This theoretical
and political tradition is radically different from the way Marxism is generally described by both critics and many 'adherents' who identify Marxism with the repressive state capitalist regimes that used to dominate Russia and eastern Europe and still hold sway in China, North Korea, Vietnam and Cuba. "
- Marxism and the Petition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Many petitions operate only on the reformist appeal to authority (this is especially true of the many online petitions from sites like Change.org), which fits perfectly within the liberal democratic framework. But the petition can operate on more than one level. Its dual nature means that it is often an indispensable tool in building collective power for more radical ends.
- Marxism and Philosophy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1923 Published: 1970
- Marxism and "Subaltern Studies"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A review of Vivek Chibber's book Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital.
- Marxism and the Anthropocene
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
As you read this article every breath you take in contains about 400 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide, around a third more than your great grandparents breathed 100 years ago. As well as leading to potentially catastrophic global warming, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has changed the way plants photosynthesise and has also made seas and lakes more acidic, more so than they have been for the last 800,000 years. The effect human activity is having in the world is on such a huge scale that, for a growing number of thinkers, Earth has entered a new geological epoch defined by human activity. Using the Greek word Anthropos (human) they propose to name this epoch the Anthropocene.
- Marxism vs. Anarchism Part 5
From 1848 to the Bolshevik Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Seymour analyzes the syndicalist movements - which emphasized that the main obstacle to social revolution lay in the organizational weakness of the anarchist movement and the disorganization of the working class in general - that preceded World War I.
- Marxism vs. Anarchism Part 6
1914-1918: Imperialist War and the Realignment of the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
The conclusion to a six part series, this article deals with how the formation of the Communist International, under the profound impact of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, culminated the realignment of the left which had begun in August 1914.
- Marxism and Women's Liberation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Why are women more often to be found on the sticky floor of low pay than above the glass ceiling where the rich reside? Why is there an assault on the gains of the women's movement? As austerity bites and new debates about oppression rage, Judith Orr steers a path through the history and future of the fight for women's liberation.
- Marxism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Until now the history of revolutionary Marxism has been the history of its defeats, which include the apparent successes that culminated in the emergence of state-capitalist systems. It is clear that early Marxism not only underestimated the resiliency of capitalism, but in doing so also overestimated the power of Marxian ideology to affect the consciousness of the proletariat. The process of historical change, even if speeded up by the dynamics of capitalism, is exceedingly slow, particularly when measured against the lifespan of an individual. But the history of failure is also one of illusions shed and experience gained, if not for the individual, at least for the class. There is no reason to assume that the proletariat cannot learn from experience.
- Marxism's 'Communicative Crisis'?
Mapping Debates over Leninist Print-Media Practices in the 20th Century
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Marxism’s ‘communicative crisis’, it was a topic of concern that was addressed, debated and negotiated over by party leaders, intellectuals and activists on a continuous basis throughout the 20th century. These concerns revolved around three areas: first, the primary means of print communication, the party paper; second, the specialization of production, particularly around the role of writers and journalists; and third, the search for a popular rhetoric and writing style, which would appeal to the general public.
- Marxism.ca
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
A gateway to resources about Marxism compiled by Connexions.
- Le Marxisme, c'est pas Sorcier
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1981
- Marxismo Libertario
Resource Type: Website
Lecturas para la Emancipacion del Proletariado.
- Marxist and Socialist Periodicals Listing
Resource Type: Website
- 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.
- A Marxist critique of the theory of 'white privilege'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015 Published: 2020
Candace Cohn outlines the origins and problems of privilege theory. She aruges that In holding white workers co-responsible for systemic racism, the privilege model attributed a power to white workers they manifestly do not have: control over the institutions of American capitalism – schools, jobs, housing, factories, banks, police, courts, prisons, legislatures, media, elections, universities, armed services, hospitals, sports, political parties – all of which function in a racist manner. These institutions are owned and controlled by the capitalist class.
- A Marxist Ecological Vision
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The questions facing environmental activists, and socialists in particular, range from the sheer scale of the environmental disasters already underway to the problems of beginning a transition from a system organized around massive consumption of fossil fuels, vast megacities and global agribusiness.
- Marxist Economic Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1962 Published: 1971
Marxist Economic Theory is a major intellectual project which adapts Marx's analysis of capitalism to the world of the late 20th century. Mandel examines post-war upheavals in the development of imperialism, monopoly capitalism and the structure of the state-controlled economies.
- Marxist feminism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Focuses on the dismantling of capitalism as the key to liberating women.
- Marxist and Feminist Interventions
Marxism and Feminism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Shahrzad Mojab's edited volume Marxism and Feminism.
- The Marxist and the Gamers: Reading, Fortnite, and My Students' Identities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A school teacher reflects on the differences he sees in his students from past generations, notably the many young people who are avid online gamers.
- A Marxist History of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
A short history of capitalism by a history professor at University of Manitoba
- A Marxist History of Capitalism (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A book review of Henry Heller's "A Marxist History of Capitalism" which restores class struggle to a central place in explaining how capitalism arose and grew, and can eventually be overcome.
- A Marxist History of the World: Making the future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Historian Neil Faulkner concludes A Marxist History of the World by looking at what that history can tell us about the possibility for radical social change.
- A Marxist History of the World Part 1: The Hominid Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
In the first of a regular series, Neil Faulkner charts the evolutionary development of modern day humans from primitive apes to socially co-operative human beings.
- A Marxist History of the World part 10: Men of Iron
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The constant rise and fall of Bronze age societies was a product of their wasteful, crisis ridden nature. But in the barbarian periphery around 1300 BCE an industrial revolution had begun that was to transform the world.
- A Marxist History of the World part 100: 1968-1975: the workers' revolt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
As the crisis of capitalism spread around the world, the working class took centre stage – but the revolt did not result in successful revolution anywhere.
- A Marxist History of the World part 101: The Long Recession
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
By the early 1970s, the levers of state economic management had stopped working and the world economy entered a long period of stagnation.
- A Marxist History of the World part 102: What is neoliberalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The ‘free-market’ theory provides a pseudo-scientific justification for the greed and poverty endemic to the system, and the main beneficiaries are the global mega-corporations of neoliberal capitalism.
- A Marxist History of the World part 103: 1989: the fall of Stalinism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The revolutions of 1989 represent great victories for mass action, but they were limited in effect.
- A Marxist History of the World part 104: 2001: 9/11, the War on Terror, and the New Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The Al-Qaida terror attacks allowed the great powers to justify new imperialist wars to safeguard the interests of global capital.
- A Marxist History of the World part 105: The 2008 Crash: from bubble to black hole
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The financial crisis represents the end of an era in which greed and casino-madness had been given free rein by market deregulation and rising debt.
- A Marxist History of the World part 106: The Second Great Depression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Four years after the beginning of the crisis, the neoliberal elite is trapped by the contradictions of the system on which its wealth depends.
- A Marxist History of the World Part 11: Western Asia: the Persian Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at the centuries following 1000 BCE when the scale of civilisation and empire exploded as the productivity of iron tools boosted the surpluses available to Iron Age empire-builders.
- A Marxist History of the World part 12: India: the Mauryan Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at the growth of the Mauryan Empire which at its zenith encompassed almost the whole of what is today India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
- A Marxist History of the World part 13: China: the Ch'in Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at the origins of the Ch'in Empire - short-lived, created by conquest and terror and characterised by extreme centralisation, military-style exploitation, and murderous repression.
- A Marxist History of the World part 14: The Greek Democratic Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at the radical participatory democracy which began in Athens between 510 and 506 BCE and spread to virtually every city-state in the Aegean.
- A Marxist History of the World part 15: The Macedonian Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at the defeat of the democratic empire centred around Athens in a protracted counter-revolution led by Greek aristocrats, Macedonian kings, and Roman viceroys.
- A Marxist History of the World part 16: Roman Military Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Rome represented a unique fusion of Greek-style citizenship with Macedonian-style militarism. The result was the most dynamic imperialist state in the ancient world.
- A Marxist History of the World part 17: The Roman Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at the Roman Revolution - a complex, distorted, century-long process of class struggle.
- A Marxist History of the World part 18: The Crisis of Late Antiquity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner explains how the Roman Empire entered its terminal crisis as its military imperialism came up against geographical, economic, and sociological barriers to expansion.
- A Marxist History of the World part 19: Mother-goddesses and power-deities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner looks at how the growth of private property altered the position of women - from occupying a central role in society to suffering what Engels called ‘the world historic defeat of the female sex’.
- A Marxist History of the World Part 2: The Upper Palaeolithic Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
In the second of his regular series Neil Faulkner reveals the incredible innovation and adaptability of our ancient ancestors, their unique combination of language and imagination and how cultures formed to fit the different environments in which early societies lived and worked.
- A Marxist History of the World part 20: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner examines how the three great monotheistic religions produced by the contradictions of the ancient world owed their extraordinary power to their origins in the myths and rituals of the oppressed.
- A Marxist History of the World part 21: Huns, Goths, and Romans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner charts the transformation of the Huns from tribal nomads into continent-straddling militarists.
- A Marxist History of the World part 22: Arabs, Persians, and Byzantines
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
This week Neil Faulkner describes the rise and explosive spread of the third great monotheistic religion, where compassion, charity, and protection became moral imperatives - Islam.
- A Marxist History of the World part 23: The Abbasid Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Islam created a single overarching allegiance throughout the Arab-ruled world yet the Middle East came to be a divided region of weak and unpopular states. Neil Faulkner looks at the conflicts that lay behind this process.
- A Marxist History of the World part 24: Hindus, Buddhists, and the Gupta Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
More than half a millennium separated the fall of India’s Mauryan Empire in the late 3rd century BCE (before the common era) from the rise of the Gupta Empire in the early 4th century CE (common era). Economic and social change during the interval altered the foundations of imperialism.
- A Marxist History of the World part 25: Chinese History's Revolving Door
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First Published: 2010
Neil Faulkner examines China's imperial history, where for two millennia political revolution did not lead to social transformation, but simply to the replacement of one dynasty by another.
- A Marxist History of the World part 26: Africa: cattle-herders, iron-masters, and trading states
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First Published: 2011
Neil Faulkner looks at the early civilisations in Africa and how geography ensured the continent would develop differently from Eurasia.
- A Marxist History of the World part 27: New World Empires: Maya, Aztec, and Inca
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First Published: 2011
The early civilisations of the Americas were limited by its geography - in only two areas did urban revolution occur and civilisations develop: in parts of Mesoamerica, and in the Central Andes.
- A Marxist History of the World part 28: The cycles and arrows of time
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First Published: 2011
In Part 9 of A Marxist History of the World, we paused to discuss ‘how history works’. It would be useful to pause again to review some general lessons of the history of the ancient and medieval civilisations we have looked at since.
- A Marxist History of the World part 29: The peculiarity of Europe
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First Published: 2011
Why Europe? Why was it that the second great transformation in human existence - the development of capitalism and industrial society - was pioneered on the western edge of the Eurasian land-mass?
- A Marxist History of the World Part 3: The Neolithic Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
In part three of Neil Faulkner's Marxist history series he reveals how the advent of farming lead to primitive communistic societies who through land depletion and scarcity of resources would be forced into global war.
- A Marxist History of the World part 30: The rise of western feudalism
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First Published: 2011
Following the collapse of the Roman Empire Western Europe became a politically fragmented region of warring states from which a radically new social, military, and political order developed.
- A Marxist History of the World part 31: Crusade and Jihad
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First Published: 2011
The Crusades lasted 200 years and represented the most extreme expression of the futile violence inherent in western feudalism - a murderous attack on the Middle East by western feudal thugs under the banner of religion.
- A Marxist History of the World part 32: Lord, burgher, and peasant in medieval Europe
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First Published: 2011
Feudalism is often portrayed as a stagnant system where little changed over centuries. The reality was a system that was more dynamic and productive than anything before it argues Neil Faulkner.
- A Marxist History of the World part 33: The class struggle in medieval Europe
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First Published: 2011
Despite dominating western Europe in the 11th century by the 14th century Feudalism was faced with a crisis that generated a wave of revolutionary struggle. Neil Faulkner looks at the causes and outcomes.
- A Marxist History of the World part 34: The new monarchies
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First Published: 2011
Neil Faulkner looks at how the transition from feudalism to capitalism introduced a new model of unified states, centralised government, royal armies, internal repression and national-dynastic wars.
- A Marxist History of the World part 35: The new colonialism
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First Published: 2011
The Portuguese and Spanish overseas empires founded at the beginning of the 16th century were soon followed by Dutch, English, and French empires. Neil Faulkner looks at how the transformation of the world by European colonialism began.
- A Marxist History of the World part 36: The Reformation
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First Published: 2011
The Reformation after 1521 tore apart church and state. Neil Faulkner looks at how the new social forces formed inside late medieval Europe helped undermine the thousand year domination of the Roman Catholic Church.
- A Marxist History of the World part 37: The Counter-Reformation
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First Published: 2011
Neil Faulkner looks at how the Reformation was followed by a counter-revolutionary response which involved a dogmatic reassertion of Catholic orthodoxy: the Counter-Reformation.
- A Marxist History of the World part 38: The Dutch Revolution
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First Published: 2011
For more than 40 years, with wildly fluctuating fortunes, the Dutch Revolution of 1566-1609 took the form of a protracted popular war of national defence against the Spanish Empire.
- A Marxist History of the World part 39: The Thirty Years War
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First Published: 2011
Between 1618 and 1648 Germany was wrecked by insecurity, depopulation, disruption to trade, the destruction of property, and military plundering. Neil Faulkner looks at The Thirty Years War.
- A Marxist History of the World Part 4: The origins of War and Religion
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First Published: 2010
This week Neil Faulkner looks at the origins of War and Religion in the Early Neolithic world.
- A Marxist History of the World part 40: The causes of the English Revolution
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First Published: 2011
Neil Faulkner looks at the how the unresolved contradictions in English society and the attempt to establish Continental-style absolutism led to the execution of the king, and the establishment of a bourgeois republic.
- A Marxist History of the World part 41: 1640-1645: revolution and war in England
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First Published: 2011
The attempt to impose Absolutism by Charles I led to a revolutionary civil war in which the King would be executed - Neil Faulkner looks at the English Civil War.
- A Marxist History of the World part 42: The Army, the Levellers, and the Commonwealth
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First Published: 2011
Neil Faulkner looks at how even the most radical bourgeois forces, if they are to preserve their property and status, must break the momentum of the movement that has brought them to power.
- A Marxist History of the World part 43: Colonies, slavery, and racism
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First Published: 2011
Capitalist contradictions were most evident in the 18th century, when the wealth of the merchant-capitalist class of Britain’s port-cities was contrasted with the untold human misery of the slaves, ramping up the historical significance of racist ideology.
- A Marxist History of the World part 44: Wars of empire
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First Published: 2011
The English Revolution transformed Britain into a capitalist economy engaging in geopolitical competition. Neil Faulkner looks at how Britain became the dominant global superpower of the 19th Century.
- A Marxist History of the World part 45: The Enlightenment
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First Published: 2011
What gave the Enlightenment its subversive, politically corrosive character was its critique of institutions and practices which appeared comparatively irrational in the light of modern thinking, argues Neil Faulkner.
- A Marxist History of the World part 46: The American Revolution
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First Published: 2011
In 1764, Americans thought of themselves as British subjects of King George III. By 1788, they would, by their own decisions and actions, have made themselves the free citizens of a new republic forged in revolution and war.
- A Marxist History of the World part 47: The French Revolution - Storming of the Bastille
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In the latest of his series on the Marxist understanding of history, Neil Faulkner explores revolution and counter-revolution in 18th-Century France.
- A Marxist History of the World Part 48: The French Revolution - The Jacobin Dictatorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In his latest instalment, Neil Faulkner explores the rise of the Jacobin dictatorship and the ever-present threat of counter-revolution in 18th Century France.
- A Marxist History of the World part 49: The French Revolution - Themidor, Directory and Napoleon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In his third chapter on the French Revolution, Neil Faulkner discusses the contradictions of bourgeois revolution - but celebrates the gains it won.
- A Marxist History of the World part 5: The Rise of the Specialists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The Early Neolithic economy was doomed by insoluble contradictions. Technique was primitive and wasteful. Society lacked reserves against natural disaster and hard times. Virgin land ran out as old fields were exhausted and populations grew.
- A Marxist History of the World part 50: The Industrial Revolution
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First Published: 2011
Frederick Engels was sent to Manchester, centre of the Industrial Revolution, to dispel his radicalism. Instead it made him the revolutionary he is remembered as today, Neil Faulkner explains.
- A Marxist History of the World part 51: The origins of the Labour Movement
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First Published: 2011
Capitalism's industrial revolution gave birth to its own gravediggers, argues Neil Faulkner as he examines the rise and fall of Chartism.
- A Marxist History of the World part 52: The 1848 Revolutions
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First Published: 2011
Even when progress is reversed, some hard-won gains are permanent. Neil Faulkner examines how the counter-revolution in 1848 failed to entirely turn the clock back.
- A Marxist History of the World part 53: What is Marxism?
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First Published: 2011
In his latest instalment, Neil Faulkner explores the complex history of Marxism - and how capitalism produced its own gravediggers.
- A Marxist History of the World part 54: What is Capitalism?
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First Published: 2011
In this critical chapter of his world history, Neil Faulkner explores capitalism and what it means from the Industrial Revolution to the present day.
- A Marxist History of the World part 55: The Making of the Working Class
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First Published: 2011
The development of capitalism entails two complementary processes. The first, explored in MHW 54, is competitive capital accumulation. The second, explored here, is the making – and continual re-making – of the working class.
- A Marxist History of the World part 56: The Indian Mutiny
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First Published: 2012
The Indian Mutiny was the subcontinent’s first war of independence, with Indians of different ethnic and religious backgrounds fighting side-by-side despite the divide and rule fostered by the British.
- A Marxist History of the World part 57: The American Civil War
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First Published: 2012
One hundred and fifty years ago North America saw the start of a revolutionary war fought between rival systems and opposing political ideologies. Neil Faulkner looks at The American Civil War.
- A Marxist History of the World part 58: The Meiji Restoration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
An event which would shape the history of the Far East until 1945, Japan’s bourgeois revolution ‘from above’ is explored by Neil Faulkner in this week's Marxist History.
- A Marxist History of the World part 59: The Franco-Prussian War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
In this week's chapter of the Marxist History series Neil Faulkner looks at how Germany’s ruling elite brought about a bourgeois revolution ‘from above’.
- A Marxist History of the World part 6: The First Ruling Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
This week Neil Faulkner looks at the rise of the first ruling classes as the surplus created through the increasing productivity of human labour allowed a section of society to live without producing.
- A Marxist History of the World part 60: The Paris Commune: the face of proletarian revolution
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First Published: 2012
The Franco-Prussian war produced the first proletarian revolution in history, and showed to the world for the first time what a workers’ state looks like.
- A Marxist History of the World part 61: The Long Depression, 1873-1896
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First Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner writes about the The Long Depression – an unprecedented economic slump which started the countdown to the First World War.
- A Marxist History of the World part 62: The Scramble for Africa
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First Published: 2012
The imperial competition to control Africa spawned a predatory colonialism of mines, plantations, and machine-guns and propelled humanity towards industrialised world war writes Neil Faulkner.
- A Marxist History of the World part 63: The Rape of China
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First Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at the impact of western imperialism's repeated and bloody attempts to control the wealth of China
- A Marxist History of the World part 64: What is Imperialism?
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First Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at how the growth of giant monopolies and the fusing of industrial, bank, and state capital created global competition - and the roots of World War I.
- A Marxist History of the World part 65: The 1905 Revolution: Russia's great dress rehearsal
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First Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at how the Russian Revolution of 1905 helped Leon Trotsky formulate an answer to the century-old riddle of Russian history: what form must the revolution take in order to be victorious.
- A Marxist History of the World part 66: The Ottoman Empire and the 1908 'Young Turk' Revolution
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First Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at how the revolution that began in Turkey in 1908 initiated a process that would transform the middle east over the following two decades.
- A Marxist History of the World part 67: Reform or Revolution?
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First Published: 2012
The world Socialist movement was blown apart as its members supported the First World War. Neil Faulkner looks at how the question of reform or revolution lay behind the split.
- A Marxist History of the World part 68: 1914: descent into barbarism
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First Published: 2012
In the summer of 1914 capitalism tipped humanity into an abyss of barbarism that would leave millions dead. Neil Faulkner looks at the First World War.
- A Marxist History of the World part 69: The First World War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at how capitalism plunged humanity into an abyss of carnage, destruction, and waste without precedent, as mass production methods produced industrialised slaughter.
- A Marxist History of the World part 7: The Spread of Civilisation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
This week Neil Faulkner looks at the spread and development of ancient city civilisations around the world, each governed by a new ruling class of priests, city-governors and war-leaders.
- A Marxist History of the World part 70: 1917: the February Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
As WWI turned into a protracted, bloody struggle the initial enthusiasm gave way to growing class tensions which exploded first in Russia's February Revolution.
- A Marxist History of the World part 71: Dual power: the mechanics of revolution
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First Published: 2012
The centuries old Russian monarchy was overthrown in a matter of days in February 1917. Neil Faulkner looks at the months of turmoil that followed.
- A Marxist History of the World part 72: February to October the rhythms of revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The situation of 'dual power' that emerged after the overthrow of the Tsar in February 1917 was marked by a series of major political crises.
- A Marxist History of the World part 73: 1917: the October Insurrection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
- A Marxist History of the World part 75: The German Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
At the end of the First World War, the epicentre of revolution moved from Petrograd to Berlin. Why did the German communists fail where the Bolsheviks had succeded?
- A Marxist History of the World part 76: Italy's 'Two Red Years'
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First Published: 2012
Like Germany, Italy was on the brink of revolution in the summer of 1920, after the strains of imperialist war had levered open deep fractures in an unstable social order.
- A Marxist History of the World part 77 World Revolution
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First Published: 2012
In the five years after the First World War, revolutionary contagion spread around the world. It showed the extraordinary possibilities that arise when the masses become active in making their own history.
- A Marxist History of the World part 78: The First Chinese Revolution
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First Published: 2012
In 1927, the Chinese nationalists smashed the country's first working-class revolutionary movement – a defeat that would shape the whole subsequent history of China.Counterfire
- A Marxist History of the World part 79: Revolt in the Colonies
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First Published: 2012
The anti-colonial revolts of the early 20th century were inspired by radical ideas, but, as the examples of Ireland, India and Mexico show, history exacts a heavy price for political timidity.
- A Marxist History of the World part 8: Crisis in the Bronze Age
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Why did Bronze Age empires rise and fall amid crisis and war? And why did this contradictory social form simply replicate itself over long periods of time? Neil Faulkner looks at the evidence.
- A Marxist History of the World part 80: Stalinism: the bitter fruit of revolutionary defeat
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First Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at the time when the Bolshevik regime turned in on itself and morphed into a mockery of its socialist ideals.
- A Marxist History of the World part 81: The Roaring Twenties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Although the 'American Dream' became a reality for millions in the 1920s, it was built on shaky grounds - the huge speculative bubble that was building up on Wall Street was waiting to collapse
- A Marxist History of the World part 82: The Hungry Thirties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Beginning with the Wall Street Crash in 1929, the world economy entered the Great Depression. The misguided policies that world leaders pursued ensured that millions of lives were torn apart.
- A Marxist History of the World part 83: 1933: The Nazi seizure of power
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First Published: 2012
By the early 1930s, the German ruling class was determined to use the Nazis to make the world safe for German capital. But the fascist victory was not inevitable – it resulted from the failure of those who opposed fascism.
- A Marxist History of the World part 85: June 1936: the French general strike and factory occupations
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First Published: 2012
In the mid-1930s French workers launched a wave of strikes and occupations. Neil Faulkner explains how the Stalinised Communist Party worked to contain this resistance.
- A Marxist History of the World part 86: The Spanish Civil War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
In 1936, after General Franco had led an unsuccessful coup against a democratically elected government, revolution swept across Spain. Neil Faulkner explains why the workers were ultimately defeated.
- A Marxist History of the World part 87: The Causes of the Second World War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
As Hitler sought to expand Germany's sphere of influence in Europe, Britain's policy of appeasement reflected the interests of the British ruling classes – until German power became overwhelming.
- A Marxist History of the World part 88: The Second World War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
With the great powers fighting to defend their empires, the Second World War would re-divide the world between competing blocs of capitalists.
- A Marxist History of the World part 89: 1941-1945: barbarism in a world gone mad
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First Published: 2012
The Second World War was characterised by primeval savagery. Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia and Militarist Japan waged war with unprecedented brutality, but the ‘democracies’ also committed terrible war crimes.
- A Marxist History of the World part 9: How History Happens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The complex societies that emerged from the division of society into classes also created societies that were wasteful, violent, stagnant and crisis prone. Understanding why is the key to how history happens argues Neil Faulkner.
- A Marxist History of the World part 90: The Second World War: resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Large parts of Occupied Europe were liberated by local resistance movements. But the potential for a revolutionary transformation was smothered at birth.
- A Marxist History of the World part 91: The Cold War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The Second World War had created a world divided between two imperialist blocs. Their nuclear arsenals acted as a ‘deterrent’, but rivalry and suspicion meant that war was never far away.
- A Marxist History of the World part 92: The Great Boom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
In the first three decades after the war, the world economy experienced unprecedented growth rates and falling unemployment. But the boom rested on unstable foundations.
- A Marxist History of the World part 93: Maoist China
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
After the revolution of 1949, the Chinese Communists resorted to state capitalism to force the country’s industrialisation. The consequences were disastrous.
- A Marxist History of the World part 94: End of Empire?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
In spite of the imperialist powers' attempts to cling on to their colonies, formal empire was finished by the late 1970s. But this was not the end of imperialism.
- A Marxist History of the World part 95: Oil, Zionism, and Western Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
British support for the Zionist movement led to the foundation of Israel in 1948. In conjunction with US imperialism, the Israeli state is an enduring source of oppression in the Middle East.
- A Marxist History of the World part 96:1956: Hungary and Suez
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
1956 was a year of war, revolution, and disillusionment – a year after which nothing could ever be quite the same again.
- A Marxist History of the World part 97: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The reforms that Fidel Castro introduced after the overthrow of the Batista dictatorship were real, but they were bestowed from above and straitjacketed by poverty.
- A Marxist History of the World part 98: The Vietnam War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
How an army of peasant guerrillas managed to defeat US imperialism in a full-scale war.
- A Marxist History of the World part 99: 1968 - the long sleep ends
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The long sleep of the post-war period was brought to an end in 1968, as revolts erupted across the developed world.
- Marxist Humanism and the 'New Left'
Resource Type: Website
An index to the writings and biographies of Marxist-Humanist writers.
- Marxist-Humanism's concept of 'Subject'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Transcendence has, in academia, both a theological and philosophic meaning far removed from practice. But transcendence as a historic category means people abolishing the old, creating the new; indeed it is the only real transcendence; all else is hogwash.
- Marxist Scholars Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Marxist Theories of the State Played out in Venezuela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The implications of Marxist state theories developed by Nicos Poulantzas and Ralph Miliband are useful for framing issues related to leftist strategy in twenty-first century Venezuela.
- Marxist Theory and Revolutionary Tactics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1912
If the party saw its function as restraining the masses from action for as long as it could do so, then party discipline would mean a loss to the masses of their initiative and potential for spontaneous action, a real loss, and not a transformation of energy. The existence of the party would then reduce the revolutionary capacity of the proletariat rather than increase it. It cannot simply sit down and wait until the masses rise up spontaneously in spite of having entrusted it with part of their autonomy; the discipline and confidence in the party leadership which keep the masses calm place it under an obligation to intervene actively and itself give the masses the call for action at the right moment. Thus, as we have already argued, the party actually has a duty to instigate revolutionary action, because it is the bearer of an important part of the masses' capacity for action; but it cannot do so as and when it pleases, for it has not assimilated the entire will of the entire proletariat, and cannot therefore order it about like a troop of soldiers. It must wait for the right moment: not until the masses will wait no longer and are rising up of their own accord, but until the conditions arouse such feeling in the masses that large-scale action by the masses has a chance of success.
- Marxist Theory and the Proletariat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1903
A sketch of Marxist theory.
- A Marxist view of ecology and human history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A review on Martin Empson's "Land & Labour: Marxism, Ecology and Human History."
- Marxist Views of the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
We are not discussing the working class because we want to find out what the noble worker is all about. We are concerned with social change. The fundamental problem of how you define and how you view the working class is the problem of whether the working class is a viable instrument for social change.
- Marxist Women versus Bourgeois Feminism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
The texts presented here are intended to revive acquaintance with a revolutionary women's movement, which was undoubtedly the most important one of its kind that has yet been seen. Yet it has been so thoroughly dropped down the memory hole that even mention of its existence is hard to find.
- MarxistHistory.org
Resource Type: Website
Website dealing with the history of the early American Marxist movement. A repository of source material 1864 - 1946.
- The Marxists and the Jewish Question
The History of a Debate 1843 - 1943
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Covers the difficult history of European Marxists' efforts to comprehend what "The Jewish Question" was about. The assumption that Jewish life and religion were a historical anachronism, something that would naturally disappear with the end of their specific economic function in the development of capitalism, also implied that the medieval legacy of Jew-hatred would vanish as well.The possibility of a new and even more virulent, racialist revival of Jew-hatred -- anti-Semitism -- was overlooked by thinkers and parties who envisioned an inevitable evolution toward socialism.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- Marxists Internet Archive Encyclopedia of Marxism
Resource Type: Article
- Marxists Internet Archive - Historic Events in the Encyclopedia of Marxism
Resource Type: Article
- Marxists Internet Archive - History Archive
A History of the Revolutionary Working Class: Documents by the People Who Practiced It
Resource Type: Article
An overview of the history of efforts of organising workers regardless of race, ethnicity, gender - or border, the effort to organise and create collaboration and co-operation between workers the world over in order to win the world for those who make it run.
- Marxists Internet Archive Subject Archive
Special Subject Collections
Resource Type: Website
- Marxmail
Resource Type: Website
The Marxism list is a worldwide moderated forum for activists and scholars in the Marxist tradition who favor a non-sectarian and non-dogmatic approach. It puts a premium on independent thought and rigorous but civil debate.
- Marx's Capital as Organizing Tool
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A guide to how the left could use Marx's Capital as a text for organizing.
- Marx's Capital at 150
History in Capital, Capital in History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A look at Karl Marx's historic book 'Capital' Volume 1 on the 150th anniversary of publication, its historical significance and influence, and what it means for those who read the book today.
- Marx's Concept of Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
It is one of the peculiar ironies of history that there are no limits to the misunderstanding and distortion of theories, even in an age when there is unlimited access to the sources; there is no more drastic example of this phenomenon than what has happened to the theory of Karl Marx in the last few decades....I shall try to demonstrate that this interpretation of Marx is completely false; that his theory does not assume that the main motive of man is one of material gain; that, furthermore, the very aim of Marx is to liberate man from the pressure of economic needs, so that he can be fully human; that Marx is primarily concerned with the emancipation of man as an individual, the overcoming of alienation, the restoration of his capacity to relate himself fully to man and to nature; that Marx's philosophy constitutes a spiritual existentialism in secular language and because of this spiritual quality is opposed to the materialistic practice and thinly disguised materialistic philosophy of our age.
- Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism – and that he consciously avoided any detailed conception of its alternative – this work shows that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society which informed the whole of his approach to political economy.
- Marx's Ecological Notebooks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
This article investigate Marx's natural-scientific notebooks, especially those of 1868, which will be published for the first time in volume four, section eighteen of the new Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe(MEGA). As Burkett and Foster rightly emphasize, Marx's notebooks allow us to see clearly his interests and preoccupations before and after the publication of the first volume of Capital in 1867, and the directions he might have taken through his intensive research into disciplines such as biology, chemistry, geology, and mineralogy, much of which he was not able fully to integrate into Capital.
- Marx's Ecology
Materialism and Nature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
This account overturns conventional interpretations of Marx. Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development of economic forces. John Bellamy Foster examines Marx's neglected writings on capitalist agriculture and soil ecology, philosophical naturalism, and evolutionary theory. He shows that Marx, known as a powerful critic of capitalist society, was also deeply concerned with the changing human relationship to nature.
- Marx's Ecology: Recovered Legacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Löwy says that while mainstream ecologicail theory has been dismissive of Karl Marx, serious research in recent decades has recovered some of his very important insights on ecological issues.
- Marxs Humanism Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1965
The 1844 Manuscripts didn't just pave the way for scientific socialism. Humanism wasn't just a stage Marx passed through on his voyage of discovery to scientific economics or real revolutionary politics. Humanist philosophy is the very foundation of the integral unity of Marxian theory, which cannot be fragmented into economics, politics, sociology, much less identified with the Stalinist monolithic creation.
- Marx's Marginal Notes on the Program and Rules of Bakunin's International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1868
- Marx's Theory of Alienation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Meszaros provides a comprehensive treatment of Marx's theory of alienation by surveying Marx's work as a whole. In doing so, he argues against the commonly held distinction between a young philosophically-oriented Marx and a mature economics-oriented Marx.
- Marx's Theory of Crisis as a Theory of Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
- Marx's Theory of Working-Class Precariousness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
In the last decade and a half the concept of worker precariousness has gained renewed currency among social scientists. This trend grew more pronounced after the Great Financial Crisis of 2007–2009, which left in its wake a period of deep economic stagnation that still persists in large parts of the global economy. Most scholars define precariousness by reference to what workers lack, including such factors as: ready access to paid employment, protection from arbitrary firing, possibility for advancement, long-term job stability, adequate safety, development of new skills, living wages, and union representation.
- Marx's unchaining of the dialectic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
- Marx's Vision of Communism
A Reconstruction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Ollman tries to reconstruct Marx's vision of communism from his writings of 1844, the year in which he set down the broad lines of his analysis, to the end of his life.
- Marxsite
Resource Type: Website
Trotskyist-leaning site with a relatively broad range of resources.
- Masenayegun
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
- The Masked Avenger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Super Barrio is a living comic strip character, a masked man who wrestles with evil slumlords and corrupt politicians.
- Masking Tragedy in Ukraine
Sinister Illusions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
It is no secret that Barack Obama is one of the supreme illusionists of modern times. The disconnect between his words and his deeds is so profound as to be almost sublime, far surpassing the crude obfuscations of the Bush-Cheney gang.
- The Masks of Proteus
Canadian Reflections on the State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A multi-faceted study of the modern state.
- The Maskwa Project
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
- Abraham Maslow Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Anne Mason-Apps
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Obituary in the Connexions Digest.
- Masques of Morality
Females in Fiction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- Mass Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1911
No party executive in the world can replace the mass of the party's own energy, and an organisation of a million which, at a great time and in the face of great tasks, would want to complain that it did not have the right leaders would prove its own shortcomings, because it would prove it has not understood the historical essence itself of the proletarian class struggle that consists in the proletarian masses not needing "leaders" in a bourgeois sense, that they are themselves leaders.
- 'A mass assassination factory': Inside Israel's calculated bombing of Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation reveals.
- Mass Communications and American Empire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
An in-depth look at international and domestic media, and the effect of capitalism on mass communications.
- Mass Incarceration
New Jim Crow, Class War, or Both?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, Lewis analyzes racial and class disparities in incarceration.
- Mass Incarceration and Black Oppression in America
The New Jim Crow and Liberal Reformism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The singular focus on mass incarceration as the embodiment of racial oppression has a purpose: it poses the fight for black freedom as a matter of "dismantling" that system, much as the civil rights movement dismantled Jim Crow. But mass black incarceration is both a symptom and a means of enforcing the special oppression of black people that is fundamental to American capitalism
- Mass Incarceration and Capitalism
The Violence of Economic Exploitation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
On the intersections of race, class, capitalism, and social repression via mass incarceration in the United States.
- Mass Incarceration and the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Thompson opens up a discussion regarding the American criminal justice system and why incarceration does not lead to rehabilitation back into society.
- Mass Incarceration for Profit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
In the face of growing public criticism and improved technologies, companies like Securus search for new ways to remain competitive while marketing themselves as providers of a quality service that keeps the public safe. Yet with the involvement of global financial houses in the prison industrial complex, the pressure mounts to produce value for shareholders. Ultimately, this systematically incentivizes mass incarceration. While we often hear about the activities of private prison providers like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, corporate interests are immersed in every aspect of criminal justice.
- Mass Incarceration, Prison Labor in the United States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Federal Prison Industries (FPI) under the brand UNICORE operates approximately 52 factories (prisons) across the United States.
- Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
An analysis of the media's prediliction for "politics of confrontation" in America in the late 60's. He focuses on how the media distorted the anti-war movement.
- Mass Media Omertà
Burying Al Jazeera's 'The Labour Files'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
The damaging revelations about the Labour Party in the recent four-part Al Jazeera series, ‘The Labour Files’, and the almost totalitarian silence in response by British news media, should ram home the illusory nature of ‘democracy’ in the UK.
- The Mass Media Will Never Regain The Public’s Trust
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
It doesn’t ultimately matter what mainstream pundits and reporters believe is the cause of the public’s growing disgust with them, because there's nothing they can do to fix it anyway. The mass media will never regain the public's trust.
- Mass Murder at Colfax, The Bloody Death of Reconstruction
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
On April 13, 1873, white supremacists laid siege to a Black Republican stronghold in rural north Louisiana, brutally slaying freedmen and altering the course of the United States. The Colfax massacre happened at the courthouse of newly created Grant Parish, located in a town named after Vice President Schuyler Colfax. Colfax is situated in cotton country along the Red River.
- Mass murder by botulism: Surge in Great Lakes bird deaths driven by invaders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The botulism bacterium "is the most toxic natural substance on Earth. Just one gram could kill off like two million people. And for these birds it's essentially just widespread food poisoning."
- 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.
- The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1933 Published: 1970
Wilhelm Reich's class study, written during the years of the German crisis. Reich repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or any ethnic or political group. He understands fascism as the expression of the irrational character structure of human beings whose needs and impulses have been suppressed.
- The mass strike in the First World War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The mass strikes of the First World War displayed all the characteristics earlier described by Rosa Luxemburg. City and trade-wide strikes; national strikes; street fighting; demonstrations; the raising of economic demands and political demands, and of both.
- The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1906
Luxemburg writes that "the mass strike in Russia [in 1905] has been realised not as means of evading the political struggle of the working-class, and especially of parliamentarism, not as a means of jumping suddenly into the social revolution by means of a theatrical coup, but as a means, firstly, of creating for the proletariat the conditions of the daily political struggle and especially of parliamentarism. The revolutionary struggle in Russia, in which mass strikes are the most important weapon, is, by the working people, and above all by the proletariat, conducted for those political rights and conditions whose necessity and importance in the struggle for the emancipation of the working-class Marx and Engels first pointed out, and in opposition to anarchism fought for with all their might in the International."
- Mass Surveillance is Driven by the Private Sector
The Lesson of Hacking Team's Malware
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A report published by Privacy International as well as an article posted by Vice Motherboard clearly show that both the DEA and the United States Army have long-standing relationships with Hacking Team, an Italian company that’s notorious for selling malware to any number of unsavory characters.
- Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout in 1932 and the Founding of our National Parks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
- The Massachusetts Plan: "Universal Coverage"?
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
On April 12, 2006 Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney signed legislation that is being touted nationally as the model for providing health care for all people. The goal of the legislation is to provide health insurance for the State's 780,000 people who have no health insurance, by July 1, 2007.
- The Massacre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
All other news, all other concerns, fade into insignificance beside the enormous horror of the massacre in Beirut. All humanity is outraged at the wanton slaughter of hundreds of men (mainly elderly), women, and children in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. The days of the massacre -- September 16 to 18 -- shall truly live in infamy.
- The Massacre and the Cover-Up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Without much stronger international pressure than the international community has applied to date, there is every reason to expect Israeli massacres to steadily become more severe, their PR rationales more outlandish. Mild diplomatic rebukes will not sway them. Unless serious costs are imposed for such crimes, much worse is yet to come.
- The Massacre of Withdrawing Soldiers on "The Highway of Death"
Excerpted from the book War Crimes: A report on United States war crimes against Iraq
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
I want to give testimony on what are called the "highways of death." These are the two Kuwaiti roadways, littered with remains of 2,000 mangled Iraqi military vehicles, and the charred and dismembered bodies of tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, who were withdrawing from Kuwait on February 26th and 27th 1991 in compliance with UN resolutions. U.S. planes trapped the long convoys by disabling vehicles in the front, and at the rear, and then pounded the resulting traffic jams for hours. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. pilot. The horror is still there to see.
- Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
A narrative account of the Paris Commune.
- Massacres as a weapon of ethnic cleansing during the Nakba
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Sitta explores the ways massacres were an integral element of the Israeli settler colonial state, and aims to challenge the Zionist narrative that has dominated the Western mind. He provides a chronology of the violence and massacres commited by the Israeli state towards various Palestinian settlements.
- Massacres - List of events named massacres - Wikipedia
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Massacres and Morality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
What can one say about the morality of Israeli soldiers who shoot unarmed protestors, and then are caught on camera cheering their kills? And how do we judge the civilian population of Israel, many of whom openly support and cheer their soldiers as they go about their work of killing Palestinians? And what can we say about the political leaders of other countries, Canada say, who sit down and smile and make deals with officials of the Israeli government at the very moment that the killing is going on?
- Massacres That Matter - Part 1 - 'Responsibility To Protect' In Egypt, Libya And Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Where offending states fail to live up to this responsibility by inflicting genocide, ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity on their own people, the international community has a responsibility to act.
- Massacres Under the Looking Glass
The ICC and Colombia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The International Criminal Court (ICC) just published its Interim Report on Colombia. In the Report, the ICC explains that Colombia has been under preliminary examination by the ICC since June 2004. The military carried out its most notorious violations while under the ICC’s Clouseau-like scrutiny.
- Die Massenstreikdebatte
Arbeiterbewegung Theorie und Geschicthe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
- The Masses & The Vanguard
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1938
The leadership principle, the idea of the vanguard that must assume responsibility for the proletarian revolution is based on the pre-war conception of the labour movement, is unsound. The tasks of the revolutionary and the communist reorganization of society cannot be realized without the widest and fullest action of the masses themselves.
- A Massive Crisis in Auto: Delphi, GM, the UAW, and Soldiers of Solidarity
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
On December 19, facing a strike threat and pressure from GM, Delphi Corporation backed away from its "final offer" to the United Auto Workers, pushing the deadline back to the end of February. With the demand for a 63% wage cut off the table, complicated horse trading will ensue—but what's clear is that rank-and-file anger and mobilization makes a big difference.
- Master builders meet citizen activists
Trefann Court and beyond: from "urban renewal" to true civic life
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Examining former Toronto Mayor John Sewell's role as a community organizer and advocate during the urban renewal of the Trefann Court neighborhood and the importance of community self-determination in urban planning.
- Master composters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Mastering the Machine
Poverty, Aid and Technology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Masterless Men of Newfoundland
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A legendary outlaw society of men escaping press gangs, Royal Navy deserters and runaway indentured servants from Newfoundland fishing plantations.
- Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Analyzing land policy, labour, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor.
- Masterless Men: Poor whites and slavery in the Antebellum south by Keri Leigh Merritt - Book review
"1619" and the myth of white unity under slavery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A critique of the New York Times' "1619" initiative, marking the 400th anniversary of the disembarkation of the first African slaves in what was to become the United States.
- Masters of Illusion
The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
- Match
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
- A Match to a Blasty Bough
How FFAW-Unifor Confronted Power and Shared the Wealth
Resource Type: Book
- Materialism And Historical Materialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1942
Marxism is not an inflexible doctrine or a sterile dogma. Society changes, the proletariat grows, science develops. New forms and phenomena arise in capitalism, in politics, in science, which Marx and Engels could not have foreseen or surmised. But the method of research which they formed remains to this day an excellent guide and tool towards the understanding and interpretation of new events.
- Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women's Lives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
A look at how "identitiy politics" of the 1980's marginalized materialist feminism.
- Materials Available from One Sky Cross-Cultural Centre
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
- Maternal Health News
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
- Maternal Health News
Periodical profile published 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
- Maternal Health Society (MHS)
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
- Matewan
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1987
A film based on events in Matewan, West Virginia in 1920.
- Mattachine Society
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
One of the earliest lasting homophile organizations in the United States, founded in 1950.
- Matthew Coon Come Speech, September 19, 1994
Speaking Notes for Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come Centre for Strategic and Iinternational Studies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
The status and rights of the James Bay Crees in the context of Quebec secession from Canada.
- Matthews, Peter
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Farmer who participated in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. (1789? - 1838).
- Mattick Paul
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article
Marxist writer and activist. (1904-1981).
- Mattick, Paul
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Marxist writer and activist. (1904-1981).
- Mattick, Paul - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Paul Mattick (1904-1981).
- Mau Mau Uprising
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An insurgency by Kenyan peasants against the British colonialist rule.
- The Mau Mau uprising against British imperialism
Kenya's independence struggle in the 1950s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In Kenya the colonial rulers imprisoned in concentration camps a large proportion of the million and a half Kikuyu people, the country’s largest ethnic group. The Mau Mau rebellion was essentially a peasant-based revolt of the landless Kikuyu people against colonial rule that had dispossessed them of their lands, the basis of their existence. Although it was ultimately defeated, the uprising forced an end to colonial rule.
- Maubere Timor: Keeping East Timor's songs of resistance alive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Presumed dead for years, musician and independence fighter Berliku returns to pay tribute to his nation through music.
- Max Eastman: One American Radical's View of the 'Bolshevization' of the American Revolutionary Movement and a Forgotten, and Unforgettable, Portrait of Trotsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
- Maximizing Coverage of Charity Activities in Community Newspapers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
When it comes to getting coverage in the local newspaper, presentation is paramount. Tto maximize your profile and get your story or event covered, give the newspaper what it wants, when it wants it.
- Maximum Gifts by Return Mail
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Excellent book on direct mail fundraising.
- Maximum Horror
Where One Feeds on the Other
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
It was a horrific event. It was condemned in most parts of the world and most poignantly by many cartoonists. Those who planned the atrocity chose their target carefully. They knew that such an act would create the maximum horror. It was quality, not quantity they were after. The response will not have surprised or displeased them.
- Maximum, Minimum, Medium
A Journey Through Canadian Prisons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Serving a nine-year sentence, Melnitzer documented his experience in three different prisons, along with his own introspections.
- The Maximum Wage
A Common-Sense Prescription for Revitalizing America---by Taxing the Very Rich
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
The author traces the history of attempts to limit incomes and proposes the adoption of a maximum wage to revitalize American economy.
- The May 18 Gwangju democratic uprising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The text is by the official May 18 History Compilation Committee of Gwangju. A detailed account of the May 18 popular uprising in Gwangju, South Korea, against the dictatorship's declaration of martial law and for workers' rights in 1980.
- May 1968 Documents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
- May 1968 Graffiti
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
"Don't consume Marx, live him."
- May 1968 in France
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
May 1968, referring to the period when the events occurred in France, saw the largest general strike that ever stopped the economy of an advanced industrial country,[1] the first wildcat general strike in history,[1] and a series of student occupation protests.
- May 4th Movement (M4M)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The May 4th Movement (M4M) was a Toronto-based radical group formed after the Kent State shootings of unarmed university students on May 4, 1970.
- May 5, 1818: Birth of Karl Marx
Seeds of Fire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Marx breathes dialectics and revolution. For Marx, radicalism means going to the root, and Marx's radicalism seeks to go to the root of capitalism, to comprehend its essence dialectically, to understand its inherent contradictions - and the seeds of revolution it contains.
- The May '68 Events and Revolution in the West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The political explosion fifty years ago in May 1968 in France has become a key historical marker for the Left. In an outburst of political revolt, workers seized factories and students occupied universities bringing France to a halt in a series of massive general strikes.
- May Day
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Occurs on May 1 and refers to several public holidays.
- May Day at 125
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In the spring of 1886 workers at Chicago’s McCormick Harvesting Machine Company struck for the eight-hour workday. They were locked out by the employers, who hired strikebreakers in their place. On May 1 a protest parade was held outside of the plant; two days later police attacked the demonstrators, killing one.
- May Day Documents
Resource Type: Website
Documents focusing on the labour history origins of May Day as a workers' holiday, including material from the eight-hour movement, the Haymarket Tragedy, International May Day, as well as recollections, music, literature and images.
- May Day & SDS & SNCC Jubilee
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2010
Class consciousness is the knowledge that emancipation is ours. Class struggle is the fight for it, the fight to be a class, and then the fight to abolish the class system. It is not economistic; it is historical. It was concrete not abstract. It was expressed in real voices, voices of the past and voices of the present. The skill is in the listening.
- The May Days in Barcelona
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1936
The struggle under way in Spain between revolution and counter-revolution is now entering a new phase, in which the proletariat, educated by the experience of these months of struggle and, above all, by the magnificent May Days, must direct all its forces towards strengthening its class independence, defending the conquests of the revolution and preparing for the taking of power, the indispensable premise for the institution of a socialist regime which will regenerate the country's economy and establish order.
- May '68 Revisited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Mitch Abidor recently spent weeks in France tracking down people who came of age politically in May 1968, to ask them how they viewed that experience, then and now. He went out of his way (with 1–2 exceptions) to talk to people "unknown," in contrast to the "stars" who feature in so many accounts of May. He talked with anarchists, Trotskyists, Stalinists, and even anarchists who had become Stalinists later. We publish this short summary of his results in Insurgent Notes because we like his direct, unvarnished access to participants, while taking our distance from some of his interpretations, which are subject to debate. We (the editors of Insurgent Notes) found Mitch's results sobering, if not downright deflating, because his subjects across the board say that the French working class in May 1968 was not revolutionary.
- Maybe 99% is a bit much, but...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
It is a fact that over the last couple of decades, much of the growth in total income in the U.S. has gone to the upper reaches of society.
- Maybe we can all learn from smaller islands?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Europe's periphories are meant to be in a state of collapse - but not so the Shetland Isles, where it can be found a land of open skies, howling storms, historic traditions, and an active, growing community of notable individuals.
- Mayday
The Case for Civil Disobedience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1971
Chomsky addresses the expected "cooling" of the Student Movement in light of negative reviews of the May Day demonstration. He analyzes this cooling as a key factor in US strategy, especially in relation to the Congress and disputes arguments such as civil disobedience is illegitimate in a democracy as decisions are reached via democratic institutions. After his exploration of the numerous questions surrounding the issue of civil disobedience, Chomsky warns that by blocking channels of protest, the government may "bring about a domestic crisis of indeterminable proportions".
- MayDay Rooms
Resource Type: Organization
MayDay Rooms is an educational charity founded as a safe haven for historical material linked to social movements, experimental culture and the radical expression of marginalised figures and groups.
- Mayday, the 8-hour movement and the Knights of Labor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Jeremy Brecher's account of the growth of the Knights of Labor union in the US, the agitation for a maximum 8-hour working day and the Chicago Haymarket events of 1886.
- Mayhem, Murder and Manipulation - Mexico in Turmoil
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Mexican police attacked activists and residents in the town of San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico in early May, killing one, injuring scores, and jailing over 200. The police attack on Atenco followed a violent police assault on striking steelworkers in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán that left two dead and several severely injured. Local residents believe that the Fox government was taking revenge on Atenco activists for their success four years ago in blocking the construction of a new airport.
- Mayor's Action Task Force On Discharged Psychiatric Patients
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1984
- The Maypole's Revolutionary Heritage
Time to Replant Trees of Liberty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
- Mazdak
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A proto-socialist Persian reformer.
- Maze of Injustice: The failutre to protect indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
More than one in three Native American or Alaska Native women will be raped at some point in their lives. Most do not seek justice because they know they will be met with inaction or indifference. Index Number: AMR 51/035/2007.
- MCAS: Why Is This Being Done to Our Kids?
Resource Type: Article
High stakes tests are meant to legitimize the growing inequality of society. They are designed to drive millions of students out of school so that, if they end up with a low-paying job or no job at all, they will blame themselves instead of the corporate system. Tests like MCAS are not about education but about social control.
- Mary McCarthy Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- McClung, Nellie Letitia (Mooney)
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. (1873-1951).
- McLachlan, James Bryson
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Labour leader. (1869-1937).
- McLuhan's Children
The Greenpeace Message and the Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Looks at Greenpeace's rise to global prominence through its savvy use of mass media. Traces the evolution of Greenpeace's relations with the media.
- McNamara's Vietnam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
McNamara's Cold War mentality is as firmly fixed as ever. The purpose of American policy in Southeast Asia was to stop Communism, invariably characterized as "Communist aggression." That end justified any means employed. It was just that McNamara and the rest of the best and brightest opted for ineffective means and failed to acknowledge it in time. Only in this tactical misjudgment does he believe that they were "wrong, terribly wrong."
- McNaughton, Violet
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
Feminist, journalist and activist. (1879-1968).
- David McReynolds, 1928-2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Obituary and memoir of leftist activist David McReynolds.
- Me Too's Misguided Pursuit of Equality: Drop the Spirit of Vengeance and Defend Dignity Instead
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
With Me Too’s focus where it is, on man’s injury to woman, the capitalist for-profit system can wash its hands. Eyes glued to salacious details are off the oppressive economic order that has over time erased our cultures, communities and is set to destroy all life on the planet.
- 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.
- The Meaning of Economic Imperialism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
- The Meaning of Heritage in an Age of Identity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A discussion of the meaning of heritage in the current age of identity politics, and why there is a need to reject the nativist, or clash of civilizations, and the multicultural approaches to heritage.
- The Meaning of Mondragon
Fantasties and (Possible) Realities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
We can apply lessons learned from the extensive experience of worker self-management to encourage their unrealized radicality.
- The Meaning of Race
Race History and Culture in Western Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
The Meaning of Race has two key themes. First it explores the intellectual and philosophical basis of racial thinking, examining the origins and development of the concept of race from the Enlightenment to the present day. Second, it also looks at the way in which recent social and political developments - such as the end of the Cold War, the erosion of the postwar liberal consensus, and the demise of the left - have shaped our ideas about race.
The book argues that much of contemporary antiracism is rooted in the same anti-humanist philosophies of human differences that gave rise to the idea of race in the first place. Only a philosophy based on a universalist and humanist outlook, I suggest, can hope to transcend the discourse of race.
- The Meaning of Socialism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1961 Published: 1969
Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
- The Meaning of the Paris Commune
What can the Paris Commune offer to present struggles for emancipation?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Interview with Kristin Ross about her new book, Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune.
- The Meaning of the Revolution
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
These are the words of Asmaa Mahfouz, a 26-year-old woman whose January 18 blog is said to have helped mobilize the million that turned up in Cairo and the thousands in other cities on January 25. Asmaa’s blog, like the stories of many Egyptian women of this revolution, offer a challenge to two key questions framing U.S. discourse on the Egyptian revolution.
- The meaning of the school testing obsession
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
This article focuses on the new frontiers for the calculation of human productivity in its earliest forms, in early years education in Britain; but the general points are applicable across continents and educational age-phases. It will be argued that the English baseline test is just one example of the policing of capital's interests in our classrooms, but a particularly pernicious one for the way it reaches deep into the experience of the youngest children.
- The Meaning of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
A feature of revolutions is that they keep coming around in unexpected ways and in unexpected places. Who would have dared predict the eruption that was Seattle in November 1999, when the powers behind neoliberal globalization seemed completely incontestable?
- The Meaning of Vietnam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Chomsky believes that no outside power will make the USA own up to the factual account of the war and the domestic resistance it faced. He claims that efforts will actually be made to obscure this history. Consequentially, Chomsky, as a sort of custodian of history, attempts to gather these facts and discuss the ideological conflict over "the lessons of Vietnam".
- The Measure of a Revolutionary: Remembering Eugene V. Debs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Debs was an articulate, far-reaching critic of American society, staunchly anti-capitalist and opposed to both Democratic and Republican parties, which he saw as controlled by Wall Street. In his five campaigns as the Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States, Debs excoriated the economic exploitation of workers, including the then rampant abuses of child labor, with rare oratorical skill. He advocated for unions in all major industries and promoted a vision of socialism as grassroots economic democracy. In a deeply racist, patriarchal society, he was also staunchly anti-racist and pro-women's rights. When war hysteria swept the country, Debs openly defied the warmongers to oppose U.S. entry into World War I. He did so not as a pacifist, but because he saw the world war as an inter-imperialist dispute among the ruling classes of competing capitalist nations.
- Measuring Well-Being
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1997
A look at how we measure well-being; problems that arise from only counting economic expansion; ways to augment our measuring system to guide us more directly twoard well-being.
- Meat: A Benign Extravagance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
An exploration of the difficult environmental and ethical issues that surround the human consumption of animal flesh.
- Meat inspections slashed
Connexions Digest News Brief, 1989
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
1989 article on greatly reduced inspections of meat products.
- Meatpackers
An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality
Resource Type: Book
Provides an important window into race and racism in the American workplace. In their own words, male and female packinghouse workers in the Midwest - mostly African-American - talk of their experiences on the shop floor and picket lines.
- The Media Accountability Project
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2023
- The Media Against Jeremy Corbyn
The British media has launched an unprecedented campaign of disinformation against Jeremy Corbyn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The British media has never had much time for Jeremy Corbyn. Within a week of his election as Labour Party leader in September, it was engaging in a campaign the Media Reform Coalition characterized as an attempt to "systematically undermine" his position. In an avalanche of negative coverage 60 percent of all articles which appeared in the mainstream press about Corbyn were negative with only 13 percent positive. The newsroom, ostensibly the objective arm of the media, had an even worse record: 62 percent negative with only 9 percent positive.
- Media Alert
A Directory Of Media Contacts In Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- The Media and Civil Defence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
- Media and publicity guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
How to get the word out about your group or campaign? There are two main approaches, which should both be used: using the mainstream and corporate media, and building your own independent media.
- The Media and the Far Right
Showcasing the Crude, the Violent and the Aberrant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The right-moving trend of the mainstream media, absurdly deemed liberal by successfully intimidating corporatists and ideological aggressors, continues year after year.
- The Media and the Paranoid State
Das Bild to FoxNews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In 1975, West Germany was often under varying degrees of lockdown. Roadblocks were set up at autobahn exits and identification was checked; groups of heavily armed police were seen in city centers holding machine guns and looking menacing; and airports were under armed guard. The reason given for this military-like presence was the existence of a leftist terror group known as the Rote Armee Fraktion.
- The Media and the Rwanda Genocide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
The news media played a crucial role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Local media fueled the killings, while international media either ignored or seriously misunderstood what was happening. This is the first book to explore both sides of the media equation. Examining how local radio was used as a tool of hate, encouraging neighbors to turn against each other, the book also presents a critique of international media coverage.
- Media Are Blamed as US Bombing of Afghan Hospital Is Covered Up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
After the US airstrikes that hit an MSF (Medecins Sans Frontières) hospital, many news outlets have depicted the event in a way that evades any American responsibility.
- Media bias on the Middle East
Resource Type: Website
Part of the Palestine: Information with Provenance (PIWP database). Provides documents from all points on the ideological spectrum, both Zionist and anti-Zionist, along with background on everybody whose opinion you find here. Also lets you see what our sources say about each other.
- The Media Book: Making the Media Work for Your Grassroots Group
A Step-by-Step Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
This "how-to" manual sets out to outline a model media campaign that can be modified and used by other reproductive rights groups with low budgets and staffs, around the U.S.
- Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles
An interview with Robert McChesney
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Robert McChesney talks about contemporary media capitalism and 21st century media democracy struggles to understand and change it.
- Media Censorship in a Plural Context
A Report on the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- Media Censorship in the Middle East
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Examines Middle-Eastern media censorship and shows how the censorial culture grew as the media developed in this region. It also illustrates the illusionary and deceptive arguments presented by the authorities citing articles and stipulations from the constitution that speaks for the freedom of the press and free speech.
- The media consensus on Israel is collapsing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Across the political spectrum, once-taboo criticism is now common.
- Media Control
The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997 Published: 2002
Chomsky begins by asserting two models of democracy: one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky "propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States.
- Media Control and Indoctrination in the United States
An Interview With Catherine Komp
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
An excerpt from the just released 2nd edition of Noam Chomsky’s OCCUPY: Class War, Rebellion and Solidarity.
- Media Education Foundation
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1991
Analyzing worldwide trends in media ownership, commercial content, and the media element of commercial globalization's encroachment on and redefinition of public space.
- Media Events - Maximizing Your Attendance & News Pick-up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Maximizing your attendance and news pick-up at media events.
- Media Exposure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Promoting your magazine on a shoestring.
- Media for Social Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
- Media For Social Change
A Resource Book For Community Groups
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
An aid for community groups to help them obtain greater access to mainstream media or even to create their own media.
- Media for Social Change
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
- Media for Social Change Bibliography
Resource Type: Article
- Media Gets Targeted by Obama, Discovers No One Cares Except the Media
Welcome to the Freakshow
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The news media has a role to play and it’s not entertainment. Instead of informing people what their government is doing abroad, news organizations are making up fiction about food stamps breaking the budget and digging through Michael Jackson’s grave.
- Media Guide addition
Resource Type: Article
- MEDIA IN CRISIS - 1: Why feds should step in to help democracy's watchdogs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A flourishing, capable news media is the oxygen of democracy. In Canada, our traditional oxygen-providers, the mainstream corporate-owned newspapers, are dying. We need to come up with something better to serve our communities.
- MEDIA IN CRISIS - 2: Citizens, government need to plan now to have quality media in future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Canada's mainstream media are in a state of incipient meltdown. They no longer deliver the volume or quality of news that Canadians need to be informed about important happenings in their communities, let alone to participate in a healthy democratic process.
- Media in the United States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999 Published: 2009
Media omissions, distortion, inaccuracy and bias in the US is something acknowledged by many outside the USA, and is slowly realized more and more inside the US. However, due to those very same omissions, distortion, inaccuracy and bias in the US mainstream media, it is difficult for the average American citizen to obtain an open, objective view of many of the issues that involve the United States (and since the United States is the largest economic and military power in the world, they are naturally involved in many issues!).
- The Media Kept Assange Behind Bars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
The establishment press acted in concert to assassinate the character of the WikiLeaks founder, making it respectable to hate him.
- Media Lessons from Snowden Reporting: LA Times Editors Advocate Prosecution of Sources
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The LA Times editors want Snowden imprisoned, but not the leakers whose leaks make the U.S. government look good, much of which gets laundered in that particular paper.
- Media Lies And The War Drive Against Iran
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Iran's crime is its independence. Having thrown out the US's favourite tyrant, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Iran remains the only resource-rich Muslim state beyond US control. As only Israel has a 'right to exist' in the Middle East, the US goal is to cripple the Islamic Republic. This will allow Israel to divide and dominate the region on Washington's behalf, undeterred by a confident neighbour.
- Media Literacy Guide
How to Detect Bias in News Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
- Media Manipulation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005 Published: 2006
Media manipulation often involves government or corporate propaganda and spin. Sometimes organizations and governments can feed fake news or politically or ideologically slanted stories to broadcasters which depict them as quality news items and journalism.
- The Media Monopoly
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
- Media More Outraged by Possible Murder by Putin Than Definite Murder by Obama
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The British government, whose foreign policy is overtly hostile to their Russian counterpart, declared last week that their investigation into the killing of a former Russian intelligence agent in London nearly a decade ago concluded there is a "strong probability" the Russian FSB security agency was responsible for poisoning Alexander Litivenko with plutonium. They further declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin "probably approved" of the act.
- Media-MX Deal Denies Protestors' Rights Through News Blackout
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
- Media Names & Numbers
Your Connection to the Media
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000 Published: 2009
A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
- Media Panic Over the Stock Market Plunge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The media continue to be in a panic over the drop in the stock market over the last few weeks. Fortunately for political pundits, there is no expectation that they have any clue about the subjects on which they opine. For those more interested in economics than hysterics, the drop in the market is not a big deal.
- Media Probe
The Canadian Journal of Communication
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
This publication offers a critical look at the media industry from people who work in it. The first piece is an address by Graham Spry, co-founder of the Canadian Radio Leauge in 1930. The league advocated privacy of public ownership in broadcasting, thus preventing radio from passing completely into the hands of money changers.
- Media Promote Baseless Assertions By Government Officials Of Russian Interference As Facts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The headline of a New York Times article published April 6, 2017, "C.I.A. Had Evidence of Russian Effort to Help Trump Earlier Than Believed," misleadingly implies not only that there was an effort by the Russian government to help Donald Trump win the American presidential election but that it is a settled fact that the CIA was in possession of hard evidence to that effect.
- Media Rally Around 'Forever War' in Afghanistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A round up of some of the alarmist reporting on supposed withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
- Media Relations (Review)
Resource Type: Article
A book that helps you conquer the challenges of dealing effectively with the media.
- Media Relations - Behaviours Unbecoming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
What NOT to do when dealing with the media.
- Media Relations: Rule of Engagement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Rules for dealing with the media.
- Media Resource Guide
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1987
- Media Review: Fake News
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2017
Richard Seymour looks at the current debate around 'fake news'. What does the term refer to and is it as new as we think?
- Media and social change
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
- Media spies put all journalists in danger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The increasing tendency of the Central Intelligence Agency and other U.S. intelligence agencies to disregard previous prohibitions against the use of journalists as agents puts every legitimate reporter around the world in jeopardy.
- Media Strategy Chart: Advantages & Limitations
Resource Type: Article
- Media Support 'Self-Determination' for US Allies, Not Enemies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Non-Western media outlets have identified a precedent for Russia citing Donetsk and Luhansk's right to self-determination as a rationale for attacking Ukraine: the Kosovo War. In 1999, NATO conducted a 78-day war that helped to dismember Yugoslavia and create a new state, Kosovo, a Serbian province whose population was 90% ethnic Albanians.
- 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.
- Media Watch
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
Media Watch, a sub-committee of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, is acting to combat sexism in TV, radio and print.
- Mediachannel.org
Resource Type: Website
Reports, opinions and links on media issues, including media news and links to hundreds of media issues organizations around the world.
- Medialens
Resource Type: Website
Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media.
MediaLens is a response based on our conviction that mainstream newspapers and broadcasters provide a profoundly distorted picture of our world. We are convinced that the increasingly centralised, corporate nature of the media means that it acts as a de facto propaganda system for corporate and other establishment interests. The costs incurred as a result of this propaganda, in terms of human suffering and environmental degradation, are incalculable.
In seeking to understand the basis and operation of this systematic distortion, we flatly reject all conspiracy theories and point instead to the inevitably corrupting effects of free market forces operating on and through media corporations seeking profit in a society dominated by corporate power.
- The Media's Dirty War on Occupy
Against The Current vol. 159
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
In media portrayals of a protest movement widely criticized for its broad message and vague demands, one picture of the Occupy movement remained consistent across various outlets: the protestors are filthy.
- The Media's Emphasis on Russian Hacking is a Diversion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
It's highly likely that the flurry of reports on alleged Russian hacking has more to do with a rejection of the status quo than with the act of clandestine meddling.
- MediaSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
A web portal featuring resources about media and the media industry, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- The Mediator's Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982 Published: 1997
- Medic Who Killed Palestinian Being Portrayed as 'National Hero'
DM Slams Coalition Members for Backing Execution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Tensions within Israel's extremely narrow right-far-right coalition continue to grow, as the military's investigation into an Israeli medic who shot and killed an already wounded and disarmed Palestinian has become a cause célèbre for the settler movement and for hawks in general.
- The Medicaid Kill-Off
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
President George W. Bush and Congress slashed $10 billion from the Medicaid budget for this coming year [2006]. Medicaid is the primary public health care program for impoverished persons that serves over 53 million people. The cut is clearly an attack on poor people, and it may wind up killing disabled and chronically ill persons before all is done. It is also a strike from those segments in our society who wish to dismantle the entire Medicaid system.
- Medical Aid To El Salvador Campaign
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
- Medical Aid To Nicaragua
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
- The Medical Cannabis Victory: A Textbook Case of Organizing and Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Shifting from mere activism and advocacy to a referendum strategy also forced significant swathes of drug policy reform movements to enter a new phase: that of community organizing. Referenda in most states require the collection of signatures, which means advocates had to get out of the circle jerk cycle of endless meetings and internal debate and go out there, door to door, to recruit from the general public. Once they got the proposed laws on the ballot that meant campaigning for votes. This marked a paradigm shift in what had been a self-marginalized reform movement: a wake up call.
- Medical Privacy Under Threat in the Age of Big Data
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Medical privacy is a high-stakes game, in both human and financial terms, given the growing multibillion-dollar legal market for anonymized medical data. The threats to individuals seeking to protect their medical data can come externally, from data breaches; internally, from "rogue employees" and others with access; or through loopholes in regulations.
- Medical Reform Group News - Volume 1 Issue 1
November 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
- Medical Reform Group News Releases 1979 - 1995
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979 Published: 1995
- Medical Reform Group News - Volume 1 Issue 4
April 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
- Medical Reform Group of Ontario
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The Medical Reform Group of Ontario (MRG) was a physicians' organization formed in 1978 to act as a voice for progressive doctors who were dissatisfied with the conservatism and self-interest of the established medical profession. The MRG played a significant role in shaping public opinion around health care and health policy in Ontario and Canada for the next several decades, until the group's eventual dissolution in 2014.
- The Medical Reform Group of Ontario
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
- Medical Reform Group of Ontario Newsletter - Volume 1 Issue 2
April 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
- Medical Reform Group of Ontario Newsletter - Volume 1 Issue 3
November 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
- Medical Reform Newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979 Published: 2014
Newsletters published by the Medical Reform Group of Ontario. The newsletters were published under several different names, including Medical Reform Group News; MRG Newsletter, and Medical Reform. The Connexions Archive has an almost-complete set.
- Medical Reform - Volume 9 Issue 2
April 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
- Medical Reform - Volume 9 Issue 3
June 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
- Medical Reform - Volume 9 Issue 4
August 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
- Medical Reform - Volume 9 Issue 5
October 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
- Medical Reform - Volume 10 Issue 1
April 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Medical Reform - Volume 10 Issue 2
July 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Medical Reform - Volume 10 Issue 3
September 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Medical Reform - Volume 10 Issue 4
October 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Medical Reform - Volume 11 Issue 1
February 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- Medical Reform - Volume 11 Issue 2
April 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- Medical Reform - Volume 11 Issue 3
August 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- Medical Reform - Volume 11 Issue 4
October 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- Medical Reform - Volume 11 Issue 5
December 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- Medical Reform - Volume 12 Issue 1
April 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Medical Reform - Volume 12 Issue 2
May 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Medical Reform - Volume 12 Issue 3
September 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Medical Reform - Volume 12 Issue 4
November 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Medical Reform - Volume 12 Issue 5
December 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 1
March 1993
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
- Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 2
May 1993
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
- Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 3
June 1993
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
- Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 4
October 1993
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
- Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 5
November 1993
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
- Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 1
February 1994
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
- Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 2
April 1994
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
- Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 3
July 1994
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
- Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 4
September 1994
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
- Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 5
December 1994
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
- Medical Reform - Volume 15 Issue 1
April 1995
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1995
- Medical Reform - Volume 15 Issue 3
December 1995
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1995
- Medical Reform - Volume 22 Issue 2
September 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
- Medical Reform - Volume 22 Issue 3
January 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
- Medical Reform - Volume 22 Issue 4
April 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
- Medical Reform - Volume 23 Issue 1
July 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
- Medical Reform - Volume 23 Issue 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
- Medical Reform - Volume 23 Issue 3
January 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
- Medical Reform - Volume 23 Issue 4
April 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
- Medical Reform - Volume 24 Issue 1
July 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
- Medical Reform - Volume 24 Issue 2
October 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
- Medicare in Crises - A Submission on Ontario's Health Care System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Medicare Myths and Realities
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.
- Medicare: On the Critical List
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- Medicine & State Security
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- The Medium is The Middleman: For a Revolution Against Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Media now controls a new economic order: one that has supplanted governments, churches and productive industry to impose a mediating tyranny over people and our Daily Lives.
- The Meek and the Militant
Religion and Power Across the World
Resource Type: Book
This wide-ranging comparative study of religion by an eminent American scholar opens with the Marxist critique of religion - its explanation of religion's origin and persistance, and how it has acted historically as a bulwark of the social order but also under certain circumstances as a revolutionary force. Part 2 examines the historical roots of Judaism, Catholicism and Protestantism. Part 3 makes a similar study of Hinduism, and Part 4 examines the Soviet Union and China.
- Meese Commission Exposed
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1986
The Meese Commission Exposed deals with censorship in the United States.
- Meet Europe's Left Nationalists -'A momentous turn against free movement in Europe'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The rise of leaders like Sahra Wagenknecht and Jean-Luc Mélenchon marks a momentous turn against free movement in Europe-at the expense of immigrants.
- Meet the Robin Hood of Science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The tale of how one researcher has made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world. On September 5th, 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan, a researcher from Kazakhstan, created Sci-Hub, a website that bypasses journal paywalls, providing access to nearly every scientific paper ever published immediately to anyone who wants it.
- Meet The Folks On The Front Lines Of Fracking In California
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The oil and gas industry has worked very hard to push the narrative that fracking is completely safe, and that any opposition is led by a small group of full-time activists.
- Meet the Real Death Panels
44,000 Americans a Year Die From Lack of Health Insurance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Harvard-based researchers found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993.
- Meet Wikipedia's Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation's regime-change operative CEO
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Wikipedia has become a bulletin board for corporate and imperial interests under the watch of its Randian founder, Jimmy Wales, and the veteran US regime-change operative who heads the Wikimedia Foundation, Katherine Maher.
- Meeting Alexandra Kollontai
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
My first encounter with Wikipedia was several years ago when I was looking up some female Bolsheviks — there was very little about them by way of normal Googling, and I had never tried this collective online encyclopedia before.
- Meeting Collectively
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
The Connexions collective describes its way of holding meetings and recent changes to its meeting process.
- Meeting Facilitation: the No Magic Method
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1989
A guide for planning and carrying out consistently productive meetings.
- Meeting the Expectations of the Land
Essays in Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Addresses the problems facing agriculture today, such as topsol erosion, lowered water tables, reliance on pesticides, dependence on machinery, the overcapitalization of agriculture, the decline of the rural economy, the energy and dollar cost as well as the health problems associated with commercial fertizlers, the shrinking number of family farms, the increasing dependence on fossil fuels.
- Meeting the Media
Resource Type: Article
Dealing with the media can be a less than thrilling experience, but it's a necessary one.
- Meeting the Media Face-to-Face
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
What to do when a reporter calls or when meeting the media face to face.
- Meetings with James Baldwin
Resource Type: Article
Stan Weir writes about his relationship with writer James Baldwin.
- The MegaCity Saga
Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- MegaSources
Resource Type: Website
Dean Tudor's list of gateways and information sites of interest to journalists, ranging from massive indexes and databases to specialized news beats.
- Mehring, Franz
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
German socialist publicist, politician and historian. (1846-1919).
- The Mekong must run free!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The Mekong is among Southeast Asia's greatest rivers, sustaining tens of millions from its abundant fisheries and its floodwaters which both irrigate and fertilise. But Nature's bounty, and beauty, are at risk from a series of 11 dams.
- Mel Hurtig's new book designed to oust prime minister Stephen Harper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Article on author Mel Hurtig and his new book criticizing Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper and his government.
- Melbourne: WEF Meets Real World
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Over 15 000 people from all corners of Australia and farther afield blockaded the Asia-Pacific summit of the World Economic Forum (W.E.F.) in Melbourne between September 11 and 13 in the latest expression of the mood of anti-capitalist action around the world.
- Meltdown
The End of the Age of Greed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Paul Mason, the economics editor of BBC Newsnight, discusses the current economic recession and how it has caused for the neo-liberal orthodoxy to be undermined. He explores the roots of the crisis , and envisions a new era of hyper-regulated capitalism.
- The Meltdown of the Careerist Greens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The wildly, uniquely popular, documentary “Planet of the Humans” has been viewed over 2 million times in less that four days – likely 100s of thousands more by the time you read this.
- Melville and A Lot More
Against The Current vol. 122
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
More than a decade ago, an unpublished manuscript began filtering its contents into the minds of a fairly wide circle of erstwhile New Left intellectuals. It was fascinating, like no other theorizing on the text of Moby Dick and its significance; or rather, resembling many others in some of its evidence but ranging far beyond them in its implications.
- The Membership Mystigue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
- Membership Orientation Project: National Farmers Union (P.E.I.)
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
The National Farmers Union, Region I, District I (P.E.I.) is involved in a membership education program for the year 1980-81.
- Meme Wars
The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Meme Wars presents a new way of looking at our world that challenges and debunks many of the assumptions of neoclassical economics and brings to light a more ecological model. The book is image-heavy and full-color throughout,
- Memento Mori: a Requiem for Puerto Rico
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Puerto Rico is dying. Let those words sink in.Three and a half million people are without power, water, fuel, food, and support. This isn’t some uninhabited atoll.
- Memo to Jacobin: Ecomodernism is not ecosocialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Ian Angus challenges a left-wing magazine that promotes geoengineering, nuclear power, carbon storage and other techno-fixes as solutions to climate change.
- Memoir From the Underground
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A review of the film "Memoir of War", directed by Emmanuel Finkiel, a semi-fictional memoire of writer Marguerite Duras who lived under a facist regime in Vichy France.
- Memoir of General Toussaint L'Ouverture
Written by Himself
Resource Type: Book
- A Memoir of Life in Struggle
Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir, Volume One, Canada 1955-1965
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Book review of Ernest Tate's Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir, Volume One, Canada 1955-1965.
- Memoirs from the Women's Prison
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Nawal El Saadawi was imprisoned in 1981 by Anwar Sadat for alleged "crimes against the State." She offers both firsthand witness to women's resistance to state violence and insights into the formation of women's community. Saadawi describes how political prisoners, both secular intellectuals and Islamiists, forged alliances to demand better conditions.
- Memoirs of a Media Maverick
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
An engaging memoir of a radical socialist who also was a recognized journalist, writer, and filmmaker.
- Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1901- 1941
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1943 Published: 1967
Victor Serge, who was bron in 1890 and died in 1947, was an anarchist, a Bolshevik, a Trotskyist, and a revisionist-Marxist. Belgian by birth and upbringing, French by adoption and in literary expression, Russian by parentage and later by citizenship, he eventually became stateless and was put down as a Spanish national for purposes of his funeral documents. He was a journalist, a poet, a pamphleteer, a historian, a political prisoner, an agitator, and a novelist.
- Memorial Essay: Benedict Anderson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The reception of Imagined Communities took its author by surprise. Anderson was like a person who posts a home video online and then discovers the next morning that she is an international celebrity.
- Memories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Regarding 1995 as the year of memories, Noam Chomsky critically accounts numerous historical conflicts before exploring the content of Robert McNamara's memoirs, In Retrospect.
- Memories of [my] Syndicalism
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
A handful of friends, old and new, have asked me about the path that my ideas and activities have taken me, some 50 years after I happened across a civil rights picket line in my hometown of Champaign, Illinois in the summer of 1960. The following is a radical memory unusual in some ways, but with many similarities to the memories of my New Left contemporaries in the outcome.
- Memories of the Depression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Daily life experiences during the Great Depression.
- Memory Against Forgetting: the Resonance of Bloody Sunday
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The museum John guards is a physical manifestation of the moral necessity of remembering that day’s cataclysmic violence. An attempt to remember the silences imposed on peoples’ experiences by time and traumatised memory, and, most of all, murderous rampage. And of course, if those left behind do not remember who will? It certainly will not be the guilty.
- Memory as paying business
Getting a battlefield, the site of tragedy or a memorial museum onto Unesco's World Heritage List is now a shrewd way to increase tourist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A look at how memorials and sites of great tragedy are now being exploited for financial gain as tourist destinations.
- Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
- Memory, History, and a Pillar of Salt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A personal memoir about art and history in the early days of AIDS and ACT UP.
- Memory of Fire: Genesis
Part One of a Triology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
A meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New, and an an attempt "to rescue the kidnapped memory of all America." A fierce, impassioned, and kaleidoscopic historical experience that takes us from the creation myths of the Makiritare Indians of the Yukatan to Columbus's first joyous moments in the New World to the English capture of New York.
- Memory of Fire: Faces & Masks
Part Two of a Trilogy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984 Published: 1998
A view of the 'New World' in the making, from the 1700s to the end of the nineteenth century.
- Memory of Fire: Century of the Wind
Part Three of a Trilogy
Resource Type: Book
- A Memory of Howard
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
A recollection of the late Howard Zinn.
- The Memory of Justice
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1976
The Memory of Justice is a 1976 documentary film directed by Marcel Ophüls. It explores the subject of atrocities committed in wartime.
- Memory and Repression in El Salvador
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The raid on Pro-Busqueda happened three days after the Salvadorean Supreme Court heard testimony from survivors of a 1982 raid carried out by government forces.
- Men against violence
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
- Men for women's choice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Men in Love
Men's Sexual Fantasies: The Triumph of Love Over Rage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Friday examines men's sexual fantasies.
- Men in Prison
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1931
Victor Serge's novel based on his own experiences as a politcal prisoner.
- Men's Groups
Towards A National Listing.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
- Men's Groups
Towards a National Listing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
- Men's Work
How to Stop the Violence that Tears Our Lives Apart
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Helps men understand the spectrum of male violence and contains helpful exercises so they can make alternatives to violence.
- The Menace of Boko Haram and Fundamentalism in Nigeria
Sexual Slavery, Sexual Terrorism and the Context of the Kidnapping
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
‘I will sell your girls in the market.’ - Abubakar Shekau. From time to time in the life of a society, one episode or a series of episodes shock the social system and brings to the fore long festering sores that need resolution. The kidnapping of over 200 young girls and the depravity of those who proclaimed that these youths would be sold into sexual slavery are one of such episodes. The statement about selling the girls in the market brought out the deep contradictions of Nigerian society and called for firm and clear resolution of the questions of slavery, exploitation, sexual violence, male oppression and the manipulation of religion to serve the needs of particular sections of the looters and zealots of Nigeria.
- The Menace of Liberal Scholarship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Noam Chomsky builds upon Senator Fullbright's criticism of social science scholars which suggests that they have failed to act as independent critics of government policies and having instead become agents. Chomsky agrees with Fullbright that this phenomena betrays public trust and states that the subversion of scholarship is a threat to society as a whole. He reveals several causes of this subversion, for example the access to power, shared ideology, and professionalization. Through the presentation of the positions of numerous scholars, he explores this malady and points to the potential of the intellectual community to revolutionize this tradition of scholarship though a more humane, objective, and independent movement.
- The "Menace" of Nelson Small Legs Jrs.' Peacepipe
Aquash Murder Case Coverage - Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Two articles discuss the failings of the Canadian press in covering major events in the Native community.
- The Menace of Right "Populism"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Editorial about Trump and right-wing regimes world-wide and the opportunities for left-wing organizing.
- Menchú, Rigoberta
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1959).
- H. L. Mencken Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Mennonite Central Committee (MCC)
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
- Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Peace Section
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
This report is put together by the Task Force on Women in Church and Society of the MCC.
- Menopause Examined
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Men's Anti-Sexism Group
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
- Men's child care collective
Organization profile published 1983
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
- Mental Engineering
Resource Type: Website
Web site of the TV program that critiques advertising and television.
- Mental Illness in the Workplace
It Still Haunts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
- Mental Patients and the Law
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1978
- Mental Patients' Association
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
An alternative community organization dedicated to providing choices and power to ex-mental patients.
- Mental Patients' Association Housing Project
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
- Menwith Menace: Britain's Complicity In Saudi Arabia's Terror Campaign Against Yemen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The 'mainstream' Western media is, almost by definition, the last place to consult for honest reporting of Western crimes. Consider the appalling case of Yemen which is consumed by war and an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. Since March 2015, a 'coalition' of Sunni Arab states led by Saudi Arabia, and supported by the US, Britain and France, has been dropping bombs on neighbouring Yemen. The scale of the bombing is indicated in a recent article by Felicity Arbuthnot - in one year, 330,000 homes, 648 mosques, 630 schools and institutes, and 250 health facilities were destroyed or damaged.
- Le Mepris N'Aura Qu'un Temps (Hell no Longer)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1969
A documentary of a construction worker's home life, life on the job, and unemployed.
- Julian Mer-Khamis
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
We mourn the tragic and senseless assassination of the brilliant revolutionary filmmaker Juliano Mer-Khamis, who was gunned down April 4 in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. His documentary film “Arna’s children,” about his mother’s lifelong struggle and her work in founding the Jenin Freedom Theater, and the realities of life for Palestinian youth under occupation, is a masterpiece. The Freedom Theater is a priceless center for resistance as well as the healing of these young people.
- Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010 Published: 2012
Investigative reportage on how private interests and lobbies in America use hired gun scientists to spread doubt and misinformation. The media's binary understanding of balanced repoting has given these individuals a soapbox and allowed the public to believe there are divisions in the mainstream scientific opinion on global warming where none exist.
- Merchants of Doubt (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Inspired by the book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, Merchants of Doubt takes audiences on an illuminating ride into the heart of American spin, lifting the curtain on a secretive group of pundits-for-hire who present themselves in the media as scientific authorities - yet have the contrary aim of spreading maximum confusion about well-studied public threats ranging from toxic chemicals to pharmaceuticals to climate change. 1 hr 36 min.
- Mercredi, Ovide William
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Aboriginal Canadian politician and leader. (Born 1946).
- Mercury Poisoning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Quaker involvement with the issue of mercury poisoning at White Dog and Grassy Narrows Reserves.
- Mercury, Silt and Fear
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Merkel in the Knesset
Israel, Israel Above Everything!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
We are still confronted with the phenomenon that critics of the Jewish State are labeled as anti-Semites or as self-hating Jews, respectively.
- Mer-Khamis, Arna
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article
Israeli educator and human rights activist. (1929-1995).
- Merry Christmas from an Atheist
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2006
I probably represent one of Archbishop John Sentanu's worst nightmares - I am not just an 'aggressive secularist' but a militant atheist to boot. But I have a Christmas tree in the house, I've sent out my Christmas cards, bought my Christmas presents and I will cook goose on Christmas Day. And I will probably listen to Bach's Christmas Oratorio or to Mahalia Jackson's wonderful gospel singing while I am doing so. Yet I don't have a religious bone in my body.
- Merry Pranksters
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Group of people who formed around American author Ken Kesey in 1964 and who promoted the use of psychedelic drugs.
- Merthyr Rising 1831
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The violent climax to many years of simmering unrest among the large working class population of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales and the surrounding area.
- The Message and Meaning of Groundings 2005: Walter Rodney Lives!
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Seeking to grasp at the core of Walter Rodney's legacies for Caribbean peoples today, speakers at the recent Groundings in Guyana used the words "decency," "boldness," and "humanity." It was in such spirit that the Groundings were organized to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Rodney's assassination at the hands of the ruling paramount party, PNC, in Guyana in 1980.
- Message from the High Court: Carry on arming the Saudis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Campaigners are furious with a High Court decision in London allowing the UK Government to carry on exporting arms to Saudi Arabia for use against Yemenis.
- Message of a Wise Kabouter
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
- Message of the Non-Jewish Jew
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1958
The Jewish heretic who transcends Jewry belongs to a Jewish tradition.
- The Messenger
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
Documentary. A powerful reflection and intimate investigation that reaches from the northern point of the Boreal Forest to the base of Turkey's Mount Ararat to the urban streets of New York. As songbirds take flight and fight to survive in our changing world, The MESSENGER delivers a visually thrilling ode to the beauty and importance of these imperiled creatures.
- Messer-Kruse's Haymarket History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Book reviews of Timothy Messer-Kruse's two works The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age and The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks.
- Mészáros István - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of István Mészáros.
- Metacomet (Metacomb)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A war chief of the Wampanoag Indians and their leader in King Philip's War. (Died 1676).
- Metadata Is More Intrusive Than Direct Listening Of Phone Calls Says Snowden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Government monitoring of “metadata” is more intrusive than directly listening to phone calls or reading emails.
- Metadata - your files talk for you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Few Internet users are aware that many file formats contain hidden data, or metadata. Text processing files or PDFs are likely to contain the name of the author, the date and time of the creation of the file, and often even part of its editing history.
- Metal madness: Lead doesn't just poison birds, it scrambles everything they need to survive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
It's well-known that high levels of lead kill birds. But now it's becoming clear that amounts commonly encountered by waterfowl and raptors can mess up their digestion, brains, hearts, vision and other body processes critical for their survival in the wild.
- Metalclad vs. Mexico, Toxic Waste and NAFTA
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Last August 25 the NAFTA Tribunal for the case of Metalclad Corp vs. Mexico ruled in favor of Metalclad, ordering the Mexican government to pay US$16.7 million in compensation. It is the first ruling in an investor-to-state lawsuit under NAFTA.
- Metamorphoses
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
- The Metaphors of Movements - review
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A review of 'Guerillas in the Industrial Jungle: Radicalism’s Primitive and Industrial Rhetoric' by Ursula McTaggart.
- Metastasizing of the Police State of America
NY Times Report Documents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The latest news on the burgeoning police state in the US -- a page-one investigative report in the New York Times disclosing that at least 40 agencies of the US government from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Supreme Court (!) are using undercover agents to spy on and even to entrap law-abiding American citizens -- suggests that we have passed the tipping point.
- Method and Madness
The Hidden Story of Israel's Assaults on Gaza
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
In the past five years Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), and Operation Protective Edge (2014), have resulted in the deaths of some 3,700 Palestinians. As Norman G. Finkelstein sets out in this concise, paradigm-shifting new book, an examination of Israel's motives reveals a state whose repeated recourse to savage war is far from irrational. Rather, Israel's attacks have been designed to sabotage the possibility of a compromise peace with the Palestinians, even on terms that are favorable to it.
- #MeToo for All Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The #MeToo movement exposed systems that abuse and silence of women. It's important to note that these systems are not just individual professions or university administrations but they are enabled by the larger system of capitalism.
- The #MeToo Revolution Edtorial
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The editors ask whether the #MeToo Movement will be different than other moments in which sexual abuse was revealed, and propose that organized labour can play a role in ensuring harassment-free work enviroments.
- Metro Co-op Community
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
The Metro Co-op Community is "a group of individuals in the Toronto area interested in promoting wider use and understanding of their democratic organizations - co-operatives, credit unions, worker collectives, and community based organizations."
- Metro Network for Social Justice (MNSJ) newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993 Published: 1995
A 1990s non-profit network of organizations committed to promoting social and economic justice in Toronto.
- Metro Toronto Daycare Workers Local - CUPE 2484
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
The vast majority of daycare workers in Canada are unorganized.
- Metro World '91
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Metro World '91
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Metropolitan Toronto Task Force On Housing For Low-Income Single People: Final Report
Organization profile published 1984
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- Mexican Environment Laws
Resource Type: Article
Mexico's lax environmental laws.
- Mexican Journalists Say 'No to Silence'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
In Mexico powerful entities -- ranging from government officials, to law enforcement, to drug cartel leaders -- routinely and systematically intimidate journalists and media outlets to prevent them from investigating state corruption and drug-related violence. Efforts to silence media often take place in the shadows, forcing victims to choose between self-censorship, forced displacement, or risking their lives for doing their jobs.
- The Mexican Student Movement Is Younger & Faster than "Occupy"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
It has been decades since I have seen any march of this size include a pledge by participants with that much discipline and awareness that the march is about influencing public opinion (in other words, not about "us" but about everyone). It reminds more of the guidelines from the victorious struggles of Ghandi to win independence from colonial rule in India, the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 70s.
- Mexican War of Independence
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Mexican Women -- Then and Now
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Araceli's gnarled hands knead the corn dough in a smoke-filled lean-to next to her kitchen, as the 5 a.m. sunlight begins to squint through the slats. She will make about 48 pounds of tortillas, as she does every day. By noon they’ll be on the table in houses all over the 500-inhabitant town she has lived in her whole life, half-way between Mexico City and Toluca, the capital of the State of Mexico.
- Los Mexicanos: The Struggle for Justice of Patricia Perez
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2009
Every year, some 4000 migrant foreign workers coming mostly from Mexico, labour in Quebec farms to plant and pick our vegetables. In the summer of 2006, Patricia Perez a pro-union militant speaking for the UFCW, launches a major drive to organize the workers in several farms south of Montreal.
- Mexico 2010: The Spreading Crisis
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
On July 4, in an atmosphere of widespread insecurity, unabated violence, and an uncertain allocation of authority and impunity,* Mexico held local elections in 15 of its 32 states.
- Mexico at War
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Mexico is at war. The drug war has become all the news this fall: Real war. Bloody war. With bombings, massacres and body counts.
- Mexico: Community Police and the War on Drugs
Self-Defense vs. Vigilantism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Various "self-defense" groups or “community police” have emerged in rural areas, mainly in the states of Guerrero and Michoacán. The embrace of such "alternative security" schemes by nearly all of the left is rooted in a sub-reformist liberal perspective. As long as capitalism is not overthrown, any group dedicated to "fighting crime" will act as an auxiliary of the capitalist state and will have, in the final analysis, a fundamentally reactionary character.
- Mexico in Labor's Crucible
Book Review of Roman and Arregui's "Continental Crucible" and Gomez's "The Collapse of Dignity"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
These two books deal in important and interesting ways with the question of building a real labour movement throughout North America.
- Mexico in the Grip of Corruption
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Mexico's left of center Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) has been shaken by a scandal that could well reshape the nation's political life.
- Mexico: Insurrection and Disintegration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
While Mexico boils at the bottom, it is also cracking up at the top.
- Mexico - Subcomandante Marcos Steps Down: What's Next for the EZLN?
Subcomandante Marcos, announced he ending his role as the group's spokesperson and military commander.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In stepping down, Marcos pointed to demographic changes in the thirty-year old organization as new younger, indigenous leaders stepped forward replacing an older largely mestizo leadership, several of whom came out of the student and guerrilla struggles of the 1970s and 1980s.
- Mexico: The Zapatistas' New Fight
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
"We are fighters, but not with guns," said the man in the ski mask, one of a group of masked peasants addressing us and a dozen other visitors. "We invite all of the common people, who are of the left, who are not with the government, to join us in struggle," he continued, speaking in the Mayan Tzotzil language. "Because we know the government will never hear our word, and will never help us."
- Mexico's Crisis in Context
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
In this article I offer an historical context for understanding Mexico’s current economic, political, and human crisis triggered by 28 years of neoliberal economic policies. Neoliberal governments have privatized most sectors of the economy and reduced the Mexican state’s role to one of being a repressive apparatus. NAFTA and related neoliberal policies have left the economy without a dynamic internal market for local products and with a socio-economic inequality that is one of the most extreme in the world.
- Mexico's Deepening Crises
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The "democratic transition" has brought little democracy and great disappointment. And the "war on drugs" has not diminished the production and export of drugs but increased violence and provided political cover for the government's escalation of repression.
- Mexico's Fake RCMP Report Backfires
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Murders committed by police are deemed not to have happened, or to have been justifiable force.
- Mexico's PATCO Moment?
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME), made up of approximately 43,000 active and 22,000 retired workers in Mexico City and surrounding states, is fighting for its life. The union’s struggle has rallied allies in the labor movement and on the left in Mexico and solidarity from throughout the country and around the world, but if it is to survive the union and its supporters have to take stronger actions than they have so far, and time is not on their side.
- Mexico's war on drugs is one big lie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Anabel Hernández, journalist and author, accuses the Mexican state of complicity with the cartels, and says the 'war on drugs' is a sham. She's had headless animals left at her door and her family have been threatened by gunmen.
- MFU
Maritime Fishermen's Union - Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
- MFU: Voice of the Maritime Fisherman's Union.
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
This edition of this bi-lingual magazine traces the history of the inshore fishermen's struggle for the right to unionize.
- The Miami Model in Your Face
Against The Current vol. 108
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
The major police riot in Miami was an operation undoubtedly as thoroughly planned as it was obscene. This was a deliberate, bare-knuckled threat: Assemble in 2004 against war, “free trade,” the Republican Convention or roundup of immigrants under the police-state monstrosity known as Homeland Security, and this is what you'll get.
- Michael Bakunin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1937 Published: 1975
- Michael Bakunin: Roots of Apocalypse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
- Michael Berg for U.S. Congress in Delaware: A Voice Against War
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
On June 8 Americans awoke to the news that the U.S. military in Iraq had killed Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, alleged leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. In the midst of press coverage that cravenly accepted government claims that this was, once again, a turning point in the war, one voice in the mass media dramatically countered government claims - that of Michael Berg, Green Party candidate for Delaware's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Michael Lebowitz's "The Socialist Alternative" - Book Review
Proyect, Louis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- Michael Levine's Ten commandments for Dealing with the Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Rules for dealing with the media.
- Michael Lynch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Obituary in the Connexions Digest.
- 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."
- Michael Riordon in conversation with Barbara Goslawski
Resource Type: Article
"People are not specimens or statistics," says Michael Riordon, author of Eating Fire:
Family Life on the Queer Side.
- 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.
- Michel, Louise
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article
French anarchist, school teacher and medical worker. (1830-1905).
- Michelle Goldberg Goes to Washington
The problem isn't just voting for Democrats, it's letting a rightward-moving Democratic Party set the Left's political horizons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The author defends his electoral position during the U.S. election, which was described by Michelle Goldberg as "electoral nihilism".
- Mickey Z. Cool Observer
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2003
Mickey Z. is a writer, editor, blogger and novelist living in New York City.
- MicMac News
Periodical profile published 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
- Micro Futures: Who Pays?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
- Micro Militarism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The author explains why the introduction of military messages and advertisements in the everyday lives of the public is troubling and harmful to society.
- A Microcosm of the Nation - Control Unit Prisons
Out of Control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A review of 'Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons' by Nancy Kurshan.
- The Microfinance Delusion
Marred by Wall Street-Style Greed, Profiteering, Client Abuse, and Market Chaos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
By celebrating self-help and individual entrepreneurship, and by implicitly discrediting all forms of collective effort, such as trade unions, social movements, cooperatives, public spending, a pro-poor ‘developmental state’ and – most of all – collective moves to ensure a more equitable redistribution of wealth and power, microfinance fits in well with the ideology of neoliberal policy-makers.
- Microfinance or Debt Trap? What the Poor Don't Know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Qazi's article outlines how poorly designed microfinance initiatives harm rather than help low income borrowers.
- Microsoft, piracy, and independent media in Kyrgyzstan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Selective enforcement of alleged software infringement is being used with some frequency in the former Soviet republics as cover to harass independent media. Local law enforcement officials have been given broad powers, in the name of fighting piracy, to raid premises and seize hardware. For the most part, Western companies and governments have encouraged this broadening of powers.
- Microsoft vs. General Motors
Resource Type: Article
If Microsoft made cars.
- Microsuck
Resource Type: Website
Anti-Microsoft Web site.
- A Middle-Class Diversion from Working Class Struggle?
The New Zealand New Left from the Mid-1950s to the Mid-1970s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Published in Labour History, 103 (November 2012).
- Middle-Class Women Begin to Organise
Chapter 9 of Hidden from History. 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973 Published: 1975
- Middle class would go to jail for what big corporations are allowed to do
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The Institute for Policy Studies and the Center for Effective Government issued a report on November 18 which revealed that seven of the 30 largest US corporations paid more money to their CEOs last year than they paid in US federal income taxes. US corporations have enough profit to grease the wheels of Washington DC to have legislation that benefits them, and their workers which are becoming fewer and fewer, are shouldering the tax burden.
- Middle East at the Crossroads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1946
The events of the last few weeks (1945) in the Middle East have drawn the attention of the whole world to what is happening in this region. The terroristic acts of Zionist military organizations, the strikes and demonstrations of the Arab masses in Cairo, Alexandria, Damascus, Beirut and Baghdad against Zionism, and the concentration of British troops in Palestine has aroused numerous questions whose answer will demand an uncovering of the socio-economic roots of the tangle in which this part of the world is involved.
- Middle East Cauldron
Against The Current vol. 115
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The past three decades of Middle East history present a process of what I sometimes call “permanent counterrevolution,” unfolding under the ever-present reality of imperial domination, rivalry and of course the politics of oil.
- Middle East Diplomacy
Continuities and Changes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
In October 1991 a Conference on the Middle East was held in Madrid. Chomsky compares and contrasts two perspectives on this event. The first praises President Bush's diplomacy skills and accredits this great achievement to US efforts and is the one that dominates public discussion. The other is Chomsky's own which probes such questions as why these efforts came about when they did and were they to mark a new US position.
- Middle East Illusions
including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Written during the last 30 years, these pieces display many characteristics of Chomsky's thought: a deep mistrust of U.S. and Israeli intentions and a desire to change the course of history. Chomsky is erudite, and some of the points are now standard in discussion about the Middle East, such as the contradiction of Israel being both a Jewish state and a democracy.
- Middle East Imperial Meltdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
How U.S. drive for "stability" in the Middle East produces the opposite, and how these crises feed back into the peculiarities of U.S. domestic political culture.
- The Middle East in Flames
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Andrew Kennedy and Suzi Weismann Interview Gilbert Achcar. Gilbert Achcar is the author of Eastern Cauldron and The Clash of Barbarisms, both published by Monthly Review Press.
- Middle East Peace Quilt
Resource Type: Website
The Middle East Peace Quilt is an international community art project, co-ordinated by Sima Elizabeth Shefrin, and made by over 300 people ranging in age from 5 to 85, including men and women, Jews and Palestinians and professional artists as well as people new to artistic expression. Each square is accompanied by the words of the people who made it.
- The Middle East's "World War"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The editors compare the reasons driving the United States' involvement in Iraq and Syria with those behind the decision to invade Afghanistan.
- Midian Farm
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2018
From 1971 - 1977, Midian Farm was a back-to-the-land social experiment created by a community of urban baby boomers from Toronto. Part of the youth counterculture movement during a period of social and political re-imagining, its utopian vision eventually collapsed. More than four decades later, filmmaker Liz Marshall unearths a transformative piece of family and Canadian history.
- Midland Revolt
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A popular uprising which took place in the Midlands of England in 1607.
- Midnight on the Mavi Marmara
The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Eastern Mediterranean, Monday, May 31st, 2010, 4.30am: Israeli commandos, boarding from sea and air, attack the six boats of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as it sails through international waters bringing humanitarian relief to the beleaguered Palestinians of Gaza. Within minutes, nine peace activists are dead, shot by the Israelis. Scores of others are injured. The 700 people on board the ships are arrested and transported to detention centres in Israel, and then deported.
- Midwifery Task Force
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
- Midwives Acquitted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
A historic decision by the Supreme Court of Canada clears midwives on charges in a case of a death during a home birth.
- Miemose Raconte
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
- A Mighty Voice for Peace Has Gone Silent: Uri Avnery, 1923-2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A brief article in commemoration of Israeli human rights activist Uri Avnery, who died in Tel Aviv at the age of 94.
- 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.
- Migrant laborers building 2022 World Cup facilities worked to death in Qatar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Deprived of their pay for months at a time, migrant construction workers building the facilities for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar are being worked to death under slave labour conditions.
- Migrant Workers Fight Exploitation in New Zealand
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Unite Union has dealt with several cases of extreme exploitation of migrant workers. It seems that some of the liquor shops around Auckland have been employing students from India and paying a pittance four or five dollars an hour, well below the legal minimum of $13.75 an hour.
- Migrant Workers in Saudi Arabia
Killed Beaten Raped
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
With few opportunities at home, millions of poor, desperate men and women from South East Asia and the horn of Africa migrate annually to Saudi Arabia. Vulnerable at home and vulnerable abroad where many are enslaved and badly abused, some killed.
- Migration
Changing the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
The author discusses the increasing trend of migration in the modern world, its causes and effects, and peoples and governments responses.
- Migration and Morality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Paul Collier's book Exodus has been welcomed as a humane and rational intervention in an often toxic debate. It seems to tell us more about the character of the contemporary immigration debate than it does about the merits of Collier’s arguments.
- The Migrations of Roma in the European Union
An Ethnic Minority as the Sport of European Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
France is sending Roma back to Romania, Roma are "voluntarily" leaving the country to go to Macedonia, Czech Roma are seeking asylum in Canada -- these headlines of recent years have repeatedly drawn the eyes of the public to the migrations of Roma in Europe. The resulting debates emphasise the legal status of migrants.
- Mike Harris's Ontario
Open for Business, Closed to People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
- Mike Marqusee: A contender for the living
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Mike's humane socialism and his ability to express sophisticated ideas in an accessible way has enriched the left in the UK and elsewhere.
- Mike Marqusee's columns: a look back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
As we remember Mike Marqusee, Nick Dearden highlights some of Mike's most timeless writing in Red Pepper
- Mike Rogers: The Man Who Outs Closeted Right-Wing Politicians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Mike Rogers talks about why it's important to report on the secret sex lives of gay conservatives who are in bed with anti-gay forces.
- Mikhail Bakunin: A Study in the Psychology and Politics of Utopianism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
- Mikmaq say Bay of Fundy developments could harm endangered fish
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
In Nova Scotia, people are concerned about the impacts of big projects on endangered fish in one of the world’s most famous waterways. Two projects are being considered by the province on the Bay of Fundy. Its high and low tides are also home to a number of fish that are on the endangered species list.
- Miliband, Ralph
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Marxist political theorist and sociologist. (1924-1994).
- Miliband, Ralph - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Ralph Miliband (1924-1994).
- Militant as Hell on the Waterfront
The Political Thought of Stan Weir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
New Beginnings looks at the life of workplace militant and writer, Stan Weir.
- Militant Hope in the Age of Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Debates over whether Donald Trump was a fascist or Hillary Clinton was a right-wing warmonger and tool of Wall Street were a tactical diversion. The real questions that should have been debated include: What measures could have been taken to prevent the United States from sliding further into a distinctive form of authoritarianism?
- Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Militant Minority tells the compelling story of British Columbia workers who sustained a left tradition during the bleakest days of the Cold War. Through their continuing activism on issues from the politics of timber licenses to global questions of war and peace, these workers bridged the transition from an Old to a New Left.
- A Militant, "Minority" Union?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
At the AFL-CI0 convention in Los Angeles in September 2013, a small group of rank-and-file workers managed to alter the convention agenda -- by threatening to protest the presence of Kaiser Permanente, which happens to be their employer.
- Les Militants et la Police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Militarism and the World Military Order - A Study Guide for Churches
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
- Militarism degrades, disrupts and destroys democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
As the Canadian government plays at fighting wars in Iraq/Syria and in eastern Europe, we see daily examples of how militarism ultimately degrades, disrupts and destroys democracy.
- The Militarization of Canada: Chrystia Freeland's Budgetary Coup
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Canada is to increase military spending by 70% over the next ten years following Donald Trump's demand for NATO allies to increase defense spending to 2% of GDP.
- The Militarization of Empathy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Surprise reunions between returning soldiers and their families are a major spectacle in US media. But these heartwarming scenes serve as a distraction from the activities of the soldiers while they are overseas.
- Militarization: Obstacle to Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- 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.
- Militarizing Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Establishing US military bases in Colombia is only one part of a much broader effort to restore Washington's capacity for military intervention. There has been a sharp increase in US military aid and training of Latin American officers, focusing on light infantry tactics to combat "radical populism" -- a concept that sends shivers up the spine in the Latin American context.
- Militarizing the Environment
Climate Change and the Security State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
In this extensive historical study of scientific, military, political, and economic formations across five centuries, Robert P. Marzec reveals how environmentality has been instrumental in the development of today's security society -- informing the creation of the military-industrial complex during World War II and the National Security Act that established the CIA during the Cold War.
- Military bases
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Military Emancipation
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A book review of Levine's "The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution that Transformed the South," and Oakes's "Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865."
- Military Ethics in Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
This paper is part of a kit on "militarism" which is to be published soon by Project Ploughshares. It begins by outlining the traditional role of the military, namely, that of defending society against outside aggression. The paper then refers to a new source of socialism. Accordingly, much of the opposition to those in power is seen to come from subversive elements.
- Military Inc
Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Ayesha Siddiqa probes into the Pakistani military's long and troubling relationship with corporate giants, and its disastrous effects on the development of a healthy democracy and civil society.
- A Military Resister and Conscientious Objector
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
ATC Interviews Camilo Mejia. Sgt. Camilo Mejia, the first active-duty U.S. military resister to be imprisoned for refusing re-deployment to Iraq, spoke at a Detroit antiwar rally Friday, March 18, the day before attending the founding convention of Iraq Veterans Against the War in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
- Military 'Service' Serves the Ruling Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Military veteran and peace activist Will Griffin comments on the military campaigns in which he participated, and why he believes that military service ultimately serves noboby but a minority ruling class.
- Military Spending is the Capitalist World's Fuel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
It is common for activists to decry the enormous sums of money spent on the military. Any number of social programs, or schools, or other public benefits could instead be funded. Not least is this the case with the United States, which by far spends the most of any country on its military. The official Pentagon budget for 2015 was $596 billion, but actual spending is far higher. (Figures for 2015 will be used because that is the latest year for which data is available to make international comparisons.) If we add military spending parked in other portions of the U.S. federal government budget, we’re up to $786 billion, according to a study by the War Resisters League. Veterans benefits add another $157 billion. WRL also assigns 80 percent of the interest on the budget deficit, and that puts the grand total well above $1 trillion.
- The military's carbon bootprint
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
As the biggest single user of fossil fuels, why is the military exempt from the climate discussion?
- The Militia and Militarism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1899
In militarism, the power and rule of both the capitalist state and the bourgeois class are crystallized; just as Social Democracy is the only party which opposes them in principle, so too, inversely, is the opposition in principle to militarism part of the nature of Social Democracy. To abandon the struggle against the military system amounts in fact to the same thing as renouncing the struggle against the present social order in general.
- The Mill Hill, Natural Communism, And The Loray Mill Strikes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
There are no less than six books on the Gastonia Loray Mill strike of 1929. There are scores of papers, hundreds of opinions and a common conception that although the strike itself was a failure, it led to better working conditions for many workers that followed.
- 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.
- Millions Missing From DEA Money-Laundering Operation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
At least $20 million went missing from money seizures by law enforcers, critical evidence was destroyed by a federal agency, a key informant was outed by a US prosecutor — contributing to her being kidnapped and nearly killed — and at the end of the day not a single narco-trafficker was prosecuted in this four-year-long DEA undercover operation gone awry.
- Millions of people yearning for a "Brexit" from destructive trade deals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
While the votes for Brexit, and the support for Trump, may not always choose the best political framing, politicians and elites would be arrogant to dismiss the widespread discontent with the status quo.
- Mills, C. Wright
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American sociologist. (1916-1962).
- A.A. Milne Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Seamus Milne Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Milosevic exonerated, as the NATO war machine moves on
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
When Slobodan Milosevic, the former Present of Yugoslavia, was put on trial in 2002 for alleged war crimes, the Western mainstream media went into full hue-and-cry mode in denouncing the man they called "The Butcher of the Balkans." Milosevic's guilt was taken as a given. Anyone who dared to challenge the NATO line was labeled a Milosevic apologist, or a genocide denier, Now, fourteen years later, and ten years after Milosevic died in a prison cell in The Hague without ever having been convicted of anything, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has quietly issued a report which states that, er, well actually, Milosevic was not guilty. That piece of news has been met with complete silence in the same media that trumpted Milosevic's guilt.
- John Milton Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- 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.
- Milton Rogovin, Social Documentary Photographer
Resource Type: Website
Social documentary photographer Milton Rogovin has been likened to the great social documentary photographers of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis. Milton, who lived to be 101 years old, dedicated his lifetime to creating photographs that speak of the humanity of working people, the poor and the forgotten ones.
- Milton: A Co-operative Neighborhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
- Milwaukee League Comes to the Defense of Public Schools
Milwaukeeans vs. the Privatization Pandemic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The battle to keep the public in control of the public schools.
- A Mind of its Own
A Cultural Historyt of the Penis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
- Mine Wars Museum Opens, Revives Lost Labour History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Mine Wars museum opens in Matewan to revive West Virginia’s labour history.
- The Mine Wars: West Virginia's Coal Miners March on Public Television
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
This riveting history of southern West Virginia's coal industry eventually caught the eye of a national television network.PBS is premiering a two-hour documentary called The Mine Wars as part of American Experience, the network's flagship history series.
- Miners and Steelworkers
Labour in Cape Breton
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1976
- The Miners' Hymns
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2010
The ill-fated coal mining communities in North East England are the subject of this inspired documentary by multi-media artist Bill Morrison.
- Miners Protest Brutal Beatings
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Five thousand members of the Mexican Miners and Metal Workers Union and their families and other unions and social movements marched five kilometers May 24 to protest the brutal police beating of more than 20 union leaders and activists. The march ended at the port which serves the local steel mills in Lázaro Cárdenas, a steel mill city in the state of Michoacan, blocking it for two hours or more.
- Minetown, Milltown, Railtown
Life in Canadian Communities of Single Industry
Resource Type: Book
A sociological description of life in company towns.
- Minewar.org
Resource Type: Website
Documenting the 1930's Illinois mine war.
- Mineworkers of Guyana
The Making of a Working Class
Resource Type: Book
Written by a former worker who himself grew up on Alcan's Plantation Mackenzie bauxite mine in Guyana, this is a readable account of the life and history of a Third World working class. It throws new light on the constantly recurring themes of company exploitation, trade union democracy, and the limits of nationalization in transforming management-worker relations.
- Minimising the Risk of Police Violence
Resource Type: Article
Police may be violent at nonviolent actions for various reasons. In my experience, the most important ones are because police are directed to use violence as a form of political repression and because police are afraid of what to expect. Thus, in addition to considering the many other aspects of any nonviolent strategy, the planning process might consider ways in which any action can be made less vulnerable to police repression (or, for that
matter, violence by provocateurs).
- Minimum Utopia: Ten Theses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
One person's thoughts on the subject of utopias as we approach a new century and millennium.
- The Minimum Wage Debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In a discussion of the debate over the minimum wage increase in the United States, Miah advocates for a socialist mentality and a focus on individual rights in order to provide an economic solution to the decline of the middle class caused by capitalisim.
- Mining companies funded Indonesian abuses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Two mine operators have cosy ties with the Indonesian military, who have a long history of human rights abuses.
- Mining: Extracting the Future
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2015
A publication on the negative impact of the mining industry on local communities and the environment. Articles include a look at the opening of Canada's North to industry, mining exploitation in Peru and targeted assassinations in Mesoamerica, Indigenous Water Defence, and the efforts of mining companies to excerpt influence and undermine accountability.
- Mining History Written in Blood
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Domestic coal mining history above and below ground lives on the pages of Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction edited by Wess Harris (PM Press, 2017). The anthology unpacks the industry, people and communities of a coal-rich region, amplifying relevant class and gender issues over a century.
- Mining Peru
Canada's New Territory?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
In Peru, 40 percent of conflicts involving local communities are over mining. The majority of the mining sector in Peru is owned by Canadian corporations.
- Mining Town Crisis
Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
- Minneapolis 1934 Strike Revisited
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A book review of "Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934" by Bryan D. Palmer.
- Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike by Teamsters against most of the trucking companies operating in Minneapolis.
- Minnesota Council on Foundations
Resource Type: Website
Site describng the ways people and companies can support a nonprofit organization. Written from a donor perspective.
- Minority Organizations:
A National Directory (Third Edition)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- Minority publishers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Minority Rights Group (MRG)
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
- Mirage of Health
Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959 Published: 1979
Dubos attempts to show that while it may be comforting to imagine a life free of stresses and strains in a carefree world, this will remain an idle dream. Humans cannot hope to find another Paradise on earth, because paradise is a static concept while human life is a dynamic process.
- Miramichi Lumber Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
The Miramichi Lumber Strike began 20 August 1937 when 1500 millworkers and longshoremen along the Miramichi River in northern New Brunswick struck 14 lumber firms for increased wages, shorter working hours and union recognition.
- Mirror Crack'd
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Noam Chomsky suggests that Western powers have regularly induced such atrocities in foreign lands as were perpetrated on 9/11 on American soil. He warns that through pre-emptive military action in Afghanistan, the international society may be in danger of less than attractive consequences in the future.
- Mirrors
Stories of Almost Everyone
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Open any history book and you'll learn about revolutionary leaders, decorated generals, genius scientists and passionate artists. What about the leaders’ assistants? The loyal soldiers? The helpful lab assistants and the inspirations for great art? History books are so filled with greatness that the stories of the people are often neglected. Mirrors resolves this issue. Mirrors is a mosaic of humanity.
- The misbegotten 'war against cancer'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
- Miscellaneous Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Misconceptions About King's Methods for Change
A Matter of Life and Death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Nonviolent social change requires long, hard and sustained work, research, development of solutions, and, importantly, on-going commitment. It demands far more than bringing folks together to march and wave banners. Unfortunately, many activists throughout the world seem to be of the opinion that if you are concerned about an issue you should organize huge "feel good" rallies, which is hoped will almost magically result in changes.
- The Misguided Attacks on ACLU for Defending Neo-Nazis' Free Speech Rights in Charlottesville
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
You can fight fascism by employing and championing one of its defining traits: viewpoint-based state censorship. those who favor free speech suppression, or who oppose the ACLU’s universal defense of speech rights, will create results that are the exact opposite of those they claim to want. It’s an indescribably misguided strategy that will inevitably victimize themselves and their own views.
- Misguided Missiles:
Canada, The Cruise and Star Wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
- The Mismeasure of Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981 Published: 1996
A history and critique of the methods and motivations underlying biological determinism, the belief that "the social and economic differences between human groups- primarily races, classes, and sexes - arise from inherited, inborn distinctions and that society, in this sense, is an accurate reflection of biology." The book critiques the principal theme of biological determinism, the idea that "worth can be assigned to individuals and groups by measuring intelligence as a single quantity."
- The Misogyny of Welfare "Reform" - Interview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Randy Albelda teaches economics at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and is active in several welfare rights organizations. She is co-author of Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women's Work, Women's Poverty (South End Press, 1997) and author of "What Welfare Reform Has Wrought," Dollars and Sense, January/February 1998. She was interviewed by Stephanie Luce from the ATC editorial board.
- Misogyny reflected in Grocery Line
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Checking out the popular media at the grocery checkout.
- Misrepresented? Hugo Chavez and the Western Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
An interview with Julia Buxton about Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, and target of concerted criticism in the western media.
- Misrepresenting the White Working Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
In McDowell County -- the poorest county of West Virginia , people were open to, even preferred, a real alternative to Trump and Clinton.
- Misrepresenting the White Working Class: What the Narrating Class Gets Wrong
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Most of the time the white working class is invisible in the U.S. But during elections there is a flurry of attention to this "demographic" among political reporters and operatives.
- Miss Calculatsia: Danger of War That No One Wants
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Introducing Miss Calculatsia, that fashionable foreigner, the new star in Israeli discourse.
- Miss Representation
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2011
Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman.
- Missing Children: The Pottery Barn Rule Revisited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
If one in five American parents couldn't figure out where their kids were, most people would rightly see the phenomenon as a crisis and a national scandal. Grandstanding prosecutors with visions of gubernatorial campaigns dancing in their heads would conduct mass parental perp walks. Legislators would boost their presidential aspirations by co-sponsoring legislation requiring universal implantation of GPS trackers at birth.
- Missing from the Paris Agreement: the Pentagon's monstrous carbon boot print
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
How much of the mainstream media coverage given to COP21 and the Paris Agreement mentioned the mysterious exemption given to the US's massive military and security machine? None, writes Joyce Nelson. Not only are these emissions entirely outside the UNFCCC process, but a 'cone of sillence' somehow prevents them from even forming part of the climate change discourse.
- The Missing News
Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
- The Missing Piece
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A strong, independent labour movement could lead the struggle for democracy and justice in the Philippines. Rodrigo Duterte's revolution, at least so far, looks like nothing more than a reshuffling of the country's political elite. The election seems to mark a period of continuity, not progressive change, in Philippine politics.
- Missing Pieces II
An Alternative Guide to Canadian Post-Secondary Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
- 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.
- Mission For Peace:
A Report
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- Mission Information Department - Scarborough Foreign Mission Society
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1976
Social Issues documentaries.
- Missionary Involvement and Catholics in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Report on survey results on missionary activities at home and abroad.
- Mississauga Portraits: Ojibwe Voices from Nineteenth-Century Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
This book is about a group of Mississaugans that few people who live in Mississauga, Ontario, today are likely familiar with. The people profiled are none other than a handful of the original inhabitants of much of the land that is now covered by the sprawling city of more than seven hundred thousand people in the Greater Toronto Area.
- Mississippi Family Faces Jail Time for Cheering at High School Graduation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
When Ursula Miller attended her niece's high school graduation from Senatobia High School in northwestern Mississippi last month, she didn't expect to leave with an arrest warrant. But in a prime example of excessesive criminalization, Miller and three others were charged with disorderly conduct for cheering on their relatives during the ceremony held at Northwest Mississippi Community College.
- The Mississippi Summer Project 50th Anniversary Reunion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Greenwood was the place where the first major cracks in the wall of Mississippi racism were broken open.
- Missouri's Legacy of Violent Racism
Quantrill's Raiders Come to Ferguson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
What is clear about the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri is that the cop murdered Michael Brown pretty much in cold blood. What is also clear is that if Michael Brown was a suspect in this shoplifting case and regular procedures were followed, then he should have been arrested and gone to court. What is less clear is whether or not this killer cop will ever see justice.
- Mistaken Identity
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2008
Historically, antiracists challenged both the practice of racism and the process of racialisation; that is, both the practice of discriminating against people by virtue of their race and the insistence that an individual can be defined by the group to which he or she belongs. Today's multiculturalists argue that to fight racism one must celebrate group identity. The consequence has been the resurrection of racial ideas and the imprisonment of people within their cultural identities. Racial theorists and multiculturalists, the French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut observes, have 'conflicting credos but the same vision of the world'. Both fetishise difference. Both seek to 'confine individuals to their group of origin'. Both undermine 'any possibility of natural or cultural community among peoples'. Challenging such a politics of difference has become as important today as challenging racism.
- Mistaking Omniscience for Omnipotence
In a World Without Privacy, There Are No Exemptions for Our Spies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Given how similar they sound and how easy it is to imagine one leading to the other, confusing omniscience (having total knowledge) with omnipotence (having total power) is easy enough. It’s a reasonable supposition that, before the Snowden revelations hit, America's spymasters had made just that mistake. If the drip-drip-drip of Snowden’s mother of all leaks -- which began in June and clearly won’t stop for months to come -- has taught us anything, however, it should be this: omniscience is not omnipotence. At least on the global political scene today, they may bear remarkably little relation to each other. In fact, at the moment Washington seems to be operating in a world in which the more you know about the secret lives of others, the less powerful you turn out to be.
- "Mr. Boston": Meet the Man Who Secretly Helped Daniel Ellsberg Leak Pentagon Papers to the Press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Interview with historian Gar Alperovitz. Alperovitz has revealed for the first time the key role he and a handful of other activists played in helping whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leak to journalists the Pentagon Papers -- a 7,000-page classified history outlining the true extent of the U.S. invasion of Vietnam.
- Mr. Bush's truthfulness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The truthfulness-challenged President.
- Mistranslating Marx? The "idiocy of rural life"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
One often hears the criticism that Marxism was from the beginning an extreme modernizing philosophy that looked with complete disdain on rural existence. Did not Marx himself in The Communist Manifesto, it is frequently asked, refer to "the idiocy of rural life"? Here a misconception has arisen through the mistranslation of a single word in the English translation of the Manifesto. In fact, Marx's criticism of the isolation of rural life then had to do with the antithesis of town and country under capitalism as expressed throughout his work.
- Joni Mitchell Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Mitziton: A community in Chiapas resisting the government road
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- Mixed Company
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
- Mixed Media, Mixed Messages
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
This is a collection of columns by Vancouver Sun columnist Persky. Specifically, Persky tries to address moral and philosophical questions raised by media practices.
- Mixing Metaphors and Diluting Memory: Lynching - The Reality
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
On October 9, 2005, U.S. Senator Arlen Specter appeared on ABC's "This Week" to defend Harriet Miers, President Bush's confidante whose nomination to the Supreme Court had evoked howls of protest, particularly from the Christian Right. Specter told George Stephanopoulos that Miers' verbal critics made up "one of the toughest lynch mobs ever assembled in Washington, DC, and we assemble some tough lynch mobs." In claiming Washington's penchant for "tough lynch mobs," Senator Specter was not speaking literally—though he could have been. It is unlikely that Specter meant to evoke the actual lynch mobs roaming the streets of Washington D.C. for four days during the "Red Summer" of 1919, attacking African-Americans in a frenzy whipped up by racism, anti-communism, fears of joblessness, and post-war jingoism.
- Mkhuseli "Khusta" Jack and the Art of the Boycott
27 Years Later, a South African Organizer Looks Back at a Tactic that Hastened the End of Apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A key figure in organizing a consumer boycott was the young South African Mkhuseli (Khusta) Jack, who recently discussed his experiences in that campaign with students and professors assembled for the 2013 Narco News Authentic School of Journalism.
- MLK in Memphis, 1968
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A look at MLK's actions and speeches in Memphis and their relevance today.
- MLK: To the Promised Land
Charles Williams interviewing Michael Honey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Interview with Michael Honey author of the study, To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice.
- Mobile Family Service Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
This report describes the operation of an "integrated, comprehensive emergency intervention service." This service fields staff in emergency situations primarily during those days and hours when the rest of the service system is closed.
- Mobile homes can't move on
Trailers are the cheapest available homes in the US, but thire owner - tenants are always at risk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The challenges and vulnerabilities facing mobile home owners and tenants is examined.
- Mobile Schools Help Nomadic Somalis Fight Drought
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Mobile schools - secular pre-schools which follow these groups as they move to find pasture and water for livestock - are an attempt to help nomadic communities develop more options as the climate becomes increasingly hostile.
- Mobilizing Temporary Migrant Workers
A Compendium of Forms and Preliminary Discussion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
While labour migration has been a recurring phenomenon in human history, what is new in the post-1970 period of restructuring in the world capitalist economy is the increased use of temporary migrant labour by employers around the world. The widespread rise of employer use of temporary migrant workers in various economic sectors internationally can be dated from circa 1990.
- A Model for Nonviolent Communication
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
A description of communication skills to empower us to exchange resources and resolve differences nonviolently.
- A Model of Theological Reflection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Training document to organise analysis of the conditions that foster the existence of skid row.
- 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.
- Models of Coming U.S. Interventions: Iraq or Haiti?
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Ben Terrall interviews Mike Davis.
- Modem Capitalism and Other Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
A collection of essays on the state of modern capitalism.
- Modern Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Sweezy treats capitalism as a world system within which the so-called underdeveloped regions are a necessary part, backward precisely because they have been forced to contribute so much to the development of the advanced capitalist countries.
- Modern Capitalism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959 Published: 1975
For revolutionaries one central point must be grasped to understand how the system works: the struggle of human beings against their alientation, and the ensuing conflict and split in all spheres, aspects and moments of socia life. As long as this struggle is there there ruling strata will continue to be unable to organise their system in a coherent way, and society will lurch from one accident to another. These are the conditions for revolutionary activity in the present epoch -- and they are amply sufficient.
- The Modern Crisis
Resource Type: Book
- Modern "Gunboat" Diplomacy in the Caribbean
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
There is no such thing as humanitarian intervention on the part of the current U.S. state.
- Modern India: 1885-1947
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
This book uses recently released data to focus on India's anti-imperialist struggle within the larger context of its economic, socio-cultural and political developments in that era.
- The Modern North
People, Politics and the Rejection of Colonialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Modern Politics
Resource Type: Book
- Modern Primitives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
An anthropological inquiry into a contemporary social enigma: the increasingly popular revival of ancient human decoration practices such as tattooing and piercing.
- The Modern Prince
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
- A Modern Utopia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905
- Modernity and Negations
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Finkel reviews The End of Jewish Modernity and What is Modern Israel? He says they offer complementary perspectives on some of the tragedies confronting today’s world, and their historical backgrounds.
- Modernity, postmodernity, or capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
- A Modest Proposal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Chomsky explores the idea of having Iran liberate Iraq from the grips of Sadaam Hussein. He suggests that had the genuine goals mirrored those which were proclaimed, this may have been a plausible alternative.
- A Modest Proposal for How the Bad Old Days Will End
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1975
A brief explanation of capitalism and an optimistic manifesto for stateless communism.
- Modi in Canada
What Canadians Should Know About Harper's New Guest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
When Stephen Harper hosts Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his visit to Canada this week, they will be greeted with both adoring fans and with protests. Modi, an extremist Hindu nationalist, has a strong support base within a section of the Indian community. But his past comes back to haunt him. A human rights organization called Sikhs for Justice has appealed to the Canadian government to prosecute Modi for the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat.
- 'Modi is God's gift to Pakistan security establishment'
Pakistani novelist Mohammed Hanif talks about shrinking freedoms, liberal voices and human rights in Balochistan.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Mohammed Hanif is a Pakistani journalist and writer. In an interview with Al Jazeera he talks about the shrinking freedoms in mainstream and social media in Pakistan, the role of liberal voices and the state of human rights in Balochistan.
- Modistas
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
- Module on Combatting Discrimination: Face to Face: The Self and Others
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- Moffatt, Gary
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Canadian anarchist and activist.
- Moffatt, Gary (French text)
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
- Moffatt, Gary (Italian text)
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Gary Archibald Moffat era un attivista Canadese specializzato nella costruzione di movimenti radicali ai fini di cambiamenti sociali e politici.
- Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Khatib's arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bilin to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest since June 23rd, 2009. The recent wave of arrests is largely an assault on the members of the Popular Committees - the leadership of the popular struggle - who are then charged with incitement when arrested.
- Mohawk Defence Fund
Organization profile published 1991
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1991
- Mohawk defense fund
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- The MoJo Wire
Resource Type: Website
Mother Jones website.
- Mollison, Bill
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article
Australian who developed the theory and practice of permaculture. Born 1928.
- Molly house
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An archaic English term for a tavern or private room where homosexual and cross-dressing men could meet each other and possible sexual partners.
- The Moment
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Periodical published by Jesuit Centre for Social Faith and Justice.
- Moment Project
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
- Momentos
Compendio Poetico
Resource Type: Book
The author of these peoms was a teenage activist in Barcelona during the 1936 revolution. His commitment to anarchist principles and to his ideal are communicated in these poems.
- Moments in Movement
A 1990 Calendar For Social Change Movements
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
- Monbiot Still Can't Admit Media's Core Problem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
After more than two decades at the Guardian, George Monbiot has finally written a column in which he concedes that the entire British media has a problem, including its supposedly left-liberal elements like the Guardian.
- Monbiot.com
Resource Type: Website
George Monbiot's Web site.
- Monchanin Journal: Political Self-Determination of Native Peoples
Special Issue - Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
The Monchanin Cross-Cultural Centre seeks an understanding of life in the perspective of all cultures coming together: African, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Christian.
- Le Monde Diplomatique - English edition
Resource Type: Website
English-language edition of the French newspaper. Some articles free on the Web site; full access requires a subscription.
- Mondragón Cooperative Corporation
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A group of manufacturing, financial and retail enterprises based in the Basque Country and extended over the rest of Spain and abroad which is one of the world's largest worker cooperatives and one important example of workers' self-management.
- Mondragon Worker-Cooperatives Decide How to Ride Out a Downturn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The Mondragón Cooperative Corporation (MCC), the largest consortium of worker-owned companies, has developed a different way of doing business - a way that puts workers, not shareholders, first.
- Money and Rain: Tom Wayman Live!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
- The Money Crisis: How bankers grabbed our money -- and how we can get it back
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
A historical analysis exposing the flaws in the system that led to financial crisis.
- The Money Gusher
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The oil industry's decommissioning costs will dwarf those of nuclear power. The money being made now should be put aside to meet them.
- Money Is Made Up And We Can Change The Rules Whenever We Want
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Have you ever noticed how online capitalism cultists who condescendingly tell socialists they “just don’t understand economics” are always unable to lucidly defend their own understanding of economics? If you've never pressed such a character to clearly and concisely explain what it is you "don't understand" using their own words, I highly recommend that you try it, because it’s one of the funniest things in the world.
- Money isn't Everything
A Survival Manual for Non-Profit Organizations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Addresses the problems affecting non-profit groups today, providing examples and practical solutions.
- Money Making Marketing
Finding the People Who Need What You're Selling and Making Sure They Buy It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Practical advice on marketing.
- Money, Power and Turf: Winning the Middle East Media War at Any Cost
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
It is hardly surprising to see Middle Eastern countries at the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index, as the worst violators of freedom of the press. But equally alarming is the complete polarization of public opinion as a result of self-serving media and, bankrolled by rich Arab countries, whose only goal is to serve their specific, often sinister, agendas.
- Money Talks, Bullshit Walks on Cable News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
None of the big companies buying advertising time on CNN and MSNBC have any interest in the progressive taxation and restored union organizing and collective bargaining rights that Sanders advocates.
- Mongolia, Canada, Israel & the United States
Colonialism, Mining and Oil Shale: Don't Let the Genie Out of the Bottle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Genie Energy announces a deal they struck with the Petroleum Authority of Mongolia.
- Monitoring the Miners: Rio Tinto, Drones and Surveillance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Management at the mining giant Rio Tinto have ambitions to take the technology of monitoring employees to another level – quite literally-drones.
- The Monkey Wrench Gang
Resource Type: Book
- Monogamous Voles
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Vole reversal.
- Monographs on the Portuguese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
- The Monopoly board of the city: Grenfell Tower - where was the HCA, government housing regulator??
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The Homes & Community Agency(HCA) is the UK state regulatory body for social housing; its job is to monitor the performance, finances and provision of services of landlords. Missing from the media coverage of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster so far is any discussion of what relation the HCA has to this horror story of corporate murder.
- Monopoly Capital
An essay on American economic and social order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966 Published: 1969
An analysis of American capitalism.
- Monopoly Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1966
For Baran and Sweezy, capitalist problems are exclusively market problems.
- Monroe House
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
- Monsanto: Contamination By All Means Necessary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
What happens when you allow commercial interests free rein over a nation state's food and agricultural policies? Consumers and farmers end up paying the price.
- Monsanto Crops Pushing Monarch Butterfly to Verge of Extinction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Herbicide-resistant genetically modified crops have brought the iconic monarch butterfly to the brink of extinction, according to a new report by the Center for Food Safety.
- Monsanto is buying up non-gmo seed companies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A positive trend in recent years is the growing number of gardening enthusiasts choosing to plant gardens using organic and/or heirloom seeds.
- Monsanto and Its Promoters vs. Freedom of Information
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Next year, the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) will celebrate its 50th anniversary as one of the finest laws our Congress has ever passed. It is a vital investigative tool for exposing government and corporate wrongdoing.
- Monsanto monarch massacre: 970 million butterflies killed since 1990
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A shocking statistic released by the US Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday summed up the plight of the monarch butterfly: Since 1990, about 970 million of the butterflies – 90 percent of the total population – have vanished across the United States.
- Monsanto, the TPP and Global Food Dominance
Putting Profits Before Populations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with GMO (genetically modified) seeds that are distributed by only a few transnational corporations. But this agenda has been implemented at grave cost to our health; and if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) passes, control over not just our food but our health, our environment and our financial system will be in the hands of transnational corporations.
- Monsanto and Ukraine
GM Food, Ukraine and the Return of Hill + Knowlton
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), under terms of their $17 billion loan to Ukraine, will force that country to permit genetically-modified (GM) crops and genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture.
- Monsanto vs. Vernon Bowman's Farm
The Fiction of Intellectual Property
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Monsanto’s entire case against Vernon Bowman — as with Percy Schmeiser — is that their profits will be negatively affected if they’e not empowered to dictate what Vernon Bowman does on his own land and with his own stuff. The relief they’re requesting is that the state should therefore so empower them.
- The Monster
How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America -- and Spawned a Global Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Hudson explains the rise and fall of the subprime mortgage business by chronicling the rise and fall of two corporate empires: Ameriquest and Lehman Brothers, who did more than any other institutions to create the feeding frenzy that flooded the U.S. with high-risk, high-profit home mortgage loans.
- The Monster That Israel Helped Create
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
There is a terrible irony in Israel’s current assault on Gaza. More than 200 Palestinians have died in an onslaught supposedly aimed at weakening Hamas and degrading its capacity to fire rockets into Israel. It was Israel itself, however, that helped Hamas to power in Gaza.
- Monsters of the Market
Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, this book links tales of monstrosity from England to recent vampire- and zombie-fables from sub-Saharan Africa, and it connects these to Marx’s persistent use of monster-metaphors in his descriptions of capitalism. Reading across these tales of the grotesque, McNally offers a novel account of the cultural economy of the global market-system.
- Montage: John Heartfield
Vom Club Dada zur Arbeiter-Illustrierten Zeitung - Dokumente - Analysen - Berichte
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
- Montenegro, Raúl
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article
Environmental and indigenous rights activist. (Born 1949).
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1955
A successful year-long protest against the segregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama.
- The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Robinson recounts the origins and sustaining force of the famous boycott led by Montgomery's African American women.
- The Monthly
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
- Monthly Review - Volume 26 Number 3
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The degradation of work in the twentieth century
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
- Montreal
A Citizen's Guide to Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Montreal
A Citizen's Guide to Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
In 1986, The Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM) were elected at City Hall defeating the Drapeau Administration. In this collection of articles, every aspect of reform under the MCM Administration is scrutinized: Employment, Housing and Planning, Ecology, Crime, Relations between ethnic groups, Public Transportation and Public Health.
- Montreal: Campus Feminists Fail to Gag Marxists
For Women's Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The logic of feminism is class collaboration. It also means relying on the bourgeois state to "defend women." The role of the capitalist state is to defend the interests of the capitalists. It has nothing to do with ending the misery of the oppressed.
- Montreal City Mission -- Mcdonald House
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
- Montreal revolutionaries, Canadian security and race: An interview with author David Austin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Recently, Montreal writer David Austin published Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal, a groundbreaking work that details the significant breadth and scope of Black Power activism in Montreal in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Montreal spends $110,000 on private lawyers to fight challenge to anti-protest bylaw
There's room for austerity around everything except repression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
As the city of Montreal tightens its belt-buckle and is cutting budgets, two Montrealers who are challenging the city's regulations around demonstrations are questioning the amount of resources the city is putting in to defend the bylaws.
- Mooney, Pat
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article
Winner of the Right Livelihood Award for his work to save the world's genetic plant heritage. (Born 1947).
- The Moral Ambiguity of America
The Massey Lectures for 1966
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
- The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Ghandi
Resource Type: Book
Iyer has selected Gandh's writings from lectures, newspaper articles and correspondence to friends, the grassroots network of followers and sympathizers. Features writings on morality, politics, non-violent resistance, religion and a host of other topics.
- Moral Appeals Aren't Enough
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The wonderful thing about Black Lives Matter is that they're saying you cannot use moral suasion to win this. You've got to disrupt, and make sure that things don't work in order to make the demand for change.
- Moral bankruptcy of capitalism': UK's top public doctor shames western society over Ebola
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Western countries should tackle drugs firms' "scandalous" reluctance to invest in research into the virus which has already killed over 700 people in West Africa, the UK's top public doctor said, adding, “They'd find a cure if Ebola came to London.”
- Moral Clarity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Shatz discusses the underlying meaning and implications of the slogan 'Je suis Charlie', an expression that became widespread after the shootings at the Charlie Hebdo's (French satirical magazine) office.
- The Moral Corrosion of Drone Warfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The Jerry Berrigan Brigade, named after Syracuse peacemaker Jerry Berrigan, were called to court for their nonviolent witness against drone warfare at the state-side drone base Hancock.
- The Moral Economy of the Iranian Protests
Beset by inequality and corruption, Iran's provincial working classes are revolting against the revolution's broken promises
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at the root causes of the widespread protests that have been taking place, primarily in provincial towns, throughout Iran. Persistent unemployment and inflation, overdue wages and pensions, environmental degradation, and ponzi schemes are a far cry from the social justice vision that animated and united the revolutionary forces of 1979.
- Moral Panic
Biopolitics Rising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Biopolitics, politics based on the grievances of sex and race, is said to distort facts especially with respect to violence against women.
- Moral Poverty and the Riots
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Because the right has appropriated the arguments about moral failure, many on the left have rejected moral arguments altogether. The left talks much about the social and economic impact of neoliberal policies. But little about their moral impact. Such willful blindness is dangerous. Morality is as important to the left as it is to the right, though for different reasons. There can be no possibility of a political or economic vision of a different society without a moral vision too. Moral arguments lie at the heart of our understanding of social solidarity, and of the distinction between notions of social solidarity and pious rightwing claims of ‘we’re all in it together’.
- Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires
AIDS in the News Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
"The mass media have played a key role in constructing public understandings of the epidemic. In the majority of instances, HIV-related disease has been presented as a condition affecting social and/or demographic minorities -- groups whose exceptional behaviour has put them at special risk. Yet at the same time, HIV and AIDS are said to threaten us all: be we heterosexual, lesbian or gay, be we young or somewhat older; be we of minority or majority ethnic status."
- Moral Truisms, Empirical Evidence, and Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Noam Chomsky systematically discusses terrorism and "just war" in relationship to moral standards such as "what goes for others goes for us". He demonstrates that, according to US behavior in the past and this principle, other actors may be entitled to use terrorist strategy against the USA.
- Moralidade em um Mundo Amoral
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
- Moralising Criticism and Critical Morality
A Contribution to German Cultural History Contra Karl Heinzen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1847
- Morality in an Amoral World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
A crisis is a mirror. It shows us - if we have the courage to see - who we are as individuals and as a society. The self-congratulatory poses of governments, politicians, and state institutions are confronted with the harsh test of reality. Each of us - as individuals, friends, families, neighbours, communities - face new and sometimes difficult challenges. The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is such a crisis.
- Morality in an Amoral World - Bulgarian text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
- Morality in an Amoral World - Vietnamese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
- Morality Policing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The police treat protests and festivals as a threat to their power.
- Morant Bay rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Moratorium Committee on Prison Construction Newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
The Moratorium Committee on Prison Construction (MCPC) was formed in February 1978 by representatives from civil liberties associations in Quebec and Ontario. This move was a response to the federal Solicitor-General's annoucement of plans to construct 24 new penitentiaries by 1984. The MCPC immediately launched a campaign of public education, press conferences and meeting with senior correction officials. It contacted many individuals, religious organizations, MP's and groups involved in correction across Canada.
- Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A large demonstration against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War that took place across the United States on October 15, 1969.
- More chance of dying from work than going to war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Going to war may seem one of the most hazardous ordeals on the planet, but perhaps not. The International Labor Organization (ILO) says there is more chance of dying from work than fighting for your country on the battlefield.
- More From Pacific High
Notes from an xprmentl school
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Jack Spicer explores the current obstacles and future plans for the experimental school Pacific High.
- More from the Greatest [sic] Generation
This is What We Are Up Against
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The Nazi-CIA connection is ancient news but is finally getting play some seven decades later when it’s safe to file it under "Mistakes, well-intentioned." Here’s my “scoop”: The Nazi-CIA connection should be filed under "Policy, standard operating."
- More Incredible than Fiction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
The story of the St. Lawrence community recounts the working past of a small Newfoundland coastal town.
- The More Information The Less Knowledge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
While our short-term quest for knowledge must be related to the immediate problems of saving society from environmental and economic collapse, the long-term goals of learning more about humanity's place in the universe must not be neglected.
- A More Just and Humane Criminal Justice System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Outline of the council's objectives, goals, history, and programme developments.
- More on the Red Chemist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
More on the important role that the eminent chemist Carl Schorlemmer played in the development of Marx and Engels' understanding of the natural sciences.
- A More Perfect Union
Why Straight America Must Stand Up for Gay Rights
Resource Type: Book
Mohr uses lively examples and historical cases to explore both private and public issues affecting the gay and lesbian community.
- More Propaganda Than News Coming Out of Aleppo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The dominance of propaganda over news in coverage of the war in Syria.
- More tear gas in in Artvin, Turkey as anti-mining protests enter 7th day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Hundreds of activists gathered in the Black Sea province of Artvin, Northwest Turkey, to oppose plans to build a gold mine in the area. Police again used tear gas and batons to disperse the angry crowd.
- More Than a Few Rogue Cops: the Disturbing History of Police in Schools
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Another week, another video of police abuse surfaces. This time the video shows San Antonio school resource officer Joshua Kehm body-slamming 12-year-old Rhodes Middle School student Janissa Valdez. Valdez was talking with another student, trying to resolve a verbal conflict between the two, when Kehm entered and attacked her. "Janissa! Janissa, you okay?" a student asked before exclaiming, "She landed on her face!" In a statement on the incident, co-director of the Advancement Project Judith Browne Davis wrote, "Once again, a video captured by a student offers a sobering reminder that we cannot entrust school police officers to intervene in school disciplinary matters that are best suited for trained educators and counselors."
- 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.
- More Than Medicare
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
- More than one way to strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Rather than simply walk away from their vehicles, drivers could keep driving, but refuse to collect fares. This puts pressure on the employer without inconveniencing riders.
- More Than the Troubles
A Common Sense View of Northern Ireland
Resource Type: Book
The authors argue that religion is only one of many factors stemming from differing traditional, cultural, and historical allegiances that separate the people of Northern Ireland.
- 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.
- More VIA cuts predicted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- More Years for the Locust
The Origins of the SWP
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
- Morgentaler, Henry
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Canadian physician and prominent pro choice advocate who has fought numerous legal battles for that cause. (Born 1923).
- The Morning After
Sex, Fear, and Feminism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993 Published: 1994
When Katie Roiphe arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1986, she found that the feminism she had been raised to believe in had been radically transformed. The women's movement, which had once signaled such strength and courage, now seemed lodged in a foundation of weakness and fear. At Harvard, and later as a graduate student at Princeton, Roiphe saw a thoroughly new phenomenon taking shape on campus: the emergence of a culture captivated by victimization, and of a new bedroom politics in the university, cloaked in outdated assumptions about the way men and women experience sex.
- Moroccan Catastrophic Convergence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The convergance of injustices in Morocco - climate change, neoliberalism, political suppression - make for a completely untenable situation. This could make people hopeful since it makes radical change the only possibility.
- 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."
- Morris Slavin: 1913-2006
Against The Current vol. 124
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Morris Slavin, a historian of the French Revolution and one of the last remaining veterans of the American Trotskyist movement of the early 1930s, died on February 6 in Denver, Colorado, at the age of 92. The vast majority of Slavin's years were spent in Youngstown, Ohio, but his childhood took place in Russia.
- Morris, William
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
British artist, designer, author, and socialist. (1834-1896).
- Morris, William - Internet Archive - Index
Resource Type: Article
- William Morris Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Morrison, Norman
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Baltimore Quaker best known for committing suicide in an act of self-immolation to protest United States involvement in the Vietnam War. (1933-1965).
- The Mortal Sea
Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Reveals the long history of warnings against overfishing and that the sea is not an 'infinite resource'.
- Mortgage Companies Seek Time Travelers to Find Missing Documents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Recruiters are hiring for a job that shouldn’t exist: finding "missing" documents required to "complete" broken chains of title on mortgages entering foreclosure. Since all assignments of mortgage should have been prepared and recorded within days of the transfer or sale -- and the failure to do so irreparably ruptures chain of title -- the companies would seem to be looking for time travelers or magicians.
- MOSAIC: Center for Non-English Speaking Immigrants and Citizens
Organization profile published 1976
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1976
MOSAIC was formed in 1976 as a society from the amalgamation of two former 1972 Local Initiative Projects geared to the needs of non-English speaking immigrants in Vancouver: Language Aid for Ethnic Groups, offering various social services, and Multilingual Social Service (originally Project Contact), focusing on the immigrant community in the Grandview-Woodland area of the city.
- Moscow Gangsters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
A conversation with Boris Kagarlitsky, a Russian social activist.
- Moscow sells photos of Canadian base
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Mossad contradicted Netanyahu on Iran nuclear programme
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Spy cables reveal that Mossad concluded that Iran was not producing nuclear weapons, even though Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu told the UN the opposite.
- Mossad Operation Threatened Against Reporter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
An Israeli journalist who went into hiding after writing a series of reports showing lawbreaking approved by Israeli army commanders faces a lengthy jail term for espionage if caught, as Israeli security services warned at the weekend they would "remove the gloves" to track him down.
- The Most Dangerous Man in America
Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Resource Type: Film/Video
In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a leading Vietnam War strategist, concludes that America’s role in the war is based on decades of lies. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to The New York Times, a daring act of conscience.
- The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit
Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor
Resource Type: Book
Lichtenstein shows us the origins of some of the union movement's current weaknesses--little organization at the workplace level, no capacity to act independently in the political sphere, viewed by many non-union workers as a "special interest group."
- The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit - Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
- The Most Enduring Media Cover Up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Clearing the FOG hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese interviewed Alison Weir, journalist and founder of If Americans Knew, a website that provides factual information about the Israeli State and Palestine.
- The Most Moral Army?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
War is the realm of killing and destroying. How is it possible to talk about a law of war when war itself breaks all laws? An army that trains its soldiers to kill, how can it demand from them to show mercy?
- Most of All, I am Offended as a Muslim
On Hamline University's shocking imposition of narrow religious orthodoxy in the classroom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Barring a professor of art history from showing a painting, lest it harm observant Muslims in class, is just as absurd as asking a biology professor not to teach evolution because it may offend evangelical Protestants in the course.
- The most outrageous fraud ever perpetrated on the Canadian people
Can the Courts Liberate the Bank of Canada?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
You know the old aphorism -- "If a tree falls in the forest….?" Well, how about this one: if citizens win a significant victory in court against an autocratic government involving the fleecing of Canadians of billions of their hard-earned tax dollars and no one in the media actually covers it, did it really happen?
- The Most Radical Gesture
The Situationist International in a postmodern age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
This book is the first major study of the Situationist International. Tracing the history, ideas and influences of this radical and inspiring movement from dada to postmodernism, it argues that situationist ideas of art, revolution, everyday life and the spectacle continue to inform a variety of the most urgent poltical events, cultural movements, and theoretical debates of our times.
- The Most Terrifying Pressures Occur in Silence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Ivancic narrates his prosecution by the Croatian government, which is one of the many examples of violence against Feral journalists.
- Most US drone strikes in Pakistan attack houses
Drone strikes in Pakistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Domestic buildings have been hit by drone strikes more than any other type of target in the CIA’s 10-year campaign in the tribal regions of northern Pakistan, new research reveals.
- Most US Jewish students don't see Israel as 'civilized' or a 'democracy,' Luntz tells secret anti-BDS conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Minister Gilad Erdan has organized a secret conference in Jerusalem, with 150 top supporters of Israel.
- The Most Wanted List, International Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Revealing the difference between America's use of the term "the world" and the conception which would actually include the entire globe, Chomsky demonstrates that if the "world's" voice were heeded, other terrorist concerns would likely top the agenda.
- The Mother Behind the Galway Children's Mass Grave Story
'I Want to Know Who's Down There'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
It was amateur historian Catherine Corless's painstaking research that brought news of the children's mass grave in Tuam to the world's attention. She tells how her search for the truth turned her life upside-down.
- Mother Earth
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature," edited by Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, and published. (1907-1917).
- Mother Earth's Centre
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
- Mother Russia and the Soviet Fatherland: Canadian Women and the Communist Party of Canada,1929-1939
PhD. Thesis, Queen's University, 2010
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- Mother, Sing for Me
People's Theatre in Kenya
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
This play, acted by the villagers of Kamiriithu, was banned after a few public rehearsals. The Kenyan authorities subsequently ordered the total destruction of the village cultural centre which had been the play's birthplace. The thousands who saw the rehearsals recognized the play's message that the oppression of colonial times still bore down on them in the 1980s and the key to freedom lay in rejecting the divisive myth of tribalism and uniting as Kenyans.
- A Mother's Story
The Fight To Free My Son David
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
- Mothers and Children First
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An interactive report on mothers and child bearing in Bolivia where deaths are highest among indigenous populations. This report looks at the efforts by doctors, indigenous midwives and healers who are collaborating in what is being called 'intercultural health care'.
- Mothers' milk threatened by trade pact
Resource Type: Article
- Mothers of the Disappeared
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
This is the story of the mothers who risked their lives to demonstrate in the plazas by holding placards of the children they lost during the "guerra sucia" the dirty war fought in Argentina during the 1976-1983 repression by the Alfonsin junta. Through the Mother's own words we see the unfolding of Argentinian history, the growing polarization of society and how they coped with the effects not only on their family but the social structure of a country.
- Mountain Biking: Frequently Asked Questions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Why do people mountain bike, and what harms does it do?
- Mountain Justice
Homegrown Resistance to Mountaintop Removal, for the Future of Us All
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
In recent years, local people fighting against Mountaintop Removal's destruction of their homes in West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia have invited volunteers from outside Appalachia's coalfields to help them bring national attention to this shameful practice, and abolish it. This on-the-ground, insider report of a grassroots effort to end mountaintop removal in Appalachia is a fascinating account of why building solidarity across geographic, age, class, and philosophical lines in such struggles is so important but so hard.
- Mountain Warfare in the Past and Present
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1857
The article was prompted by the Neuchâtel conflict and the plans for the invasion of Switzerland by Prussian troops, widely discussed in the press.
- Mountaintop Removal: Environmental And Human Destruction For Profit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW) is an initiative "to stop the destruction of our communities and environment by mountaintop removal, to improve the quality of life in our area, and to help rebuild sustainable communities."
- Mounting evidence of deliberate attacks on Gaza health workers by Israeli army
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
An immediate investigation is needed into mounting evidence that the Israel Defense Forces launched apparently deliberate attacks against hospitals and health professionals in Gaza, which have left six medics dead, said Amnesty International as it released disturbing testimonies from doctors, nurses, and ambulance personnel working in the area.
- Mounting Repression: Its Meaning and Importance for Quebec and Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Mourn Liu Xiaobo, Free Liu Xia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Assessment of the death of Chinese political prisoner Liu Xiaobo, as well as the house arrest of his wife, Liu Xia.
- Mourn, Then Organize Again
Left Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Enzo Traverso's Left Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory.
- Mourning a home filled with memories, destroyed by Israel's army
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Nablus, occupied West Bank -- rubble, destroyed window frames, remnants of a couch shrouded in dust and debris -- that is all that was left of the 130sq-metre home of the al-Jouri family. Overnight, Israeli soldiers, backed by armoured vehicles and bulldozers, surrounded the three-bedroom apartment in Nablus, filling it with explosives and blowing it to smithereens.
- Mouths Wide Shut: Obamas War on Whistleblowers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The Obama administration has been ruthless in its prosecution of whistleblowers.
- Mouvement Action Chomage
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
- Mouvement pour L'Agriculture Bioligique au Quebec (bulletin)
Organization profile published 1977
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
- Mouvement pour l'agriculture biologique au Quebec
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
- The Movable Airport
The politics of government planning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
An account of the manoeuvring and bureaucratic runaround that went into the planning of the Pickering airport, and of the resistance that it produced.
- Move along
Resource Type: Article
A personal story of racism.
- Move into the light?
Postscript to a turbulent 2007
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Can the left movement move into the light and become visible?
- Move-A-Thon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- The Movement and the Sixties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Drawing on interviews, manuscripts, and archives, Anderson reveals how one event built upon another and exploed into the kaleidoscope of activism in the United States by the early 1970s. Civil rights, student power, and the crusade against the Vietnam War composed the first wave of the movement, and during after after the rip tides of 1968, the movement changed and expanded, flowing into new currents of counterculture, minority empowerment, and women's liberation.
- The Movement Comes to Jena
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
The humid air felt electric as the sun ascended over the hundreds of buses idling a 20-mile stretch of Louisiana Route 49, the gateway to the rural hometown of the Jena 6. It was 6 AM, September 20, 2007 — the day Mychal Bell was initially scheduled to be sentenced for his role in the beating of a white classmate — and northeast central Louisiana, on the border of Mississippi, was looking anything but sleepy.
- The Movement for Canadian Literacy
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
- Movement for Christian Feminism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
This pamphlet outlines the goals of the Christian Feminist Movement which is engaged in an ecumenical project designed to enable women concerned about sexism in the Churches to discover their role in strengthening the life of the church.
- Movement for Municipal Reform (ReforMetro)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The Movement for Municipal Reform (often called ReforMetro) was created in Toronto in 1975. Its purpose was to establish and institutionalize close linkages among community organizers, left-wing city aldermen (as they were still called at that time), and their constituents (primarily in working-class wards).
- The Movement for Peace Marches On Against the Drug War
The Goal Is Clear: Peace With Justice and Dignity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The one-year anniversary of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, a grassroots groundswell against the drug war, played out March 28 in a small plaza in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City — absent the cameras and pens of the mainstream media.
- The Movement Has a History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
I was born in the '70s in East Oakland. All of our parents are Panthers, or Black Power organizers, or organizers. We come out politicized.
- Movement-history.ca
Resource Type: Website
A site devoted to chronicling the progress of a project that collects and intends to publish oral histories of long-time Canadian social movement activists.
- 'The movement is ours!': Lesbian activist critique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
We have recently claimed a right to reciprocity in the support of our struggles, but how many in the Queer rights movement have actively worked for the liberation of those groups whose endorsement we demand?
- A Movement of Movements
Is another world really possible?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
The Movement of Movements charts the strategic thinking behind the mosaic of movements currently challenging neoliberal globalization.
- Movement Pachamama: Indigenous Movements in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
It is no accident that most of the remaining natural resources are on indigenous land. First the white world destroys their own environment, then they come asking for the last pieces of land they have put us on, the earth we have protected.
- A Movement Without Demands?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
We claim that far from being a strength, the lack of demands reflects the weak ideological core of the movement. We also claim that demands should not be approached tactically but strategically, that is, they should be grounded in a long-term view of the political goals of the movement, a view that is currently lacking. Accordingly, in the second part of this text, we argue that this strategic view should be grounded in a politics of the commons.
- Movements and Messages
Media and Radical Politics on Quebec
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
A study of the attempt by social and political movements in Quebec to shape their own communication strategies in oppostion to the power of the state and the mainstream media.
- A Movement's Loss
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Puerto Rico is neither a state of the union, nor an independent nation-state. Its residents are U.S. citizens, go to war, have one representative in Congress who cannot vote or even present a motion, pay no taxes and do not vote for president, have no influence or say in federal law, yet are held to all federal standards. Thanks to this legal limbo, for years the island and its people have been used as testing ground for chemicals (e.g. the pill), war agents (e.g. Agent Orange), and even Monsanto is reaping profits now from transgenic crops (Puerto Rico has the highest proportion of Genetic Modification experiments per land area in the world).
- Moving Ahead
A Guide to Selected Themes from the Nairobi Forwardlooking Strategies for the Advancement of Women - Periodical profile published 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
- Moving Beyond Keystone XL
Direct Action on Line 9
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Line 9, which is a pipeline that moves oil west towards Sarnia and the refining facilities there, is where a group of people walked onto the Canadian energy corporation Enbridge’s North Westover pumping station and occupied the facility on June 20th, 2013.
- Moving forward while celebrating Palestinian art's past
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Unlike Other Springs, on display at the Birzeit University Museum in the occupied West Bank through the end of June, pulls off the heavy feat of looking back while moving forward. Conceived as both a celebration and retrospective, the exhibition is guest curated by the museum's formidable founder, the renowned artist Vera Tamari, who oversaw its transformation from the Ethnographic and Art Museum at Birzeit University into the center of contemporary Palestinian and international art that it is today.
- Moving past climate denial
Deniers feel that the impacts of climate breakdown don't matter, but the solutions pose an imminent threat, new research shows.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Katharine Hayhoe, a climate researcher and political science professor argues that it's more productive to show climate change skeptics that solutions are beneficial to them rather than trying to make them believe in the science of climate change.
- Moving Target
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2016
Ruby rides in the backseat of an armoured car while a bodyguard rides shotgun. As a human rights advocate working in Colombia, she speaks out onbehalf of victims of the long-running conflict between government paramilitaries and FARC guerrillas, and dedicates her life to justice despite having to live in fear.
- Moving Toward A New Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
A vision of a new society, with a strategy for achieving it through non-violent revolution, and specific suggestions for what individuals can do now to work for fundamental social change.
- The Mozambican Woman in the Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1974
This selection of writings on Mozambican Women deals with a number of important aspects in the struggle for the emancipation of women - Mozambican women, African women and humanity's women.
- Mozambique won't be Mato Grosso
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A popular movement centred on a small farming village in northern Mozambique has, for the moment, halted an attempt to move to cash-crop monocultures mainly for export.
- Mozambique's farmers battle to keep land in Nakarari
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Parenti and Liberti examine the Nakarari community's ongoing resistance to commercial agricultural planning.
- Mozambique's Movement to End Land Grabs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
To corporations, the forest is only business. To communities, the forest is everything: trees, medicine, culture, spirituality. Land-grabbing and the removal of communities from forests and land breaks the community, displaces access to food and water, and uproots the connection to nature and [local] knowledge. There is an old saying in Africa: the land doesn’t belong to us; it belongs to our children, and the children of our children.
- Mr. Mosey is a Paper Tiger
An interview with Judy Dexter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Judy Dexter shares her experiences as a Grade 13 student at Forest Hill Collegiate in Toronto.
- MRG Magazine - Volume 1 Issue 1
October 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 2 Issue 1
March 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 2 Issue 2
April 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 2 Issue 3
August 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 3 Issue 1
February 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 3 Issue 2
June 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 3 Issue 3
September 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 4 Issue 1
March 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 4 Issue 2
April 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 4 Issue 3
June 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 4 Issue 5
September 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 4 Issue 6
November 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 5 Issue 1
January 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 5 Issue 2
March 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 5 Issue 3
April 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 5 Issue 4
July 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 5 Issue 5
September 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 5 Issue 6
October 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 5 Issue 7
December 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 1
February 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 2
April 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 3
June-July 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 5
October 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 6 Issue 6
December 1986
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 7 Issue 1
February 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 7 Issue 2
April 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 7 Issue 3
June 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 7 Issue 4
August 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 7 Issue 5
October 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 7 Issue 6
October-November 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 7 Issue 7
December 1987
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1987
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 8 Issue 1
February 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 8 Issue 2
April 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 8 Issue 3
June 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
- MRG Newsletter - Volume 8 Issue 5
October 1988
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1988
- MRG Toronto Chapter
May 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
- Mubarak's Last Gasps
From Counter-Attack to Departure Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Revolution and counter-revolution in Egypt.
- Mubarak's third force terror tactic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
President Mubarak unleashed his 'personal' thugs in a failed attempt to silence protestors seeking an end to his regime. The tactics of deploying so-called third forces is a tried and tested method of autocratic regimes, usually utilised when the regime realises that it is on the strategic defencive politically.
- Much Has Been Said...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In the wake of Nelson Mandela, Finkel brings attention to contemporary political activists being imprisoned by their governments.
- The Muckraker's Manual
How To Do Your Own Investigative Reporting
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
The skills of investigative reporting described for non-journalists.
- Muddying the waters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The by-products of aluminium extraction have been poisoning the Mediterranean for almost 20 years. But the closure of the plant that produces them would cost jobs in an underemployed region.
- Mueller Indictment - The "Russian Influence" Is A Commercial Marketing Scheme
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
An explanation of why the U.S. Justice Department's indictment is based on a misunderstanding of the commercial activities of a Russian marketing company in U.S. social networks.
- Mughals, RSS, evolution: Outrage as India edits school textbooks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
India's right-wing government removes significant historical and scientific facts from textbooks as it pursues a Hindu supremacist agenda.
- Muhammad Ali: Free Black Man
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Muhammad Ali spoke truth to power. Even after he became ill with Parkinson's disease and eventually lost much of his verbal skills, he stood by his militant spirit and youth. He never apologized for his words or action.
- Multicultural Films
Organization profile published 1990
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1990
- Multicultural Health directory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Multicultural Information Resources:
A Guide to Metropolitian Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- Multiculturalism at Work
A Guide to Organizational Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
This book is primarily intended for managers of human services organizations and front-line trainers. It offers a chart of the kind of thinking process which has emerged from the YWCA's experience with the Multicultural Development Project.
- Multiculturalism Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Multiculturalism fans the flames of islamic extremism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2005
Multiculturalism as lived experience enriches our lives. But multiculturalism as a political ideology has helped create a tribal Britain with no political or moral centre.
- Multiculturalism or World Culture?
On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991 Published: 2000
Post-modernists are profoundly bored by any questions of economics and technology which cannot be connected to cultural differences. The implicit agenda of the multiculturalists is to present the values associated with intensive capitalist accumulation as "white male", so "non-white" peoples such as Japanese or Koreans who currently embody those values with a greater fervour than most "whites" are ignored.
- The Multilateral Agreement and the Threat to Canadian Sovereignty
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Explains how international agreements like the MAI are a systematic attack on democratic governments on all levels.
- Multiphasic Bureaucratic Follow the Leader Exam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Mumford, Lewis
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American historian and philosopher of technology and science. (1895-1990).
- Lewis Mumford Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Mumia Abu-Jamal's Radio Broadcasts - Archive
Resource Type: Audio
An archive of Mumia Abu-Jamal's radio essays and commentaries.
- Mumia Abu-Jamal and Jeremy Hammond; Political Prisoners In The Sacrifice Zone Of Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Recently, two cases concerning the constitutional rights of people in prison came to public light. They involve two U.S. political prisoners: Mumia Abu-Jamal who is serving a life sentence at a facility in Frackville, Pennsylvania and Jeremy Hammond, who is serving a ten year sentence at a federal prison in Manchester, Kentucky.
- Mumia Faces Life in Prison
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
On Wednesday, Decemerber7, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams held a news conference to announce that the city will no longer seek the death penalty against long-time political prisoner and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jama — convicted in a frameup trial for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.
- Mumia on COINTELPRO Activists and Other Ordinary Heroes
The Linear Ancestors of Edward Snowden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Mumia Abu-Jamal was one of hundreds of journalists who received in the mail a packet of covertly-copied COINTELPRO documents. They were sent by eight activists who broke into FBI offices in Media, Pennsylvania in 1971—and whose identities just became known last week. The papers detailed names and activities of individuals he knew well for years, living and working closely together in communal spaces, who were FBI informants.
- Mumming in Outport Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
A study of folk culture in Newfoundland's outport villages and its decline in the face of modern industrialism.
- Mundurukú Indians in Brazil Protest Tapajós Dams
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
10 Mundurukú chiefs and 30 warriors made the trek to the capital of Brazil to demand the demarcation of their territory and the right to prior consultation in order to block the Tapajós hydroelectric dam, which could flood several of their villages.
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Munir
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article
Indonesian human rights activist. (1965-2004).
- Müntzer, Thomas
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An early Reformation-era German theologian and Anabaptist. (1488-1525).
- The Murals of Revolutionary Nicaragua 1979-1992
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
The dawn of the new society reveals itself in the murals as a very child-centered world. Children's presence in so many of the murals forces one to concur with Kunzle's comment, "The insistence, again and again, on children, in school or (more often) at play, illustrates the axiom, proclaimed by the public art of Allende's Chile, that in an egalitarian society children are the only privileged sector."
- Murder at the Algiers Motel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The following account is abridged from an anthology, Detroit 1967, just published by Wayne State Press. McGuire has uncovered material that hadn't previously come to light.
- The Murder of Kevin Cooper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
I, Kevin Cooper, have been on death row in the state on California for 32 years, going on 33. I came to this place in May of 1985, and I have been fighting for my life ever since.
- The Murder of Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh, 32 years old, a mother, poet and member of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party, was gunned down January, 2015 24 by black-clad snipers who were seen on video pointing rifles in her direction
- The murder of the Mon Valley
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Only the combined struggle of the international working class can overcome the tyranny of capital and transform the world into a place fit for human beings. This must be our goal. Otherwise the murderer of the Mon Valley may become the murderer of humankind.
- The Murder of Trayvon Martin
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Popular anger, mass protests and leadership from Trayvon Martin’s parents, the African-American community and its organizations have exposed the racial divisions that run throughout U.S. society.
- The Murder of Walter Scott
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A video capturing the murder of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man killed by a white police officer, has gone virtal.
- Murder on the Mekong: why exiled Thai dissidents are abducted and killed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
In Thailand, people who violate lèse-majesté law - which prevents any criticism of the monarchy - can find themselves with a bounty on them and end up living in exile. Some dissidents have been murdered or disappeared.
- Murdered by Capitalism
A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Much of this book is in the form of a fictional dialogue between two radicals discussing the political events of both of their lifetimes.
- The Murdered Women of Juarez
Trails of Impunity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The murder of young women, often raped and tortured has brought international infamy to Cuidad Juarez.
- Murdoch's Politics
How One Man's Thirst For Wealth and Power Shapes our World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
McKnight tracks Murdoch's influence, from his support for Reagan and Thatcher, his deal with Tony Blair and attacks on Barack Obama. He examines the secretive corporate culture of News Corporation: its private political seminars for editors, its support for think tanks and its global campaigns on issues like Iraq and climate change.
- Murdochville Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
On 10 March 1957 the 1000 workers of Gaspé Copper Mines, Murdochville, Qué, struck for the right to unionize. The conflict lasted 7 months and ended in defeat for the miners.
- Murfreesboro vs. Islamophobia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
When the Muslim community in Murfreesboro, Tennessee sought a permit to build an expanded Islamic Center, local bigots saw an opportunity to exploit the same "moral panic," invented by the Tea Party, the Christian Right and much of the corporate media, that would also emerge in New York around the so-called "Ground Zero mosque."
- Murray Bookchin -- Anarchism without the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Murray Bookchin was an influential and prolific writer and thinker on anarchism. While he made significant contributions, Wayne Price agrues that he made a major error in rejecting the working class as important for an anarchist revolution. This article reviews why he believed this and why, on the contrary, the working class must be a major force for a successful anarchist revolution.
- The Murray Bookchin Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
This collection offers an overview of Bookchin's political philosophy, known as libertarian municipalism, which draws on the best of both Marxism and anarchism for the emancipatory tools to build a democratic libertarian alternative. Consistent throughout his work is a search for ways in which to replace today's capitalist society with a more rational and humane alternative.
- 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.
- Muscle & Blood
The Massive, Hidden Agony of Industrial Slaughter in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
- A Museum Dedicated to Stalin: An Example of How to Deal With Historical Memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
I think that the Stalin Museum is an example of how to deal with historical memory.
- Museum of the World and Image
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Challenges the "official narrative" that re-writes the Civil War as a struggle of "national security" against an "internal communist threat," manifested in the form of unions, student groups, human rights and refugee organizations, progressive Christian base communities, and the peasant insurgency of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).
- Museums, Art and the Rackets
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
In the late 1990s when it appeared that the laws of capitalism had been suspended temporarily and wealth could be accrued purely on speculation, the New York Times began an annual full-section report on museums, those once fusty and staid zones of quiet suddenly become hot public draws. Its 21 April, 1999, issue extols the role museums play in rebuilding urban economies worldwide. The Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, and new wings of the Metropolitan in New York have been instrumental in fostering urban pride and capital flows.
- Music education makes for a poor commodity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Privatizing the teaching of music into a commodity and decreasing attention spans is leading to poorer music education.
- Music For Nicaragua
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
- Muslim Canadian Congress
Resource Type: Website
A grassroots organization that provides a voice to Muslims who are not represented by existing organizations; organizations that are either sectarian or ethnocentric, largely authoritarian, and influenced by a fear of modernity and an aversion to joy.
- Muslims in Britain: After the London Bombs
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Whitechapel Market is in the heart of George Galloway’s Bethnal Green (London) constituency, packed every Saturday wiith traders selling low priced fruit, unreliable electrical goods and cheap cigarettes.
- Muslims, Jews and Christians imposing an imagined past, with disastrous results
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The truth is that there are millions of people – Muslims, Jews and Christians and others – who not only still idealise a religiously imagined past, but want, in one way or another, to import that past into the present – and not only their present but everyone else's as well. Whatever one might think of the teachings of the Bible and Quran, this is a highly problematic desire. In fact, it is downright dangerous.
- 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.
- A. J. Muste
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Abraham Johannes Muste (January 8, 1885 - February 11, 1967) was a Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist. Muste is best remembered for his work in the labour movement, pacifist movement, antiwar movement, and the Civil Rights Movement.
- Muste, A. J.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A socialist active in the pacifist movement, the labour movement, and the US civil rights movement. (1885-1967).
- Mutiny
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An action members of a group of similarly-situated individuals (typically members of the military; or the crew of any ship, even if they are civilians) to openly oppose, change or overthrow an existing authority. The term is commonly used for a rebellion among members of the military against their superior officer(s).
- Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1902
- Mutualism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- MUZAK: Music to Whose Ears?
A brief overview of research commissioned by The Royal National Institute for Deaf People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
For many people background music, or "muzak" as it is commonly known, is both irritating and frustrating. For the UK's 8.7 million deaf and hard of hearing people background muzak often causes pain, discomfort and unnecessary distress.
- My 1968 in the Heartland
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
“Ezekiel's brother got arrested. He’s a Communist!”
- My Coal Childhood: Lessons From Germany's Mine Pit Lakes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A personal account of living near a coal mine in the Lausitz region of Germany, where extensive mining has severely damaged the environment and current 'solutions' are creating even further challenges.
- My Disillusionment in Russia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1925
Anarchist Emma Goldman recounts her experiences in Russia during the early years of the Revolution, and her subsequent disillusionment with the Bolshevik regime.
- My Experiences in 1968 in Working-Class Turin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Lepore recounts his experiences growing up in 1968 in working class Turin. He highlight the influence of the newspaper, Lotta Comunista, its developed Marxist approach and his subsequent involvement with, and then commitment to, that group.
- My Father Was an Anonymous Sperm Donor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Those of us in the first documented generation of donor babies -- conceived in the late 1980s and early '90s, when sperm banks became more common and donor insemination began to flourish -- are coming of age, and we have something to say. I'm here to tell you that emotionally, many of us are not keeping up. We didn't ask to be born into this situation, with its limitations and confusion. It's hypocritical of parents and medical professionals to assume that biological roots won't matter to the "products" of the cryobanks' service, when the longing for a biological relationship is what brings customers to the banks in the first place. We offspring are recognizing the right that was stripped from us at birth -- the right to know who both our parents are.
- My Father's House:
A Memoir of Incest and Healing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- My Fight Against Apartheid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
Imprisoned for 15 years on Robben Island in 1965, Michael Dingake's autobiography clearly reveals how his whole life has been bound up with the struggle for liberation in South Africa. His story, full of humour as well as political insight, takes us from his childhood days in Botswana to his recruitment into the ANC during the mass struggles of the 1950s, from his underground work in the 1960s to his kidnapping and imprisonment in 1965.
- My Freedom, Your Freedom
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
Knowing nothing but drugs and violence since childhood, Kuebra and Salema have spent their adult years in and out of a Berlin prison, their experiences calling into question the effectiveness of incarceration.
- My Friend, the Enemy
Resource Type: Book
This is the remarkable story of the secret contacts between a daring group of Israeli patriots and the PLO - told by the man who started them in 1974 and who became the first Israeli politician to meet Yassir Arafat. This book sheds light on the Middle East conflict, and the divisions inside both Israel and the PLO today. It needs to be read by all who want to understand the Israeli peace movement, and the hope that it and elements within the PLO hold out for lasting peace in the Middle East.
- My Friend Was Murdered for Trying to Save the Amazon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Paulino paid with his life for trying save his tribe's forest, the Arariboia Indigenous Territory, in the north-east Amazon.
- My Home, My Prison
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Mr Home, My Prison is the passionate, controversial autobiography ofa Palestinian journalist well known for her outspoken support of her people's rights. Raymonda Tawil's book makes clear in personal terms just what damage the Middle East conflict has wrought and what it means for Arabs to live under Israeli occupation. At the same time, her book is as much about the struggle for women's rights as it is about Palestinian rights.
- My Interview with Pisstex
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1986
Currently the government is trying to whip up national hysteria over drug consumption. Part of this hysteria is the effort to implement mandatory drug testing for all American workers. The administration's war on drug consumption presumes that drug abuse can be stopped by police and military repression.
- My Journey from Racism
And how we can best end it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A white individual's experience of racism growing up in America in the 1940's and 1950's.
- My Lai
Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
Jones shows how pivotal the My Lai massacre was in galvanizing opposition to the Vietnam War, playing a part nearly as significant as that of the Tet Offensive and the Cambodian bombing. For many, it undermined any pretense of American moral superiority, calling into question not only the conduct of the war but the justification for U.S. involvement.
- My Last Talk with Gary Webb
"I Knew It Was the Truth and That's What Kept Me Going"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The 'Dark Alliance' series in the Mercury News came under fire by other news organizations, and the paper’s own investigation concluded the series did not meet its standards. Mr. Webb resigned a year and a half after the series appeared in the paper. He then published his book, 'Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.'
- My Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1930 Published: 1970
Trotsky's autobiography, published in 1930.
- My Longest Day: How World War II Ended for My Family
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
An essay excerpted from Hans-Armin Ohlmann's memoirs, which recounts his experiences growing up in Germany during the Second World War.
- My Mother, Stopped for Driving While Black
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
When the police pulled their guns on my mother, I reached for my phone and told her to be calm and do as they say. My parents and I had just been swarmed by police cars, sirens blaring, as we drove on I-64 through Virginia. Shock and fear consumed my family as we came to a stop and were ordered out of the vehicle at gun point. A third car even showed up to stop traffic. The officers then arrested my mother without any explanation. I felt helpless.
- My Nelson Mandela is dead
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
The way to liberate the Palestinians from Israel requires replacing the apartheid regime known as "Israel" with a free, democratic Palestine – and not expecting that Israel itself will allow Palestinians to be free. Israel isn't just the perpetrator of the crime, it is, in and of itself, the crime. The existence of Apartheid Israel is the crime.
- My Past is Now
Further Memoirs of a Labour Lawyer
Resource Type: Book
This account begins with Stanton's childhood, leading to cases such as his defence of Fergus McKean, and a Cold War libel suit in BC.
- My Reaction to Osama bin Laden's Death
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.
- My Response to the PBS Series: Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A criticism of the PBS series on Reconstruction which presents slavery as a 'southern problem,' ignoring its ties to capital and class.
- My Stealthy Freedom: The Hijab in Iran and in the West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An interview with Masih Alinejad, an outspoken critic of the forced hijab policy in Iran, about how the Islamic Revolution affected women, compulsory hijab laws, and her activism.
- My Studs Terkel, and Yours
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
When Against The Current asked me to write a piece on Studs Terkel, I wondered why me? But after I pondered the idea, I thought, of course me. And you. All readers of his books, Against the Current and other magazines, large and small that serve as a mouthpiece for those with the desire for a better world and anger against the hypocrisy of our times.
- 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.
- My Year of Transition
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The year 1968 was a crucial transition for me, from the Black struggle against White Supremacy to the Chicano struggle against White Supremacy. The first struggle began in 1959, when I became involved in the Robert Willliams Defense Committee.
- My Years at Wal-Mart
Making One Do the Work of Three
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Wal-Mart is but the largest wave in a rising tide, and, unless we stand together, united and with dignity, as a great levy for justice to hold and push it back, this tide threatens to drown us all.
- 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.
- Myanmar's Other Reporters
The world cheered when two Reuters journalists were freed from prison. But who’s watching out for the rest?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Detailed analysis of the state of freedom of speech and the press in Burma/Myanmar.
- Mycological Society of Toronto
Resource Type: Website
Veteran mycologists, both amateur and professional share their knowledge on when and where to find the best mushroons, how to avoid being poisoned and what books are best for beginners to use.
- Myles Horton
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Obituary.
- Myles Horton
Insights from organizer Myles Horton
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Myron Perlman, Z"L: Working-Class Jewish Radical
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Memorial for Myron Perlman, union carpenter and social justice activist.
- The Mysterious East
An independent Atlantic magazine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970 Published:
A magazine published in Atlatnic Canada in the early 1970s. There are 12 copies of this periodical in the Connexions Archive.
- 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.
- Myth of a Repressed Memory
False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
An expose of the damage and falsity of recovered-memory therapy. Good experimental evidence shows that false memories can easily be implanted.
- The myth of the 'brutal savage' and the mindset of conquest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The 'brutal savage' meme has enjoyed a resurgence in popular culture and establishment narratives, despite abundant evidence that it's fundamentally wrong. But it suits today's dominant mindset of conquest, conflict and colonialism all too well, and serves to justify the ongoing genocide and expropriation of surviving Indigenous Peoples today.
- The Myth of Corbyn's Labour Failure and Neoliberalisms Western Electoral Success
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
The spin on recent history presupposes two false premises. Firstly, that the era of Corbyn’s grassroots mobilisation was some sort of oxymoron democratic failure, this the available evidence belies. Secondly, that rather than being a process of direct democratic representation on behalf of the mass of society, electoral politics should be treated as some sort of advertising/marketing game designed to facilitate the careers of a small handful of individuals, operating on behalf of highly financed corporate lobbyists.
- The Myth of 'Cultural Appropriation'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Arguing that certain people don’t have the right to tell certain stories is a distraction from the real menace: inequality.
- The Myth of Greek Profligacy
Destroying the Livelihoods of Thirteen Million People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The top 20 per cent of the income distribution in Greece pay virtually no taxes at all, the product of a corrupt bargain reached during the days of the junta between the military and Greece’s wealthiest plutocrats. No wonder there is a fiscal crisis.
- The Myth of Israel as 'US Aircraft Carrier' in Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
If Israeli apartheid were to disappear, oil and trade would still flow from the Middle East towards the West, write Jean Bricmont and Diana Johnstone.
- The myth of Israeli morality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Israel has consistently reacted with repression or even extreme violence to cultural and political manifestations of Palestinian identity.
- The Myth of Lenin's 'Concept of The Party'
What They Did to What Is To Be Done?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Lenin protested more than once that his initial formulations in WITBD were being distorted and misinterpreted by opponents, after which he went on to clarify and modify. If we want to know Lenin's 'concept of the party' we must look at the formulations he came to, after there had been discussions and attacks.
- The Myth of Lenin's 'Revolutionary Defeatism'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1954
Lenin discovered in practice that the defeat-slogan was incompatible with a living Marxist approach to the problem of the defense of the nation, conceived not in the social-patriotic sense of the 'defense of the fatherland' but in the light of a Marxist class understanding of, and a dynamically revolutionary program for, the nation.
- The Myth of Male Power
Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Farrell's blunt manner breaks through the sterotypical white middle-class conventions of victim-obsessed sentimentality that has paralyzed mainstream feminism. He forces us to see our everyday world from a fresh perspective. Farrell feels the political agenda of the feminist movement has been hijacked by a quarter century of "male bashing". He calls for an end to the blame game and a new stress on on personal responsibility, social maturity and self enlightenment. He is one of the voices urging a critique and reform of current feminism in order to strengthen it for the 21st century.
- The Myth of Marx's Economic Determinism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Karl Marx is often represented as an "economic determinist" who credited economic structures with a basic determining role in just about every aspect of human life, and simple models such as "base"/"superstructure" are often invoked to support this. Whilst it may be true that Marx understood individuals to have the scope for meaningful thought and action determined by their social context, as Peter G. Stillman shows, it does not follow that there is a direct causal relationship between "economic" circumstances and spheres such as religion, politics or culture.
- The Myth of Muslim Conquest
Less Threatening Than Imagined
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
It's easy to mistake the high visibility of Islam in the West for a massive return to piety in Muslim communities. But for the last 20 years religious observance has stagnated, even slightly waned.
- The myth of one Jewish nation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Zionism is an anti-Semitic creed. It was so right from the beginning. Already the founding father, Theodor Herzl, a Viennese writer, penned some pieces with a clear anti-Semitic slant. For him, Zionism was not just a geographical transplantation, but also a means of turning the despicable commercial Jew of the diaspora into an upright, industrious human being.
- The Myth of Peaceful Protest
The Patronizing Intransigence of Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Johnson discusses how peaceful protest is depicted as the way to speak out, and any kind of disorder or defiance of authority is presented not only unacceptable, but unnecessary.
- Myth of Political Correctness
The Conservative Attack of Higher Education
Resource Type: Book
- The Myth of Precision-Guided Coercion
From Serbia to Libya
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The weapons makers love the marriage of high-cost precision weapons to coercive diplomacy, because it generates an astronomical need for a never ending flow of money into their financial coffers with orders for new weapons.
- The Myth of 'Simple Commodity Production'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Many misunderstandings have arisen from and about the structure of Capital. One of these is that Capital has an historical structure beginning with "Simple Commodity Production." As Chris Arthur shows in this article, Marx knows of no such mode of production. Marx begins with the simplest relation of capital and exhibits the relations of capital by means of a LOGICAL, not a historical structure.
- The Myth of Sisyphus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955 Published: 1975
Camus asks whether life has meaning, and whether suicide is a legimitate response to the absurdity of life. He says: "Although The Myth of Sisyphus poses mortal problems, it sums itself up for me as a lucid invitation to live and to create, in the very midst of the desert."
- The Myth of Symmetry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
- The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen
Democracy Under the Rule of Big Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Dobbin argues that transnational corporations (TNG's) have power over every nation's government; they are not the good citizens they claim to be.
- The Myth of the Good War
Resource Type: Book
Pauwels debunks the 'good war' myth by showing detailed evidence that U.S. policies were driven by its power elites and that extirpating fascism was not the principal driver of U.S. strategy in World War Two.
- The Myth of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 1
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
The persistence of reformism and outright conservatism among workers, especially in the imperialist centers of North America, Western Europe and Japan, has long confounded revolutionary socialists. The broadest outlines of Marxist theory tell us that capitalism creates it own "gravediggers" - a class of collective producers with no interest in the maintenance of private ownership of the means of production. The capitalist system's drive to maximize profits should force workers to struggle against their employers, progressively broaden their struggle and eventually overthrow the system and replace it with their democratic self-rule.
- The Myth of the Market
Promises and Illusions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Advocates expelling the market from all those spaces it has inappropriately invaded.
- The myth of the reactionary white working class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
This identity-based presentation of Tuesday's election is a false narrative exploded by the most basic analysis of the data from the election.
- The myth of the reactionary white working class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Following the victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, the Democratic Party and media have attributed the results to the ignorance, backwardness and inherent racism and sexism of the "white working class." This identity-based presentation is a false narrative exploded by the most basic analysis of the data from the election.
- The Myth of Women's Masochism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985 Published: 1987
- Des Mythes Sportifs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
- The Mythology of Corporate Social Responsibility
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
For Dow Chemical, corporate social responsibility means encouraging its employees to volunteer in their communities as long as that doesn't take up company time. It means, according to the Dow website, that "At Dow, protecting people and the environment is part of everything we do and every decision we make."
- The Mythology Of Trump's 'Working Class' Support
His voters are better off economically compared with most Americans.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
It's been extremely common for news accounts to portray Donald Trump's candidacy as a "working-class" rebellion against Republican elites. Narratives like these risk obscuring an important fact about Trump's voters: As compared with most Americans, Trump's voters are better off.
- Myths, Memory & Lies
Quebec's Intelligentsia and the Fascist Temptation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- Myths of Cultural Dysfunction
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
This is another “blame the victim” book faulting Latino immigrants for not being as prosperous as other ethnic and racial groups, such as the Asians, in the United States. According to the author, the cause is Latino culture, particularly its “counterproductive” values such as living for the moment, valuing and having large families, and, most important of all, resisting and not wanting to learn English.
- The Myths of 'Green Capitalism'
A system based on the accumulation of capital without restraint will require unsustainable growth, however cleverly we measure our ecologica
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Environmental politics in the U.S. appears hopelessly polarized. Liberals and progressives try to sustain and occasionally strengthen environmental legislation, while those on the right are unalterably opposed, even seeking to defund core institutions such as the EPA.
- The Myths of Liberal Zionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Yitzhak Laor, one of Israel's most independent writers and prominent dissidents, demystifies the "peace camp" liberals.
- Myths of the Exile and Return
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
So where did “the Jewish people” come from anyway? Was there an Exodus from Egypt, an Empire of David and Solomon, an Exile ending in a triumphant Return to Zion? Does any of it matter and if so, why?
- Myths and reality about the Ukraine war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
How one views the war depends very much on the starting point of one's analysis.
- Mzwanele Mayekiso's Township Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Given the inadequate media coverage of the new South Africa, it is easy to forget about the ordinary citizens who were always the strength of the anti-apartheid struggle.
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