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- Rabbis deny 1 in 10 Jews the right to marry in Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Supreme religious body faces growing backlash as critics compare Israel's religious freedoms to Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
- Rabbis deny 1 in 10 Jews the right to marry in Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Supreme religious body faces growing backlash as critics compare Israel's religious freedoms to Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.
- Rabbis Take on Settlers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Away from the media spotlight that focuses on the widening chasm between Israelis and Palestinians, a group of Israeli humanists is quietly working to break down barriers with their Palestinian neighbours.
- rabble.ca
Resource Type: Website
Online progressive news site.
- rabblepedia
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2011
An encyclopedic-like section containing definitions and descriptions of organizations, people and things related to activism.
- Rabble-Rouser for Peace
The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
- Race
A Study in Social Dynamics
Resource Type: Book
Investigates how racism began and why it remains a persistent problem in the United States, tracing racial inequality to the social and economic system that generates it.
- Race Against Time
Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005 Published: 2006
This book is a compilation of the 2005 Massey Lectures on the topic of the Millennium Development Goals, with a special focus on AIDS in Africa. Lewis' lectures are personal and passionate in their denunciation of the international community's response to the AIDS pandemic and poverty in Africa.
- Race & Class: Obama & the Politics of Protest
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Consider the following contradiction of modern African-American politics: We have the first African-American president (he checked “Black” on the new census form) offering hope to millions of working-class Blacks. Yet we see a drawdown of protest politics by longtime civil rights leaders, even though the “Great Recession” is causing the greatest harm Black communities have seen in decades.
- Race & Class: Obama Forgets Black Community
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
What I found most striking about President Barack Obama’s first “State of the Union” address before Congress on January 27 was what he didn’t say. In his 70-minute speech on the economy as the first president of the United States of African heritage, I expected that Obama would highlight the special impact of the recession on Blacks.
- Race and Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
THE MID-TERM NOVEMBER elections brought two surprises according to the pundits: the demise of Newt Gingrich and the likely survival of the Clinton presidency. A major reason for this striking turn of events had much to do with the Black voter turnout. It is a sidebar that was briefly commented on before and right after the elections but since has been buried by the impeachment hearings.
- Race and Politics: A Color-Blind America?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
THROUGHOUT U.S. HISTORY “race” has been a major factor in all politics—beginning with the English occupation and the Westward drive of settlers to conquer and slaughter the native peoples. The justification: advancement of civilization. Racism is as American as apple pie, yet race itself is a political (economic) concept having little to do with biology or science.
- Race and Politics: Blacks in Corporate America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
A Concern of old-line civil rights leaders is how to remain relevant to the vast majority of African Americans. Since the victories won by the civil rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this has been an issue facing the NAACP, Operation PUSH, the SCLC, Urban League and every other group formed in that period and since.
- Race and Politics: Profiling and DWB
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
It's happened to most Blacks at least once in our lifetime. Driving towards home or heading from work on the freeway a cop decides to pull you over for no reason. You wait in your car (you never get out first), hoping it's nothing. As you wait, the tension increases throughout your body. You keep your hands visible and crack no smile. Is it just a ticket? Or worse? (You wonder why African Americans have high blood pressure.)
- Race and Politics: Indonesia's Ethnic Conflicts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
IF YOU READ only the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, or watched CNN, your view of the fourth most populous country in the world, Indonesia with its 210 million people, would be of Muslims (ninety percent of the population) and Christians killing each other, as well as pogroms against ethnic Chinese, Dayaks attacking migrants and the people of the "Spice Islands" engaging in communal violence.
- Race and Racism in China
Resource Type: Article
Discrimination against the minority ethnic groups in contemporary China remains significant.
- Race and the Enlightenment
Part I: From Anti-Semitism to White Supremacy, 1492-1676
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
- Race and the Enlightenment
Part II: The Anglo-French Enlightenment and Beyond
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
- Race, Class & the Apartheid State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The rise of mass political opposition has put in question all the major issues of social change-relationship of race and class, challenges to apartheid in the economy and the nature of the state.
- Race and Class: African Americans in a Sick System
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The critical lack of quality and affordable health care is devastating for African Americans. Twice as likely as whites to go without insurance, African Americans suffer chronic illnesses such as high blood pressure and diabetes at an escalating rate.
- Race and Class: Blacks Still Taking the Hit
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
It took ten months before the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) stood up and challenged President Barack Obama. In a surprise move, 10 CBC leaders refused to participate in a key House financial committee vote in December until some more relief is provided to Black businesses.
- Race and Class: Brown v. Board of Education 50 Years Later
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
I found the headline of the May 17 Business Week article on the 50th anniversary of the famous Brown v. Board of Education landmark Supreme Court ruling, that "separate but equal" schools were unconstitutional, most revealing. "A Bittersweet Birthday," it said, declaring "Decades of progress on integration have been followed by disturbing slippage."
- Race and Class: Busing and Integration, 1975-99
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
In the mid-1970s Boston was a major battle ground for equal education in the public schools. Boston's inner-city schools—as in most urban areas—were less-equipped and in worse condition than those in white neighborhoods.
- Race and Class: Downturn Undermines Black "Middle Class"
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Although the historic election of president Barack Obama has led to big cheers in the Black community and society in general, the reality for the vast majority of African Americans is growing uncertainty if not joblessness and poverty. Cities like Detroit, and the Rust Belt in the Midwest, are reeling under the blows of the recession and structural changes, including overseas outsourcing and shifting work to nonunion companies in “right to work” states.
- Race, class and the election of Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
An analysis on the 2016 US presidential election.
- Race, Class, Gender
Bonds and Barriers
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Takes a historical and theoretical approach to the themes of race, class and gender. Issues touched on include the role of the state in organizing gender and ethnic group formation; racism in the women's movement; patriarchy; colonial domination of Indian women; racism and sexism in trade unions.
- Race and Class in Civil War Mississippi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The poor whites of Mississippi who fought the Confederacy alongside slaves did so because of working class values that they shared with slaves. The fact that poor whites may have believed some racist lies about blacks that constituted the dominant ideas of the day is not nearly as important or significant as the fact that their working class values led them to ally with slaves to fight the racist ruling class. Racism came from the upper class, and anti-racism came from the working class -- black and white.
- Race and class in the United States: J. Sakai and the politics of revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Doug Greene offers a critique of J. Sakai's 1989 work, Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat.
- Race and Class in the Work of Oliver Cromwell Cox
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Cox stands out as a scholar whose work consistently and rigorously proceeded from the conviction that making sense of the meaning of race and the character of race relations in American life requires an understanding of the dynamics of capitalism as a social system and its specific history in this country. Caste, Class, and Race was Cox's most elaborate attempt to follow through on that conviction.
- Race, Class, and the Left with Adolph Reed Jr.
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2019
Audio interview with Adolph Reed Jr.
- Race and Class: Paris to New Orleans
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
It turns out that the city of lights and city of jazz have a lot in common. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and militant explosions in the suburbs of Paris expose the underbelly of racism and class divisions.
- Race, class and police murder in America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
In the aftermath of the mass shooting of police officers in Dallas, Texas on July 7, 2016, the American media and political establishment has sought to portray the police killings of unarmed people and widespread protests against police violence as proof of deepening and unbridgeable racial divisions in the United States.
- Race and Class: The Agenda of Pure Racism
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
There is a sinister aspect of the attacks by the far right against President Barack Obama that does not sit well with me, and with a vast majority of African Americans and other ethnic minorities, no matter our political or ideological point of view.
- Race and Class: The Wealth Gap
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Politicians and government officials point to the historic low unemployment level in the Black community as signs of a strong economy and a future where whites and African Americans will finally have an opportunity for an equal share of the American dream. While it is true that long-term unemployment for the African-American population is in the single digits for the first time, the wealth gap between white and Black families continues to widen. According to government statistics Black households' wealth average one-twelfth that of white households.
- Race and Class: What About the Working Poor?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
One striking feature of political debate in the country today is that — while every commentator, pundit and political observer talks about and focuses on the concerns of the super-rich and the middle class — few ever talk about the plight of the disadvantaged, those on food stamps and welfare and particularly the working poor.
- Race and Class: What About the Working Poor?
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
One striking feature of political debate in the country today is that — while every commentator, pundit and political observer talks about and focuses on the concerns of the super-rich and the middle class — few ever talk about the plight of the disadvantaged, those on food stamps and welfare and particularly the working poor.
- Race and Class: What Counts in the Census?
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
I recently received two surveys in the mail. The first came from the U.S. Census Bureau, asking me a number of personal questions-some relevant, others intrusive. For the first time, however, the census offered me more options than the "normal" white, Black, Hispanic and other categories for race. I could now identify myself by checking as many ethnic groups as I liked. Progress? Maybe.
- Race and Class: What the Jena 6 Case Shows
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Some 50,000 people converged on the small Louisiana town of Jena on September 20. The protest shook up not only the two-stoplight town but sent a loud siren across the country. The 85% white population had never seen anything like this — a Black-led protest against modern-day racism.
- Race, Class, and White Privilege: A response
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Underlying the "white privilege" thesis are two basic claims. First, that being "white" is a useful category in which to put everyone from the CEOs of multinational corporations to the cleaners in an Amazon warehouse. And, second, that being in such a category imbues people with privileges denied to those not in that category. Are either of these claims true?
- Race and the Communist Manifesto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
We need to pay attention to the Marxist traditions that rose out of anti-imperialist and anti-colonial struggles of the 20th century.
- Race from the 20th to the 21st Century: Multiculturalism or Emancipation?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
WHEN I WAS first invited here for a talk three years ago, I had no idea what Pullman looked like. For me, as well as for many students of American history, Pullman was associated with Pullman, Illinois, where the great railroad strike of 1894 against the Pullman Company began. In that strike of the American Railway Union, organized by the now legendary Eugene Debs, he and other union leaders were ultimately arrested and the strike in Chicago suppressed by 14,000 soldiers and police.
- Race, Gender, and Class Politics in the US Primaries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The US has some of the largest feminist organizations in the Western world. I should also add that it has the largest organization for the elderly, the AARP. In spite of this, the US is the country where African Americans, women, and the elderly have fewer political, civil, and social rights. African Americans, women, and the elderly have the least health benefits among their equivalents in other developed countries. The primary reason for this underdevelopment of human rights is the absence of powerful socialist forces and parties, rooted historically in the working class. This reality, however, is rarely mentioned in the US. It is presented as too "ideological" or antiquated.
- Race, Gender, and Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Race, Identity and the Political Economy of Hate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A look at statistics casts doubt on the supposed rise of white nationalist groups and violence.
- Race, Incarceration, and American Values
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Glenn Loury argues that the extraordinary mass incarceration rate in the USA is not a response to rising crime rates. Instead, it is the product of a decision to become a more punitive society. He connects this policy to our history of racial oppression, showing that the punitive turn in American politics and culture emerged in the post-civil rights years and has today become the main vehicle for the reproduction of racial hierarchies.
- Race and the Logic of Capital
Review of Class, Race, and Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A review of Review of Class, Race, and Marxism by David Roediger.
- Race Obsession harms those it is meant to help
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Ethnic monitoring does not just produce misleading data. The process of classification often creates the very problems it is supposed to solve. Local authorities have used ethnic categories not only as a means of collecting data but also as a way of distributing political power - by promoting certain 'community leaders' - and of disbursing public funds through ethnically-based projects. Once the allocation of power, resources and opportunities becomes linked to membership of particular groups, then people inevitably begin to identify themselves in terms of those ethnicities, and only those ethnicities.
- Race, pluralism and the meaning of difference
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1998
Far from establishing a critique of racial thinking, the politics of difference appropriates many of its themes and reproduces the very assumptions upon which racism has historically been based. Most critically, the embrace of difference has undermined the capacity to defend equality.
- Race, Politics and Christianity in America
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
11:00AM on Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in American life, and the implications of this stubborn fact have been known to unexpectedly erupt into our national political culture. In the invocation at the presidential inaugural, Pastor Rick Warren reminded us that we are not a nation united by race, or blood or religion — but he left our divisions on these grounds unarticulated, despite the role he has played in helping to generate them.
- Race and the Real California
The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Sarah D. Wald's The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl.
- Race Relations Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Race, Religion and Rounding Up Africans in Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Israel has launched a wholesale roundup of African immigrants, whom members of the ruling parties call a "cancer" on the Jewish state. To circumvent court rulings against imprisonment without trial, the government has packed the refugees into a detention center in the desert. The aim is to convince the Africans "to give up all hope of a normal life in Israel" and go back where they came from.
- A Race Struggle, a Class Struggle, A Women's Struggle All at Once
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
In Los Angeles, the Labor/Community Strategy Center is carrying out a difficult Left experiment in the age of the omnipresent Right. The center is an explicitly anti-racist, anti-corporate, and anti-imperialist think-tank focusing on 'theory-driven practice'—the generation of mass campaigns of the working class and oppressed nationalities, in particular the black and Latino workers and communities. These campaigns are historically relevant on their own terms, but also have real relevance to any transition to an uncharted socialist future.
- Race to the screen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Race v. Class? More Brilliant Bourgeois Bullshit from Ta-Nehesi Coates
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Coates is either flat-out lying or woefully ignorant when he argues that "the left" is disinterested in the big and significant problems of racial identity and racial justice. The longstanding legitimately Left progressive agenda addresses both race and class at one and the time. It does not accept Coates' false dichotomy between class and race.
- Race Without Class: the "Bougie" Sensibility of Ta-Nehisi Coates
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
- Rachel Corrie Presente!
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The following is an excerpt from a statement from the family of Rachel Corrie.
- 'Rachel' screening in San Francisco shows a growing movement tired of being censored about Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
A wide spectrum of individuals and organizations attempt to enforce the axiom: there shall be no public criticism of Israel. This platitude ironically goes hand in hand with the view that "Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East." Over the past several decades, self-appointed watch dogs of appropriate Israel discourse have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and poured out enormous doses of vitriol upon any individual or organization that dares to expresses even a drop of sympathy with the plight of Palestinians.
- Racial and Cultural Conflict and the Law Project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Racial Capitalism and the "Digital Divide"
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
The dialogue on race and nationality in the United States has always been conducted from the standpoint of the dominant racial group—whites. Not surprisingly, President Clinton's commission on race produced very little to overcome racism, something that would require facing up to the reality of centuries of white supremacy.
- Racial categories are reactionary
One of the most banal and vulgar ways to think about humanity is to classify by 'race'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Racial thinking, no matter how 'progressively' arrived at, can only be reactionary. It is irrational, anti-scientific and anti-humanist. It is a fetter on the social development of human beings and their flourishing. Racialism and racism are twin brothers. Solidifying racial categories in mainstream discourse is a grave mistake. Real progress should mean challenging racial thinking at its root and ultimately transcending it.
- Racial Justice, Class Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Unity in greater numbers has been the principal strength of working classes since the dawn of capitalism. Reducing economic inequality will routinely reduce racial inequalities unless specific actions are taken to interrupt that connection. Our lopsided levels of economic inequality are now so huge, with so much income and wealth concentrated in the hands of the super-wealthy, that even a relatively modest redistribution of economic resources – say, $2 trillion a year – could improve almost everybody’s lives. Progressive taxation of our infamous top 1% can provide more than enough to finance dramatic economic transformations for the working class of all colors.
- Racial Liberalism: The Case of Interwar Detroit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The paradox at the heart of contemporary racial politics is what sociologists and political scientists call "colorblind racism:" How is it that the United States is a country where racism is supposed to be politically, socially, and morally unacceptable yet simultaneously where inequalities are quite neatly organized along racial lines?
- Racial Terror & Totalitarianism - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A review of Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination
by Vaughn Rasberry.
- The Racial Wealth Gap Is About the Upper Classes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
On the racial wealth gap in the US and how it is driven by the upper classes.
- Racialism, art and the Academy Awards controversy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Should artwork be categorized and presumably appreciated according to whether it represents a male or female, black or white perspective? Many critics, influenced by the prevailing ideology, set up this basic standard: women gain more from art produced by women, Jews from work created by Jews, African-Americans from "African-American art," etc. In ideological terms, these critics, in their obsession with race, are spouting a conception of society and art identified historically with the extreme right.
- Racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
An overview of racism
- Racism & Conflict at Southern Illinois
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
I teach on a campus that prides itself on its racial diversity; Southern Illinois University is consistently ranked in the top ten among predominantly white campuses in graduation rates for African Americans. Yet the university has trouble confronting racial issues, and has no published policy on racial harassment.
- Racism and Cultural Discrimination in B.C.
Resource Type: Slide Show
- Racism and Responsibility
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Malik Miah writes in Against the Current 131, “[Orlando] Patterson, and others in Black academia and middle-class civil rights organizations, are right to point to internal problems within the Black community. But the ‘take personal responsibility’ critique targets only a secondary factor. It has little to do with addressing racist attitudes still prevalent among many whites, even as a large majority of whites and society oppose blatant racial discrimination.”
- Racism and Sexual Violence in Indonesia
Where Fear Stalks the Streets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Indonesia, since 1965, performed three genocides fully backed by the West.
- Racism and Structural Solutions
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
When Barack Obama raised the specter of race in a March 18 speech that went far beyond what one would expect from the Democratic Party, some of us on the left were hopeful. Since the 1970s, race-speech in presidential campaigns has been increasingly buried in coded language like, “welfare moms,” “inner-city,” “street crime,” “states’ rights” and so on. We all welcomed a shift away from such discourse. By dealing a bit more squarely with the issue, the speech had the potential to ignite a national debate that could grapple with the “racial stalemate we’ve been stuck in for years,” as Obama put it.
- Racism, capitalism and contradictions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Workers under capitalism have a dual existence: both as collective producers struggling against capital for control of the workplace, for hours and wages, but also workers compete as each other.
- Racism in Australia: from 1788 to stopping the boats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
When the First Fleet sailed into Port Jackson on January 26, 1788, it carried more than the physical paraphernalia for European settlement. Along with tools, agricultural implements, chains, handcuffs, the cat-o'-nine-tails and gunpowder, the colonists brought with them an entrenched world-view.
- Racism in Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Reports of anti-African race riots in Tel Aviv in May finally broke western media silence over one of the most contentious issues facing the state of Israel in recent years: the arrival of tens of thousands of asylum-seekers from sub-Saharan Africa.
- Racism in the Canadian Context
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- Racism Refusing to Go Away
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Miah analyzes the position of race and racism within American culture, history, and politics and how it has been continuously central in society from the beginning of Europe's colonial agenda to the present day, though it has taken on different manifestations.
- Le racisme au Quebec
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Racist housing? How postwar suburban development led to today's inner-city lead poisoning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The lead poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan is just the tip of a vast iceberg of lead contamination afflicting mainly urban black communities. A rigid 'race bar' on postwar suburban housing and mortgages left black families in inner cities, exposed to flaking lead paint in run down housing, leaded gasoline residues and lead pipework. Now is the time to correct this shocking historic injustice.
- Racist of the year, Ian Khama: Not Botswana's finest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
General Ian Khama, the President of Botswana, and his frequent outbursts against the Kalahari Bushmen are among the most horrifying instances of racism of recent times. His sentiments are extremely troubling.
- Racist Outrage at UMass-Amherst
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Over the past decade, students around the country have fought a conservative backlash on college campuses that has sought to reverse many gains won in the 1970s and 1980s. Along with attacks on labor studies, women's studies, and progressive student organizations, this has also included efforts to roll back affirmative action policies and programs for students of color.
- Racist Terror, Then and Now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
African-Americans have been murdered by white mobs, vigilantes, and "law enforcement" from the time of slavery to, quite possibly, this morning. The fundamental reason for the killing of African-Americans by whites has been fear by many whites of all classes that the existing rules of racial hierarchy, that is, white supremacy, are endangered.
- Racist Terror, Then and Now: Many Ways to Die
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
African Americans have been murdered by white mobs, vigilantes, and "law enforcement" from the time of slavery to, quite possibly, this morning.
- Racist Undercurrents in the "War on Terror"
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Although it is rarely mentioned in the so-called war on terrorism, racism is an undercurrent in every action and decision taken by the Bush-Cheney government. It is a dangerous element that has long-term implications.
- Racist Universities?
New Rules Favor Former IDF Soldiers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Measures designed to benefit Jewish school-leavers applying for places in Israeli higher education at the cost of their Arab counterparts have been criticised by lawyers and human rights groups.
- Racist Violence is Used to Maintain an Unjust Social Order
From Trayvon Martin to Wall Street
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
While it would be gratifying and is socially necessary to bring Trayvon’s murderer to justice, the continuation of America’s system of racial oppression must also be ended or we just wait for the inevitable next wrongfully murdered black youth.
- The racist worldview of Arthur Balfour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A look at British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour, whose Declaration of 1917 led to the expulsion of Palestinians.
- The Racket
A rogue reporter vs the masters of the universe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
While working at the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard uncovered a scam - a deception and rip-off of immense proportions. The world as we know it is run by a squad of cigar-smoking men with big guns, big cash and a reach much too close to home.
- Radiation Alert
A Consumer's Guide to Radiation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1985
- Radiation, X Rays and Fallout
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
- 'Radical Academia: Beyond the Audit Culture Treadmill'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
It was not just in economics that the radicals retreated; it happened in all the social sciences and humanities. And not just because of political timidity; they had been outflanked. Knowledge production had changed in ways that disadvantaged radicals.
- Radical Ambition
The New Left in Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
The story of Toronto's New Left from its initial stirrings in the late 1950s to its 'long, ambiguous goodbye in the early 1980s.
- Radical America - Volume 9, Numbers 4-5
American Labor in the 1940s
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
A special double issue of Radical America devoted to the history of workers' struggles during the Second World War and the early years of the Cold War.
- Radical America - Volume 2, Number 4 - July-August 1968
Historical Roots of Black Liberation
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1968
- Radical America - Volume 4, No. 6 - September - October 1970
Special Lenin-Hegel Issue
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1970
- Radical America - Volume 4, Number 6
Special Lenin-Hegel Issue - Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
- Radical America - Volume 6, No. 3 - May - June 1972
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
- Radical America - Volume 6 Number 5
Special Issue: Quebec
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
An analysis of the Quebec general strike of 1972 and its roots in Quebec history.
- Radical America - Volume 7, Number 2 - March-April 1973
Working Class Struggles in Italy
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
- Radical America - Volume 8, No. 5 - September-October 1974
Class Struggle in Britain
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1974
- Radical America - Volume 9, Number 6 - November-December 1975
Revolution in Portugal
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1975
Articles on the Portuguese revolution of 1975.
- Radical America - Wikipedia article
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Radical America - Volume 7, Number 4-5
Volume 7, Numbers 4 & 5 - Women's Labor
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
- The Radical Bookseller
Periodical profile published 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
The radical side of the book trade in the United Kingdom.
- The Radical Camera
New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Artists in 'the Photo League', active from 1936 to 1951, were known for capturing sharply revealing, compelling moments from everyday life.
- The Radical Center and Armed Revolution
A Challenge for the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Poll shows 29% of registered voters in the U.S. believe armed revolution to ‘protect liberties’ may be necessary the self-appointed political ‘center’ went into full conniption in defense of the established order.
- Radical chic' and the left's problem with race
White, middle-class left-wingers are still in thrall to age-old prejudices.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
"If you believe that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards", Thomas Sowell has said, "that would have gotten you labelled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today".
- Radical Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Lummis revives the meaning of democratic struggle and critques the economic and technological processes that have hindered its growth.
- Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2006 Published: 2017
Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
- Radical Digressions 1
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1973 Published: 1979
- Radical Digressions 2
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1981 Published: 2000
- Radical Digressions 3
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2001 Published: 2006
- Radical Digressions 4
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2006 Published: 2008
- Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2008
- Radical Digressions 6
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
- Radical Digressions 7
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2014 Published: 2017
- Radical Digressions RSS Feed
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
New and interesting items from Radical Digressions, featuring progressive comment and analysis from a libertarian socialist perspective.
- Radical economics, Marxist economics and Marx's economics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The major global crises of the mid-1970s and 2008-9 provoked debates among the ruling class about the best economic policies to manage capitalism. For socialists and activists the question was different, and debates about whether and to what extent capitalism could be reformed to avert crisis and instil a more humane and fair system became even sharper.
- Radical Education Project publications: 1961-1969
Resource Type: Database
Archive of the Radical Education Project (Ann Arbor, Mich.), which was was an effort by SDS activists and intellectuals to develop a research, education, and publication center designed to strengthen the movement toward a new left in America. The Archive is held by the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan.
- Radical Faeries
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A loosely affiliated worldwide network of queer people seeking to "reject hetero-imitation" and redefine gay identity.
- Radical Islam, Nihilist Rage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Muslims are not the only religious group involved in perpetrating horrors. From Christian militias in the Central African Republic reportedly eating their foes to Buddhist monks organizing anti-Muslim pogroms in Myanmar, there is cruelty aplenty in the world. Nor are religious believers alone in committing grotesque acts. We need to ask why political rage against the West takes such nihilistic forms today. And why has radical Islam become its principal vehicle?
- Radical Jesus: A Graphic History of Faith
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Radical Jesus is arguably the first modern effort to convey through comic art the meaning of Jesus and his social message, not just in his own time, but also in the Radical Reformation, recent centuries, and in our own time.
- The Radical Left in Europe
An Outline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
An attempt to understand what unites the organisations of the new left and the nature of its radicalism.
- The radical legacy of Nelson Mandela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
In 1964, Nelson Mandela along with many other comrades in the struggle for the liberation of South Africa from racist white domination under apartheid was sentenced to life in prison. A voice for justice has gone silent. But the words and example of Mandela will live as long as people struggle against injustice and oppression.
- A Radical Life: A memoir by Jim McIlroy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2021
- The Radical Life of Rosa Luxemburg
A graphic novelization of the revolutionary life and legacy of "Red Rosa"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
An excerpt from Red Rosa, a graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg.
- Radical Mass Media Criticism
A Cultural Geneology
Resource Type: Book
Examines the thinkers who have reacted against the increasing media power. From the critiqes of the corrupt press during the First World War, an analysis of the relationship between public opinion and propaganda diring the Nazi years and the bias of the supposed objective news of today. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Slavko Splichal, Joost van Loon and many other leaders in the international field.
- Radical Newspapers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
- Radical Perspectives in the Arts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
An anthology of Marxist literary and cultural criticism.
- Radical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
A popular education pamphlet on the economic crises of monopoly capitalism.
- Radical Political Economics
Event Listing 1990
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Radical Priorities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Otero presents an analysis and overview of Chomsky's social and political philosophy. For the first time the roots of Chomsky's politics are examined and the relationship to his theory of linguistics demonstrated.
- Radical Rag
The pioneer labour press in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
- The Radical Reviewer
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
- The Radical Reviewer
Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
- The radical Robert Burns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
For many people the only association they have with the work of Robert Burns is singing Auld Lang Syne at New Year celebrations or at annual Burns Supper events. The real Burns, the radical, revolutionary Burns, is rarely even hinted at in these events. Instead what we have is a sentimentalised, romanticised portrayal of Burns as what Henry Mackenzie called "that heav'n taught ploughman". MacKenzie was a lawyer, novelist and editor of The Lounger magazine in which he reviewed Burns's work. Burns admired some of Mackenzie's work; indeed one of his favourite novels was his Man of Feeling (1771). Mackenzie, however, was scornful of Burns's use of vernacular Scots "which greatly damps the pleasure of the reader".
- The Radical Roots of Free Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Interview with Laura Weinrib author of "The Taming of Free Speech: America's Civil Liberties Compromise."
- Radical Ruptures Emerging from Global Wageworkers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The following notes were the basis of a contribution to the internationalist communist summer meeting organized by TPTG, Underground Tunnel and friends, July 11–17, 2017, in Greece.
- Radical Simplicity And The Middle Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A description of what a life of radical simplicity might look like suggesting radical simplicity is appealing, provided that the transition was anticipated and widely negotiated.
- Radical Statistics Group
Resource Type: Website
We believe that statistics can be used to support radical campaigns for progressive social change. Statistics should inform, not drive policies. Social problems should not be disguised by technical language.
- Radical Sydney / Radical History
Resource Type: Website
Radical Sydney began in 2010 as a site devoted to the book by Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill titled 'Radical Sydney: Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes. While this function continues, the blog has expanded as a platform for radical writing about history.
- The Radical Therapist
Therapy means change not adjustment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
The contributors to this anthology proceed from the premise that therapy should be a means of liberation rather than a tool of social control.
- The 'Radical trip' of the the Canadian Union of Students, 1963-69
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
MA Thesis, Trent University, 2009
- A Radical Vision for Victory
A Freedom Budget for All Americans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
This remarkable book brings back into view a radical vision for victory within the mainstream, armed with the kind of expectation glimpsed briefly in the 2008 election race but this time without the support of a grassroots movement long since vanished.
- Radical Waste Reduction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Radical White Workers During the Last Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The long-lost story of anti-racist, radical white working class activism has been restored by Amy Sonnie and James Tracy in their invaluable book: Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times.
- The Radical Women Manifesto: Socialist Feminist Theory, Program, and Organizational Structure
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
The complete guide to Radical Women, an activist, multiracial, queer and straight socialist feminist organization.
- Radicalising the rank and file
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A discussion with U.S. labour historian Kim Moody focusing on the labour movement and rebuilding workplace organisation.
- Radicalism in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
American rebels and the causes for which they fought from 1620 to the 1960s.
- The Radicalization of Decolonize/Occupy Seattle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A report on Occupy Seattle 2011.
- The Radically Changing Story of the U.S. Airstrike on Afghan Hospital: From Mistake to Justification
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
When news first broke of the U.S. airstrike on the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, the response from the U.S. military was predictable and familiar. It was all just a big, terrible mistake, its official statement suggested.
- The Radicalness of the Accessory
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A book review of Accessorizing the Body: Habits of Being 1.and Exchanging Clothes:
Habits of Being 2. edited by Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz
- Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers
Conversations with Jewish Critics of Isreal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
This is a collection of interviews, edited, introduced, and annotated by Farber, a member of Jews Against The Occupation. The contributors are among the leading American Jewish critics of Zionism and of Israel's policies towards the Palestinians. The book articualtes the reason behind the dissent and a vocbulary and framework to express it.
- Radicals and Revolutionaries
The History of Canadian Communism from the Robert S. Kenny Collection
Resource Type: Article
Radicals and Revolutionaries explores a significant yet neglected area in Canadian history-the experiences of the radical workers' movement and the Communist Party of Canada. Although a minority current on the Canadian political scene, at key points the radical movement posed a pointed challenge to the established order. Within that section of the socialist movement which openly identified itself as revolutionary, the CPC clearly predominated. It was instrumental in building the industrial union movement and played a key role in many of the major strikes of this century. In the social upheavals of the 1930s and 1940s, its influence extended far beyond its numbers.
- Radio Alice
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Italian free radio broadcasting from Bologna at the end of the 1970s.
- Radio Alice: Radio in Action in Italy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Radio in action in Italy.
- Radio Canada slashed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Radio Frequency ID Removes Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Radio Frequency ID violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and is part of the stealthy forging of a police state.
- Radioactive Heaven And Earth
The Health and Environmental Effects of Nuclear Weapons Testing in, on, and above the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
No credible justification exists for "national security" considerations to trump worldwide health when it comes to nuclear weapons.
- Radioactive waste and the nuclear war on Australia's Aboriginal people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Australia's nuclear industry has a shameful history of 'radioactive racism' that dates from the British bomb tests in the 1950s. The same attitudes persist today with plans to dump over half a million tonnes of high and intermediate level nuclear waste on Aboriginal land, and open new uranium mines. But now Aboriginal peoples and traditional land owners are fighting back.
- Rae Days
The Rise and Follies of the NDP
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
An account of Bob Rae's New Democratic Party government in Ontario.
- Rafael Correa, the Press, and Whistleblowers
Corporate Control and Double Standards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
There are claims of hypocrisy because of Correa providing asylum to whistleblowers however also passing a Communications Bill that detractors claim is a major blow to a free press.
- Rafferty-Alameda: The American Connection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
The Rafferty, along with the Oldman River Dam under construction in Alberta, only make sense as part of a water diversion to the United States. Because 90 per cent of Canadians, according to federal government study, are opposed to the export of Canadian water, this aspect of the project has not been made public and the Devine government is using the front of a purely localized development to "save" precious water for the dry prairies.
- Raffi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- RAFIKI
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
Rafiki means friend in Swahili. According to the statement of purpose of this magazine, friendship and understanding among people all over the world can only grow in a climate of critical awareness and mutual respect.
- Rag-Tags, Scum, Riff-Raff, and Commies
The U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965-1966
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
A popular rebellion in the Dominican Republic toppled the remnants of the U.S. backed Trujillo dictatorship thus setting the stage for the master thinkers of America's Cold War machine. In this study, Eric Thomas Chester carefully reconstructs the events that followed.
- Rage Against the Dying
Campaign against Chemical and Biological Warfare
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
- Rage Against the Machine: A War vs. Consensus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
As it stands now, even if the unlikely liberal wet dream of a Trump impeachment actually comes to pass, the theocratic Mike Pence will simply assume office. No doubt cities like New York and Boston will initially erupt in celebration. But should it really be that long before the realization dawns that the real work remained ongoing?
- The Rage of the "Righteous"
On Muslim Outrage at a Danish Cartoon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Over and over, in the wake of 9/11, Muslims (and many non-Muslims) have proclaimed that all Muslims must not be judged on the basis of the few that are terrorists. Yes, it was Muslims that flew the airplanes into the World Trade towers, but most Muslims are not like that. That's very true. Each individual should be judged only on the basis of his or her own behaviour. So then why are all Danes being judged on the basis of one Danish cartoon? Why has an embassy been burned? Why have Danish products been taken off shelves?
- Rage, Race and Violence on the Western Range
The Origins of the Rancher Insurrection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Ranchers have openly defied federal environmental regulations, built private roads and water structures on public lands and used bellicose tactics to hold off enforcement actions by rangers from the Forest Service and the BLM.
- Raging Against the Algorithm: Google and Persuasive Technology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Fears of Google's algorithms detrimental effect on society may be well-founded but the proposed solutions are problematic.
- Raging Against the Machine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Influential articles from 30 years of hard-hitting, independent journalism from New Internationalist.
- The Raging Grannies
Resource Type: Article
We sing satire. We aren't very good at singing, but the medium being the message, as grannies in bright colourful clothes fashionable a couple of generations ago, and wearing smiles, outrageous hats and pink running shoes, we seem to have an appeal.
- Ragpicking Through History: Class Memory, Class Struggle and its Archivists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Our current conjuncture invites a renewed rethinking of two historical imaginaries: first, what is class memory? To ask this question is really to reopen a discussion on what is class struggle – and, more specifically, how does our collective memorialisation of struggles past inform our relationship to struggle in the present. Second, and relatedly, who can be this struggle's archivist?
- Rahul Pandita's New India: A Hindutva India On the Ashes Of Democratic Secular India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Shamsul Islam responds to the rise of the Hindutva in India and challenges their anti-Muslim propaganda.
- The Raid on Lawrence, Kansas
A Midwest Gothic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Bizarre and gruesome moment in the life of Lawrence, Kansas should give pause to us all when we consider the small and the large of our own lives.
- Raids and Reconstructions
Essays on Politics, Crime, and Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
A collection of essays on culture and poltics.
- Rail accidents up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Railroading Economics
The Creation of the Free Market Mythology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Explores how even in the United States, the market has always been subject to constraints. Perelman examines the way in which these constraints have been defended by such figures as Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, and Herbert Hoover, and were indeed essential to the expansion of U.S. capitalism.
- The Railroading of Tonya Craft
A New Wave of Prosecutorial Hysteria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
As we have seen countless times before, the media always is ready to run over the cliff with the prosecutors, and no matter how many times the prosecution is discredited, there always is another reporter ready to serve as a PR mouthpiece for a dishonest state official. And it always will be that way, for like the Bourbons, the media learn nothing, and they forget nothing.
- The Rain On Our Parade
A Letter To My Dismal Allies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
O rancid sector of the far left, please stop your grousing! Compared to you, Eeyore sounds like a Teletubby. If I gave you a pony, you would not only be furious that not everyone has a pony, but you would pick on the pony for not being radical enough until it wept big, sad, hot pony tears. Because what we're talking about here is not an analysis, a strategy, or a cosmology, but an attitude, and one that is poisoning us. Not just me, but you, us, and our possibilities.
- Rainbow Capital, Queerness, and Black Lives Matter's Shocking Reformism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Though I support BLM’s policy goals and shock-tactics, their lack of analysis of the forces behind the oppression of Black and other people seems to put them in an awkward place. Their use of shock tactics makes them too radical for the reformists, while their emphasis on piece-meal reforms and little else alienates the radicals. It puts them in a kind of activist nether-space that makes unity difficult.
- Rainbow Coalition or Class War?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Is there any reason to think that Redneck Revolt and the new Rainbow Coalition will turn out differently from the People's Party? American history shows that any political group, left, right or center, that fails to challenge in practice the white community and the institutions and patterns that maintain it will reinforce an identity that has led countless potentially progressive movements to ruin and whose capacity to do harm is by no means exhausted -- no matter how vigorously it denounces “racism” and capitalism and how many coalitions it enters with non-whites. Simply put, white people organized as whites are dangerous to the working class and to humanity, and white people with guns organized as whites are doubly so -- and this is true regardless of the intentions of the organizers.
- Rainbow Pie
A Redneck Memoir
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
A fascinating and extremely readable account of a life now vanished, destroyed by the insatiable appetite of capital.
- Rainbows and Weddings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
It is utterly ironic that not a hundred years ago the West tried to "civilize" us by criminalizing homosexual conduct, and now the West wishes to "civilize" us by decriminalizing the homosexual conduct that it criminalized in the first place, all the while producing us as the "barbarians" that they have the duty to correct.
- Rainforest Action Network
Resource Type: Website
RAN seeks to protect the Earth's rainforests through education, grassroots organizing and non-violent direct action. They do so using campaigns to expose the wrongdoings of governments and corporations and mobilize the international environmental and human rights community to join in the action.
- Raising Consciousness About The Color of Law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America" by auther Richard Rothstein, and how racial segregation is the underlying cause of much of the country's social and economic problems.
- Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Today, fewer than 7% of American private-sector workers belong to a union and public employee collective bargaining has been dealt devastating blows in Wisconsin and elsewhere. This book argues that labour can be revived with social movement unionism that involves raising worker's expectations.
- Raising Hell
A Citizen's Guide to the Fine Art of Investigation
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1983
Revised edition.
- Raising Hell for Labor
Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Book review of Jane McAlevey's Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement.
- Raising Hell: How the Center for Investigative Reporting Gets the Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
- Raising the Workers' Flag
The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour Unions.
- The Rally Story
An Account of the Planning, Organization and Enactment of Women Rally for Action
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
This book is a description of how women of British Columbia conceived, planned, and organized the largest mass lobby of Members of the Legislative Assembly in the history of B.C.
- Rallying to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Despite uncomfortably cold weather in Washington, DC the February 17 mobilization to stop the Keystone XL Alberta-U.S. tar sands pipeline drew a crowd conservatively estimated at over 20,000.
- Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Ralph Nader, announcing his presidential candidacy in Washington, D.C. on February 21, 2000, said, "The struggle between the forces of democracy and plutocracy has ebbed and flowed throughout our history ... The earlier nineteenth-century democratic struggles by abolitionists against slavery, by farmers against large oppressive railroads and banks, and later by new trade unionists against the brutal workplace conditions of the early industrial and mining era helped mightily to make America and its middle class what it is today. They demanded that economic power subside or be shared."
- Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt (Part 2)
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Our electoral dilemma today derives from a political realignment a hundred years ago, when a faction of populists joined in fusion with William Jennings Bryan and the “Free Silver” Democratic Party. After 1896 the two major parties evolved into what they have remained, electoral machines organized from the top down, from elites to ward heelers and courthouse gangs, as vote-catching operations for factions of big business.
- Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt (Part 3)
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Ralph Nader has a complex relationship with the historical currents of change before World War I (populism, socialism and progressivism), but it may be his relationship to the Communism of the mid-twentieth century that has shaped his view of reform. Nader readily accepted the prevailing view that the Soviet regime exemplified the definition of socialism, that is, a concentration of bureaucratic power based on government ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution.
- The "Ralph Nader" Illusion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Ralph Nader (see his RT interview video here) is providing a kind of leadership to the many Americans who are fed up with our dictatorship of the rich and who want a much more equal and democratic society. Nader's main attraction today is his "convergence" theme, by which he means that the great majority of Americans, on the order of 80%, want a more equal and democratic society whether they currently consider themselves to be on the "right" or on the "left."
- The Ramallah Concert
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2005 Published: 2006
This concert by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra took place in August of 2005 in the Palestinian Territory in the city of Ramallah and includes repertoire that Daniel Barenboim is famous for, such as Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin & Viola and the ""Nimrod"" variation from Elgar's ""Enigma Variations."" Also includes a feature-length documentary: ""Knowledge is the Beginning"", which was filmed over a six-year period and tells the story of Barenboim's development of the orchestra through interviews, rehearsal and concert excerpts.
- Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Review of Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll. Review discusses history of Appalachia as well as previous literature on the subject.
- Rampaging Climate Deniers' Losing Battle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Because of the flimsy comprehension of science and evolution of most writers in the mass media, those who venture to write about evolution feel constrained to present "alternative" views. But "alternative" views are not necessarily credible or true. The cliimate change deniers' arguments are no less articles of faith than those of the creationists. In the case of the former, the faith is not in a god but in the free market and capitalism. Almost without exception, those who are in staunch denial are those connected to, involved in or supportive of the traditional capitalist model of economic growth, and by implication opposed to anything that might constrain this model.
- Rampant Racism in the Criminal Justice System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people.
- The Ram's Horn
Number 29, December 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Newsletter of the Nutrition Policy Institute.
- The Ram's Horn
Number 71, April 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
A monthly newsletter of food system analysis.
- Ranchers, the Real Eco Terrorists?
Malice Toward Wildlife
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Analysis on acts of "eco-terrorism" on public lands and towards wildlife.
- Randolph, A. Philip
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
African-American civil rights leader. (1889-1979).
- Random Shots: Annals of Combat
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Even if Nader were elected president, the multi-national corporations would be reluctant to give up their dictatorial power. That's when we bring out the rifles.
- Random Shots: New and Old Millenia
Against The Current vol. 85
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Kampfer prepared for Y2K by stockpiling ammunition. He figured that would get him anything else he needed.
- A Range of Abuses
The Invisible Deaths of Lebanon's Migrant Domestic Workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Migrant domestic workers generally get very little protection from the Lebanese government and remain under-reported in the media, while the deaths of these workers are rarely discussed in the news. Despite the high incidence, domestic workers’ deaths are not investigated or documented by the Lebanese authorities.
- Rank and File Networks: A Way to Fight Concessions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
Suggests rank and file networks to fight workplace closings and to circumvent the official unions.
- Rank and File
Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973 Published: 1974
A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers.
- The Rank and File Strategy: Building A Socialist Movement in the U.S.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
We are seeing more and more attempts by rank and file union members to make their unions more democratic and more effective in fighting today's highly aggressive employers and in organizing the unorganized.
- Rankin, Harry
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Politician. (Born 1920).
- Rap About Prisoners
Periodical profile published 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Representing people both inside and outside the prison system.
- Rape
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1978
- Rape
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
- Rape as Colonial Legacy
The Beginning and End of Rape
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Book review of Sarah Deer's The Beginning and End of Rape.
- The Rape of Canola
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
This book examines the canola seed, the crop and its processing by large transnational corporations.
- The Rape of Irish Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
A State which had genuine concern for its children would have responded to the report by taking decisive action to remove the Catholic bishops as patrons of primary schools. Three thousand of 3,200 primaries in the Republic have bishops as patrons - with the power to hire and fire and complete control over the school's 'ethos'. No less appropriate category of men could be imagined to have such power over the moral formation of children.
- Rape of the Block or every person's guide to neighbourhood defence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
Written to enable citizens of Edmonton to "begin to plan their own communities."
- Rapport Annuel 1977-78
avec le rapport sur la colloque Police et Liberte
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Rapport du Comite d'orientation au congres specail de la CSN sur la question nationale
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Rasmea Odeh's Appeal Gains
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Palestinian activist and Chicago community leader Rasmea Odeh is gaining ground in her struggle for a new trial, following her 2014 conviction for "unlawful procurement of naturalization."
- Rasmea Odeh's Long Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A report of Palestinian community leader Rasmea Odeh's arrest and ongoing immigration problems.
- Rasmea Odeh's Sentence/Appeal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Rasmea Odeh, A Palestinian activist and Chicago community leader, faces 18 months in federal prison and deportation, following her March 12, 2015 sentencing in Detroit for "unlawful procurement of naturalization."
- Rasta and Resistance
From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney
Resource Type: Book
Rasta and Resistance is a study of the Rastafarian Movement in all its aspects, from its evolution in the hills of Jamaica to its present manifestations in the streets of Birmingham and the Shashamane Settlement in Ethiopia. It traces the cultural, political, and spiritual sources of this movement, highlighting the quest for change among an oppressed people. This book serves to break the intellectual traditions which placed the stamp of millenarianism on Rasta.
- Rationalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A method or a theory "in which the criterion of the truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive".
- Rationality/Science
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Chomsky writes: "It strikes me as remarkable that the left today should seek to deprive oppressed people not only of the joys of understanding and insight, but also of tools of emancipation, informing us that the "project of the Enlightenment" is dead, that we must abandon the "illusions" of science and rationality--a message that will gladden the hearts of the powerful, delighted to monopolize these instruments for their own use."
- Rättigheter och Friheter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- The Rawick File: How Do People Revolt?
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
George Rawick (1929-1990) was a powerful socialist scholar in the C.L.R. James tradition, sometimes an equally powerful mentor for young radicals, and also a tortured soul. He is largely forgotten today, because he did not write easily or found a “school” with his methods — or even get along with his friends and allies very well.
- The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection: Marxist-Humanist Archives
Resource Type: Website
The papers of Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-1987), a Marxist theoretician know for her contributions to Marxist-Humanism.
- Raymond Williams and the Moral Project of the New Left
A review of 'Views Beyond the Border Country: Raymond Williams and Cultural Politics'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Views Beyond the Border Country is an ample demonstration that activist-scholarship, a concrete political standpoint and the insights of feminism and anti-racism ought to inform the politics of any future left in North America, both inside and outside the classroom.
- Raymond Williams, and Why Culture Matters
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
This year sees the 20th anniversary of the death of Raymond Williams, one of the towering socialist thinkers of the 20th century. A superb biography of him, Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Life, has just been published by Dai Smith, who ranks among the finest scholars of Welsh culture and history of our time. Smith charts Williams's passage from the Welsh border country, where his father was a railway signalman, to Cambridge and then into adult education, a vocation he chose for political motives along with his New Left colleagues Richard Hoggart and E.P. Thompson.
- Razor Wire, Prison Cells, And Black Panther Robert H. King's Life of Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
An interview with filmmaker Ron Harpelle.
- RCMP (Recent Coercive Methods of Pacification)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Strike, Vol.2, No.8
- RCMP bombed oil site in 'dirty tricks' campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
The Mounties bombed an oil installation as part of a dirty tricks campaign in their investigation into sabotage in the Alberta's oil patch.
- R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins
The War Series, Part II, 1942-1945
Resource Type: Book
This volume completes the series of Security Bulletins for World War II, discussing security concerns and underlying ideology of the Secret Service.
- R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins
The Depression Years, Part I, 1933-1934
Resource Type: Book
This volume begins a series on the Depression years, discussing security concerns and the underlying ideology of the Secret Service.
- R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins
The Early Years, 1919-1929
Resource Type: Book
This volume contains materials received through the Canadian Access to Information legislation, providing an overview of the genesis of the RCMP.
- R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins
The War Series, 1939-1941
Resource Type: Book
It contains reports the RCMP issued to government of "subversive" activity, now held by CSIS. It covers a time when the CPC was illegal.
- R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins
The Depression Years, Part II, 1935
Resource Type: Book
This fully-indexed volume documents the RCMP's surveillance of the CPC, unions, and unemployed organizations, with coverage of the 1935 election.
- RCMP - The Real Subversives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
A critique of the motives and actions of the RCMP.
- RCMP unit disbanded
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- The RCMP versus the 'anti-petroleum movement'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Canada's political police serve the oil industry, citing lobbyists and rightist demagogues to slander environmental activists as potential terrorists.
- The RCMP vs. the People
Inside Canada's Security Service
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
An examination of the RCMP's Security Service and its abuses of power.
- The reactionary, class nature of left Academia today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Mellor challenges the idea that socialism is eurocentric and speaks to how capitalist exploitation and workers' resistance is fundamentally similar all over the world.
- Reactionary Tide in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The oligarchic reaction against the leftist governments never ceased during the past 15 years, but now it has achieved some very substantial victories.
- Reactions a l'ordonnance sur les conges maternite
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Reactions to Manchester Bombing Show How Anti-Muslim Bigots Are 'Useful Idiots' for ISIS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Following recent terrorist attacks in Britain, the article looks at anti -Mulsim backlash and how it is playing into the hands of ISIS.
- Reactions to Manchester Bombing Show How Anti-Muslim Bigots Are 'Useful Idiots' for ISIS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
How hatred of Muslims is unwittingly an effective tool for ISIS recuritmenent.
- Read before attacking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Letter: too quick to attack.
- Read Capital: The First Sentence, Or, Capital starts with Wealth, not with the Commodity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
John Holloway claims that Marx, in Capital, does not start with the commodify.
- Reading CAPITAL - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Review of "An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital" by Michael Heinrich.
- Reading Capital Politically
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981 Published: 2000
Harry Cleaver's seminal work on forming a practical, political interpretation of Marx's Capital.
- Reading Eduardo Galeano Through Palestinian Eyes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano is best remembered for chronicling five centuries of colonialism, genocide, pillage, and structural inequality in the Americas. His pen dug through the bleeding heart of Latin America, unearthing forgotten stories of resistance, exploring the roots of injustice and exploitation, and amplifying the voices of the outcasts and misfits.
- Reading for a Peaceful Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- A Reading List for the Delhi Police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
When they raided the Tricontinental Research Services' office in early October, investigators took, among other things, 12 dossiers featured here. Vijay Prashad recommends they study them all.
- Reading Lolita in Tehran
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
- Reading Manifestos: Restricting Brenton Tarrant's The Great Replacement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Attempts to censor the Christchurch shooter's manifesto hinders attempts to understand and counteract their motives. Arguments for censorship, such as enabling copycats, are based on controversial evidence.
- Reading Orientalism
Said and the unsaid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
An extensive discussion of Edward Said's influential 1978 polemic 'Orientalism'. Varisco mounts a sustained critique on Said's flawed methodology, his skewed and selective handling of literary evidence, his inadequate historical knowledge, and his distorted and tendentious conclusions.
- Reading Paine from the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A biography of the revolutionary Thomas Paine.
- Reading Red: Art & Social Revolution
Against The Current vol. 117
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Throughout much of the 20th century, distinguished painters and muralists were habitually adjoined to revolutionary movements, sometimes producing monumental works expressive of socialist dreams, as well as of the aims and struggles of working people and anti-fascist fighters. One thinks immediately of Spain’s Pablo Picasso (1881- 1973), Mexico’s Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), and the Russian avant-garde of the early Soviet Union.
- Reading Red Women Writers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Coiner makes a cogent case for class studies, decrying the way in which discussions of "race, class and gender" usually only actually deal with race and gender.
- Reading and Returning to Denise Levertov
A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Book review of Donna Hollenberg's A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov.
- Reading the "unreadable" Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Many who have not read Marx have heard that he is “unreadable,” but in this article Humphery McQueen celebrates the colour and humour of Marx’s writing, the use of metaphor, paradox, pun, irony, classical allusion and all the devices of the writer’s art. True, there are passages! the endless manipulation of prices and quantities of coats and cloth in Capital which often add little to the point already made, the obsessive, almost paranoiac bombast of works like Herr Vogt, but some of his prose ranks with the best of its kind, and should be enjoyed. It seems that Marx used these literary devices to achieve a depth of analysis which the normal “scientific” mode of exposition could never achieve.
- Reading, Writing and Union Building
Against The Current vol. 138
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The United States changed forever on November 4, 2008. It will undoubtedly change even more during the next four years — although just how remains to be determined. There has never been such a convergence of yawning crises facing an incoming U.S. government, including a collapsing credit system and the near-death spiral of the North American auto industry. It’s an entirely open question whether the sheer scale of the objective emergency might impose serious structural changes on the way capitalism is administered in this country.
- Readings from the Peasants' Revolt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with Voices of the Powerless, in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at six critical moments across the last 1,000 years.
- Readings: Intersectional Black Activists
Domestic Worker Organizers, 1960s-1970s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A brief history and suggestions for further reading on 1) Black women fighting for labor rights for domestic workers, 2) Callie Houses's struggle for reparations 3) Sojourner Truth and her fight for emancipation and suffrage for Black women.
- The real aim of Israel's attacks on Lebanon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
The real aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government.
- The Real Board of Directors: The Construction of Biotechnology Policy in Canada, 1980-2000
Resource Type: Book
This study describes who has actually been making the decisions about biotechnology in Canada -- indeed, about health policy, science policy, and much more -- for more than two decades.
- The real cause of Trump: rampant neoliberalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Examining how the response from the traditional left to the 2016 US Election fails to recognize the failings of neoliberal policies and attitudes that contributed to the election of Trump.
- Real Change
A Guide to Social Issue Films
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979
An extensive guide to feature films, documentaries, shorts, videotapes, and slideshowa addressing a wide range of social issues. Over 500 are listed, annotated, and illutrated.
- The Real Conspiracy: Notes From The Edge of the Narrative Matrix
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Some conspiracy-type people say the world is messed up because we're ruled by illuminati or reptilians, but I'm way more out there than that: I say our entire society is made of imaginary thought stories with little relation to objective reality, and some clever manipulators have figured out how to exploit this.
- The Real Cost of a Cheap Burger
Fastfood Workers Go Hungry: Is that the American Dream?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
America’s fastfood outlets are not restaurants but food systems serviced by cheap labour in de-skilled jobs — employees so badly paid that they need state aid and charity. They went on strike in North Carolina last summer.
- The Real Cost of a Hamburger
The Ecological Consequences of Welfare Ranching
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Do you know what a Big Mac costs? If you say $2.50 or whatever the current price posted at the McDonald’s restaurant may be, you are vastly under-estimating the real price. That’s because $2.50 does not reflect the genuine cost of production. Every hamburger price tag should include a calculation of animal suffering, human health costs, economic and ecological subsidies. None of these bona fide costs is included in the price one pays for a hamburger (or other meats eaten by consumers for that matter).
- The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Many fracking chemicals are known carcinogens, endocrine disruptors or other classes of toxins. Studies carried out during the ongoing fracking boom, uncovered serious adverse effects including respiratory, reproductive, and growth-related problems in animals and a spectrum of symptoms in humans that they termed “shale gas syndrome”.
- The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Across the United States, fracking -- the extraction of natural gas by hydraulic fracturing -- is being touted as the answer to energy independence and a fix for a flagging economy. Drilling companies assure us that the process is safe, politicians push through drilling legislation without a serious public-health debate, and those who speak out are marginalized, their silence purchased by gas companies and their warnings about the dangers of fracking stifled.
- The Real Costs of Empire
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Vietnam all over again? Yes, it is. The massacres by United States military forces of unarmed civilians in Haditha and, as is finally being revealed despite official lies and coverup, numerous other Iraqi towns, are showing tens of millions of Americans what this war is, and part of what it really costs. The highest costs obviously are borne by the ordinary people of Iraq; but American society will pay for decades as well for this dirty conflict -- and worse is yet to come.
- The real costs of transportation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- The Real Dad’s Army
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Britain's wartime Home Guard is immortalized in popular culture -- but the socialists who shaped it are forgotten.
- The Real Expenses Scandal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
One of the consistent features of Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) is that the projects are reverse-engineered to meet the demands of corporate investors. This, for example, is how the £30m public scheme to refurbish Coventry's two hospitals became a £410m private scheme to knock them both down and rebuild one of them - containing fewer beds and fewer doctors and nurses.
- The real first casualty of war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Censorship by journalism is virulent in Britain and the US - and it means the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries.
- Real Food For A Change
Bringing Nature, Joy and Justice to the Table
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
The three authors of this book argue that people need to avoid Industrial food-making. Instead, people in Canada must turn to organic farming to produce their own food. It is good for economy and good for one's health.
- The Real Giants Whose Shoulders We Stand On
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
We stand upon the shoulders of giants. Yes, we do. But the giants are not the "great men" like Rich Fancyboi who have received all the acclaim and attention throughout recorded history, they’re the ones doing the actual moving, making, mothering and maintaining in our world upon whose heads the famous figures stand.
- Real Justice: Sentenced to Life at Seventeen
The story of David Milgaard
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
An examination of the David Milgaard case, a Saskatoon teenager who was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison for a crime he did not commit.
- The Real Link Between Israel's Forest Fires and Muezzin Bill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Examines and contextualizes the discriminatory 'muezzin bill', which would ban the broadcasting of Muslim calls to prayer in Israel.
- The Real Merchants of Death
The Global Arms Trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The global arms trade is a $60 billion yearly business, of which the U.S. controls nearly 40 percent, and a political and economic juggernaut that defends its turf with the ferocity of a junkyard dog.
- The Real Modi: Do the Killings of Muslims Represent India's Kristallnacht?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
On 23 February 2020 in Delhi, Hindu nationalist mobs roamed the streets burning and looting mosques together with Muslim homes, shops and businesses. They killed or burned alive Muslims who could not escape and the victims were largely unprotected by the police.
- The Real Motive Behind the Gaza Flotilla Attack
Sabotaging Peace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Israel's leadership is committed to "a dynamic state bent upon expansion". The greatest threat to continued expansion is the threat of peace. Whenever Israel's leadership is faced with the threat of peace, it initiates violence designed to stop it.
- The Real Pushers
A Critical Analysis of the Canadian Drug Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
A comprehensive analysis of the pharmaceutical drug industry in Canada.
- The real reason American public transportation is such a disaster
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Stromberg dissects socials attitude regarding public transit in the United States, where infrastructure in most cities was designed with automobile dependency in mind, thereby causing transit to be been viewed and designed, as a form of social welfare rather than a public utility.
- The Real Secret of the South China Sea
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The South China Sea is the ultimate geopolitical flashpoint of the 21st century. The future of Asia is at stake.
- The Real Story Behind CFI
From Zurich to The Pas: The $100 Million Rape of Manitoba
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1971
- The Real Terror Network
Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
- Real Time 2
A catalog of ideas and information
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Real Time is a trip, self-consciously so. It's full of "new technologies", "new perceptions", "media-mixes", "communication", "system, "soft-ware", "interdisciplinary viewpoints", and "consciousness programs". More concretely, it's a book, 256 pages long.
- Real-Time Face Recognition Threatens to Turn Cops' Body Cameras Into Surveillance Machines
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
For years, the development of real-time face recognition has been hampered by poor video resolution, the angles of bodies in motion, and limited computing power. But as systems begin to transcend these technical barriers, they are also outpacing the development of policies to constrain them. Civil liberties advocates fear that the rise of real-time face recognition alongside the growing number of police body cameras creates the conditions for a perfect storm of mass surveillance.
- The Real Toy Story
Inside the Ruthless Battle for America's Youngest Consumers
Resource Type: Book
- Real Utopia
Participatory Society for the twenty-first century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.
- The Real Value of Diversity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
The real failure of multiculturalism is its failure to understand what is valuable about cultural diversity. There is nothing good in itself about diversity. It is important because it allows us to compare and contrast different values, beliefs and lifestyles, make judgements upon them, and decide which are better and which worse. It is important, in other words, because it allows us to engage in political dialogue and debate that can help create more universal values and beliefs. But it is precisely such dialogue and debate, and the making of such judgements, that multiculturalism attempts to suppress in the name of 'tolerance' and 'respect'.
- The Real War on Crime
The Report of the National Criminal Justice Commission
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
A thorough examination of the American criminal justice system.
- The Real World of City Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
A report about what is going on -- and what is going wrong -- in Canada's cities. Urban reneewal, public housing, downtown schools, citizen participation, highrise development, city politicians.
- The Real World of Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy — the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants — and their impacts on one another.
- The Realist: Irreverence Was Their Only Sacred Cow
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The Realist was a magazine both representative and counter to the times it existed in. Viciously satirical and usually aimed at power (like all good satire should be), it was neither liberal nor conservative, Democrat or Republican, communist, fascist or anything else in between. Its targets were religion, government, corporate America, popular and counter cultures, racism and imperialism. Very little was spared its pointed and often poison pen. The magazine lasted over forty years, from 1958 to 2001 and published a total of 146 issues.
- The Realist's Dilemma
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Brazil's Workers' Party thought accommodating capital could save them. That was a grave mistake.
- The Realities of Chicago School Reform
Against The Current vol. 82
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
In Chicago, the current round of school reform efforts began in the late 1980s. They were ostensibly sparked by the November 1987 public pronouncement of William Bennett, then-Secretary of Education under Ronald Reagan, calling Chicago schools "the worst in the nation."
- The Realities of China Today
Against The Current vol. 137
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Interest in the post-1978 Chinese market reform experience remains high and for an obvious reason: China is widely considered to be one of the most successful developing countries in modern times. The Chinese economy has recorded record rates of growth over an extended time period, in concert with a massive industrial transformation. Adding to the interest is the Chinese government's claim that this success demonstrates both the workability and superiority of "market socialism."
- Realities of Zionism - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Review of "Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution" by Moshe Machover and "False Prophets of Peace Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine" by Tikva Honig-Parnass.
- The 'Reality' around Us is Constructed by Liars: 'Journalists are War Criminals'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
- Reality check: Croatian uniform virtually identical to...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Some media reports are ga-ga that the Croatian team will be wearing its red and white checkered uniform in the 2018 World Cup final on Sunday against France. Far from being innocent or fashionable, this is ominous. By allowing this uniform to be worn, FIFA is emboldening the Croatian fascists and their European allies such those in Ukraine.
- The Reality of the "Geneva Accord"
Against The Current vol. 109
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
The Geneva Accord was signed Monday, December 1, 2003, amid great media and political fanfare. The fifty-page document lays out a plan for a presumed “peace agreement” between Israel and the Palestinian people. We, the undersigned, consider this initiative as inconsistent with the prerequisites of a just and durable peace.
- The Realization and Suppression of Religion
Resource Type: Pamphlet
It is not enough to explain religion by its social role or historical development. The content that is expressed in religious forms must be discovered. Because revolutionaries haven't really come to terms with religion, it continually returns to haunt them.
- The Realpolitik of President Jimmy Carter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
- REAP (Research Education and Action for Power)
Organization profile published 1979
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1979
- Rear-View Mirror: A Snapshot of Toronto Activist Art (1976-1996)
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2014
A snapshot of Toronto activist art from the 1976 general strike to the 1996 Days of Action.
- Reason and Revolution
Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1941 Published: 1968
- Reasoning about terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The trouble with much of the discussion of terrorism today is that it misses a fundamental point about contemporary terror: its disconnect from social movements and political goals. In the past, an organisation such as the IRA was defined by its political aims. Its members were carefully selected and their activities tightly controlled. However misguided we might think its actions, there was a close relationship between the aims of the organization and the actions of its members. None of this is true when it comes to contemporary terrorism. An act of terror is rarely controlled by an organisation or related to a political demand. That is why it is so difficult to discern the political or religious motivations
- Reasoning Otherwise
Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada 1890 - 1920
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Examines the people and events that led to the rise of the left in Canada from 1890 to 1920, and highlights how a new way of looking at the world based on theories of evolution transformed struggles around class, religion, gender, and race, and culminates in a new interpretation of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
- Reasons to Fear U.S.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Chomsky reveals that since 9/11 the US has failed to address the roots of terrorism and has instead waged war rather than striving to achieve peace.
- Reassessing Podemos
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Podemos has come an immense distance in a very short time. It represents a clear choice by millions of people in the Spanish state to vote against corruption, institutionalised greed and contempt for voters, but also against austerity. As such, it weakens the ruling class in the Spanish state and strengthens the anti-austerity side in Europe. The success of Podemos in December is a cause for celebration and a source for lessons and parallels.
- Rebecca Riots
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The Rebecca Riots took place between 1839 and 1843 in South Wales and Mid Wales. They were a protest against the high tolls which had to be paid on the local turnpike roads.
- The Rebel
Resource Type: Book
- The Rebel Church In Latin America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969 Published: 1974
- Rebel Cities
From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Harvey places cities at the centre of an anti-capitalist resistance, asking how they might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sustainable ways.
- The Rebel in the House
Resource Type: Book
- Rebel Rank and File
Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below During the Long 1970s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
A collection of essays that concentrate on struggles by American workers at the workplace and the political and economic context in which they took place.
- Rebel Sell
Why the Culture Can't be Jammed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Released in the U.S. under the title Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, the book is a critique of the underlying theory of counterculture Heath and Potter note that the capitalist system thrives not on conformity -- as so many 'culture jammers' believe -- but rather on individualism and a quest for distinction.
- Rebel Without a Clue: Autonomy and Authority in the American Public School
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The high school dropout is a revolutionary without having recovered the sense of dignity of failure, in a system of authoritarian control. Blaming the dropout is to blame the victim of institutional abuse of power exercised within youth indoctrination centers carrying the misnomer, school. Is it possible that the problem is mainly systemic and not due to the personal faults of the dropout? Is it possible that the education system itself contributes to young people dropping out of high school? Is it possible that capitalism is the root cause?
- Rebel Youth
1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
- The Rebellion in Bolivia
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
From the inspiring rebellion of the indigenous and popular classes of the Bolivian altiplano (high plateau),(1) the eruption of the 690,000-strong shantytown of El Alto, and the popular neighborhoods in the hillsides of the capital La Paz in the “Gas War” of October 2003, emerged the “October Agenda,” a list of popular demands to remake the country in the name of the poor and the indigenous majority.
- Rebellion in Chiapas
An historical reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
The revolutionary activities of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation have drawn attention to a 500-year struggle between the majority Mayan population and the Spanish and Mexican rulers of the region. Womack has brought together a collection of readings and documents that illuminate this difficult and important struggle.
- Rebellion in India's Heartland - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Review of the "Days and Nights in the Heartland of Rebellion" by Gautam Navlakha.
- Rebellion of the Remences
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A popular revolt in Catalongia against seignorial pressures that began in 1462.
- Rebellion of Yale Marrat
Resource Type: Book
- Rebellions and Black Wealth
Against The Current vol. 116
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
What is a working-class family’s most valuable asset? What does every family seek to own?
- Rebellions of 1837
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
The Rebellions of 1837 took place in both Upper and Lower Canada. In lower Canada the rebellion was in large part an expression of a resurgent French Canadian nationalism. By comparison the Upper Canada rebellion was a more limited affair. There was growing discontent with the network of officials, erroneously described as the family compact, who dominated the administration of the government and controlled the distribution of patronage throughout the province.
- Rebellions of 1837
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Canadian armed uprisings that occurred in 1837 and 1838.
- Rebels Against the Future
The Luddites and their War on the Industrial Revolution - Lessons for the Computer Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
- Rebels on the Air
An Alternative History of Radio in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
- Rebels, Reds, Radicals
Rethinking Canada's Left History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
McKay looks at the history of the left in Canada as a series of experiments in "living otherwise" -- efforts to work out ways of life and thought strategically opposed to the prevailing liberal-capitalist order.
- Rebels Without a Cause: The Assault on Academic Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Examining current academic culture which falsely labels "words as violence" and how it is affecting acedemic freedom, notably by some who think of themselves as being on the left, who are employing totalitarian tactics which ultimately cause professional and economic harm.
- Rebick, Judy
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Canadian feminist, writer, and activist. (Born 1945).
- Rebranding Fascism: National-Anarchists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
On the organizational and intellectual history of national anarchism.
- Rebranding The Conquistadors As Social Justice Warriors - The Guardian, Corporate Sponsorship And 'Branded Content'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Like most newspapers, the Guardian is struggling financially and is desperately worried about a dwindling stream of advertising revenue. The paper's declared intent of becoming 'the world's leading liberal voice', with rapid expansion in the US and Australia, has backfired, leading to the need for significant cuts including likely job losses. As a result, the paper is heading ever deeper into the murky world of 'branded content' to raise much-needed funds from corporate advertisers.
- Rebuilding A Class Movement
In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization in the United States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Book review of Kim Moody's In Solidarity: Essays on Working-Class Organization in the United States.
- Rebuilding communities: a type of resistance
Communities in the Amazon resort to constitutional rights to recover territories granted to mining companies.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In Tundayme, a parish located in the Cordillera del Cóndor in Ecuador's southern Amazon, the indigenous and peasant communities have decided to recover the territories of abandoned or forcefully evicted communities in order to oppose mining megaprojects. The first few steps have been successful, but they fear that the government and the affected companies will respond aggressively.
- Rebuilding the Antiwar Movement
Against The Current vol. 152
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
First, thanks to David Grosser for starting an important discussion. However, as two socialists who have been involved in antiwar organizing, we think the problem is more complex than he suggests. Further, the specific solution he calls for would mistakenly shift the focus of the movement away from mass action as a strategic orientation.
- Rebuilding the International
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1915
The only real safeguard for peace depends on the resolution of the proletariat to remain faithful to its class politics and its international solidarity through all the storm of imperialism.
- Rebuilding the Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Beginning with an overview of the Left in Latin America, from the Cuban Revolution to the present, Harnecker goes on to analyze developments now taking place and stresses the necessity of developing an alternative to present forms of globalization.
- Rebuilding the Left in a Time of Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The type of organizers we need to develop need to be those who have developed the skills and capacities and depth that allow them to be good at taking a defensive struggle and saying we can both fight it, and maybe fight it more effectively, if we can link it to a set of demands that are forward looking. They need to be visionary in terms of a socialist strategy.
- Rebuilding the Left web site
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2000
Web site of activists working to rebuild the Canadian left; formed out of the Rebuilding the Left conference in October 2000.
- Rebutting Israel's "We don't kill civilians on purpose" argument
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The difference between intentional and accidental killing is only relevant when the aim of the violence is a just one. Accidentally killing civilians in the course of using violence to stop oppression is one thing. Doing it in the course of using violence to oppress people is a very different thing. In the case of Israeli violence, the question is not whether Israel intentionally kills civilians. The question is: What is the purpose of Israel's violence?
- Recalling the Hundreds of Thousands of Civilian Victims of America's Endless 'War on Terror'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
According to very conservative estimates, as reported by the "Costs of War" project of Brown University’s Watson Institute on International and Public Affairs, nearly 250,000 civilians have been killed during the 8 years since September 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan in wars or attacks that were instigated by the United States.
- Recast Dreams
Class and Gender Consciousness in Steeltown
Resource Type: Book
- Recent Class Struggles in the USA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
- Recent Nuclear Moratorium Announced in B.C.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- Recentering the Lumpen Question Today
Understanding Lumpenization and Bonapartism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
To name a class "lumpenproletariat" is to reveal something that would otherwise prefer to stay hidden. The lumpenproletariat is not merely defined by its non-relation to production, which is the most common definition of the term in Marxist thought, nor is lumpenization reserved only to a process that occurs within the proletariat. Lumpenization is a process of active decomposition, a verb, not merely an analytic or descriptive category.
- Rechte und Freiheiten
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Keiner ist Frei, wenn wir nicht alle Frei sind. Jegliche Einschränkung der Rechte und Freiheiten ist gleichzeitig eine Stärkung der Macht des Staates darüber zu entscheiden, welche Rechte in Zukunft ausgeübt werden dürfen und welche nicht.
- A Recipe for Killing a School System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The level of corruption and willingness to subject children to unproven educational methods is shocking, all the more so given that Detroit has more children living in poverty than any of the country's 50 largest U.S. cities.
- Reckless Abandon
Canada, the GATS and the future of Health Care
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
- The reckoning: the future of the Venezuelan Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
he core of Chávez’s programme was to achieve state control of the oil industry, negotiate for an appropriate level of royalties, and use that income for social and economic development. The rhetoric remains largely the same today; but the reality bears very little relation to that promised future.
- Reckoning with Apocalypse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A review of Jacqueline Foertsch's book, "Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America" on issues of race within the anti-war movement.
- Reclaim the Power! Climate protestors rout security with UK-wide fossil fuel strikes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The fossil fuel industry and its political backers have been left reeling by an unprecedented series of direct action strikes against targets across the country to protest at continuing investment in and official support for fossil fuels, inaction over fuel poverty and the systematic neglect of renewable energy despite the global climate emergency.
- Reclaim the power! Democratic energy must replace corporate capture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Democratising energy would save thousands of lives a year in Britain alone -- releasing us from the clutches of corporate utilities, and building an energy commons in which we are all owners and participants, no longer captive, exploited consumers. More than that, it would be a big step forward in saving the planet.
- Reclaim the Streets
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A collective with a shared ideal of community ownership of public spaces. Participants characterize the collective as a resistance movement opposed to the dominance of corporate forces in globalisation, and to the car as the dominant mode of transport.
- Reclaiming a Continent: Experiments in Radical Social Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
An in-depth and accessible introduction to Latin American politics. Avoiding superficial analysis and simplistic leftist cheerleading, this book addresses the complexity and diversity of the new Latin American left.
- Reclaiming control of Indonesia's oceans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Indonesian activists are building a global movement to resist the financialisation and privatisation of the world's oceans.
- Reclaiming Our Cities & Towns
Better Living with Less Traffic
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Cars destroy the environment; people should embrace alternative modes of transportation like bycycling and walking to make urban areas safer and enviromentally sound.
- Reclaiming Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
While honouring the legacy of Marx and American communists, a new generation in the United States is organizing under the 'socialism' banner.
- Reclaiming Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The article reflects on the history and apperance of socialist movements from early 20th-century Russia, to today in the United States. It argues that the term "socialist" in a modern conception is dependent on a legacy of communist movements.
- Reclaiming the Canadian economy
A Sweddish approach through functional Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
- Reclaiming the Commons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Why we need to protect our public resources from private encroachment.
- Reclaiming the Commons in Appalachia
Property is Theft
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The extractive resource industry has a firm hold on the wild, wonderful, but wounded Appalachians. The use of eminent domain and compulsory pooling has robbed communities of their cultural and natural heritage. Capital is the authority of the Appalachian coalfields, and has created systemic poverty and mono economies. Instead of prosperity in the commons, the mechanism of authority has spawned tragedy.
- Reclaiming the Ivory Tower
Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
An organizing handbook for contingent faculty.It examines the situation of adjunct professors in U.S. higher education today and puts forward an agenda around which they can mobilize to transform their jobs - and their institutions.
- Reclaiming Toronto's Don River
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Reclaiming Utopia: The Legacy of Ernst Bloch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Bloch's Marxism was from the start unorthodox as the result of his abiding interest in the notion of utopia. This notion was held in disdain by many orthodox Marxists.
- Reclaming the last wild places
A New Agenda for Biodiversity
Resource Type: Book
Why do we spend millions of dollars a year to save the California condor while doing little to spare the habitats that countless other species need to survive? By emphasizing the protection of biodiversity - rather than crisis management techniques - Roger DiSilvestro argues we can ensure a brighter future for all species.
- Reclus, Élisée
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
French geographer, writer and anarchist. (1830-1905).
- Recognition of the Dene Nation Through Dene Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
In this paper, the Dene Nation outlines the manner in which a Dene Government can be implemented as a means of self-determination of the Dene within Canada.
- Recollecting our Lives
Women's Experiences of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Recollections of Harry Press
Against The Current vol. 147
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Harry Press, a veteran of the U.S. Trotskyist movement and the American Socialist current, died this year at age 94. In recent years he was a loyal reader and made several very generous donations to this magazine. These recollections of Harry Press were told to Carl Finamore for Against the Current.
- Recolonization or Liberation
The Bonds of Structural Adjustment and Struggles for Emancipation
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1990
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, structural adjustment is the goal of the economic and social programs which they impose upon indebted Third World governments. This booklet examines Structural Adjustment Programs from the perspective of those who are made to bear the burden of 'adjustment' in countries around the world. It shows how not only nations of the Third World, but also Canada and Eastern Europe, are being subjected to structural adjustment.
- Recolonized by the Past
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
It began as a campaign at the University of Cape Town to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes that stood on the campus. For the protestors, the statue represented everything that Rhodes himself stood for: racism, colonialism, plunder, white supremacy, and the oppression of black people.
- Recommended Changes in Canada's Refugee Status Determination Procedure:
A Brief to the Hon. Bud Cullen, Minister of Employment and Immigration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- The Reconciliation Manifesto
Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
A look at the historical and current relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians, and what needs to be done to accomplish true reconciliation.
- Reconstructing Marx's Critique of Political Economy from His London Notebooks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Book review: Lucia Pradella, Globalization and the Critique of Political Economy: New Insights from Marx’s Writings (London: Routledge, 2015), 218 pages, $160, hardback.
- A Record of Resistance
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Here is a stunning book, filled with photographs that record the suffering and strength of the indigenous population in the Guatemalan countryside over the past 15 years. In short essays and photos Our Culture Is Our Resistance records the harsh life of those who survived the army’s “scorched earth” of the early 1980s and fled to isolated areas of the country.
- Recording Reveals Oil Industry Execs Laughing at Trump Access
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A 2017 recording of Independent Petroleum Association of America executives reveals them revelling in their access to high levels of government. Since then many environmental protections have been rescinded.
- La Recouverture de Centre Meurling
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Le but de ce document est de faire connactre au législateur: l'urgence de la réouverture du Centre Meurling (centre d'hébergement pour hommes seuls itinérants, fermé à ceux-ci depuis 1978) aux sans-logis dès le mois d'août 1981: l' urgence de remettre sur pied à Montréal, un centre d'hébergement d'urgence qui serait à la disposition des organismes pulics et qui posséderait les ressources matérielles et humaines nécessaires leur permettant d'accueillir des personnes gravement intoxiquées ou en perte d'autonomie.
- Recovering Forgotten Voices
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
A lover of American literature will come away from reading Alan Wald’s Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade excited about the prospect of investigating a long list of currently unheralded writers who collectively constitute a voice that deserves to be recognized as major.
- Recovering Nonviolent History
Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Essays showing, in considerable detail, the varied roles played by civil resistance in fifteen liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
- Recovering our history: 'Eco-Socialism in a Nutshell'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980 Published: 2013
A pamphlet that introduced the coming together of greens and reds in comic strip form.
- Recovering the Libertarian Tradition
Resource Type: Pamphlet
An interview with E.P. Thompson.
- Recovering the Sandinista Murals
Review of The Murals of Revolutionary Nicaragua 1979-1992 by David Kunzle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Obliterating the artifacts of the revolution is an important task for those who want to rewrite history. David Kunzle's book, The Murals of Revolutionary Nicaragua 1979-1992, is thus more than a catalog -- it's a weapon in the struggle to keep the promise of revolution alive.
- Recovery from sexual assault
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Recovery not "Discovery"
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
- Recruiting To Kill - It Is Not Just An Israeli War On Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
To some, US secretary of state John Kerry may have appeared to be a genuine peacemaker as he floated around ideas during a Cairo visit on 25 July about a ceasefire between Israel and resisting Palestinian fighters in Gaza. But behind his measured diplomatic language, there is a truth not even America's top diplomat can easily hide. His country is very much involved in fighting this dirty war on Gaza that has killed over 1,050, injured thousands more, and destroyed much of an already poor, dilapidated space that is barely inhabitable to begin with.
- Recruiting, Training and Motivating Volunteers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Recyclers Battle Waste Management... and the Teamsters Union
With Friends Like These
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
It’s 4 AM. The air is cold and damp on 98th Avenue in deep East Oakland, down along the San Francisco Bay’s industrial waterfront. This is a hard geography of concrete and dust and pot-hole riddled roads latticed by train tracks. Much of the earth is landfill, crowded for miles with scrap metal yards, bakeries, machine shops, and warehouses.
- Recycling Council
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Recycling council
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Recycling Council of B.C.
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1977
The recycling Council acts as a direct link for recyclers with the provinical government as a central research and lobbying office for solid waste-recycling and resource conservation, as a resource centre for public information on recycling, and as a marketing coordinator for seveal recycled commodities. It provides speakes, film slides, publications on recycling, and a newsletter.
- Recycling is not enough! Sharing is the way to achieve a circular economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Mariale Moreno discusses how can we reduce our ever increasing throughput of raw materials. She suggests lowering consumerism and making things last.
- Recycling Symbols Discussion Paper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Recycling week
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Red and Green
The New Politics of the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
In order for green politics to work, we need to develop a total policy for the environment, a social policy which views capitalist industry as the destroyer of the world we live in.
- Red and Green Eco-socialism comes of age
New Internationalist November 1998
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1998
Why socialists and environmentalists need to work together to bring about lasting change. Discussion of how inequality and environmental destruction are directly linked. Articles on development in India, predictions for the future, working hours and global consumption.
- The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History - Volume 1
Projectiles For the People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
An in-depth political history of the Red Army Faction (RAF) which, in resistance to imperialism and state repression, was devoted to carrying out armed attacks within the Federal Republic of Germany.
- The Red and the Black
Profit is the motor of capitalism. What would it be under socialism?
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2012
In this essay, I start from the common socialist assumption that capitalism’s central defects arise from the conflict between the pursuit of private profit and the satisfaction of human needs. Then I sketch some of the considerations that would have to be taken into account in any attempt to remedy those defects.
- Red & Black Notes
Resource Type: Website
A libertarian socialist project based in Toronto, Canada. The focus of the project is twofold : To circulate information from a libertarian socialist perspective, both current and historical, and to provide a forum for discussion of those issues.
- Red Bologna
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Examines the Communist administration of the city of Bologna.
- Red cap terror at the moussaka line: West London ready-meal workers' report and leaflet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Workplace report for WorkersWildWest no.5 and leaflet for future distribution. Main challenge will be the migrant status of workers - there have been various police raids in the plant - and the language and contract division.
- Red Cat, White Cat
China and the Contradictions of 'Market Socialism'
Resource Type: Book
Begins by examining the tensions growing within "market socialism." Weil provides background on marketization, the class forces that produced it, and the polarization and social dislocation that it is generating.
- Red City, Blue Period
Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona
Resource Type: Book
- Red Clydeside
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A term used to describe the era of political radicalism that characterised the city of Glasgow in Scotland, and urban areas around the city on the banks of the River Clyde such as Clydebank, Greenock and Paisley.
- la red del Che : the Che network
Resource Type: Website
Website devoted to the life and work of Che Guevara.
- Red Diaper Baby
A Boyhood in the Age of McCarthyism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
- Red Door Rental Aid Society
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
- Red Emma Speaks
Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
- Red Fawn Fallis and the Felony of Being Attacked by Cops
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The tackling, arrest and imprisonment of female protester Red Fawn Fallis near a Dakota Pipeline construction site is another example of corporate and government abuse of power. When it comes to women dissenters, particularly of black or indigenous dissent, US authorities have a significant history of intimidation and punishment.
- Red-Green Alliance: A Green Earth With Peace And Room For Us All
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The Red-Green Alliance advocates a strong international labour organization with muscles to raise global demands for workers. It means a labour organization where it is possible to remain organized, even when traveling across borders, and where people working in the same company, or in the same sector across borders, can be organized together, and raise common demands.
- Red Herring Cooperative Books
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
- The "Red Light" of Yugoslav Partisan Photography
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The 75th anniversary of the liberation from fascism is a time to remember one of the largest anti-fascist movements in Europe.
- Red Lines Drawn with Syrian Blood
The Problems With Obama's Case Against al-Assad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The US and its allies are likely to carry out an attack on Syria in the very near future whether or not Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons.
- Red-listed
Haunted by the Washington Witch Hunt
Resource Type: Book
The first exploration of the thousands of civil servant workers - lawyers, economists, engineers, social workers - whose lives and careers were disrupted and often destroyed by the federal loyalty program designed to root out communists in government. Untold energy, funds, and time were wasted on a hunt that began in the 1930s and continued through the '60s, yet never uncovered a single spy or subversive. Government, the core of any nation, became obsessed with the communist scare; and America turned from a compassionate country into a colder, more cynical society - and it remains so today. Here are haunting unforgettable interviews with those who were falsely accused, those who were informers, as well as former communists. Throught the use of congressional hearings and transcripts, FBI dossiers, news clippings, and never-published material from the private files of victims, Williams offers a fascinating look inside a shameful period of American history.
- Red Love Across the Pacific
Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
This book examines the Red Love vogue that swept across the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s as part of a worldwide interest in socialism and follows its trails throughout the twentieth century.
- The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975 Published: 1980
Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
- Red Menace #1
Volume 1, Number 1 - February 1976
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
The first issue of The Red Menace, a libertarian socialist newsletter.
- Red Menace #2
Volume 2, Number 1 - Summer 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
- Red Menace #3
Volume 2, Number 2 - Spring 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
- Red Menace #4
Volume 3, Number 1 - Winter 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
- Red Menace #5
Summer 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
- The Red Menace Interviews Prime Minister Trudeau
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
An exclusive interview with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, published in The Red Menace and nowhere else.
- A Red Metamorphosis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The following essay has been written and published in response to increasing requests from researchers for information on the background and development of historian Terry Irving and his approach to history.
- Red Morning
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Red Morning was a revolutionary group founded in Toronto in the early 1970s. Quasi-Marxist in orientation Red Morning sought to organize working-class youth into a revolutionary force to contest capitalism.
- Red River Rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Name given to the events surrounding the actions of a provisional government established by Métis leader Louis Riel in 1869 at the Red River Settlement in what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba.
- Red River Rebellion
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Red River Rebellion (also known as Red River Resistance), a movement of national self-determination by the metis of the red river colony in what is now Manitoba, 1869-70. The inhabitants were continually in conflict with the HBC, particularly over trading privileges.
- Red Rosa
A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. Red Rosa gives Luxemburg her due as a radical and human being. In this beautifully drawn work of graphic biography, writer and artist Kate Evans has opened up her subject’s intellectual world to a new audience, grounding Luxemburg’s ideas in the realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting life.
- Red Round Globe Hot Burning
A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
- Red Sport International
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The International Association of Red Sports and Gymnastics Associations, commonly known as Red Sport International (RSI) or Sportintern was a Comintern-supported international sports organization established in July 1921. The RSI was established in an effort to form a rival organization to already existing "bourgeois" and social democratic international sporting groups. The RSI held 3 summer games and 1 winter games called "Spartakiad" in competition with the Olympic games of the International Olympic Committee before being dissolved in 1937.
- Red Terror: Anti-Corbynism and Double Standards
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A defence oif Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the British Labour party.
- Red Vienna
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Red Vienna (German: Rotes Wien) was the colloquial name for the capital of Austria between 1918 and 1934, when the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (SDAP) maintained almost unilateral political control over Vienna and, for a short time, Austria as a whole. During this time, the SDAP pursued a rigorous program of construction projects across the city in response to serious housing shortages and implemented policies to improve standards of public education, healthcare and sanitation.
- A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
As the Anthropocene advances, people across the red-green political spectrum seek to understand and halt our deepening ecological crisis. Environmentalists, scientists, and ecosocialists share concerns about the misuse and overuse of natural resources, but often differ on explanations and solutions.
- Redeeming Chávez's Dream
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The world press, suddenly aware of the deepening crisis in Venezuela, is relishing in the Bolivarian Revolution's woes. But its coverage rarely goes deeper than images of poor people clamoring for food. The photos index the situation's seriousness, but they do not capture its complexity.
- Redefining Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1963 Published: 1974
Modern society certainly remains profoundly divided. It constantly functions against the immense majority of working people. In everyday life the exploited defend themselves against exploitation by part of every single one of their everyday gestures. The present crisis of humanity, it is true, will only be solved by a socialist revolution. But these ideas risk remaining empty abstractions, pretexts for sermons or for a blind, spasmodic activism if one doesn't try to understand the new ways in which the division of society assumes concrete form today, how modern capitalism functions, the new forms taken today by the working class struggle against the ruling classes and their system, and unless one seriously tries to understand what — under these conditions — a new revolutionary activity integrated to the real struggle of people in society might mean and how it could be linked to a coherent and lucid understanding of the world. To achieve this what is needed is nothing less than a radical theoretical and practical renewal.
- Redemption Road
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A four-month-long walk on an ancient pilgramage route offers young offenders a different pathway. Adam Weymouth reports on the slow healing of Oikoten.
- The Redesigned Forest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
An exploration of how forests are utilized, with particular interest paid to the old-growth coniferous forests of the Pacific north-west.
- Rediscovering Radical History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
This essay studies the early days of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History Society (ASSLH).
- Rediscovering Two Labor Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Steve Early reviews collections of writings by Martin Glaberman and Stain Weir.
- Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Nadine Hubbs looks at how class and gender identity play out in one of America's most culturally and politically charged forms of popular music. Skillfully weaving historical inquiry with an examination of classed cultural repertoires and close listening to country songs, Hubbs confronts the shifting and deeply entangled workings of taste, sexuality, and class politics.
- Redress for injustices to Chinese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Redress Information & Analysis
Exposing injustice, disinformation and bigotry
Resource Type: Website
Aspires to redress the balance of world news and information by being a voice for the voiceless, by focusing on injustice and by providing an alternative interpretation of international and domestic issues. It is run by UK-based editors and academics of various nationalities.
- Reds (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1981
A 1981 film that was co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty. The picture centres on the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book Ten Days That Shook the World.
- Reed International
Profile of a Transnational Corporation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
This profile is offered in the interest of assisting native people, church groups, public interest organizations, and individual citizens who have been organizing to resist Reed's private corporate activities.
- Reed, John
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American journalist and communist activist. (1887-1920).
- Reed, John - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of John Reed (1887-1920).
- Reel Women's Cable Collective
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
- Reesor Siding Strike of 1963
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A labour conflict which resulted in the shooting of 11 union members.
- Re-examine revolution, but don't abandon it
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Re-examine revolution, but surely now is not the time to abandon it. Chris Nineham reviews Socialist Register 2017: Rethinking Revolution
- Reflecting New U.S. Control of TikTok's Censorship, Our Report Criticizing Zelensky Was Deleted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
For years, U.S. officials and their media allies accused Russia, China and Iran of tyranny for demanding censorship as a condition for Big Tech access. Now, the U.S. is doing the same to TikTok.
- Reflections After Ferguson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
I am a white man with a Black son. I did not have or get him young and fill his head with illusions of diversity and colorblindness, the way some white parents do. I met him when he was a young teen, living in the housing projects, well on his way to having a reality-based world view built around the urban litany of poverty, gangs, drugs, murder, jail, dysfunctional schools and police abuse - and very much not about diversity and colorblindness.
- Reflections and Meditations Thirty Years After
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
I.F. Stone's reflections on Israel thirty years after writing his first-hand account "Underground to Palestine'.
- Reflections for the US Occupy Movement
From Barcelona's Neighborhood Assemblies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The deeper a struggle’s historical roots, the greater its collective knowledge.
- Reflections of a Siamese Twin
Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
The tension in Canada between the model of an inclusive more egalitarian community vs. bureaucratic closed structures of government. According to Saul, Canada is a complex original which does not fit the model of uniligual nation-states like Britain, France, and the United States, which, he says, is profoundly upsetting to the simplistic colonial minds of the Canadian establishment.
- Reflections on a Political Trial
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
In wake of the sentencing of 4 of the 5 men on trial for illegal activities against the draft, Chomsky explores the details of the so-called "Spock" case as well as its meaning for both the "peace movement" and the state of American democracy. Though the issues of legality, legitimacy, and resistance must be, according to Chomsky, considered in the context of the democratic system, these were not addressed in Court. Chomsky reveals the flawed-nature of America's institutions, observing that if the outcome of this trial were to be taken as a guide of conduct, citizens would have to avoid all public acts undertaken jointly with others who share his views in order to avoid risk of prosecution.
- Reflections on a Religion of Hate
Engaging in War Crimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Refelctions on US preparations to engage in more acts of war against yet another Middle Eastern country.
- Reflections on a violent day in Ottawa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
After a long day focused on these gripping events in the nation's capital, I have to wonder if this direct experience of fear and trauma will force us to examine our own addiction to violence as the solution to conflict. Last week's events provide us with an opportunity to reflect on our insidious contribution to the climate of hate, and the chance to disengage from our increasingly militarized culture.
- Reflections on a whistleblower: Two years after Snowden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Two years after Snowden, the international state of surveillance and the ranks of whistleblowers both continue to grow.
- Reflections on Chomsky's Voting Strategy: Why The Democratic Party Can't Be Saved
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Nick Pemberton explains why his opinion is different from that of Noam Chomsky on the matter of third party voting during US elections.
- Reflections on coherence and comradeship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A lengthy personal meditation on strategic challenges facing left organizing.
- Reflections on DC: Promises and Pitfalls in the Anti-Trump Uprising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The first mass protests of President Donald Trump represent a historic moment – one worth reflecting on so we can understand where we are and where we're going as a nation.
- Reflections on Genocide as the Ultimate Crime
de Zayas, Alfred; Falk, Richard
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
The misuse of the word genocide is disdainful toward relatives of the victims of the Armenian massacres, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide -- and as well a disservice to both history, law, and the prudent conduct of international relations. We already knew that we were adrift in an ocean of fake news. It is far more dangerous to discover that we are also at risk of being immersed in the turbulent waters of "fake law". We must push back with a sense of urgency. Such a development is not tolerable.
- Reflections on October 7th
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Students, workers, teachers, parents and faculty throughout the country participated in the October 7th National Day of Action to Defend Public Education. As part of a growing movement, activists from 25 different states were involved.
- Reflections on the 7th Special Session of the U.N. General Assemly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Overview and critique of the U.N. conference dealing with the New International Economic Order.
- Reflections on the Brussels Attacks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Debate and reflection are urgently needed with respect to the political violence that is being unleashed in various forms in the West and non-West.
- Reflections on the Corporate Security State
"He's nuts. Like out there."
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Wikileaks began releasing millions of emails from anonymous hacks of the intelligence firm Stratfor, a global intelligence provider. Stratfor staff are very interested in organizations such as the Rainforest Action Network (RAN).
- Reflections On The New Brunswick Farmers' Tour Of Bolivia.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
- Reflections on the New School Occupation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
On November 17th, 2011, the Study Center at 90 Fifth Avenue, an office building leased by the New School University, was occupied by participants in the all-city student assembly in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street.
- Reflections on the Occasion of Dimitri Roussopoulos' 70th Birthday and Public Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
- Reflections on the Revolution in France: 1968
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
In May 1968 France was on the threshold of something entirely new. In this 'pre-revolutionary situation' nothing went unquestioned. The writers, trade unionists and students who contribute to this volume all believe our future is foreshadowed in the events of May. And they explain why, after this shock to a regime of seemingly impregnable strength, things can never be the same again.
- Reflections on the Revolution in France and the Rights of Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
- Reflections on the way to the gallows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A record from a short prison diary kept by Japanese anarchist and feminist Kanno Sugako prior to her execution in 1911 for her part in a plot to assassinate the Emperor.
- Reflections on Tom Hayden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Reflections on Tom Hayden and the 1962 Port Huron Statement.
- Réflections sur l'autodétermination
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Pour Panitch et ses compagnons l'autodétermination n'a qu'un seul sens: celui de la sécession. Ils disent aux Quebécois: "Vous avez le droit de partir. Alors dépêchez-vous!" Il ne leur passe pas par la tête que les Quebécois peuvent choisir une option différente de celle de la sécession.
- Reflexions sur le role de l'Etat et de la Police Series: On Vous a a l'Oeil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Reform and Revolution at Left Forum 2013
Tension and Transformation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
This year’s Left Forum, held at Pace University in lower Manhattan was one of the largest gatherings in North America of the US and international Left.
- Reform Is Not A Tea Party
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The Nobel peace price notwithstanding, Barack Obama’s presidency, contrary to the hopes of many, has not produced a big political space for the left, let alone “a seat at the table.” Most visibly, it has been the right wing that succeeded in seizing the initiative, in some truly grotesque ways that have thrown a spotlight on the deep paranoia — and straight-up old-style white racism — that persists in this society, and on the ways it can be opportunistically pandered to and manipulated. The tea-party mob phenomenon, however, cannot be dismissed as merely a freak show created by rightwing talk media and massive covert corporate funding, although that is certainly part of the story.
- Reform Metro News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Newsletter of the Movement for Municipal Reform (ReforMetro) in Toronto, published from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. There are a number copies in the Connexions Archive.
- Reform or Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
The reformists had no principles to 'betray.' They remained what they had been all along, but they were now obliged first of all to safeguard the system in which their cherished practice could continue. The revolution had to be reduced to a mere reform, so as to satisfy their deepest convictions and, incidentally, secure their political existence.
- Reform or Revolution?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1896
Socialism knows that revolutionary upheavals and transformations proceed from the rock bed of material needs.
- Reform or revolution? A response to three intriguing questions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The article by Steve Downs Three questions of political strategy poses three intriguing questions: Does "democratic road to socialism" = "parliamentary road to socialism"? Does "insurrection" = "revolution"? Does "rupture" = "revolution"? Steve found these questions helpful in understanding the contending views in Solidarity and DSA over reform or revolution.
- Reform Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
The 'new Canada' that Reform Party leader Preston Manning is proposing is a mean-minded society based on the survival of the fittest. It simply ignores the fact that the majority of Canadians do not play on a level playing field. It is a select few who have the power and the influence.
- The Reform Party
How to expose and oppose the bigots
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1994
The Reform Party claims to be a new alternaive. But this so-called party of reform is no alternative at all. And its policies are hardly new. The Reform Party agenda puts profit ahead of social need and will lead to a reversal of hard-won gains made by workers, people of colour, immigrants, Natives, francophones, women, lesbians and gays and other oppressed groups.
- Reform and Revolution
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1967 Published: 1968
An essay taken from Andre Gorz's Le Socialisme Difficile in which he discusses how socialist strategy can aim to crate the objective and subjective conditions which will make mass revolutionary action and engagement in a successful trail of strength with the bourgeoise possible.
- Reformation to Industrial Revolution
the Pelican Economic History of Britain Volume 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 1969
Hill analyzes the transformation of British society and the complex interaction of economic, cultural and political change in the period 1530-1780.
- Reformism - Social Democracy: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article
- Re-Framing Dissent As Criminal Subversion
Paradigm Shift and Political Repression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
When our national security interests are perceived as threatened, secrecy becomes sacred, and the ends justify the means. Since the end of World War II, the techniques of political repression recur, banal and predictive, like the musical theme that signals stalking in a grade-B thriller. Those organizations and individuals targetted for repression are portrayed as enemies of democracy; those investigating and attacking then assume the mantle of democracy's guardians. Because of the covert nature of campaigns and the enormous difference in resources between government agencies and dissident/reform movements, it is often impossible to document or prove the existence of an organized campaign of political repression in its earlier stages. In case after case, however, later investigation has revealed illegal government surveillance, harassment and public opinon manipulation, as well as media complicity.
- Refuge
Periodical profile published 1984
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
- Refuge from Militarism? The Canadian Movement to Support Vietnam Era War Resisters, and Government Responses,1965 - 1973
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
PhD Thesis, Carleton University, 2009
- Refuge: Canada's National Newsletter On Refugees
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
This monthly newsletter is dedicated to encouraging Canadian citizen participation in helping refugees, by providing a forum for sharing information and opinion on domestic and international issues pertaining to refugees.
- The Refugee As Neighbour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
- The Refugee Experience - Perspectives On Refugee Issues
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 1982
This multi-media kit deals with refugee issues in a manner comprehensible to 9-14 year olds.
- Refugee Sandwich
Stories of Exile and Asylum
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
- Refugees Are in the Channel Thanks to the Actions of the West
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The outcome of Western military and economic interventions in the Middle East and North Africa have caused the outflow of refugees from zones of conflict.
- Refugees at Home and Abroad
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Refugees and Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The process of escaping violence has turned into a "journey of death" for millions of refugees. For Syrian refugees it is also a journey of "no return."
- Refugees and Development in Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
This book provides a detailed analysis based on extensive case studies of the problems and prospects for African refugee settlement, integration into host communities, and/or repatriation. The study tackles assumptions about the life and productive rehabilitation of the refugee in host countries, and suggests constructive methods of making refugees active participants in development efforts.
- Refund on tires suggested
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- The Refundable Child Tax Credit:
What it is...how it works
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
This report outlines what may be the federal government's most far reaching restructuring of its programmes of financial support for families with children. The Refundable Child Tax Credit Programme is designed to offer full benefits to the poor - those who are most in need. presently, families with incomes below the poverty line are excluded from the benefits of tax cuts simply because they are too poor to pay income tax.
- Refusal to Call Charleston Shootings 'Terrorism' Again Shows It's a Meaningless Propaganda Term
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
In February 2010, a man named Joseph Stack deliberately flew his small airplane into the side of a building that housed a regional IRS office in Austin, Texas, just as 200 agency employees were starting their workday. Along with himself, Stack killed an IRS manager and injured 13 others. The attack had all of the elements of iconic terrorism, but it was explicitly declared inapplicable by media outlets and government officials alike.
- Refuser Solidarity Network
Resource Type: Website
Supports Israelis who refuse to serve in the Occupation.
- 'Refusing to serve in the army is my small act of making change'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Hillel Rabin spent 56 days in military prison for refusing to serve in the IDF. Now she opens up about her time behind bars, conversations with her fellow inmates, and talking to young Israelis about the occupation.
- Regeneration
Toronto's Waterfront and the Sustainable City
Resource Type: Book
- Regent Park
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
One of the oldest public housing projects in Canada. Approved in the mid-1940s and finally completed by 1960, Regent Park consisted of high- and low-rise, subsidized apartment buildings in the area of Toronto bordered by Gerrard, River, Shuter and Parliament Streets. The area is now being rebuilt with mixed-income housing.
- Regent Park Community Improvement Association
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The Regent Park Community Improvement Association (RPCIA) was founded in 1969 at a meeting organized by a previous organization, BLAST, which consisted of Regent Park South Residents.
- Regent Park Community News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972 Published: 1978
A newsletter/newspaper published in the Regent Park area of Toronto in the 1970s.
- Regime Change in Ukraine and the IMF's Bitter "Economic Medicine"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In the days following the Ukraine coup d’Etat of February 23, 2014, leading to the ousting of a duly elected president, Wall Street and the IMF -- in liaison with the US Treasury and the European Commission in Brussels -- had already set the stage for the outright takeover of Ukraine's monetary system.
- Regina Committee for World Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Six one-page articles discuss energy production in the Third World.
- Regina Guild of Folk Arts
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
- The Regina Manifesto: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Programme
Resource Type: Pamphlet
Adopted by the founding convention of the CCCF in Regina, Saskatchewan, July, 1933.
- Regis Debray and the Latin American Revolution
A Collection of Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1969
Essays responding to Debray's book Revolution in the Revolution, which argued that the establishment of guerilla foci were the key to the revolutionary process in Latin America.
- The Register
Resource Type: Website
Covers the information technology industry critically: "Biting the hand that feeds IT".
- Regroupment & Refoundation of a U.S. Left
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2009
Perspectives for socialist renewal in the 21st century.
- The Regulation of Desire
Homo and Hetero Sexualities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987 Published: 1996
A survey of the history of sexuality in Canada.
- Regulation -- Who Needs It?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
In Trump's vocabulary, regulations are ALL bad. (Of course Trump sees regulations around reproductive rights as good, but consistency isn't one of his characteristics.)
- A Regulatory Agenda for Solid Waste Reduction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Reich, Wilhelm
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. (1897-1957).
- Reichstag Fire: Ashes of Democracy
Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
- The Reification of Desire
Toward a Queer Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
A new theoretical approach to the relationship between Marxism and queer studies.
- Reign of Error
The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, an incisive, comprehensive look at today's American school system that argues against those who claim it is broken and beyond repair; an impassioned but reasoned call to stop the privatization movement that is draining students and funding from our public schools.
- Reimaging America
The Arts of Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
More than 40 artist-contributors using video as their medium describe and analize how they create art as part or their struggle to alter mass culture and to reconnect with the communities which inspire their work.
- Reimagining the Harper's Ferry Revolt
The Good Lord Bird
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Book review of James McBride's The Good Lord Bird.
- Reimagining Society
Resource Type: Website
An online collection of visions, proposals and strategies for social transformation.
- Reinterpreting the Cotton Kingdom
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Book review of Walter Johnson's "River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom."
- Reinterrogating the Classical Marxist Discourses of Revolutionary Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Marik attempts to re-examine the "common sense" claim that Marxism had been an authoritarian political theory and practice.
- Reintroducing Sarah Wright
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Karageorgos places Wright's novel "This Child's Gonna Live" about the experience of Black women's triple oppression within a historical context to analyze her critique of Black nationalism.
- Reinventing power: People take control
New Internationalist September 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
A look at democracy and power in countries including Mexico, South Africa and Thailand.
- Rejected for jury duty
Resource Type: Article
Discussing the effectiveness of the policies of the "war on drugs" -- in the courtroom.
- Rejecting the "Vanguard" Party
Against The Current vol. 86
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
In the September-October, 1999 issue of Against the Current (#82), Sam Farber's review of Daniel Singer's book Whose Millennium? deserves a few comments. Like Farber, Singer and numerous other revolutionaries, I also reject the Leninist concept of the "vanguard party." As you probably know, it was not Lenin who authored the concept that working people can attain only trade union consciousness as a result of their own practical activity, the material basis of the vanguard concept as defined in What Is To Be Done?
- The Rejection of Politics and other essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
"The rejection of politics" is a basic tenet of all anarchism. Woodcock however does not discuss anarchism as such but the path that his own political interests have taken: from international anarchist to Canadian patriot. Two recurrent themes in the book are his antipathy to Marxism and his ambivalent attitude toward Canadian nationalism. Woodcock believes that the "Left" is dead and that modern anarchists have to shed outdated concepts of the past.
- A Rejoinder on Antiwar Strategy
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Let me first restate as concisely as I can the main points of my essay “A New Strategy for Antiwar Organizing: Going Where the Millions Are”.
- A Rejoinder on Respect
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Respect has provided a place in the political ecosystem for those with an inclination to substitute anecdote and slander for an analysis of what’s happening in British politics today. Bywater and Ismail have chosen to make this their habitat.
- Rejoinder to Criticism of Chomsky: Asset or Liability?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
One can learn much more about Chomsky’s actual views from the real Chomsky than from reading about some imaginary Chomsky which some critics have manufactured.
- A Rejoinder to Joel Kovel
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Joel Kovel is to be congratulated on the successful struggle to overturn the outrageous University of Michigan Press decision to halt distribution of Overcoming Zionism. To whatever extent the controversy has boosted the book’s sales and stimulated discussion of the issues it raised, so much the better.
- A Rejoinder: Strategy or Doctrine?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
MIKE GOLDFIELD HAS presented above a succinct left critique of the popular front line of the Communist Party, both of its principles and of its practice. He echoes the accusations of James P. Cannon that in promoting this line the Communists diverted the working-class movement into the arms of the Democratic Party, thus fundamentally betraying both the class struggle and the Afro-American struggle.
- Rejoinder: The Dynamics of Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
ONE COMMON ERROR socialists tend to make when discussing unfolding revolutions in other countries is to offer programmatic analysis that has little to do with the real situation on the ground. Comrade Steve Bloom makes that mistake in regards to “the relationship between the democratic and the socialist revolutions”in Indonesia.
- Relax a Little!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999 Published: 2001
Learning how to relax can mean the difference between a serene sense of accomplishment and a pounding headache.
- Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users' Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Trade offices involved in negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement have finally released all 30 chapters of the trade deal today, a month after announcing the conclusion of the deal in Atlanta. Some of the more dangerous threats to the public's rights to free expression, access to knowledge, and privacy online are contained in the copyright provisions in the Intellectual Property (IP) chapter. Now that the entire agreement is published, we can see how other chapters of the agreement contain further harmful rules that undermine our rights online and over our digital devices and content.
- Release To Those In Prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Release - Vol. 4, No. 1
Periodical profile published 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
Release is a monthly publication directed to readers who are interested and involved in the Church's ministry in the corrections services in Canada and United States.
- Relentless Persistence
Nonviolent Action in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
- The Relevance of Anarchism to Modern Society
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1970
An attempt to elucidate "classical anarchism," a la Proudhon, Kropotkin, etc., so as to repudiate "neo-anarchism," with its emphasis on "escapist individualism" and "action for the sake of action."
- Relevance of Hannah Arendt's "A Report On The Banality Of Evil" To Gaza
Self-Deception, Lies And Stupidity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Hannah Arendt, philosopher, writer, academic of Jewish heritage, went to Jerusalem in 1961 to cover the trial of Eichmann, one of the actors in the Final Solution, for the New Yorker magazine. Her account of the trial became a basis for the book, Eichmann In Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil.
- The reliable tyrant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
The solution to the Iraq debacle is within the Americans' grasp.
- Relief Strike: Immigrant Workers and the Great Depression in Crowland, Ontario, 1930-1935
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Carmela Patrias explores the background of a strike by relief workers in the suburban township of Crowland in 1935. The strike pitted relief recipients against stubborn local authorities and soon attracted the attention of the Premier of the Province who sent the Ontario Provincial Police to reinforce municipal government.
- Religion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1947
- Religion and the Rise of Labor and Black Detroit
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Historians and other scholars have given Detroit plentiful attention, including some very important books, yet in this vital new study Angela Dillard manages to approach the Motor City’s past in several crucial yet previously neglected ways. What’s most valuable about the book is her attempt to encompass such subjects as race, labor radicalism, Black religion and the civil rights movement all in one narrative.
- Religion, The Golden Rule, and Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Why is it that all of the world's great religions, though disagreeing greatly about theology, nonetheless concur on the Golden Rule? The explanation must be that there is something common to all human beings that is captured by the Golden Rule and reflected in all of these religions.
- Religion is Part of the 'Lumpenism' in Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Liberation theology is the name for Christian priets who are prepared to say something against Latin American dictators. This is what they call liberation theology, but by definition no theology is liberating. Theology is the antithesis of liberation. It signifies keeping people ignorant, obstructing their independent thought and consigning them to an unknown creator and world. Liberation theology is nonsense.
- Religious Socialism
Archive of Religious Socialism, a periodical published 1998 - 2008
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Back issues are available in PDF format.
- Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A religious movement, whose members are known as Friends or Quakers.
- Religious Zealots Ready for Takeover of Israeli Army
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
In a surprise move, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week forced out his long-serving defence minister, Moshe Yaalon. As he stepped down, Yaalon warned: "Extremist and dangerous elements have taken over Israel." He was referring partly to his expected successor: Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party, whose trademark outbursts have included demands to bomb Egypt and behead disloyal Palestinian citizens.
- Religous Freedom and Authoritarian Atheists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Many contemporary atheists adopt an unpleasantly authoritarian stance. Many now demand, in the name of ‘reason’ or ‘science’, state restrictions or bans on views that might cause ‘harm’. It is a strange attitude for those who supposedly believe in free speech and free thought.
- A Reluctant Memoir of the '50s and '60s
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
I have been asked to write a memoir that would give a sense of the old left/new left realities of the 1950s and ‘60s. That seems quite odd to me (why would I be writing such a thing?), until I look in the mirror and see this old guy looking back at me. As I reflect, it does seem to me that I went through a lot of experience, met a lot of people, and perhaps learned from all that…So I will share some of my story.
- Reluctant Memoir, Part 2
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
I think it was in 1963 that I first became aware of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). My older sister Patty had married a very nice guy named Earl Brecher, with whom she went to Liberia as one of the first Peace Corps volunteers, in a program, sending idealistic college graduates to “help” downtrodden areas in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, launched by the Kennedy administration.
- The Remaking of the American Working Class
The Restructuring of Global Capital and the Recomposition of Class Terrain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981 Published: 1999
Today, one can only be practical by posing contemporary problems where they have, in fact, always been located: not in the "factory", the material condensation of the capitalist juridical entity par excellence the enterprise, but at the level of the total worker (Gesamtarbeiter) and his alienated phantom, the total capital.
- Remaking Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Remaking the Politics of Palestine Solidarity in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Farah explores the awkward position the Canadian-Arab finds themselves, where they attempt to engage in cultural and professional event programming which have to be resolutely non-political. Many times, this means avoiding those engaged in political organizing out of fear of the repercussions.
- A Remarkable Silence: Media Blackout After Key Witness Against Assange Admits Lying
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
A major witness in the US case against Julian Assange has admitted fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks founder. But all of this is seemingly of no interest to the ‘mainstream’ media.
- RE/MAX Cashes in on Israel's Illegal Settlements
End the sale of Settlement Properties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The Israeli government’s recent announcement that it had authorized the building of another 1,000 settlement homes in East Jerusalem left the US government seeing red, with State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki calling the settlement activity 'illegitimate' and 'incompatible with the pursuit of peace.' But the announcement must have left the US-based real estate giant RE/MAX “seeing green,” ready to cash in on the sale and rental of more illegal settlement homes.
- Remember the '80s
Social Movements Between Woodstock and the Web
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The history of 1980s activism deserves to be remembered and studied by those fighting for change today.It always helps to have a fuller view of the past, to figure out what to keep and what to discard.
- Remembering a Revolutionary Artist: Vlady Presente!
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Vlady Kibalchich, born in Petrograd, Russia in June 1920, died on July 21, 2005 at home (in his studio) in Cuernavaca, Mexico after a difficult battle with cancer which began as a melanoma, but spread to his brain. He was 85.
- Remembering a Vietnam Veteran
The Death of Sgt. Van Dale Todd
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
- Remembering Ahmad Rahman and Ron Scott
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Addressing the lives and accomplishments of Ahmad Rahman and Ron Scott.
- Remembering America's First (and Longest) Forgotten War on Tribal Islamists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Here are the relevant points when it comes to the Moro War (which will sound grimly familiar in a twenty-first-century forever-war context): the United States military shouldn’t have been there in the first place; the war was ultimately an operational and strategic failure, made more so by American hubris; and it should be seen, in retrospect, as (using a term General David Petraeus applied to our present Afghan War) the nation's first "generational struggle."
- Remembering Another Occupy
Anniversary of the 1937 Sit-Down Strike Wave
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
- Remembering Argentina's Mothers of the Disappeared
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Campaign Nonviolence is a movement to build a culture of active nonviolence. We share the stories of nonviolent action, drawing lessons, strength, and strategy from the global grassroots movements for change. This week commemorates the 39th anniversary of the first protest of the Argentina's Mothers of the Disappeared.
- Remembering Barbara Zeluck
Against The Current vol. 148
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Remembering Barbara Zeluck
- Remembering C.L.R. James
A review of C.L.R. James, A Political Biography
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Worcester's biography of James is both critical and yet sympathetic.
- Remembering Dangerously
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Like the witch-hunt trials of old, people today are being accused and even imprisoned on 'evidence' provided by memories from dreams and flashbacks -- memories that didn't exist before therapy.
- Remembering Dave Dellinger
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Dave Dellinger’s death on May 25th of this year, at the age of 88, marked the end of a remarkable life. Most readers know him from the event that, more than any other, made him a public figure — the infamous trial of the Chicago Eight, following the riots that marked the Democratic Party’s 1968 convention.
- Remembering David Montgomery
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
When the organization of American Historians met in Milwaukee in April, its program schedule included one very special session: a memorial tribute to David Montgomery. David, historian and political activist, died of a brain hemorrhage on Dec 1, 2011. He was 84 years old.
- Remembering Don Weitz, 1930-2021
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
- Remembering Dorothy Healey: An Activist with Vision
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Dorothy Healey had a grand vision of a world in which there was no poverty, racism, or war, a world of genuine democracy. To me she represented what was most appealing about the Old Left — commitment, dedication, selflessness.
- Remembering E.P. Thompson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
An article about E.P. Thompson
- Remembering Ireland's Great Famine
A review of Black '47 a soon to be released film about the famine in Ireland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The Irish film, Black 47 (Director Lance Daly) is about the worst year of the catastrophic Irish famine and is set in the west of Ireland in 1847. The story centers around an Irish soldier, Feeney (James Frecheville), returning from serving the British Army in Afghanistan only to find most of his family have perished in the Famine or An Gorta Mor (the Great Hunger) as it is known in Gaelic.
- Remembering Italy's Cervi brothers amid far-right surge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The Cervi brothers in Italy are famous for leading the local peasant resistance against Benito Mussolini's rule. Today, Adelmo Cervi is still a leading voice against the rise of far-right populist parties in Italy.
- Remembering the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look back at the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of April 13, 1919, where British colonial forces opened fire on peaceful Indian protesters. The massacre stands as a pivotal moment in Indian history that laid bare the true face of British Imperialism.
- Remembering Jim Campbell
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Canadian anarchist.
- Remembering Joanne Landy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Farber recalls the life and work of Joanne Landy. She is remembered as a supporter and organizer for a radical democratic politics opposed to oppression and exploitation throughout the world.
- Remembering Manning Marable
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Malcolm X has been getting quite a bit of the attention lately, especially with respect to A Life of Reinvention — and deservedly so — but as Professor Marable himself would tell you, no one shaped his intellectual development more than W.E.B. Du Bois.
- Remembering Medgar Evers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
- Remembering Michael Manley
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Manley, who had entered the decade of the Seventies with so much hope for changing Jamaica, departed bitterly at the end of it.
- Remembering Milt Zaslow
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Milt disdained inflated revolutionary bravado, but time and again his group were the first to put themselves in harm's way when activists in Southcentral or the Eastside of Los Angeles were under attack.
- Remembering Mississippi, 1964-65
Interview with Claudia Morcom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Dianne Feeley and David Finkel from the ATC editorial board spoke with Judge Morcom about her work in Mississippi during Freedom Summer 1964 and subsequently from September 1964 through October 1965, as Southern Regional Director for the National Lawyers Guild’s program of legal assistance for civil rights workers.
- Remembering Mississippi, 1964-65
Interview with Claudia Morcom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Feeley and Finkel interview Morcom about her work in Mississippi during Freedom Summer 1964 and subsequently from September 1964 through October 1965, as Southern Regional Director for the National Lawyers Guild's program of legal assistance for civil rights workers.
- Remembering Mitch Podolak
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
- Remembering Murray Dobbin: activist, intellectual, mentor, friend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
- Remembering Nonviolent History
Freedom Rides
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
By May 1961, federal law had already ruled that segregation on interstate public buses was illegal. Southern states, however, maintained segregation in seating, and at bus station bathrooms, waiting rooms and drinking fountains and the Interstate Commerce Commission refused to take action to enforce federal law. To change this, the Civil Rights Movement (CORE, SNCC, NAACP) began a series of Freedom Rides on May 4th, 1961.
- Remembering Otelo Carvalho: from colonial war to revolution
Resource Type: Article
- Remembering Peekskill
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The Peekskill Riots in 1949 remind us of a period of postwar rebellion and reaction that set the stage for the rest of the century.
- Remembering Pinochet's Coup: A Taste of Justice for Chile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
AS FORMER CHILEAN dictator Augusto Pinochet languished in British custody facing possible extradition to Spain, I have thought often of the democratically elected president he overthrew twenty-five years ago—Salvador Allende. At the time of the September 11, 1973 coup I was living in Chile and a translator for President Allende.
- Remembering Rosalyn Baxandall
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall was a pioneering figure of socialist feminism in the United States.
- Remembering Spain's Revolution
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
On the second page of Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell's memoir of the Spanish Revolution, he writes, “I had come to Spain with some notion of writing newspaper articles, but I joined the militia almost immediately, because at that time and in that atmosphere it seemed the only conceivable thing to do. The Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing….it was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle.”
- Remembering the Committee of Concerned Canadian Jews and their fight for Palestinian rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
Sometime in the summer of 1982, Jews in their 20s and 30s in Toronto, including myself, came out in droves to meetings of the new Committee of Concerned Canadian Jews (CCCJ). (Yes, our name was a bit awkward and wordy.)
- Remembering the Don
A Rare Record of Earlier Times Within the Don River Valley
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
Memories of Toronto's Don River in days gone by.
- Remembering the Earth Day Wall Street Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
In 1989 the Greens held their national gathering in Eugene, Oregon. That was before they had entered national electoral politics, when they still focused on grassroots organizing, and what we now call 'movement from below.'
- Remembering the Paris Commune
Against The Current vol. 153
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Marking the anniversary of the revolt that led to the establishment of the world's first workers’ government, the Paris Commune of 1871. The Paris Commune has always had a special place in the hearts and minds of revolutionaries, and can inspire today’s activist generation with the potential for "power to the people."
- Remembering the War and the Movement
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
February 28, 1991. Thinking that weeks of war and antiwar organizing were still ahead (not my only mistake during those months!), I took a Canadian vacation at the end of February 1991 with my lover Christopher. On the morning of February 28 I got up in Vancouver in the friend's house where we were staying and went to collect the Globe and Mail from the front stoop.
- Remembering Tomorrow
from SDS to Life After Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Veteran anti-capitalist activist Michael Albert offers an ardent defense of the project to transform global inequality.
- Remington Rand strike of 1936-1937
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike against the Remington Rand company.
- Reminiscences of Tim Buck
Yours in the Struggle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
- Remote-Controlled Killing
The Spot-and-Shoot Game
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The Israeli military is increasingly using remote-controlled weapons to kill Palestinians. Israel's remotely controlled weapons systems are in high demand from repressive regimes and the burgeoning homeland security industries around the globe.
- Removing Freeways - Restoring Cities
The Movement Has Begun
Resource Type: Website
A website with the histories of the freeway removals that have occurred in the United States and around the world.
- The Renaissance and Rationality
The Status of the Enlightenment Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
- Renewable Energy
Cleaner, Fairer Ways To Power The Planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Few people doubt the threat of climate change and the urgent need to conquer fossil fuel addiction. But can renewable sources of energy ever be sufficient to provide modern societies with a decent quality of life? This book is clear. They can. And it outlines the strategies to break the barriers to a 100% renewable world.
- Renewable energy conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Renewable Energy conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- The Renewable Energy Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
The Renewable Energy Handbook was produced in order to provide more information to people interested in finding alternatives to large energy developments like the McKenzie Pipeline and our growing Nuclear Programme.
- Renewable Energy isn't a Shortcut to Reversing Global Warming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Denmark has distinguished itself as the country moving the fastest toward the eventual replacement of fossil fuels. Its goal of 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 is laudable, but the assumption that this path will reverse global warming while otherwise continuing business as usual, is unrealistic.
- Renewable Energy Publications Ltd.
Organization profile published 1978
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1978
- Renewal through Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Strikes are a major means of trade union self-assertion. A closer look at strikes in Germany reveals interesting trends and developments, indicating new approaches to trade union strategies and practices.
- Renewing Historical Materialism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1997
Ellen Meiksins Wood's Democracy Against Capitalism offers a sophisticated interpretation and defense of the core concepts of Marxism. The vision of socialism as the most radical democracy was always a minority understanding, but it was Marx's vision and it has appeared again and again throughout history. Ellen Wood has made a most valuable contribution to the struggle to realize that vision.
- Renewing New York
Against The Current vol. 151
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
An interview with Howie Hawkins. Howie Hawkins, a Green Party and socialist activist, ran for Governor of New York State. Dianne Feeley interviewed him for ATC.
- Renewing Socialism
Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
- ‘Renouncing Violence’ Is a Demand Made Almost Exclusively of Muslims
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Media analysis shows that calls to renounce violence are directed at Muslims or other victims of Western occupation.
- Rensburg, Patrick van
Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
Resource Type: Article
African educator.
- Rent of Land
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1844
- Rent Strikes in New York
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1967
- Repair cafés are about fixing things - including communities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Repair cafés are a new global phenomenon that brings the two together, giving satisfaction to both, sharing skills, keeping stuff out of landfill, fighting 'designed obsolescence', and building communities sustained by mutual help.
- Repeat after me, protests in Venezuela good, protests in France bad!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Anti-government protests in Venezuela and France are treated differently because of the interests the respective presidents - and their opposition - represent.
- Repertoire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
- Reply
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A reply by the author of "Money and Totality: A Macro-Monetary Interpretation of Marx’s Logic in Capital and the End of the Transformation Problem" to two previous responses to his book.
- A Reply on Overcoming Zionism
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
David Finkel and I see eye to eye on most basics where Israel is concerned, and he is generous in praising my recently published Overcoming Zionism. For years I have known him to be a stalwart anti-Zionist and one of the best-informed people on the socialist left concerning this most vexing and intractable of conflicts.
- Reply to A Reviewer
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
My old friend Paul Buhle has developed a neat general formula for reviewing the books he is out of sympathy with. Paul begins by making laudatory comments and concludes by expressing overwhelmingly negative judgments. But he has gone too far in his review of my The Rousing of the Scottish Working Class by falsely accusing me of using “a club to beat [E.P.] Thompson.”
- A Reply to B'nai Brith's Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario's Boycott of Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
- A Reply to Martell's "Canadian Dilemma"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
Marjaleena Repo argues that the articles published in the last issue of This Magazine is about Schools illustrate a committment to a specific middle class ideology.
- A Reply to Nelson Lichtenstein: Assessing Union Leaderships
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
What is the relation of even the most liberal bureaucrats to capital (why do they inevitably downplay the fight for equality, why are they so much in favor of collaboration, corporatist approaches, in contrast to class mobilization)? It is important to carefully dissect the approaches (without sentimentality or holding back) of those groups that purported to be for class solidarity and opposed to capitalism and capitalists.
- A Reply to Robert Brenner
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
WHAT HAS ALWAYS distinguished serious economic analysis from mere ideological cheerleading is the effort to understand the general economic laws that govern capitalist societies, and how these laws have manifested themselves through capitalism's historical development.
- Report - Canadian Enquiry into Human Rights in Chile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- A Report Card on Women and Poverty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Report Confirms Gang Rapes at Canadian-Controlled PNG Mine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
One of the world's largest mining organisations, Barrick Gold, is in damage control this week following the release of a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report outlining longstanding incidents of sexual and physical violence at the company's Porgera Joint Venture (PJV) mine in Papua New Guinea.
- Report From Chicago
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
When the failure to indict Darren Wilson was announced about 200 Chicagoans marched from police headquarters at 35th and Michigan to Lakeshore Drive, and we confounded the cops by moving from southbound lanes to northbound.
- Report from Dubai
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Dubai — This gulf emirate is shaping up into a key tourist destination. For golf, luxury hotels and high-end shopping, it is firmly established as a key player in the Middle East region. Dubai’s geographical location means it can position itself as a meeting point between east and west, a global business hub for the 21st century.
- Report from Moscow from Otto Ruhle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1920
The Russian tactic is the tactic of authoritarian organisation. It has been so consistently developed and in the end carried to extremes, by the Bolsheviks to the fundamental principle of centralism that it has led to over-centralism... Centralism is the organisational principle of the bourgeois-capitalist age. With it the bourgeois state and the capitalist economy can be built up. Not however the proletarian state and the socialist economy. They demand the council system. For the KAPD - contrary to Moscow - the revolution is no party matter, the party no authoritarian organisation from the top down, the leader no military chief, the masses no army condemned to blind obedience, the dictatorship no despotism of a ruling clique; communism no springboard for the rise of a new Soviet bourgeoisie.
- Report From Southeast Asia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A general commentary on work and economic conditions in parts of Southeast Asia, and possible comparisons with the ferment in Eastern Europe prior to 1917.
- Report from Spain: On the May 15th Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
A brief account of the culmination of the “May 15th movement” in Barcelona in 2011.
- Report from the Pvt. Manning Contingent at SF Pride, June 2015
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Sunday, June 28th started out cloudy, as one might expect in San Francisco, but the sun eventually came out, making it a good day for the Gay Pride event -- and a good day to honor Whistleblower Chelsea Manning. There was to be a parade, and one of the units would be the Pvt. Manning Contingent.
- Report from Winter Soldier
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
On Friday, Day 2, testimony began at 9 AM with a panel about the "Rules of Engagement". Speakers from the Army and Marine Corps recounted the atrocities that they not only witnessed but participated in. The stories they were telling about the rules of engagement they learned while training at boot camp, or on a military base "back home," were the same as what I had heard from my son. I broke down sobbing. The photographs they were showing on the five viewing screens of bloodied bodies torn apart by close gunfire, 50-calibre Machine guns, rocket launchers, and every other damn weapon our great military industrial complex has created, were all too familiar to me.
- Report: Hundreds of Civilians Killed by U.S.-Led Bombing of ISIS in Iraq and Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A new report from a group of journalists and researchers says that hundreds of civilians have died during airstrikes by the U.S. and other nations fighting the Islamic State, a marked contrast to the Pentagon’s official admission of just two civilian deaths.
- Report of Canadian Assembly on Disarmament
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Report of Church Persons' Seminar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
This report contains the Seminar's recommendations with respect to civil and political rights, refugee and immigrant rights, rights of women, rights of self-determination, rights of workers, unemployment and farmers in Canada.
- Report of Question Period of Annual Shareholder Meeting of Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Report of the Committee Studying Residential Services in Saskatchewan with Long Term Psychiatric Illnesses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
- The Report of the Newfoundland Medical Association Committee
(formed to review the medical aspects of the Spruce Budworm epidemic and control program.)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
The Newfoundland Medical Association Committee was formed to review the health aspects of the Spruce Budworm Control Program; its report was submitted to the Newfoundland Medical Association in 1979.
- Report of the Panel of Public Enquiry Into Northern Hydro Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Report describing the evidence to the public enquiry concerning the Nelson-Churchill River Diversion of Northern Manitoba.
- Report of the Siberian Delegation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1903
- Report of the Task Force on High Risk Pregnancy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- Report of the Work Group on Civil and Political Rights: Church Persons' Seminar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
A church seminar that asks whether or not Canadians are at risk of losing their civil liberties.
- Report on Conference on Equality of Opportunity and Treatment for Women Workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- A Report on Noranda Mines Limited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
A Report on Noranda Mines Limited for the Counseil Regional d'Amenagement du Nord de Noveau Brunswick (C.R.A.N.) traces the history of Noranda Mines in Canada and particularly in the province of New Brunswick.
- A Report On Noranda Mines Limited.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
- A Report on Recent Struggles in Greece
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
In periods of crisis, such as the current period of overaccumulation crisis, capitalists use the politics of 'public debt' in order to devise new ways to intensify exploitation. In contrast with capitalist upturns when the private debt is increased, downturns are characterized by the increase of the 'public debt.'
- Report on Services to Homeless Men: Working Paper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
It is estimated that there are between 50 and 300 "homeless" men in the city of Halifax.
- Report on Skid Row
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Report on Sydney Street
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
This report is based on a 30-minute slide-tape program called "The Steel Show" (Steel Research Group) and is available from DEVERIC, Box 3460, Halifax, Nova Scotia ($5 rental, $100 rental) or United Steel Workers of America, 55 Eglinton Avenue E., Toronto, Ontario (Write for details).
- Report on the Assemble Generale de U.C.S.N. au Monteal of May 4,5,6, 1976
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Report of a workshop designed to aid individuals involved in urban core issues.
- Report on the Conference; Vancouver 1975
May 12-13, 1975
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
Conference on stategies used on Skid Row, focusing on Vancouver organisations.
- Report on the Construction of Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency's Conditions of Organization and Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1957
Founding manifesto of the Situationist International.
- A Report On The Media Coverage Of Our World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
In May, 1981, the Edmonton Learner Centre (ELC) sponsored a two-day conference entitled "The International News Blues, a Conference on Media Coverage of our World."
- Report on the Potential of Consumer Animation for Energy Conservation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Report on the Winnipeg Workshop
May 4th-8th, 1977.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
This fourth Canada-wide meeting of the Urban Core Support Network focused on the problems and attempted solutions in the Winnipeg core area. Native issues, alternative economic strategies, booze and skid row, women on the skids, and kids in the core were the topics for the work groups, which met for two of the four days of the workshop.
- Report and Recommendations for Government Action and Statement of Concern
Housing for Low Income Canadians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
The report identifies maldistribution of income as the prime factor in the housing problem.
- Report to the Civic Authorities of Metropolitan Toronto and its Citizens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
- Reporters face 70 years in prison over anti-Trump march
Two journalists are among more than 200 people facing felony charges after mass arrests at Inauguration Day rally.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The actions of police during the inauguration of Donald Trump and arrest of over 230 people with threat of harsh penalties, including 70 years in prison for two journalists, is tantamount to criminalizing dissent.
- A Reporter's mindset
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Remember that reporters have a job to do. If you help the reporter, you are really helping yourself.
- Reporting from Ramallah
An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Amira Hass, a Jewish Israeli journalist lives in the Palestinian town of Ramallah. These dispatches cover five years of her reporting
- Reporting Gender Based Violence
A Handbook for Journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Violence Against Women has presented particular challenges to the media and to society because of the way it has been consigned to the "private" sphere -- dampening public discussion and stifling media debate. Yet, the media has the potential to play a lead role in changing perceptions that, in turn, can help galvanize a movement for change. This toolkit seeks to help reporters and news managers grapple with the challenge of reporting gender based violence is a way that doe snot perpetuate gender stereotypes but informs and encourages public debate.
- Reporting the Realities of Poverty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Review of Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts, by P. Sainath.
- Reports from the Occupy Wall Street Events of Mid-November
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
- The Representation of Torture in the 'War on Terror'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A nation cannot claim to act to promote democracy and human rights whilst it kidnaps citizens the world over, places them in secret detention and tortures them.
- The Repression at Belgrade University
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
During the 1960s, the philosophy and sociology departments of the Belgrade University in former Yugoslavia began discussing general social issues such as the meaning of technology, of freedom and democracy, of social progress, and of the role of culture in building a socialist society. In response, authorities tried to repress these discussions. Chomsky presents the background, developments, and situation of the conflict.
- The Repression in Bahrain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Bahrainis are calling their government's intensified repression of all opposition "the Egyptian strategy", believing that it is modelled on the ruthless campaign by the Egyptian security forces to crush even the smallest signs of dissent.
- Repression in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- The Repression Strengthened Us!
Letter From Bolivia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- The Reproduction of Daily Life
Resource Type: Article
- The Reproduction of Daily Life
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969
What sustains capitalism? Our acceptance of everyday activities. The text offers a clear introduction to basic Marxist concepts like commodity fetishism and surplus value; it also traces the transformation of human activity into capital.
- Reproductive Justice in an Age of Austerity
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Reviews of two books about reproductive rights.
- Reproductive Justice Needed
Against The Current vol. 163
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Many wonder why the fight to maintain legal abortion is still so heated forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Dianne Feeley points to attitudes about women that provide the political space for the right-wing’s attacks.
- Reproductive Rights Assaulted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Feeley examines the lack of rights American women have in regards to reproduction, abortion, and access to contraceptives as legislations currently in place bar women from having full coverage or information regarding their options.
- Republic of Dunces
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
For its entire 142-year history, the University of California has served the state’s wealthiest businessmen well as a taxpayer-funded R&D facility. Its graduates have gone out into the world to serve as their mining engineers, attorneys, inventors, weapons designers, and business associates.
- Republican Data-Mining Firm Exposed Personal Information for Virtually Every American Voter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Evidence suggests that Republican-linked election databases were inadvertently exposed to the internet, without password protection, potentially violating the privacy of almost every registered voter in the United States.
- Republican Estate Tax Repeal: An Effort to Avoid Ever Being Taxed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
While Sen. Bernie Sanders proposes an important increase in the estate tax, Republicans are gearing for its complete repeal. Morris Pearl of the group Patriotic Millionaires, talks about how the Republicans’ plan would help the rich from ever being taxed.
- Republicans Have Decided to Call Anything a Democrat Ever Does or Says "Nazi"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The cause du jour for the Republican Party is to make as many rapid-fire comparisons between the Democrats and the Nazis as humanly possible.
- A Request For More Effective Regulation of jet skis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Jet skis produce noise pollution, water pollution, adversely impact wildlife and aquatic plants, and pose serious safety risks.
- Requiem for a Black Trotskyist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
News of the death of former United Auto Workers staff member Ernie Dillard came by way of a phone call on Bastille Day 2016. The subsequent silence about his passing in the radical and mainstream press is an accusatory reminder of the extent to which the memory of the Left has been confiscated from those who require it most.
- Requiem for a Fourteen-Year-Old
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1959
Pierre Berton's poem, Requiem for a fourteen-year-old, appeared in the Toronto Star on Oct. 5, 1959; six days after 14-year-old Steven Truscott was sentenced to hang.
- Requiem For The American Dream
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2015
In his final long-form documentary interview - filmed over four years - Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality. Tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the expense of the majority, Chomsky lays bare the costly debris left in its wake: the evisceration of the American worker, disappearance of the living wage, collapse of the dream of home ownership, skyrocketing higher education costs placing betterment beyond reach or shackling students to suffocating debt, and a loss of solidarity that has left us divided against ourselves.
- Rescue as Resistance
How Jewish Organizations Fought the Holocaust in France
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
- Rescue of the Danish Jews
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
When Hitler ordered that Danish Jews be arrested and deported on 1-2 October 1943, many Danes took part in a collective effort to evacuate the roughly 8,000 Jews of Denmark by sea to nearby neutral Sweden.
- Rescue the Earth!
Conversations with the Green Crusaders
Resource Type: Book
14 conversations with activists and thinkers concerning the understanding and redemption of the natural world in the late twentieth century.
- Rescuing Memory: the Humanist Interview with Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
- Research Bulletin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
The main article of this issue looks at the energy crisis.
- Research Bulletin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- Research funding draining awasy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Research Shows Internet Shutdowns and State Violence Go Hand in Hand in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
When an oppressive regime blocks Internet access during social unrest, violence usually follows. This is a pattern that has become famous with the Arab Spring but is the violence that follows a response to the repression of free speech? Or is the repression of free speech a means to another end? New research suggests the latter. Using Syria as a case study, it seems that governments blackout the Internet as a means for security forces to gain some tactical advantage when they violently engage protesters.
- Research Unit for Political Economy (India)
Resource Type: Website
Concerned with analysing, at the theoretical and empirical levels, various aspects of the economic life of India and its institutions. Aims to compile, analyse, and present information and statistics so as to enable people to understand the actual mechanics of their every day economic life. Aims to take the assistance and insights of people engaged in every sphere of productive work and society.
- Researcher loses job at NSF after government questions her role as 1980s activist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Valerie Barr was 22 and living in New York City in 1979 when she became politically active. A recent graduate of New York University with a master’s degree in computer science, Barr handed out leaflets, stood behind tables at rallies, and baked cookies to support two left-wing groups, the Women’s Committee Against Genocide and the New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence. Despite her passion for those issues, she had a full-time job as a software developer that took precedence.
- Researchers Are Substantially Undercounting Gene-Editing Errors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The standard gene-editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9, frequently produces a type of DNA mutation that ordinary genetic analysis misses, claims new research published in the journal Science Advances. In describing these findings the researchers called such oversights "serious pitfalls" of gene editing.
- Researchers Find 'Astonishing' Malware Linked to NSA Spying
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Security researchers have uncovered highly sophisticated malware that is linked to a secret National Security Agency hacking operation.
- Researching Canadian Corporations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
A resource for people and organizations who find themselves victims of some corporation's malice or indifference, and want to do something about it.
- Reservations Are For Indians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970 Published: 1991
Describes the vicious circle of dependence created by government policies which ensnare aboriginal Canadians, combining an account of life in four reserve communities with a history of government policies and programmes.
- Reshaping History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
- Reshaping Work
Union Responses To Technological Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
- Resignation from IMF
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Resignations rock US civil rights institute after it strips Angela Davis of award over pro-BDS views
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Three members quit the board of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute after its controversial decision to first grant, then to rescind an award for iconic activist Angela Davis, following objections to her anti-Israel statements.
- Resist
A grassroots collection of stories, poetry, photos and analyses from the Quebec City FTAA protetst and beyond
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
A dynamic collection of personal accounts, creative works, reflections, images and analyses about the protests against the FTAA summit that took place in April 2001 in Quebec City.
- Resist This: the United States is at War With Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The United States is engaged in military actions within a sovereign country that poses no actual or imminent threat, effectively an act of war against Syria.
- The Resistable Rise and Predictable Fall of the U.S. Supermax
Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The modern supermax regime is an aberration in American corrections. Based upon a penitentiary model that was dismissed as unsound more than 150 years ago, it was resurrected in the late 1970s and ’80s during the greatest period of growth of the penal state, and at a time of government anxiety about the rise of radical political movements, both in and out of prison. However, the enormous expense of supermax-style solitary confinement and its evident failure to decrease prison violence or recidivism, combined with lawsuits alleging abuse and a rising tide of public anger at U.S. complicity in torture, predicts its eventual demise.
- Resistance
One Woman's Defiance in Occupied France
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008 Published: 2009
The memoir of a French resistance fighter and museum worker who chronicles the undergroud network of resistance in Paris during the occupation. She then chronicles her imprisonment and the slave labour she endured in Germany. The final section of her memoir recounts her release by the Americans and the time she spent helping them hunt Nazis after the war.
- Resistance After Foreclosure
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
In 1973, in the class- and race-polarized city of Boston, City Life began as a socialist collective fighting against evictions and gentrification in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Over the years, it has evolved into a radical non-profit organization with a long history of doing tenant organizing and tenants’ rights work all across the city. City Life was able to avoid sectarian debates to maintain itself as a radical center for housing organizing.
- Resistance and Rebellion
Lessons from Eastern Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Looks at how ordinary people become involved in resistance and rebellion against powerful regimes.
- Resistance Behind Bars
The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
Resource Type: Book
- Resistance and Caribbean Literature
Resource Type: Book
Professor Cudjoe's study of the development of the Caribbean novel takes as its starting point the assumption that the literary sensibilities of the finest Caribbean novelists have been shaped by a history of enslavement, colonization and economic dispossession. He presents the analysis of the continuous literary historical trends and forms which the novel has developed in close connection with the changing content of the Caribbean experience.
- Resistance during World War II
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Resistance in China Today
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Cases of resistance in China continue to grow.
- Resistance in China Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Cases of Resistance in China continue to grow. Protests both large and small are extremely frequent. These range from workers’ protests against unpaid wages and demands for labor rights to protests against corrupt officials and environmental abuses. While these struggles have often been brought to a swift end through repression, they have also frequently led to protestors being granted concessions.
- Resistance in Europe: 1939 - 45
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975 Published: 1976
Essays on the resistance against Hitler during World War II.
- Resistance in Gaza: Young Palestinians Find Their Voice Through Hip-Hop
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Making music is a form of resistance to war and occupation, and also a tool to communicate the reality of life in Palestine.
- Resistance is life: Mehmet Aksoy's last letter to his family
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A tribute authored by family and friends to Mehmet Aksoy, a hero of Kurdistan and the internationalist struggles against capitalism, colonialism and fascism.
- Resistance Matters
The Radical Vision of an Antipsychiatry Activist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Don Weitz writes "Antipsychiatry organizing saved my life once, and has always given it meaning. This book is an invitation to join me and other psychiatric survivors (and our allies) in exposing psychiatry’s coercive, life-destroying practices and utter lack of scientific validity; and creating and promoting life-affirming alternatives."
- Resistance on the Mexican 'Riviera': The Zapatistas Visit Manzanillo, Colima
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
- Resistance and Resolve in Russia: Memorial HRC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An account of the current climate for political dissent in Russia, describing the activities of and challenges faced by the Memorial Human Rights Centre, a Russian NGO.
- Resistance Stirring Again
Against The Current vol. 130
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
In 1968 the worldwide explosion of struggle, from the battlefields of Vietnam to the streets and factories of France and Czechoslovakia, opened a new opportunity to challenge the capitalist system. In the United States, the Civil Rights struggle against racism sparked a wave of radicalization and struggle to challenge a whole host of American capitalism’s inequities — from its war in Vietnam to its sexism, homophobia, and class exploitation.
- Resistance to Antibiotics: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The growing resistance to antibiotics and other antimicrobials due to their overuse and misuse both in humans and animals has become an alarming global threat to public health, food safety and security, causing the deaths of 700,000 people each year.
- Resistance to Reporting on Discrimination in Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
To date, I have published over a hundred reports about anti-African racism in Israel. Some of these stories have been widely circulated, including a 10-minute video released last month that has been seen by more than three quarters of a million people. But, it would seem that the mainstream American media is consciously refraining from reporting on the story.
- Resistance to Ukraine occupation good, Palestine bad: politicians
Jewish suffering matters to Canadian politicians. Palestinian suffering doesn't.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Soon after the resistance broke through their cage in Gaza, the leaders of Canada's four main federal parties condemned the Palestinians. The same politicians who cheer on resistance to Russia's invasion of Ukraine denounce Palestinian fighters who captured Israeli tanks, soldiers and bases, all instruments of an illegal ongoing occupation of United Nations recognized Palestinian territory and the colonial blockade of Gaza.
- Resistance with the Scent of a Woman
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
“They're afraid of us because we’re not afraid. They think, act, and are going backwards as they stay behind their military armor. They see us laughing, struggling, loving, playing as they watch us from behind their military armor.”
- Resistencia
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
- Resister
A Story of Protest and Prison during the Vietnam War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
An insider's account of the antiwar and student protest movements of the sixties and a look at the prison experiences of Vietnam-era draft resisters.
- Resisting Agent Orange
Against The Current vol. 149
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Following an early April round of visits in private residences and care facilities with children suffering from a range of debilitating birth anomalies, classified by the Vietnamese government as “victims of agent orange,” a delegation of six American veterans sponsored by Veterans for Peace (VFP) was received in Hanoi by Nguyen Tan Dung, the Prime Minister of Vietnam.
- Resisting Capital's Disasters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Trump represents the twisted and half-deranged face of a systemic assault on virtually every facet of the social safety net, workers' rights, and the entire public sector -- apart from the bloated permanent war economy.
- Resisting State Violence
Justice Or Just Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
None of the ambiguities that surrounded Mike Brown’s killing are present in the grotesque spectacle of Eric Garner’s murder. By now the whole world has watched the man die at the hands of police without betraying a trace of belligerence. The failure to indict Pantaleo and the officers who pinned Garner down as he repeatedly yelled, “I can’t breathe” is a reminder that antiblackness is not a technical problem and therefore cannot be remedied with a technical solution.
- Resisting the Bomb
A History of World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954-1970
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Describes the gradual development of the worldwide movement for nuclear disarmament and research records from peace groups and government agencies.
- Resisting The Chains
Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies
Resource Type: Book
Waterloo Professor Michael Craton analyzes the slave resistance in the British West Indies. He argues that what seemed like acquiescence was in fact a strategic manoever that permitted less obvious signs of subversion and revolt. He documents the rebellion of the Marrons in Jamaica, the Black Caribs and slave rebellion on the plantations of Barbados as well as the brutal repression that occured. While giving a Marxist analysis of class war he adopts the slaves viewpoint and gives the reader history from the ground up.
- Resisting the Gutting of CUNY
Against The Current vol. 142
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
New York state is experiencing its worst fiscal crisis since the 1970s, with profound impacts on the City University of New York (CUNY), the nation’s largest urban public university system. CUNY has been under public scrutiny since its founding in 1847 as The Free Academy, an institution dedicated to the experiment of providing education to “the children of the whole people” at a school “controlled by the popular will, not by the privileged few.”
- Resisting the New McCarthyism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Against the Current interviews Professor Abdulhadi regarding recent accusations by the rightwing McCarthyist AMCHA Initiative that she secured university funding on a false pretext of attending a conference in Beirut. It is believed that this accusation is part of a greater objective targetting pro-Palestinian activities.
- Resisting the Occupation with Olive Oil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
About Zatoun, which brings Plaestinian olive oil to Canada.
- Resisting the Occupation with Olive Oil - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
- Resisting the Occupation with Olive Oil - Korean text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
- Resisting the State
Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
In Resisting the State, Neigh draws attention to the broad range of struggles against the Canadian state, detailing the histories of these movements.
- Resolutions Advocating a Boycott of Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The Modern Language Association (MLA) Delegate Assembly voted in Philadelphia on two resolutions, for and against, of an academic boycott of Israel.
- Resource and Development in Newfoundland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
This pamphlet traces the history and inequities of Newfoundland's development of resources.
- Resource Centre For The Arts
Organization profile published 1986
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1986
- Resource Kit - Consultation on Racism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- Resource Kit on Northern Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Introduction to issues surrounding Native rights and northern development.
- Resource Limits to American Capitalism & the Predator State Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
James K. Galbraith discusses the shift of US capitalism from an industrial state to what he calls a predator state: a finance-led, military-centered corporate republic that continues to prevail. To overcome it, he lays out what is needed to focus on employment, stability and adjustments to rising resource costs.
- Resource management and its impact on indigenous peoples-conference'84
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1983
- Resource Manual for A Living Revolution
A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977 Published: 1985
A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effect on change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
- Resource/Reading List 1987
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1987
- Resource Rebels
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Like canaries in a mine, native peoples throughout the globe are facing extinction due to the greed of mining and oil companies. Building a multi-racial, transnational movement to drastically limit resource extraction and creating an new environmental ethic is the best hope: these stories show how it's being done.
- Resources
On the Dene and The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
This resource list is primarily intended for those interested in pursuing the issues of native land claims (particularly the Dene) and development in the Mackenzie Valley. Many of the books, papers, and audio-visuals contain more detailed bibliographies for those who want to do further research.
- Resources are Important
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
- Resources Available from the Group for the Defence of Civil Rights in Argentina, No Candu
for Argentina Committee and Emergency Committee for Argentine Political Prisoners and Refugees.
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1981
The following are some of the resources available from the above mentioned Argentine support groups: 1) a slide-tape show was prepared by the No Candu Community with the support of the United Steel workers of America (national office).
Some resources available from Argentine support groups.
- Resources - "Awareness towards Action"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Booklet to provide parish Youth Corp groups with essential information for dealing with issues of social justice.
- Resources Exchange Project Newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
Resources Exchange Project (REP) is an information-sharing network for community organizations, social action groups, community workers and others interested in Atlantic Canada. This is the newsletter of that organization.
- Resources Exchange Project: 1973-1977
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Resources for Feminist Research (RFR)
Documentation Sur La Recherche Feministe (DRF) - Periodical profile published 1983
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1983
- Resources For Radicals
An Annual Review of Books and Publications for Those Active in Movements for Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
An annotated list of resources -- books and periodicals -- for people working for non-violent social change.
- Resources for Radicals - Fourth Edition
An annotated bibliography for those active in movements for social change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998 Published: 2002
Annotated resources - books, periodicals, films, handbooks, and other materials -- for people working for non-violent social change.
- Resources from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and related groups and activities
Resource Type: Website
a listing of the major memoirs written about Students for a Democratic Society, and a link to one major collection of the documents written at the time in PDF format.
- Resources of the Gulf
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Resources Reading List 1990
Annotated Bibliography of Resources By and About Native People - Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Resourcing the Co-operative Enterprise
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
- Respect Bathurst
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
A protest against inviting a Harris Tory to speak at the closing of Bathurst Heights Secondary School.
- Respect is a Two-Way Street
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
There is a whiff of hypocrisy among some Muslims who, in the name of being spared offence, want to censor other people's opinions.
- Respect, not restraints, for workers in Thailand's seafood industry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A report on a year-long investigation into forced labour in the global seafood supply chain in Thailand.
- Responding to Antifa and Riseup
On Revolutionary Politics and Non-Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
"The left" of contemporary 2017 America is deeply divided and fractured, and it is a shadow of its former self, considering the decline of organized labor, and the disappearance of left-public intellectuals in higher education. In this environment, what remains of "the left" desperately needs to reach out to the masses of Americans, including liberals, moderates, and political independents, and to pull them further to the left, if there is to be any chance of meaningful change. And berating anyone who is not perceived to be on the far left, rather than patiently working to bring these individuals into a broader left movement, is a recipe for irrelevance.
- Responding to capitalist disaster, in 1914 and today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
World War I began 100 years ago. Today's ecosocialist movement has much to learn from the revolutionaries who campaigned to stop that catastrophe.
- Responding to the Cry of the Poor
Nicaragua and The U.S.A.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984 Published: 1985
- Responding to Washington's Haiti Coup
Against The Current vol. 110
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Caribbean People, representatives of Caribbean organizations and people of Caribbean descent meeting in Bridgetown, Barbados on Saturday March 20th, 2004, unanimously agreed to call on CARICOM Governments to take the following steps as a matter of urgency. In addition we committed ourselves to immediately begin to mobilize public opinion and action in the Caribbean region ourselves, to oppose and reverse the deadly threat to democracy in the Caribbean resulting from the violent overthrow of the Aristide Government by criminal forces supported by the United States of America and France.
- Response
Against The Current vol. 146
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Oldtimers, across geographical space and chronological time, tend to swat at each other, responding to insults both real and imagined, long past and present. I know that in my family, Ma and Pa did it with increasing vigor over the years. Probably not all of the swatting within the greatly diminished U.S., UK or any other Left can be attributed to political disappointment.
- Response from Alexandra Devon
Resource Type: Article
- A Response on "Critical Marxism"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Lowy writes "I'm very happy that my article provoked debate among readers of Against the Current. Several of the remarks seem to me very relevant and I'll try to answer at least some of them."
- A Response on NATO and Kosovo
Against The Current vol. 81
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
We have to work for the development of a left opposition in all the Balkan states, in Kosovo and in Serbia in particular. We can only do it opposing both wars and asking for a free Kosovo.
- A Response on Trotsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Paul Le Blanc's reponse to Alan Wald's book review of his work on Leon Trostsky.
- A Response to Critics
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
David Finkel's comments (ATC 122) about my book Is Iraq Another Vietnam?, and about my position against immediately withdrawing the US military from Iraq, were well-informed and fair. So were the judgments of Gilbert Achcar in his interview with Susan Weissman, though his focus was on the withdrawal issue in general and not on my essay specifically. Likewise, Michael Schwartz's current ATC response reflects an impressive familiarity with Iraq and the Middle East, and his critique of my analysis is well-taken.
- Response to George Fish
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
George Fish raises an important point about the “taking personal responsibility” debate taking place within the Black community, especially at the academic and leadership level. But his criticism of my argument that it is a “secondary factor” to prevalent institutional racism is way off.
- A Response To George Monbiot's 'Disavowal'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
There is a pattern of 'mainstream' media insisting on the need for war in response to unproven claims that are often later debunked.
- Response to May '68 Revisited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
"May '68 was another step in the modernization of French capitalism." So was 1789, but it was a lot more too.
- A Response to Norman Finkelstein
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A response to Norman Finkelstein's attack on the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Tilley says that Finkelstein's insistence that the movement has to adjust itself to mainstream public opinion is bizarre: "Since when do human rights campaigns adjust their arguments to please mainstream opinion? Changing mainstream opinion is their very task. If activists took mainstream opinion as the proper guide to moral action, we would never have had the anti-slavery abolition movement, or the women’s suffrage movement, and apartheid would flourish in South Africa to this day. Indeed, we wouldn’t have most human rights campaigns. The toughest ones, which are often the greatest ones, must often start small and grow slowly."
- A response to Paul LeBlanc’s “Marxism and Organization”
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
We need to be flexible tactically and organizationally while remaining steadfast on our goals.
- A Response to the Anti-Defamation League
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The Anti-Defamation League's statement published in Detroit Jewish News (July 24, 2017, "Jewish Voice for Peace Increases Anti-Israel Radicalism") contains numerous distortions, which can't all be addressed in detail in the limited space available to us here.
- Responses to "People in Action"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Responsibility and Judgment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
- The Responsibility of Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1967
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.
- Responsible Day Care
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
As in most provinces, the funding and administration of day care in British Columbia is spread among three provincial ministries: Health, Education and Human Resources (Social Services).
- Responsible Polyamory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Rest in Peace Pete Seeger, A True Progressive Hero
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In the wake of his death, a look back at Pete Seeger's music and activism.
- Restless Cities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
A collection of narratives and visual art that strive to capture the essence of life in the city. For the author, the urban dweller is a wanderer, a people watcher, a daydreamer attuned by virtue of his life in the metropolis to potentially transformative experiences.
- Restoring a safe climate: Impossible dream or dangerous distraction?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Green house gases are at a level where drastic and far-reaching measures need
to be implemented; however authors caution against invoking emergency measures
that involve geo-engineering.
- Restoring the Heartland and Rustbelt through Clean Energy Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Al paper discussing ways to simultaneously fight climate change and create jobs.
- Restoring the Heartland and Rustbelt through Clean Energy Democracy: an Organizing Proposal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A proposal to end capitalism and fight climate change at the same time.
- Restraining the Economy
Social Credit Economic Policies for BC in the Eighties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
- Restrict antibiotics to medical use, or they will soon become ineffective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Antibiotics have saved hundreds of millions of lives since they came into use in the 1930s, but their power is running dry thanks to their massive use in factory farming, horticulture, aquaculture and industry.
- Restricted Entry
Censorship on Trial
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
- Restricting People’s Use of Their Courts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
In not so merry old medieval England, wrongful injuries between people either were suffered in silence or provoked revenge. Cooler heads began to prevail and courts of law were opened so such disputes over compensation and other remedies could be adjudicated under trial by jury.
- Restructuring and Resistance
Perspectives from Atlantic Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Seeks to answer two questions: Will the Atlantic region further marginalise to the point of an eventual elimination of the rural economy of small producers and the social system underlying this economy? And can any alternatives be found to the capitalist approach through the resistance and restructuring approach?
- Restructuring and Resistance
Diverse voices of struggle in Western Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
The book consists of 77 individual chapters, almost all of them written by activists based on their experiences of struggle against the different aspects of capitalist globalisation. Those that aren't are chapters that give a theoretical background that links these struggles together, particularly in the opening section, 'The Europe of Capital'.
- Restructuring the World Economy
Resource Type: Book
Kolko as an economist proposes that economics cannot be retructured because enherently they are a branch of politics. All economies whether capitalist or centrally planned are linked internationally by capital movements, trade and transnational operations. She explains the processes and events that we call economics. There is also 40 item glossary of abbreviations to assist the reader with such acronyms as NOP And NEIO.
- Retail Workers Fight 'Just in Time' Scheduling
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
On-call shift scheduling is rough on a largely part-time and female work force trying to keep up with families, school and second jobs. Some workers are asking for better terms.
- Rethinking Camelot
JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
- Rethinking Columbus
Teaching About the 500th Anniversary of Columbus's Arrival in America
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Rethinking community organising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Building a just, sustainable future will require transcending traditional community organising models. Working through existing institutions within the current system is not good enough.
- Rethinking Dominant Approaches to Climate change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Market-based attempts to curb climate change are inadequate since they further enable its root cause, capitalism.
- Rethinking Educational Failure and Reimagining an Educational Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
If we start not from the goal of acculturating most children to the demands of an economy which promises only to make things worse, but from the goal of preparing all children to live in a world worthy of human beings, we will find a very different kind of education reform to advocate for. It will have some things in common with some parts of current reform efforts
but it will go beyond and transform them.
- Rethinking Socialism
A theory for a better practice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
- Rethinking the challenge of anti-Muslim bigotry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
In 1997 the British anti-racist organisation the Runnymede Trust published its highly influential report Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All. Twenty years on, the Runnymede Trust has brought out a follow-up report Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us All, which is a stock-take on current views, and facts, about the issue.
- Rethinking The Idea Of 'Christian Europe'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Looking to the traditional, moral and identity platform of Christianity in Europe.
- Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
The same powers who fund and arm Ukraine fund and arm genocide by a racial supremacist Israel. My belief in some kind of inherent decency in the Western political Establishment was naive.
- Retired GM worker speaks on three years of the Flint water crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The poisoning of the city of Flint continues three long years after the decision was made by politicians and financial speculators to switch city residents to Flint River water. As the world now knows, the corrosive Flint River water leached lead from the antiquated piping system into the homes of residents. Lead is a deadly neurotoxin. Because next to nothing has yet been done to fix the city’s infrastructure, even after the switch back to Detroit water, there is no safe water supply for thousands of residents.
- Le Retour a la Vie
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1978
- Retracting Séralini Study Violates Science and Ethics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Giles-Eric Séralini, a professor of molecular biology at Caen University, led a toxicological study on GM maize and the Roundup herbicide which found an alarming increase in early death, large tumours including cancers, and diseases of the liver and kidney. What followed was a concerted worldwide campaign to discredit the findings.
- Les retraites et pre-retraites parlent au ministre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- The Retreat from Class
A New 'True' Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986 Published: 1999
- The Retreat of the Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Ellen Meiksins Wood saw a great danger in the reluctance of today's intellectuals to criticize capitalism.
- The Retrograde Quest for Symbolic Prophets of Black Liberation
Moving beyond the Moses Complex
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
One little-examined legacy of the broader intellectual embrace of race-reductive thinking is something we might call the Quest for Moses(es)—the shorthand branding exercise of privileging the content of individual characters in our debates on racial injustice. We see this tendency in much of today’s wokeness-inflected discourse, which leans heavily on appealing to the authority individuals considered to be exemplary, from differing times or historical contexts, in lieu of empirical arguments to support assertions concerning how we should understand racial injustice.
- Return
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
- Return: A Palestinian Memoir
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Having grown up in Britain following her family's exile from Palestine, doctor, author and academic Ghada Karmi leaves her adoptive home in a quest to return to her homeland. She starts work with the Palestinian Authority and gets a firsthand understanding of its bizarre bureaucracy under Israel's occupation.
- The Return of COINTELPRO?
Time to Target the Real Terrorists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The FBI was using its offices and agents across the country as early as August 2011 to engage in a massive surveillance scheme against Occupy Wall Street. The documents show a government agency at its most paranoid.
- The Return of Commercial Prison Labour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Prisons are seldom mentioned under the rubric of labour market institutions such as temporary work contracts or collective bargaining agreements. Yet, prisons not only employ labour but also cast a shadow on the labour force in or out of work. The early labour movement considered the then prevalent use of prison labour for commercial purposes as unfair competition. By the 1930s, the U.S. labour movement was strong enough to have work for commercial purposes prohibited in prisons.
- The Return of Crisis: Everywhere Banks are in Deep Trouble
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Financial markets the world over are increasingly chaotic; either retreating or plunging. Our view remains that there’s a gigantic market crash in the coming future -- one that has possibly started now.
- The Return of Debtors' Prisons
Reservations for the Poor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Nearly a quarter of the people spending time behind bars on Riker’s Island in 2008 - one in four inmates - were there because they didn’t have the money to pay bail on a misdemeanor charge. These unfortunate souls may have been presumed innocent of the criminal charges by the judge, but they were nonetheless jailed for being poor.
- The Return of Engels
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
After Marx's death in 1883, Engels prepared volumes two and three of Capital for publication from the drafts his friend had left behind. If Engels, as he was the first to admit, stood in Marx’s shadow, he was nevertheless an intellectual and political giant in his own right.
- The Return of the Albuquerque Death Squads
Police War on the Poor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
APD is at war with the poor because it has come to equate any expression of poverty or drug addiction not as an effect of structural inequality, but rather as another opportunity to dispose of what its officers call “human waste.” Like elsewhere being poor, suffering from a mentally illness or battling a drug addiction is a crime.
- The Return of the Coup in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Venezuela and Brazil are the scenes of a new form of coup d'etat that would set the continent's political calendar back to its worst times. Meanwhile, in Argentina, the brutal model for the demolition of democracy is set forward by the continental oligarchic right and the hegemonic forces of US imperialism who wish to impose their model in the region.
- Return of the Evil Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
You have to hand it to them. The United States media machine is unequaled at producing and disseminating misinformation. It begins in the bowels of the State Department or White House or Pentagon and is filtered out through the government’s front organizations, otherwise known as Mainstream Media (MSM).
- The return of the "grand narrative"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Throughout the world, a rising tide of social struggle is upending the proclamations by anti-Marxist intellectuals that the "grand narratives" of working-class struggle and socialist revolution have been superseded.
- The Return to Life/Le Retour a la Vie
Resource Type: Slide Show
First Published: 1981
The Montreal City Mission (United Church of Canada) sponsored this audio-visual documentary with 126 slides.
- The Returns of Zionism
Myths, Politics and Scholarship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Leading Israeli scholar with a major re-evaluation of Zionist ideology and literature.
- Reuters, BBC, and Bellingcat participated in covert UK Foreign Office-funded programs to "weaken Russia," leaked docs reveal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
New leaked documents show Reuters' and the BBC's involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect "attitudinal change" and “weaken the Russian state's influence," alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat.
- Rev. Edward Pinkney Imprisoned
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The corruption and deceitfulness continues in the Berrien County, Michigan courthouse. My husband, Reverend Edward Pinkney, leader of Black Autonomy Network Community Organization (BANCO) was convicted in March 2007 by an all-white jury motivated by something other than the truth. He has now been thrown in prison for writing an article about the case and the injustices in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
- The Rev. Keith Whitney: Interviewed by Nancy Edwards in Toronto
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1978
- Rev. Edward Pinkey Freed after 30 Months
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Michigan's Supreme Court has ruled that Berrien County Prosecutor improperly charged activist Rev. Edward Pinkney with five felony counts of election forgery.
- Reve/cauchemar: Allende's Chile and the Polarization of the Quebec Left in the 1970s
MA Thesis,Queen's University, 2014
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
- Revealed: How DOJ Gagged Google over Surveillance of WikiLeaks Volunteer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The Obama administration fought a legal battle against Google to secretly obtain the email records of a security researcher and journalist associated with WikiLeaks.
- Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents.
- Revealed: The Saudi death squad MBS uses to silence dissent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The MEE reveals information from a Saudi source with intimate knowledge of the Saudi intelligence services, about a death squad that operates under the guidance and supervision of Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
- Revealed: The British government's covert propaganda campaign in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The British government covertly established a network of citizen journalists across Syria during the early years of the country's civil war in an attempt to shape perceptions of the conflict, frequently recruiting people who were unaware that they were being directed from London.
- Reveille for Radicals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946 Published: 1969
Alinksy connects his theoretical notions on radicalism to practical movements and events.
- Revelations
Essays on Striptease and Sexuality
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
A sympathetic look at a much-maligned art form.
- Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1852
Marx exposes the unseemly methods used by the Prussian police state against the communist movement.
- The Revenge of History
The Battle for the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
A critical account of the first decade of the twenty-first century.
- Revenge of the Pomo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The repression (either physically or ideologically via social amnesia) of utopians by the Palmer Raids, McCarthyism, and now (certain varieties of) Post-Modernism has led us to a situation in which some search for authenticity in the wrong places. The gap between virtuous and misplaced authenticity is a symptom of repression, the loss of some deeper truths about solutions be they cooperatives, political mobilization, or honest journalism.
- Revered Rabbi Preaches Slaughter Of Gentile Babies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Rabbis who are among the leading idelogues of the growing fascist movement in Israel say that violence against non-Jews, including the killing of babies, is justied by religious law. According to Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira and Rabbi Yosef Elitzur, Jewish law permits the killing of non-Jews in a wide variety of circumstances. In a recent boo, they say "There is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us".
- Reverend Wright and Black Liberation Theology
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The groundswell of broad support for Barack Obama (both among Blacks and whites) is a phenomenon that deserves a serious analysis and understanding. It cannot be down played by passing it through the lens of pure-and-simple lesser-evilism.
- Reverse Robin Hood: Six Billion Dollar Businesses Preying on Poor People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Many see families in poverty and seek to help. Others see families in poverty and see opportunities for profit. Here are six examples of billion dollar industries which are built on separating poor people, especially people of colour, from their money, the reverse Robin Hood.
- Reversing Enbridge & Big Oil's Pipeline Plans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The National Academy of Sciences is skewering the industry's 'oil is oil' talking point -- making it clear that diluted bitumen is a different beast altogether and needs to be treated as such. The agonizingly slow and costly Kalamazoo River spill cleanup in Michigan made many of these points clear. Yet, the tar sands industry has continued to insist that diluted bitumen creates no deeper environmental threat as they push for unsustainable growth. While Keystone XL is off the table, there are numerous other projects being considered that extend the unique pipeline problems of dilbit into communities across North America.
- Review: Accompanying: Pathways to Social Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Review of Staughton Lynd's "Accompanying: Pathways to Social Change", a book that by and large uses a story-based pedagogy rather than an analysis-based one. It walks through struggles that Lynd and his wife Alice have been involved in directly.
- Review: The American Working Class in Transition by Kim Moody
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1970
Joel Stein reviews Kim Moody's book on the American working class in transition for Root & Branch No. 1, 1970, dealing in particular with Moody's take on the unions.
- Review: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1968
Myrdal's dilemma is his theoretical attempt to combine irreconcilable, namely, a capitalist market economy with authoritarian controls designed to subject capital production to actual social needs. This forces him to misunderstand both capitalism and socialism, and to provide them with features they do not possess. It induces him also to assume that it is actually possible to treat the development problems of South Asia in relative isolation from the problems of the capitalist world economy.
- Review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A book review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island.
- Review: Chris Rhomberg, The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor (2012)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Review on Chris Rhomberg's book 'The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor.'
- Review: Cyber-Marx - Aufheben
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Aufheben critically review Nick Dyer-Witheford's Cyber-Marx: cycles and circuits of struggle in high-technology capitalism and its basis in the flawed theories of Antonio Negri.
- Review Essay: Reaching for Revolution
Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Book review of Howard Brick's and Christopher Phelpss Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World War.
- Review Essay: Reutherism Redux
Against The Current vol. 112
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Despite stepped-up union recruitment, farm workers and poultry processors still haven't taken over the AFL-CIO. But the old guard's fear of being swamped by low-wage workers—expressed by this AFT delegate seven years ago—has materialized in other ways (even while organizing among "strawberry pickers and chicken pluckers" generally flopped).
- Review falsifies history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
It is only because Canada's electoral system is profoundly undemocratic that it was possible for the Mulroney Tories to form a majority government with only 43 per cent of the votes. They then used that majority to force through the free trade deal even though a majority of the electorate had voted against it.
- Review: International Socialist Review on "Contemporary Anarchism"
Resource Type: Pamphlet
The word "anarchism" is a rather vague word that covers such a wide variety of political views and approaches it is often hard to see how they have anything in common. This means it is also probably not very productive to produce "critiques" of anarchism that lump the many different viewpoints together.
- Review: Jonathan Metzl, Dying of Whiteness (2019)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A detailed review, focusing mainly on gun violence, of Jonathan Metzl's book Dying of Whiteness.
- Review: Kate Evans, Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg (2015)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Red Rosa does not aspire to be an authoritative biography but, perhaps as a result, it is a more compelling book. What's compelling about it? The graphics have a lot to do with it; it's an extended comic strip (although the author might take offense with that characterization). The events, both intimate and very public, of Luxemburg’s life and the words and deeds of her political activity are portrayed in vivid graphics. When reading the book, it's impossible to feel detached from them. At the same time, those events, words and deeds are presented seriously, without trivialization. This is no "Rosa Luxemburg for Dummies."
- Review: Nick Turse, Kill Anything That Moves. The Real American War in Vietnam (2013)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Review of Nick Turse's book Kill Anything That Moves. The Real American War in Vietnam.
- Review of 'Karl Marx' by Karl Korsch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1939
In conspicuous distinction to many other interpretations of Marx, this book concentrates upon the essentials of Marxian theory and practice.
- Review of Man of the People: A Life of Harry S Truman
by Alonzo L Hamby
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Chomsky criticizes Hamby's biographical attempt claiming that Truman - regardless of how his achievements are regarded - deserves a better account.
- A Review of Mary Gabriel's Love and Capital and Some Thoughts Prompted by the Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
So much of what parades as Marxism has very little to do with Karl Marx. Mary Gabriel knows Marx and we know him better after we read her book.
- A Review of NATO's War over Kosovo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
In wake of the end of the Kosovo conflict, Chomsky attempts a dispassionate analysis of the crisis, differentiating between two approaches available to the international community in such situations.
- Review of the Press: Portugal 1974
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
The subtext of mainstream media coverage of social upheavals in post-fascist Portugal is that a return to dictatorship is necessary and inevitable to preserve the social order.
- Review of Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A book review of Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital. Vivek Chibber challenges the post-Marxist framework of the Subaltern Studies group.
- Review: Poster art of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
- Review: Riding the Bus to Freedom
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The 1961 Freedom Rides challenged a racially segregated society by openly defying its customs, riding in interracial groups on interstate buses going South and desegregating the stations’ facilities. Asserting their constitutional right to travel, participants employed direct action in the face of intimidation, violence and police complicity with the Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens’ Councils.
- Review: The Politics of Some Bodies - On "Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
At a time when Marxist politics is struggling more than ever against the current, queer Marxist scholarship is enjoying a slight, startling, heartening resurgence. Holly Lewis' The Politics of Everybody is a major contribution to the trend.
- Review: Defying Fundamentalism
A review of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Concerned with the rising Jihadist fundamentalism on one hand, and increasing discrimination against Muslims following 9/11 on the other, and having in mind the question repeated by many commentators — “Why don’t Muslims speak out?” — Bennoune documents the voices of Muslims in various ways victimized by Islamic fundamentalists.
- Review: Political War Over Palestine
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
It has become impossible to review titles like these, or discuss the issues they raise, without reference to the rise of an exceptionally vicious campaign against critical activist voices and academic scholarship on Palestine and Israel.
- Reviewing Red: Love and Revolution
Against The Current vol. 140
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
At the dawn of the 1960s, the modest tradition of novels depicting men and women active in Marxist movements morphed abruptly from a comparatively marginal to a mainstream phenomenon.
- Reviews and Articles
From Die rote Fahne
Resource Type: Book
These pieces are mainly articles and book reviews written in 1922 for the Communist daily newspaper Die rote Fahne.
- Reviews from the Neue Rheinische Zeitung Politisch-okonomische Revue
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1850
The periodical's aims were to assess the results of the 1848-49 revolution, to reveal the nature of the new historical situation, and to develop further the party's tactics. Altogether six issues were published; the last issue, a double one (5-6),came out at the end of November 1850. All further attempts to continue publication were blocked by police persecution in Germany and lack of funds.
- Reviews from The Sources HotLink
Resource Type: Website
Reviews are in alphabetical order by title.
- Revised NAFTA Shows Every Sign of Being Another Trump Scam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement between the US and Mexico, a deal intended to force Canada, which has the strongest regulations, into signing on disadvantageous terms. Dolack explains why any new NAFTA will undoubtedly be a windfall for multi-national corporations at public expense.
- Revising Class: Lumpen in Literature
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Review of Ragged Revolutionaries by Nathaniel Mills. Marxist analysis of depression-era African-American literaature by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Margaret Walker.
- La revision du code civil attente aux droits de la femme dt du couple
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- The Revisionaries
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2012
The Revisionaries follows the attempts of a creationist Board of Education member to revise the science and history curricula to better suit a white, Christian nation.
- Revisit the province's royalty regime and make De Beers compensate Attawapiskat fairly.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Last month, the remote Cree community of Attawapiskat was front-page news. The community has been grappling with a devastating suicide crisis -- and more than 100 residents -- as young as 11 and as old as 71 -- have attempted suicide. This crisis reflects the despair facing the community over dilapidated housing, lack of mental health services and social infrastructure. But it is roots are in colonialism -- and worsened by corporate greed.
- Revisiting 'Black Power,' Race and Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1967
There is no such suprahistorical abstraction as racism. In each historical period it was something different. It was one thing during slavery, another during Reconstruction, and quite something else today. To further insist that "Whatever their political persuasion," "All Whites" are "part of the collective white America" so that the U.S. has "180 million racists" is to blur the class line which cuts across the race divisions as well as to muffle the philosophy of total freedom which has created a second America.
- Revisiting the partition of Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Henry Lowi calls on honest, realistic and pragmatic peace activists the world over to expose partition, protest against it and propose an alternative solution to the question of Palestine.
- The Revolt of the Fragments
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
It was, without question, a bloody nose for the political establishment, the biggest it has received for decades. And many have read the unexpected success of the Leave camp in the British EU referendum straightforwardly as a revolt against the political class and as a victory for democracy. Yes, it was a revolt against the political class in London and in Brussels. But the referendum result was also far more complicated than that.
- The Revolt of the Aganaktismeni
Huge Popular Uprisings in Greece
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The 'Outraged' movement is getting more and more rooted among lower classes against a Greek society that has been shaped by 25 years of total domination of a cynical, nationalist, racist and individualist neoliberal ideology that turned everything into commodities.
- Revolt of the Brotherhoods
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A revolt by artisan guilds against the government of King Charles I in the Kingdom of Valencia which lasted from 1521-1523.
- Revolt of the Comuneros
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An uprising by citizens of Castile against the rule of Charles V and his administration between 1520 and 1521.
- Revolt On Goose Island
The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What it Says About the Economic Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
The story of a workers' takeover.
- La Revolte des Etudiants Allemands
Resource Type: Book
- Revolution
Resource Type: Article
- Revolution
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Revolution against "progress": the TIPNIS struggle and class contradictions in Bolivia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Evo Morales's green light to a decades-old project to build a highway connecting Villa Tunari north to San Ignacio de Moxos through the indigenous territory and national park known as TIPNIS (Territorio Indígena del Parque Nacional Isiboro-Sécure), was the catalyst of his government's unpopular ratings.
- Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1852 Published: 1896
- Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1851 Published: 1896
- Revolution and counter-revolution take world stage
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2011-2012
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Revolution and counter-revolution have forced their way back to the center stage of history. First in Tunisia, then in Egypt, revolutions have opened up tremendous new possibilities and spread the fire of their passion from Libya and across the Arab world to Iran, Europe, the U.S. and China. Counter-revolution has reared its head in many forms as well.
- Revolution and other Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1906
- Revolution and the Color Line
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A review of the biography 'W.E.B. DuBois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line', by Bill Mullen, detailing the life of the influential author and organizer.
- Revolution and Counter Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1896 Published: 1971
A collection of articles and letters written by Marx for the New York Tribune in 1851 and 1852.
- Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Africa
Essays in Contemporary Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
In this collection of essays, one of Africa's most eminent political scientists investigates crucial problems confronting the African continent: its chronic instability and sectional conflict, the nature of class rule and the failure of the post-colonial state to deliver on the promises of independence. The relevance of Marxist theory to an understanding of Africa's social reality is explored, and a theory of national liberation, based on the ideas of Amilcar Cabral, developed.
- Revolution and counter-revolution in Syria
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A large part of the Western left and radical media have written off the struggle against the totalitarian Assad regime in Syria as irretrievably lost. Effectively, for them, the counterrevolution has triumphed. And alongside them, there are also those who never supported the revolutionary uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in the first place.
- Revolution for the Hell of It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
A guide to the political philosophy of the Yippies, and an account of their participation in the Chicago Riots.
- Revolution für soziale Gerechtigkeit und Demokratie!
Vorschläge für eine offensive Strategie der LINKEN
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
In den nächsten Jahren wird sich entscheiden, in welche Richtung sich diese Gesellschaft bewegt. Sie steht an einem Scheideweg: Zwischen rechter Hetze und neoliberaler Konkurrenz auf der einen Seite, Demokratie, Solidarität und sozialer Gerechtigkeit auf der anderen Seite. Werden größere Teile der Erwerbslosen, Prekären, Geringverdienenden und die abstiegsbedrohte Mittelschicht sich den Rechtspopulisten zuwenden und damit den Weg für eine noch unsozialere, autoritäre und antidemokratische Entwicklung bereiten? Oder gelingt es, Konkurrenz und Entsolidarisierung zurückzudrängen und ein gesellschaftliches Lager der Solidarität zu bilden?
- The Revolution Game
The Short Unhappy Life of the Company of Young Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
A historical overview of the Company of Young Canadians.
- Revolution in Paris
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1848
The bourgeoisie has made its revolution, it has toppled Guizot and with him the exclusive rule of the Stock Exchange grandees. Now, however, in the second act of the struggle, it is no longer one section of the bourgeoisie confronting another, now the proletariat confronts the bourgeoisie.
- The Revolution in Russia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905
- Revolution in the Air
Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
An interpretation of the 19060s New Left in the United States.
- Revolution in the Metropolis
Resource Type: Article
Monopoly Capitalism's development and domination breeds underdevelopment everywhere, in so-called Third-World dependencies, as well as the Metropolis of imperialism itself. It will not be defeated by the false assumption that oppressed masses abroad will bring about the liberation of oppressed masses at home, without the latter's doing.
- Revolution in the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
- The Revolution is Dead Long Live the Revolution
Readings on the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution from an Ultra-Left Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1976
essasy on China's Great Proletarian cultural Revolution.
- The Revolution Is Not A Party Affair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1920
The revolution is not a party affair. The three social-democratic parties (SPD, USPD, KPD) are so foolish as to consider the revolution as their own party affair and to proclaim the victory of the revolution as their party goal. The revolution is the political and economic affair of the totality of the proletarian class. Only the proletariat as a class can lead the revolution to victory. Everything else is superstition, demagogy and political chicanery.
- Revolution Never Sleeps: Nuit Debout in France and Beyond
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The movement Nuit debout -- 'night on our feet' or 'stand up night!' -- is a potent reminder of the existence of an indefatigable global struggle against the neoliberal credo and all of its devastating consequences. Although it has deep roots, like all sociopolitical movements, it has come into its own since the prolongation of a March 31st, 2016 general strike (grève générale) and mass protest against French labor reforms, which aim at further consolidating class power and rendering the status of the labor force even more precarious. It quickly mutated like so many other recent movements from a circumscribed protest into an extended and rapidly spreading occupation.
- Revolution of Conscience
Martin Luther King Jr., and the Philosophy of Nonviolence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Moses explores key ideas about Martin Luther King Jr. and his philosophy in relation to the American civil rights movement, racial equality and nonviolence.
- Revolution of '89
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Noam Chomsky explores the asymmetry between the resistance developments in Central America in relation to US power, and in Eastern Europe in relation to the Soviet.
- The Revolution of Everyday Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 2001
The classic complement to Debord's Society of the Spectacle. Vaneigem examines the minutia of power as "abstracted mediation and mediated abstraction" that permeates everyday life and the means of seizing control of our lives and truly living.
- The Revolution of Hope
Toward a Humanized Technology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
Froom argues for the urgent necessity of shfiting our priorities from things and death to the priorities of life and human beings.
- Revolution of the Deaf
Resource Type: Article
- Revolution of the Snails
Encounters with the Zapatistas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Give the Zapatistas time -- the slow, unfolding time of the spiral and the journey of the snail -- to keep making their world, the one that illuminates what else our lives and societies could be. Our revolution must be as different as our temperate-zone, post-industrial society is to their subtropical agrarianism, but also guided by the slow forces of dignity, imagination, and hope, as well as the playfulness they display in their imagery and language.
- The Revolution Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The accumulating failures of both Communist and Social Democratic parties over the past 50 years was accompanied by a marked shift on the radical left toward a broad-ranging ‘movementism’ – whether in its pressure-group or protest-oriented dimensions. As Jodi Dean has recently argued, those trying thereby to escape 'the constraints of party’ often reduced it to 'the actuality of its mistakes’ while ‘its role as concentrator of collective aspirations and affects [was] diminished if not forgotten.'
- Revolution Re-Assessed
Politics of Human Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
The political objectives and beliefs of the Australian-based Libertarian Socialist Organisation.
- The Revolution that Wasn't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1988
An essay about radical history, revolution and socialism.
- The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
- Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance
The Power of Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- Revolution, She Wrote
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
An exploration and personal account of the meaning of socialist feminism, the power of Marxist theory and working-class feminism. Fraser addresses such topics as women's leadership, the interconnections of racism and sexism, homophobia in the military, electoral politics, job rights and freedom of speech.
- Revolutionärer Optimist
Ein Interview mit Martin Glaberman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Revolutionaries in the a Time of Retreat
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Book review of "Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922" edited and translated by John Riddell.
- The Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Pilger discusses the challenges that we encounter as Western governments and media actively seek to supress any political consciousness and independent thought.
- Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir
Volume 1, Canada 1955-1965
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
The first volume of long-time Canadian revolutionary socialist Ernie Tate's memoir.
- Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir
Volume 2, Britain 1965-1970
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
The second volume of long-time Canadian revolutionary socialist Ernie Tate's memoir.
- The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in the USA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1948
The impetus of the Negro movement toward the revolutionary forces, which we have traced in the past, is stronger today than ever before.
- The Revolutionary Art of Failure
Vivas to Those Who Have Failed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Book review of Martin Espada's Vivas to Those Who Have Failed.
- Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
Resource Type: Website
Women opposed to the Taliban, to the Afghan government, and to the foreign forces in Afghanistan.
- A revolutionary attitude to Archives
From the writings of Raya Dunayevskaya
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1985 Published: 2015
Raya Dunayevskaya takes up the development of the Marxist-Humanist concept of Archives.
- Revolutionary Catechism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1866
Bakunin believed that workers were very far from being able to attain revolutionary consciousness on their own. To imbue the masses with this consciousness and to prevent the deformation of a resulting revolution, Bakunin felt that the only alternative was to organize a secret International Fraternity headed by himself. Bakunin was convinced that this kind of vanguard movement was indispensable to the success of the anarchist Social Revolution.
- Revolutionary Centennial: Guyana's 1905 Rebellion
Against The Current vol. 114
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
1905 was a landmark year in the history of Guyana, as it was for several places around the world. In Russia, the Tsar and his troops shot workers delivering a petition in St. Petersburg. In Bengal there were communal shootings; in South West Africa the German massacre of the Herero people was in full progress.
- A Revolutionary Detroit Memoir
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Review of autobiographical memoir of a white, working-class, Catholic woman who became involved in Black activisim.
- Revolutionary Feminism, Communist Interventions vol. 3
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The third volume of the Communist Interventions reader series, on Revolutionary Feminism. A century of debates between communist, anarchist, and radical feminist militants on women's oppression and capitalism.
- A Revolutionary for our Times: Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
- Revolutionary France
Resource Type: Article
Documents on revolutionary France 1789 -
- Revolutionary Greece
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The small town of Distomo is just 150 kilometers from Athens, positioned in the heart of Greece, literally squeezed between two great world heritage sites: Delphi, the cradle of the European democracy, and a stunning Byzantine monastery of Hossios Luckas. But Distomo is much more than some picturesque village surrounded by mountains and history.
- A Revolutionary Marxist History of May Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The revolutionary heritage of May Day
- Revolutionary Medicine - A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
The story of the building of a hospital in Ciriboya, Honduras -- an authentic, grass-roots, community development project, from the initial community meetings, the organized planning, the community defense committees, to the actual bricks, mortar and staffing. The viewer of Revolutionary Medicine is guided through the process in a series of compelling interviews with doctors, patients and community protagonists.
- Revolutionary Nonviolence
Essays by Dave Dellinger
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970 Published: 1971
Dellinger says that "those of us who oppose the violence of the status quo and reject the violence of armed revolt and class hatred bear a heavy responsibility to struggle existentially to provdew nonviolent alternatives." Dellinger's essays attempt to explore those alternatives.
- Revolutionary Optimism: Journeys in Radical Politics Past and Present
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2018
On the "Reality Asserts Itself" program of The RealNews network, Prof. Leo Panitch is interviewed by host Paul Jay. Discussion topics include his political leanings, the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, the UK Labour Party, and whether radical change is indeed possible.
- Revolutionary Optimist
An interview with Martin Glaberman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Revolutionary Organisation and Open Letter to IS
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
A 1972 pamphlet incorporating two previously published texts, 'Revolutionary Organisation' (1961) and 'An Open Letter to I.S.' (1968). They are presented as "a contribution to the serious discussing now taking place, within the ranks of revolutionaryies, as to what kind of organisation is necessary."
- Revolutionary Organization
Versus Bureaucratic and "Democratic" Centralism
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1969 Published: 1973
An advocacy for democratic, "uncentred" socialism as an antidote to Stalinist repression, elitism by workers' leadership and blindness to the "understandings of today's reality." Also included is a short article by Anton Pennekoek, on "Party and Class".
- Revolutionary Organization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1961
We here wish to examine one of the most fervently adhered to dogmas of the "Left": the need for a tightly centralized socialist party, controlled by a carefully selected leadership. The Labour Party describes this type of organization as an essential feature of British democracy in practice. The Bolsheviks describe it as a "democratic centralism". Let us forget the names and look below the surface. In both cases we find the complete domination of the party in all matters of organization and policy by a fairly small group of professional "leaders".
- Revolutionary Politics and the Cuban Working Class
Torchbook Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
A study of Cuban workers after consolidation of the Castro regime.
- Revolutionary Priest
The Complete Writings & Messages of Camilo Torres
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
The writings and speeches of Camilo Torres, a radical priest turned guerrilla who was killed in 1966.
- Revolutionary reels: Soviet propaganda film and the Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
However, the Bolsheviks would revolutionize Russian cinema as leaders recognized the potential of film propaganda as a way to influence the political and social attitudes of the people. Vladimir Lenin clearly understood the power of film, as he stated, "Of all the arts, for us, cinema is most important."
- Revolutionary Rojava: An polyethnic, feminist and anti-capitalist experiment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A history of the Democratic Federation of North Syria as a beacon of hope in Syria's 8-year-long civil war.
- Revolutionary roots of women's suffrage: Finland 1906 - an International Women's Day tribute
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Eric Blanc traces the revolutionary roots of the suffrage victory of Finnish women. He focuses on the autonomous activities of the League of Working Women.
- Revolutionary Self-Theory: A Beginners' Manual
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975 Published: 1985
A booklet is for people who are dissatisfied with their lives.
- A Revolutionary Socialist Manifesto
An open letter to the Party
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964
- Revolutionary Soviet Film Posters
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
- Revolutionary Spain
Articles by Karl Marx in the New-York Herald Tribune
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1854
The series of articles Revolutionary Spain was written by Marx for the New-York Daily Tribune between August and November 1854. Marx observed all the symptoms of the revolutionary movement in Europe and paid much attention to the revolutionary events in the summer of 1854 in Spain. He held that the revolutionary struggle there could provide a stimulus for the development of the revolutionary movement in other European countries.
- A Revolutionary Speech: Patrice Lumumba and the Birth of the Republic of Congo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese independence leader and first democratically elected Prime Minister, was executed on 17th January, 1961. He had been beated and tortured in a culmination of two assassination plots by the Belgian government and the CIA, ordered directly by President Dwight Eisenhower to 'eliminate' the charismatic leader, with the cooperation of British intelligence and Katangan authorities.
- Revolutionary Suicide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
An illustrated memoir by founding Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton.
- Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Minneapolis Teamster strikes overlapped with a similarly hard-fought 83-day strike by West Coast longshoremen and maritime unions, a battle that culminated in a four-day general strike in San Francisco. Both strikes were part of a wave of labour struggle that swept the country as the working class, shaking off the paralysis that had accompanied the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, began to fight. What distinguished these two strikes, along with one by auto parts workers in Toledo, from other 1934 labor battles is that they won big, establishing union representation for masses of previously unorganized workers and opening the road to the upsurge later in the decade that forged the industrial unions of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Key to the victory of all three strikes was the leadership provided by "reds" -- labour militants who considered themselves socialist or communist.
- Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Minneapolis Teamster strikes overlapped with a similarly hard-fought 83-day strike by West Coast longshoremen and maritime unions, a battle that culminated in a four-day general strike in San Francisco. Both strikes were part of a wave of labour struggle that swept the country as the working class, shaking off the paralysis that had accompanied the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, began to fight. What distinguished these two strikes, along with one by auto parts workers in Toledo, from other 1934 labor battles is that they won big.
- Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
A Review and Commentary by E. Tanner (Part One)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A review and dicussion of Bryan Palmer's in-depth study of the truckers strikes in Minneapolis in 1934.
- Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
A Review and Commentary by E. Tanner (Part Two)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A review and dicussion of Bryan Palmer's in-depth study of the truckers strikes in Minneapolis in 1934.
- Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013 Published: 2014
A book on the Teamster's strike of 1934.
- Revolutionary "Termites" in Faridabad
A Proletarian Current In India Confronts Third Worldist Statism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Kamunist Kranti/Collectivities: Presentation and Critical Dialogue
- Revolutionary theory, academia and Marxist political parties
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
According to Lenin, revolutionary work has four parts: theoretical work, propaganda, agitation and organization.
- Revolutionary Traveller
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
John S. Saul draws on a series of his own occasional articles written over a span of forty years which, together with a linking narrative, serve to trace not only his own career as an anti-apartheid and liberation support movement activist in both Canada and southern Africa but also help recount the history of the various struggles in both venues in which he has been directly involved.
- Revolutionary Unionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1905
Speech at Chicago, November 25, 1905
- A Revolutionary Woman in Mind and Spirit: The Passions of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
In these comments on the spirit and mind of this great revolutionary thinker and activist, I think it makes sense to begin with a focus on her gender. It isn't clear that Rosa Luxemburg herself would be inclined to agree. She had, after all, refused to occupy a “safer”and marginalized position as a women's spokesperson in the socialist movement.
- Revolutionary workers' movements and parliaments in Germany 1918-23
A reply to Tony Phillips
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
- List of revolutions and rebellions
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
This is a list of revolutions and rebellions
- A Revolution's Heritage (book review)
Against The Current vol. 155
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
S. Sándor John's Bolivia’s Radical Tradition explores in detail the emergence in Bolivia of what became the strongest Trotskyist tradition in the Americas, thanks in large part to militant tin miner unions.
- Revolutions of 1848
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A series of political upheavals throughout the European continent. Described by some historians as a revolutionary wave, the period of unrest began in France and then, further propelled by the French Revolution of 1848, soon spread to the rest of Europe.
- Revolutions of 1848 in the German states
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
"Germany" at the time of the Revolutions of 1848 was a collection of 39 states loosely bound together in the German Confederation. As nationalist sentiment crystallized into resistance to the traditional political structure, repeated calls for freedom, democracy and national unity came to threaten the status quo.
- Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Revue De Presse Amerique Centrale, Numero 7/Mensuel.
Periodical profile published 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1982
- Revue Internationale D'Action Communautaire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
- Reweaving the Web of Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Contributors, including Alice Walker, Grace Paley Joan Baaez, Barbara Deming and Holly Near, stress the connection between patriarchy and war, sex and violence. This book makes it clear that nonviolence can be an assertive, positive force. This is a provociative reading for those interested in the surviving in and changing the nuclear age.
- The Rewilding of Humanity?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
John Davis looks back at the exploitation of the wilderness, where urban dwellers are now alienated from the natural world that once surrounded them, and wonders whether we can ever return and live in a more natural and balanced state.
- Rexdale Immigrant Women's Project
Organization profile published 1980
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1980
Working to meet the needs of immigrant women in suburban communities.
- Rhetoric for Radicals
A Handbook for Twenty-first Century Activists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Activists often suffer from a credibility gap because of their lack of coherent message and strategic delivery. Rhetoric for Radicals addresses and helps solve these problems. It provides the tools to develop the all-important communication skills necessary to be effectively heard.
- The Rich and the Super-Rich
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1969
- A rich diversity: Underground channels and stream of US Trotskyism, 1928-1965
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
- The rich get richer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Rich Getting Richer Via Tax Policies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Marginal income tax rates plunged starting in the 1980s, hitting their modern-day lows under President George W. Bush. After rising modestly during the Obama Administration, they fell again under President Trump. Rate cuts generate only part of the current bonanza. Tax breaks passed by various Congresses account for the rest, hugely increasing the billions that flow to the haves.
- Rich Man, Poor Man: Who's the Thief?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- Richard Levins: Scientist, Activist and Friend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
American scientist Richard Levins, philosopher of science, titan of ecology, forebear of agroecology, renowned authority on the social and ecological dimensions of disease, and friend of Puerto Rico, has passed away.
- Richest 1% have more money than poorest half of world's population
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The bottom half of adults in the world collectively own less than the richest one percent, according to a Credit Suisse report. The gap between the super-rich and the poor has significantly grown since the global crisis.
- Richmond, CA vs. Chevron
Against The Current vol. 139
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
There was no shortage of attention-getting politics in the fall of 2008. Yet even in the context of the history-making national election, the local city council campaign and vote on business license fees in Richmond, California should be of interest to readers of a national magazine.
- Richmond: Company Town or People's Town?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Feeley delves into the problematic dynamics surrounding the election campaign in Richmond, CA whereby the city's dominant corporation, the Chevron oil refinery which carries a long history of environmental concerns with it, could potentially have a greater hand in municipal decisions if one of its candidates are elected.
- Richmond and Eminent Domaine
The Stone That Brings Down Goliath?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In a nearly $13 billion settlement with the US Justice Department in November 2013, JPMorganChase admitted that it, along with every other large US bank, had engaged in mortgage fraud as a routine business practice, sowing the seeds of the mortgage meltdown.
- Rick Berman Exposed in New Audio; Hear His Tactics Against Environmentalists and Workers' Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Rick Berman, the king of corporate front groups and propaganda, has been caught on tape detailing his attacks on public interest groups in the labor and environmental movements. Berman specializes in setting up pro-corporate front groups to attack grassroots citizen groups. Berman advocates and practises a range of dirty tactics and propaganda techniques.
- Rick Berman Exposed in New Audio; Hear His Tactics Against Environmentalists and Workers' Rights
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2014
The king of corporate front groups and propaganda, has been caught on tape detailing his attacks on public interest groups in the labor and environmental movements, including on efforts to increase the minimum wage for workers.
- Riel, Louis
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Metis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the North-West rebellion. (1844-1885).
- Riel, Louis
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Metis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the North-West rebellion. (1844-1885).
- Rigged
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The 2016 Republican presidential primary was rigged. It wasn't rigged by the Republicans, the Democrats, Russians, space aliens, or voters. It was rigged by the owners of television networks who believed that giving one candidate far more coverage than others was good for their ratings. The CEO of CBS Leslie Moonves said of this decision: "It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS." Justifying that choice based on polling gets the chronology backwards, ignores Moonves' actual motivation, and avoids the problem, which is that there ought to be fair coverage for all qualified candidates (and a democratic way to determine who is qualified).
- Rigged. Forced into Debt. Worked past exhaustion. Left with nothing.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Port trucking companies in southern California have spent the past decade forcing drivers to finance their own trucks by taking on debt, which is then used as leverage to extract forced labor and trap drivers in jobs that leave them destitute.
- Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
There has been an enormous upward redistribution of income in the United States in the last four decades. In his most recent book, Baker shows that this upward redistribution was not the result of globalization and the natural workings of the market. Rather it was the result of conscious policies that were designed to put downward pressure on the wages of ordinary workers while protecting and enhancing the incomes of those at the top. Baker explains how rules on trade, patents, copyrights, corporate governance, and macroeconomic policy were rigged to make income flow upward.
- Rigging the Science of GMO Ecotoxicity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Scientific article about dangers of GMO plants and techniques used by developers to disguise harms to get GMOs through testing.
- Right and Wrong Responses to Palestinian Suicide Bombers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The Israeli government hypocritically seizes upon every suicide bombing to justify the far greater Israeli state terror against Palestinians. To side with Israel in this hypocrisy is as morally bankrupt as it would have been to side with slave owners or the genocidal U.S. cavalry or the apartheid South African government because of objections to terrorism.
- Right But Wrong: Trump's Defense of Confederate Symbols and Its Threat to Color-Blind Liberalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The ugly scenes of neo-nazis, neo-Confederates, and self-proclaimed white supremacists marching in large numbers and brawling on the streets of Charlottesville shocked American culture. President Trump spoke three times commenting on those troubling events.
- The Right Kind Of Terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
When is an act of terrorism not terrorism? When the victims are officially sanctioned state enemies.
- Right Livelihood Award
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An award presented annually to honour those "working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today".
- Right Livelihood Award Recipients List
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
List of Right Livelihood Award Laureates.
- The Right of Return & Transformative Justice
Against The Current vol. 111
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
By most accounts, the issue of the Palestinian refugees and their right to return to the part of Mandatory Palestine that now constitutes the State of Israel has been the most obstinate stumbling block preventing the resolution of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
- The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1939
- Right on the Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
The shared vision articulated by Ulli Diemer will never attain an organized and effective form unless it can be concretized into a series of political programmes, and eventually made real through one or many political organizations or parties.
- The Right to be Greedy
Theses On The Practical Necessity Of Demanding Everything
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
- The Right To Be Lazy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1883
Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.
- Right to Fight
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1982
- The Right to Food First
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
A look at the structures that support world food trade and prevent even distribution of food worldwide.
- The Right to Housing - A Human Right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
- The Right to Housing - A Human Right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1983
- Right to Life Association of Toronto and Area
Newsletter #26
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1976
Newsletter to keep members informed of the latest developments on the abortion question in Toronto, Ontario and Canada at large.
- Right to Life Association of Toronto and Area, Issue No. 35
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
- Right to Life - Ghouls and the Schiavo Case
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Exploiting the Terri Schiavo tragedy.
- "Right to Life" Horror in Texas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A Texas hospital keeps a corpse hooked up to machines.
- A Right to Live
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1977
A film that explains what happens to job related accident victims and how injured workers are fighting back.
- The Right to Offend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
Humans do have a right to offend other humans, especially in presenting dissent from the views with which many people seem to be very content. This includes those views called religious.
- Right to poster upheld
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- The Right To Privacy Committee
Organization profile published 1982
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1982
The Right to Privacy Committee (RTPC) defines itself as an open membership, non-profit organization.
- The Right to Read
Social Justice, Literacy, and the Creation of Frontier College: The Alfred Fitzpatrick Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2023
The story of Frontier College, founded to bringing literacy education to adult workers in remote locations.
- "Right to Try" Is a Cruel Farce
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Drug companies want you to think they're providing glimmers of hope to terminally ill patients. Don't believe them.
- "Right to Work": Menace to Labor
Against The Current vol. 157
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A year-long battle ended in January with Indiana becoming the 23rd “Right to Work (RTW)” state — and ominously for labor, now the wedge state for opening the rest of the industrial Midwest to RTW campaigns. In neighboring Michigan, the home state of the United Auto Workers, rightwing state legislators are pushing to follow the Indiana example in the name of “competitiveness.”
- Right-Wing Assault, Liberal Retreat
Against The Current vol. 143
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The heat is on the Obama administration. The energized conservative base has taken over town hall meetings on health care. There are “birthers,” “deathers” and just pure haters. President Obama has been personally attacked as a racist, socialist, communist, Stalinist, fascist, Nazi, Pol Potist, foreigner and every other name the right finds in its vocabulary.
- The Right-Wing Doesn't Want to Talk About Christian Atrocities, So Let's Talk About Christian Atrocities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
History is full of atrocities committed by Christians for Christ, against not just other religions but against Christians themselves.
- Right-Wing Harassment Strategy Against Dems Detailed In Memo
'Yell,' 'Stand Up And Shout Out,' 'Rattle Him'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
- Right-Wing Media Send Their Mobs of Crazy Fans to Go After Private Citizens -- Including Kids
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The right-wing is igniting the crazies by pushing them to snoop on everyday people.
- The right-wing, racialist attacks on the film Free State of Jones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The new film written and directed by Gary Ross, Free State of Jones, about a white farmer in Mississippi, Newton Knight, who led an insurrection against the Confederacy from 1863 to 1865, has come under sharp attack by right-wing elements in the American media. By right-wing elements, we mean the "new right" of identity politics advocates.
- Right-Wing Thought Police Assault Free Speech on Campus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The Orwellian campaign to portray the expression of views in the university that run contrary to those ruling the country as a lack of "academic freedom."
- Right Wingers Marching in DC Is Big News -- But the Same Old Faces Are Pulling the Strings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The right is never truly defeated; its leaders are patient, and they learn from their errors. When they're out of power, they stay busy, building institutions and mailing lists, all the while waiting for their moment to strike.
- Right Woos Left
Populist Party, LaRouchite, and Other Neo-fascist Overtures To Progressives, And Why They Must Be Rejected
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990 Published: 1999
- The Right-to-Farm Scam
Third Wave Corporatocracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
When Monsanto’s home state of Missouri passed the “Right to Farm” on August 5, 2014 the third noose of corporate control tightened around the neck of the US. Unlike the first two steps of corporate domination of public life, this was a constitutional amendment that would block the state legislature or voters from passing future laws for environmental protection, animal welfare or labeling of contaminated food. This third wave corporatocracy could well spread across US and globally as it becomes a new form of mass disenfranchisement.
- The Right-Wing Assault on the Truth in India Claims the Life of Another Journalist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Journalist, activist and writer Gauri Lankesh, was gunned down on the night of Sept. 5, 2017, by a suspected right-wing extremist for her published views in a tabloid paper.
- Right-wing coup or popular revolt? The April 2018 Nicaraguan uprising examined
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Description of a report on the causes of the April 2018 conflict in Nicaragua.
- The Righteous
The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
- Righteous among the Nations
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An honorific used to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis.
- Rights and Freedoms State Fear The Global attack on rights
New Internationalist March 2005
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
A look into rights and freedoms, the connection to occupation, and their state in different parts of the world.
- Rights and Liberties - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- Rights and Liberties - Chinese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
- Rights and Wrong
Some Essays of Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
- The Right's Fringe Festival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Milling around the crowd, it was impossible to miss the references to issues as disparate as blocking investigations of CIA torture, promoting assault weapons and God "judging" America for homosexuality. Confederate flags were flown, Obama was told to "go back to Kenya," and so forth and so on. The crowd itself was almost exclusively white--and its members had come to get their country back.
- Rights group criticizes Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Rights and Liberties
Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1984
Civil liberties and human rights appear as a key dimension in almost every other field of social justice and social change, but those who seek a freer and more just society cannot rely on the state to achieve their goals.
- Rights of Indigenous Peoples 'Critical' to Combat Climate Change
Resource Type: Article
Details the intersection between climate change and the defense of rights for indigenous peoples.
- The Rights of Man
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1792
Thomas Paine's defense of the French Revolution -- and the right to revolt.
- Rights on Condition: Association for Civil Rights in Israel State of Human Rights Report 2009
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
In Israel, the entire spectrum of rights is dependent on what we say or believe, what ethnic group we belong to, how much money we have, and more.
- Rights and Realities: Discrimination and the Gay Women and Men of British Columbia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
This brief investigates the prospect of extending legislative protection to include the human rights of gay women and men in British Columbia.
- Rights vs. Privileges
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
We now owe our 'liberties' to the good will of the government, which can withdraw them at any time, rather than to our ability to force the government to respect them.
- Rightwing Manipulation of the Wisconsin Revolt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Manipulation of opinion surveys is easy enough for those seeking to muddy the waters of political debate regarding the current war on unions.
- Right-Wing Populism in America
Too Close for Comfort
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Examines the historical roots and current situation of right-wing populism in the US. Berlet and Lyons highlight the dangers of right-wing populism in affecting the political system and opportunities for social change.
- Rigoberta Menchú: A Witness Discredited?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
This January, the charge that the Maya human rights activist and Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú had lied about her past hit the U.S. reading public like a ton of bricks. Anthropologist David Stoll published a book claiming to have unearthed not only Rigoberta's lies, but also the deceptions of the entire Latin American left from Zapata to Che and beyond.
- 'Rigorous' Maidan massacre exposé suppressed by top academic journal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
A peer-reviewed paper initially approved and praised by a prestigious academic journal was suddenly rescinded without explanation. Its author, one of the world's top scholars on Ukraine-related issues, had marshaled overwhelming evidence to conclude Maidan protesters were killed by pro-coup snipers.
- The Rigors of Organizing: On the Road with the German Climate Resistance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Ende Gelände, is a broad coalition of German climate resistance organizers. Members are touring the US sharing info about their tactics.
- RIKKA
Periodical profile published 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
A magazine dealing with historical, cultural and human rights issues within and beyond the Janpanese-Canadian community.
- Rikka - Volume 6, Number 1 - Blacks in Canada
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
- Rio Tinto's 'sustainable mining' claims exposed
Rio Tinto uses its sustainability reporting to bolster the argument that it is a responsible company and therefore entitled to a license to
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Global mining giant Rio Tinto markets itself as a 'sustainable company'. But serious failures in its reporting, and its attempt to hold an Australian indigenous group to ransom, reveal a very different truth: the company is driven by a reckless pursuit of profit at any cost.
- Michael Riordon Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Riot and Revolution
Speech by Rosa Luxemburg on Trial for Inciting to Riot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1906
On the twelfth of November 1906 Rosa Luxemburg was tried at the Criminal Court at Weimar for “inciting to the use of physical force” by the speech she contributed to the discussion on the General Strike at the annual Congress of the German Socialist Party held in 1905 at Jena.
- The Riot at Christie Pits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- Riots, List of - Wikipedia
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
This is an incomplete chronological list of events characterized by at least one source as riots.
- RIP Betty Dodson, Sex Revolutionary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The great sex revolutionary and Godmother of Masturbation, Dr. Betty Dodson (1929-2020), one of my most beloved mentors, died on the Blue Moon of Halloween night.
- RIP Tony Benn. Tireless and inspirational fighter for peace, justice and equality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The loss of Tony Benn is a loss for our whole movement. He was a good friend to the Stop the War Coalition, of which he remained president to the end. One of his last speeches was at the Stop the War international conference on 30 November 2013. He was a socialist, someone with a deep commitment to social change, who was principled to the end.
- The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
A history of California's prison movement from 1950 to 1980, highlighting the role prison reading and writing played in the creation of radical inmate ideology.
- The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party
A Revolutionary Marxist Analysis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
A talk recounting the beginnings and tragic end of the Black Panther Power, a radical black power movement and political organization.
- The rise and fall of the Jewish Labour Bund
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The history of the Bund, or Algemeyner Yiddisher Arbeter Bund in Rusland un Poyln (General Jewish Labour Union in Russia and Poland), is one riven with contradictions. It brought together tens of thousands of Jewish workers during its 52 years of existence in struggle against oppression and exploitation.
- The Rise and Fall of the Toronto Typographical Union 1832 - 1972
A Case Study of Foreign Domination
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
- The Rise and Demise of Women's Liberation:
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
Dixon uses a Marxist analysis to try to explain the decline of the women's liberation movement in the 1970's.
- The Rise and Fall of Liberation Theology in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Liberation Theology in Latin America has been an integral part of progressive movements. The Vatican, with the support and guidance from the United States, has sabotaged Liberation Theology in Latin America. Their aim has been to maintain the status quo and stop the progressive forces from taking control.
- The Rise and Fall of Nigeria's Second Republic, 1979-1984
Resource Type: Book
The result of a year's intensive investigations before the coup that toppled the Shagari government, this work is a comprehensive account of the past four years of civilian rule in Nigeria. This book analyses the social and economic forces underlying the sweep of political events, and accelerating contradictions that precipitated the latest coup. Falola and Ihonvbere are two of Nigeria's leading marxist historians and writers.
- Rise and Fall of "Proletarian Art," Part II
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A historical overview and analysis of working class art during the twentieth century, including Mike Gold, Philip Reisman, and Raphael Soyer. [Part 2 of 2]
- The Rise of British Imperialism
Part I: The Protestant Reformation to the English Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014 Published: 2015
Russell Stroker of the Trotskyist League goes back to the origins of the world capitalist system in the 16th century to explain how imperialism emerged out of the political and economic logic of capitalism.
- The Rise of British Imperialism
Part II: Capitalism and Slavery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
On the ascent of Britain as the first modern imperialist power.
- The Rise of British Imperialism: Capitalism and Slavery (Part Two)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A presentation on the developments that made Britain the first modern imperialist power.
- The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy
Resource Type: Book
With the decline of the economic power of the United States, its current hegemonic role will deteriorate and the growth of China will so erode the foundations of capital accumulation - by pushing wages and environmental costs up, for example - that the entire capitalist system will be shaken to its core.
- The Rise of Fascism in Greece
Waiting is Not an Option
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
In Germany, Spain and Italy (and elsewhere) in the early 1930s during those troubled times, unemployment was high, Left alternatives were weak, resentment against others oozed in the streets, and terrible insecurities pushed nominally good people, the middle classes, into supporting the forces of hatred and nationalistic fervour.
- The rise of humanism and secularism in Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The backlash and opposition in Iran is at its essence strongly humanist, secularist and modern. You can see it clearly in the rational, popular, and spontaneous acts and the
establishment of hundreds of organisations outside government structures and restrictions that are non-religious and purely for the defence of the human being via reliance on human will.
- The Rise of the Fast Food Worker
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
- The Rise of the Global Left
World Social Forum and Beyond
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
The author makes an impassioned case for the politicisation of the World Social Forum, arguing that that the Forum can only realise its full potential as a force for social, economic and political change, by taking a directly political stand against the evils of neo-liberal globalization, war, famine and corruption.
- The Rise of the Green Left
Inside the Worldwide Ecosocialist Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Climate change and other ecological ills are driving the creation of a grassroots global movement for change. From Latin America to Europe, Australia and China a militant movement merging red and green is taking shape.
- The Rise of the Illegitimate Authority of Transnational Corporations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Transnational corporations are demanding the right to what they call "competitiveness": lower taxes, control over lawmaking, and the right to sue governments for affecting profits. In her new book, Shadow Sovereigns: How Global Corporations are Seizing Power, Susan George shines a light on the secret corporate coalitions that are influencing critical government decisions and posing a direct threat to democracy.
- The Rise of the Intellectual Pornstar
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Once only found in society's margins, the pornography industry has developed into a multi-billion dollar business that is branching into the mainstream. The article explains that the industry, while still controversial, increasingly comments on the social problems of today and pushes for reforms in areas that other large industries are scared to.
- Rise of the Left Party: Germany's Election and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
On September 27, 2009 the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) suffered its worst electoral defeat since 1945. After four years of governing as a junior partner in a “Grand Coalition” with the right-of-center Christian Democrats (CDU), the SPD garnered only 23% of the vote (down from 33% in 2005) and now appears to be a shadow of the party that had taken the reins of government in 1998.
- Rise of the naked female warriors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Known for its topless protesters, Femen is a worldwide movement against patriarchy. But are the activists' breasts obscuring the message?
- The Rise of the Tea Party
Where Did They Come From?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The Tea Party has never been a genuine social movement or political outsider but rather an elite-dominated group that was closely linked to the Republican establishment from its inception.
- The Rise of the Tea Party
Political Discontent and Corporate Media in the Age of Obama
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
A socio-political analysis of the Tea Party that probes its history, organizational structure, membership, ideological coherence, and relationship to the mass media.
- The Rise of the Working Class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967
Kuczynski describes condtions of life for the urban proletariat at the time of the industrial revolution.
- The Rise of Vermont's Fracked Gas Battle: Communities Organize Against Pipeline Plans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Nate and Jane Palmer's farm sits in a clay plain basin adjacent to one of the many wetlands in Monkton, a rural Vermont community known for, among other things, its annual salamander migrations and amphibian road crossings.
- Rise Up Feminist Archive
Resource Type: Website
A digital archive of feminist activism in Canada from the 1970s to the 1990s.
- Rise Up Singing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
There was a time when singing was a part of everyday life. Rise Up Singing was compiled to help bring song back into our lives, and especially to bring singing more strongly into the movement for social change.
- The Rising American Empire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
An analysis of the origins and emergence of the United States as a national state, and of its subsequent growth pattern. Van Alstyne sees the course of American history as coinciding with the rise of modern nationalism and imperialism.
- Rising from the Ashes
Labor in the Age of "Global" Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Takes on the issues of changing composition of the international working class, patterns of work under contemporary capitalism, the relationship of race and gender to class, the promise and limitations of recent eruptions of labour militancy, and the strategic options available to working people in an age of "global" capitalism.
- The rising repression of social protest in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
On 17 October, 2017, the corpse of Santiago Maldonado appeared in the Chubut River. The young activist had been missing for 80 days. The suspense surrounding Maldonado’s whereabouts aroused a great sense of unease in a country where the word “disappeared” brings to mind the 30,000 victims of the civic-military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.
- The Rising Seas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Rising suicide rate for Indian farmers blamed on GMO seeds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Monsanto, which has just paid out $2.4 million to US farmers, settling one of many lawsuits it's been involved in worldwide, is also facing accusations that its seeds are to blame for a spike in suicides by India farmers.
- Rising Up Against Police Violence, From the Black Panthers to #BlackLivesMatter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
I turned away more than once while watching Stanley Nelson's documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. I averted my eyes from the screen when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's nefarious mug first appeared. I turned away once more when the charismatic and admirable Fred Hampton was first shown, knowing that eventually he would be murdered by Chicago police and federal agents.
- Rising up strong
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1983
- Risking Utopia
On the Edge of a New Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
- Rituals Of Failure
What Schools Really Teach
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Contenta writes that there is a hidden curriculum of passiveness in today's schools in Canada; instead of making students critical thinkers, the not-so smart students are made to feel they are just being prepared for the workforce.
- The River of Blood Flows On
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1992
- River of Dark Dreams
Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
When Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, he envisioned an "empire for liberty" populated by self-sufficient white farmers. Cleared of Native Americans and the remnants of European empires by Andrew Jackson, the Mississippi Valley was transformed instead into a booming capitalist economy commanded by wealthy planters, powered by steam engines, and dependent on the coerced labour of slaves. River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands.
- Rivera, Diego
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Mexican artist. (1886-1957).
- Riverdale
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Consisting of a the area east of the Don Valley and bordered by the Danforth, Greenwood Avenue and Lake Ontario, Riverdale was annexed into Toronto in 1884.
- Riverdale Community Organization
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
The RCO emerged out of discontent at the city,’s handling of the housing expropriation in the Don Mount renewal zone. In 1969, several religious figures from the area formed the East Don Urban Coalition to represent local interests and hired organizer Don Keating. After six months several smaller organizations that had formed around specific local issues united to form the Riverdale Community Organization.
- Riverdale Zoo/Riverdale Farm
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
A zoo which existed on the west bank of the Don River, at the east end of Winchester Street, from 1899 to 1975. the site subsequently became the location of Riverdale Farm.
- Rivers in crisis: water theft and corruption in the Darling River system
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
A water crisis in New South Wales has resulted in millions of fish dying and a shortage of water in communities. Politicians blame drought while other blame corruption and the actions of big irrigators.
- Rivers of Dust: The Future of Water and the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Syria and Iraq are at odds with Turkey over the Tigris-Euphrates. Egypt's relations with Sudan and Ethiopia over the Nile are tense. Jordan and the Palestinians accuse Israel of plundering river water to irrigate the Negev Desert and hogging most of the three aquifers that underlie the occupied West Bank. According to satellites that monitor climate, the Tigris-Euphrates basin, embracing Turkey, Syria, Iraq and western Iran, is losing water faster than any other area in the world, with the exception of Northern India.
- Rivers of Empire
Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A history of the agribusinessmen and engineers who financed and built the system of damns, reservoirs, and canals which transformed the American West from a sparsely inhabited dry region to the site of massive farms and sprawling cities. Worster argues that control of scarce water resources gave rise to a capitalist/bureaucratic elite and to a modern day empire. This elite established and perpetuated itself on the backs of impoverished wage labourers. He criticizes the waste of water for swimming pools, casino fountains, and ill-suited crops like alfalfa, the depletion of aquifers, and the salinization of rivers. Worster points out the vengeance of nature in the form of the sedimentation and collapse of dozens of dams.
- The RNC Comes and Goes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Throughout the week, journalists got plenty of newsworthy stories, from Melania Trump's plagiarism of Michelle Obama’s speech to the arrests of 18 protestors at Public Square.
- Road from ar Ramadi
The private rebellion of staff sergeant Camilo Mejía - An Iraq war memoir
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
After serving in the Army for nearly nine years, Mejía was the first known Iraq veteran to refuse to fight, citing moral concerns about the war and occupation. Now released after serving almost his sentence of nine months for desertion, the celebrated soldier-turned-pacifist tells his own story.
- The Road from Copenhagen
Against The Current vol. 144
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The handwriting about the long-anticipated Copenhagen climate change conference has been on the wall for months, and its message is not promising for our human civilization or the thousands of species we may take down with us. By the time of that frantic final day of backroom arm-twisting, blackmail and president Obama's lead-balloon speech, it no longer really mattered whether the conference's failure would be openly admitted, or thinly disguised behind a “political framework statement” without serious mechanisms for implementation, measurement or enforcement.
- The Road to Civil War
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Everybody in Israel is talking about the Next War. The most popular TV channel is running a whole series about it.
- The Road to Gdansk
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
- The Road to Wigan Pier
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1937
George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
- Roadblocks to Climate Activism
The Problem of Natural Localism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The consequences of global warming. The evidence for the evolving dire effects of building CO2 and other greenhouse gases is getting increasingly conclusive. We are a species influenced by natural localism, and therefore the majority of Americans, and others in the West as well, are not going to abandon a present full of profit and relative comfort as long as the sky is clear in their own local place and time. As to the future beyond their grandchildren, it simply does not seem real.
- The Roadmap to Nowhere
Israel/Palestine Since 2003
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
An urgent and searing exposé of the 'peace process' by a prominent Israeli thinker.
- Roads to Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918 Published: 1966
The attempt to conceive imaginatively a better ordering of human society than the destructive and cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto existed is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plato.
- Roads to the Arab Uprisings
Book review of "The Journey to Tahrir" eds. Sowers and Toensing and "The Arab Revolts" eds. McMurray and Ufheil-Somers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The strength of all the essays in these two collections is that the principal trends the authors analyzed have become critical background to recent events in Egypt and Syria during the summer of 2013, even as the nature of these events continue to shift.
- Roaming Charges: Whitelash, White Heat?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Debunking Whitelash Theory in the context of the 2016 US presidential election and more.
- The Roaring Nineties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
- Roback, Léa
Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
Resource Type: Article
Union organizer, social activist. (1903-2000).
- Robbed by Law Enforcement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
People who have never even been charged with a crime can have their life savings taken away. That’s civil asset forfeiture.
- The Robbery of Nature
Capitalism and the Ecological Rift
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2020
Various critical issues are examined in this collection of previously published essays, revised for this book. It won the 2020 Deutscher Memorial Prize.
- Robert Fisk - Death Of A 'Controversial' Journalist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
why do ‘mainstream’ commentators feel obliged to red-flag Fisk’s journalism with ‘controversial’ in this way, and why is it a 'weasel word'? Consider that the likes of the BBC's Andrew Marr, the Guardian's Martin Chulov and The Times' David Aaronovitch, and numerous others, will never be described as 'controversial', despite their highly controversial, in fact outrageous, warmongering bias.
- Robert Fisk had True Independence of Mind, Which is Why He Angered Governments and Parts of the Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
At the heart of Fisk's journalism was relentless and meticulous eyewitness reporting of events, a refusal to see complex conflicts in terms of black and white, while not surrendering to moral indifference and keeping a sense of outrage when confronted with real evil. Above all, perhaps, he showed an unbending refusal to back down when what he said was being denied, denounced or ignored by politicians and the media.
- Robert Wedderburn: race, religion and revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
As a Scottish-Jamaican “mulatto” radical preacher and leader of working class movements in 19th century London, Wedderburn has been identified as a “linchpin” of the “Atlantic Working Class” — that group of amorphous, multi-ethnic, subaltern peoples linked by the ocean in suffering and resistance around the Atlantic continents of Africa, the Americas and Europe.
- Robeson, Paul
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Musician, actor, speaker, lawyer, radical. (1898-1976).
- Robin
Periodical profile published 1989
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
- Robin Hood
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
English folklore hero.
- Robot Cops Are Racist, Too
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
As an institution, the police is racist through and through -- irrespective of whether or not particular cops harbor racist views. This is because, among other reasons, as an institution the police is an appendage of the larger institution of property. And property, in the US at the very least, is inextricable from racist dispossessions, and reproductions, of wealth. That is, in addition to manifesting other aspects of domination, property is racist.
- Robot Trolls on Amazon: How Fake Reviews Could Undermine Progressive Politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
In the pursuit of profit, corporations appear to be using bots to undermine competitors on Amazon, as they do on Twitter and Facebook. This could have detrimental effects on progressive authors and filmmakers who, in the absence of major corporate backing, need the support of reviewers -- at least on Amazon -- in order to boost their marketability.
- Robots Kill, But The Blood Is On Our Hands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Killing individuals (and whoever is near them) has become the primary substitute in U.S. public policy for capture/imprisonment/torture. Torturing someone to death is not what former CIA General Counsel John Rizzo calls "clean." Blowing them and anyone near them into little bits is "clean." As Medea Benjamin documents, the United States has avoided detaining people, only to murder them with a drone days later.
- A Robust Doctrine: Break the Taboo on Odious Debts and their Repudiation
The Challenges for the European Left regarding Debt and the Banks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
An interview with Éric Toussaint, the author of The Debt System. A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation. He discusses debt, illegetimate debt and the instances in history when debts were repudiated.
- Rochdale College
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An experiment in student-run alternative education and co-operative living in Toronto, Canada. 1968-1975.
- Rochdale
The Runaway Collage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Toronto's Rochdale College began as an experiment in living and learning, and ended as a symbpl of the flower-child Sixties, a financial and social controversy. Sharpe tells the story of the college's seven-year rise and fall.
- Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, founded in 1844, was an early consumer co-operative, and one of the first to pay a patronage dividend, forming the basis for the modern co-operative movement. Although other co-operatives preceded them,[2] the Rochdale Pioneers' co-operative became the prototype for societies in Great Britain. The Rochdale Pioneers are most famous for designing the Rochdale Principles, a set of principles of co-operation that provide the foundation for the principles on which co-ops around the world operate to this day.
- Rocker, Rudolf
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
(1873-1958). Anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist.
- Rocket Attacks on Israeli Civilians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
I challenge anybody to show how attacks on Israeli non-combatants help defeat the Israeli ruling class. It is as clear as day that it only strengthens our enemy. If the Israeli rulers didn't have rockets landing in Haifa and other civilian targets, they wouldn't have nearly the support for their war on Gaza and Lebanon that they unfortunately enjoy today from the Israeli Jewish population and much of the North American and European population, gentile as well as Jewish.
- Rockets from Gaza
Harm to Civilians from Palestinian Armed Groups' Rocket Attacks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Documents rocket attacks on Israeli civilians by armed groups in Gaza.
- Rockridge Institute
Organization profile published 2007
Resource Type: Organization
The mission of the Rockridge Institute was to help achieve a just, democratic, environmentally sustainable, and humane society.
- Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gardening & Landscaping Techniques
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Lester Rodney: The Long Ball Hitter
Against The Current vol. 145
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
I am writing this piece after reading the New York Times obituary of Lester Rodney, where both the role of the Daily Worker and Lester’s role as its sports writer were given their due credit in the fight to integrate major league baseball. Irwin Silber’s book Press Box Red has previously told Lester’s story in depth, and Dave Zirin’s recent articles round out his significance to sports in a more contemporary fashion.
- The Rogue Agency
A USDA program that tortures dogs and kills endangered species
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A look at the disturbing and cruel animal control practices of the USDA, a branch of the US Fish and Wildlife Service at the time, which has included accidental poisonings of domestic animals as well as endangered species.
- Rogue Primate
An Exploration of Human Domestication
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
The first domesticated animal, according to Livingston, was neither dog nor goat, but human. Humans cut themselves adrift from the rest of the world by becoming entirely dependent on ideas. Technical ideas gave them the power to manipulate nature as well as a rationalization for their destructiveness. Now humans have drawn other animals, and even the natural world itself, into the service of their belief systems. Even our understanding of nature is informed by an ideological insistence that domination is somehow 'natural'.
- Rogue State
A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.
- Rogue States
The Rule of Force in World Affairs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
In Rogue States, Noam Chomsky holds the world's superpowers to their own standards of the rule of law and finds them appallingly lacking.
- Rogue States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Chomsky investigates the meaning of the term "rogue state", its conception, and its role in international relations and policy-making.
- Rohingya and the Myth of Buddhist Tolerance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Since their citizenship rights have been progressively revoked between the 1940s and '80s, thousands of Rohingya men, women and children have been subjected to murder and rape, their villages have been raised to the ground and more than a million have fled to neighboring countries without much protest from the world beyond.
- Rojava: reality and rhetoric
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A detailed critical analysis of the "Rojava revolution".
- The Role Co-operatives in Childcare
Role des cooperatives dans le secteur de la garde d'enfants
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- The Role of Bolshevik Ideology in the Birth of the Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1962
People have not finished talking about the Russian Revolution, its problems, its degeneration, and about the regime it ultimately produced. And how could one? Of all the revolts of the working class, the Russian Revolution was the only victorious one. And of all the working class's failures, it was the most thoroughgoing and the most revealing.
- The Role of Economic Competition in Canadian Society
A Statement to the Committee on Finance, Trade and Economic Affairs, House of Commons
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1977
- The Role of Force in History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1887
- The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990 Published: 1994
"Nonviolent action . . . is capable of wielding great power even against ruthless rulers and military regimes," writes Sharp, "because it attacks the most vulnerable characteristic of all hierarchical institutions and governments: dependence on the governed." Abstracted from Sharp's classic three-volume work, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, this monograph summarizes the core concepts behind the technique of nonviolent struggle.
- The Role of Science in Capitalist Society and Social Change
Part 1 of 2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
With its Republican allies in Congress, the Trump administration plans to cut scientific programs while feeding more fuel into the ravenous, murderous, and imperialistic war machine of the United States. Trump's hate of scientists is clearly universal as demonstrated by the sanctioning of 271 Syrian scientists by the Treasury Department despite the fact these scientists have not engaged in any hostile acts aimed at the United States.
- The Role of Socialist Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
An essay from 1969, of historical interest of the New Left in Australia, discussing the role of socialist intellectuals as agents of radical change. The essay is the text of a talk delivered in early 1969, and it alarmed Australian security interests of the day.
- The Role of the Individual and the Group in the Creation of Work Cultures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
Stan Weir compares wildcat strikes in Poland and San Diego and their basis in the 'informal work group'.
- The Role of the Soviets in Russia's Bourgeois Revolution: The Point of View of Julius Martov
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
An essay on Russian revolution.
- Romain Rolland Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Rollback
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Chomsky investigates the meaning of the "the triumph of conservatism" against the background of democracy, human rights and civil society.
- Rolling Back Reconstruction
Against The Current vol. 159
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The 'Reconstruction Amendments” — the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution — are targeted in many of the Tea Party and far-right Republican campaigns against the rights of immigrants and women, marriage equality and LGBT rights, and voting rights for African Americans and other minority ethnic groups.
- The Romance of American Communism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Using USA Communist Party members' personal experiences, Gornick examines the attraction of the party and its philosophy.
- Romania - a Peasants' Revolt against Fracking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Earthquakes and poisoned wells are setting off a revolt against fracking in Romania, revealing deep fault lines between the rural heartlands and the urban political elite.
- Romania faces $2.56bn claim for failed gold mine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Canadian mining company Gabriel Resources is seeking over $2.5 billion damages from Romania after it rejected a vast gold mine at Rosia Montana.
- Romanian Revolution of 1989
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A week-long series of increasingly violent riots and fighting in late December 1989 that overthrew the Government of Nicolae Ceausescu.
- Romania's 'occupy forests' movement demands clampdown on corporate crime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A growing protest movement is demanding strong controls on international investors and logging companies buying up Romania's forests. In its sights is Austria-based Schweighofer, which stands accused of criminal malpractice and accepting illegal timber shipments. The popular outrage stirred up by corporate misdeeds is now stimulating a wider democratic revival.
- Romantic Revolutionary
A Biography of John Reed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975 Published: 1981
A biography of John Reed (1887-1920), the American radical and journalist who participated in the Mexican and Russian revolutions, and wrote the classic account of the Russian Revolution, Ten Days That Shook the World.
- Romero, Oscar
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador. (1917-1980).
- Ronds, Ronds, Macarons, Luttes Urbaines Vol.1, No.4
Periodical profile published 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1980
Luttes Urbanies est une publication du Groupe d'Etudes et d'Avtions Utbaines, qui veut faire connaître les luttes, principalement urbaines, qui sont menées à travers le Québec ainsique les luttes "significatives" menées à l'étranger.
- John Rooke Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Rooming House Tenant Project, Toronto Christian Resource Centre
Progress Report: January 1, 1977-January 30, 1978.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Rooming Houses in Toronto -- 1960s & 1970s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
Rooming houses in Toronto became a big issue in the late 1960s and early 1970s as housing priorities were changing rapidly. These dwellings were usually old houses that had been converted for single-room-occupancy tenants, who typically paid weekly rent and shared the bathroom and kitchen facilities with four or more (unrelated) tenants.
- Root & Branch
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970 Published: 1979
A libertarian socialist journal.
- Root & Branch: A Libertarian Marxist Journal, #7
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1978
Articles on the class situation in Spain, authority and democracy in the United States, Marxism and Anarchism.
- Root & Branch: A Libertarian Marxist Journal, #8
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
- Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
- Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1971
- Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1973
- Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #6
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975
- The Root of the Mid-East Conflict and the Reason Our Government Supports Israel's Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
How should decent people respond to the Middle-East conflict? We should support equality, not Zionist ethnic cleansing. Equality is the way to make a better world for ordinary people from Watertown to Ramallah to Tel Aviv, and it is the only way to end racist ideologies such as anti-Semitism and Zionism.
- Rooted in the neighbourhood: what happened to Spain's assemblies?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Oscar Reyes reports on the successes and setbacks of neighbourhood assemblies in Spain.
- Rooting rebellion in nature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Reflections on the legacy of philosopher and ‘geologian’ Thomas Berry, ten years after his death.
- Rootless Cosmopolitan
Analysis and Commentary by Tony Karon
Resource Type: Website
Tony Karon's blog.
- The Roots of Academic Freedom
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A book review of 'Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge.'
- The Roots of American Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Kolko outlines the nature of American power and interest in the modern world and provides an assessment of who gains and who loses as a result of the policies Washington pursues.
- The roots of anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1960
There are reasons why the discrimination against a certain race suddenly bursts forth into the lynching of an individual Negro. There are reasons why discrimination against another race takes the form, in late 19th century France, of a single wronged individual as happened in the military conspiracy against Dreyfus, whereas in another country, like Tsarist Russia, it took the form of anti-Jewish pogroms.
- Roots of Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1969
- The Roots of Class Struggle in the South
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1973
- The Roots of Crisis in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
Ann Seidmen's book is a basic primer which analyzes the impact of neocolonialism. The information on the roles of multinationals and their self justification of the greed that perpetuates poverty and violence is especially useful.
- Roots of Empathy
Changing the World Child by Child
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Roots of Empathy looks at eliminating crime and changing the world by starting with a compassionate environment for children.
- The roots of gay oppression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Marxists, since Marx and Engels themselves, have always believed that only a socialist revolution could open the way to sexual freedom and equality. The history of same-sex relations suggests that the most basic human activities, including sexuality, are collectively constructed in human society.
- The roots of Israel's most racist law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Israel’s most draconian laws may have been passed by the current right-wing government, but the stage was set long ago by the Israeli Left. With a majority of 65 votes, the Knesset approved last week the extension of an order to prevent family reunification in Israel. Of Palestinian families, of course. Jews are welcome to continue and reunify as much as they please.
- Roots of Israel's violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
Looking back on my own experience in Palestine I can see how today's horror grew from small beginnings. Zionism, Jewish separateness and the belief in a Jewish homeland, have developed into state violence. My parents were pioneering Zionists, leaving Russia for Palestine in 1902 to join a total Zionist population of a few thousand. I grew up a Zionist, but Zionism didn't have the ugly face we see today. However, there was always a fundamental crack between the Zionists and the Arabs. This same crack split Zionists from ordinary people in their countries of origin.
- Roots of Militarism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1980
- Roots Of Militarism.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
- Roots of the Rebellion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Kim D. Hunter interviews Melba Joyce Boyd about the 1967 rebellion.
- Roots of U.S. Capitalism (book review)
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
This is a thoughtful, learned, stimulating, challenging and altogether valuable volume. It reprints a series of reflections by the Marxist sociologist Charles Post on various aspects of the rise and evolution of capitalism in North America between the colonial era and the late 19th century.
- Rosa Lives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The revolutionary thought of Rosa Luxemburg continues to inform and inspire anticapitalist movements today.
- Rosa Luexmburg in retrospect
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Mattick reconsiders the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, particularly her critique of Bolshevism and her economic theory.
- Rosa Luxemburg
A Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
A biography of the Marxist revolutionary.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1939 Published: 1972
A biography of Rosa Luxemburg written by a German revolutionary who worked with Luxemburg in the Spartacist organization.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966 Published: 1969
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959 Published: 1969
A personification of the unity of theory and practice, Rosa Luxemburg's life and work require a description of her activities as well as her thoughts - they are inseparable.
- Rosa Luxemburg (film)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1986
A 1986 West German dramatic film on the life of Rosa Luxemburg.
- Rosa Luxemburg and the actuality of revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
She was brilliant, insightful, with considerable knowledge and practical experience. She said and wrote things that are worth comprehending, actively considering, and testing out as we try to understand and change the world around us.
- Rosa Luxemburg and the Global Violence of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- Rosa Luxemburg and the Growth of the Labor Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Today is the 97th anniversary of the assassination of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the leading exponents of revolutionary socialism in Germany in the early 20th century. Both were prominent figures in the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) up to the First World War and, alienated by the reformist and pro-war politics of the SPD, founders of the Spartacus League in 1916. Both were killed by right-wing Freikorps death squads -- which had support from the Social Democratic government -- on January 15, 1919. The following is an excerpt from Gerald Friedman's Reigniting the Labor Movement (Routledge, 2007). Friedman describes Rosa Luxemburg's revolutionary politics and her understanding of the role of the mass strike -- not as the means for a decisive “one hit” victory for the working class, but as part of what Friedman terms a "long-term process of consciousness-building through participation in class struggle."
- Rosa Luxemburg & the Mass Strike
Against The Current vol. 118
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The Russian revolution of 1905 sparked strikes and protests all over Central Europe. In Germany the workers took an active interest in the Russian situation and demanded the presence of the SPD’s (Social Democratic Party) inspiring speaker, Rosa Luxemburg. For Luxemburg, the upsurge in strikes symbolized the revolutionary spirit of the working class. She became increasingly disillusioned and frustrated, however, with the SPD’s lack of support and the Trade Unions’ attempts to prevent strikes.
- Rosa Luxemburg: Economics for a New Socialist Project
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2014
Reading Marx’ Capital today leaves the same impression as reading Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital. One wonders whether Marx and Luxemburg really wrote their books more than one hundred years ago. If not for their historical references to English industrialization and nineteenth-century imperialism, one might think they were written as analyses of neoliberal globalization from the late twentieth century until today.
- Rosa Luxemburg for Our Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Does Rosa Luxemburg leave feminists a theoretical and political legacy? That is, does she give us any theoretical guidance as to how to understand women's oppression? If so, what is it?
- Rosa Luxemburg - From Street Organizer to Street Name
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Overview of the life of Rosa Luxemburg.
- Rosa Luxemburg: Her Fight Against the German Betrayers of International Socialism
Introduction to the Second Edition of the Junius Pamphlet, The Crisis of Social Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1919
It is as though Rosa Luxemburg, in anticipation of her sudden end, had gathered together in the Junius Pamphlet all the forces of her genial nature for a great work - the scientific, penetrating, independently searching and pondering mind of the theoretician, the fearless, burning passion of the convinced, daring revolutionary fighter, the inner richness and the splendid wealth of expression of the ever struggling artist. All the good spirits which nature had lavished upon her stood by her side as she wrote this work.
- Rosa Luxemburg in Retrospect
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
Mattick reconsiders the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, particularly her critique of Bolshevism and her economic theory.
- Rosa Luxemburg of Our Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Does Rosa Luxemburg leave feminists a theoretical and political legacy? That is, does she give us any theoretical guidance as to how to understand women’s oppression? If so, what is it?
- Rosa Luxemburg on the Socialist Civic Virtues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
One of Rosa Luxemburg's most striking and least well-understood contributions was to draw on the classical "republican" notion of "civic virtue," as a vital part of her analysis of working-class democracy.
- Rosa Luxemburg: Prison Letters
Resource Type: Book
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
A selection of speeches and writings by Rosa Luxemburg.
- Rosa Luxemburg: Speech to the Hanover Congress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1899
In its struggle, the working class has no greater enemy than its own illusions -- and those who foster illusions.
- Rosa Luxemburg: Speeches to Stuttgart Congress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1898
Luxenburg criticizes Eduard Bernstein's comment: "The final goal, whatever it may be, is nothing to me: the movement is everything!" with the reply "Anyone who says that does not stand for the necessity of seizing political power. You see that some comrades in the Party do not stand for the final goals of our movement, and that it is necessary to express that fact unambiguously."
- Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981 Published: 1982
Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
- Rosa Luxemburg. Im Lebensrausch, trotz alledem
Eine Biographie
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- Rosa Luxemburg: A Reappraisal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
- Rosa Luxemburg: The Incendiary Spark
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2024
Renowned Marxist scholar Michael Lpowy offers an indispensable assessment of an enduringly fascinating revolutionary.
- Rosa Luxemburg's Accumulation of Capital
New Perspectives on Capitalist Development and American Hegemony
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
From a Luxemburgian perspective post-war capitalism developed in two phases, each of which was possible because class-struggles and international conflicts had opened non-capitalist environments for capitalist penetration. The first phase gave rise to consumer capitalism and neo-colonialism; the second was characterized by accumulation by dispossession that rolled back welfare states in the North and developmental states in the South, while also integrating formerly state-socialist countries, notably China, into the capitalist world-system.
- Rosa Luxemburg's contribucion al Marxismo
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Yo veo a Rosa Luxemburg como la marxista quien hizo lo mas que pudo para mostrar la teorua-revolucionaria de Karl Marxs en el periodo despues de la muerte de Marx y Engels.
- Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution in the Twenty-first Century
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 2010
Rosa Luxemburg’s Reform and Revolution, written at a high point of socialist struggle, contains invaluable lessons for today's new generation of activists as they confront the political and organizational challenges of the day.
- Rosa Luxemburg's Shock Doctrine
The "Hideous Nakedness" of Imperial Wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Luxemburg's discussion regarding capitalism and democracy speaks to the world we live in today. Imperial war, she wrote, shows capitalism in 'all its hideous nakedness.' This bloody nakedness is not only essential to capitalist development, but depends on it. Indeed, it is the most cataclysmic and radical of all capitalist shocks.
- Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Resource Type: Website
Die Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung wurde 1992 von der Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (PDS) - heute Die Linkspartei.PDS - als parteinahe, bundesweit tutige Stiftung anerkannt. Sie kooperiert im Rahmen eines Stiftungsverbundes eng mit den der Linkspartei. PDS nahestehenden Landesstiftungen und Vereinen in allen Bundeslandern.
- Rosaluxemburgblog
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2012
A blog devoted to debate, publications and scholarship on the Polish-German Marxist Rosa Luxemburg (1870-1919). The aim is to publicise and share articles, reviews and resources relating to Luxemburg's life, ideas and legacy.
- Franklin Rosemont (1943-2009)
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Poet, artist, historian, editor, labor militant, musician, amateur ornithologist and surrealist activist Franklin Rosemont, who died on April 12 at age 65 refused the limitations that civilization, especially under capitalism, attempts to imposes on us all. Not a “one dimensional man,” he was inspired by Charles Fourier’s ideas of what humanity could aspire to. He wrote, “All I know defiance and dream, the rest just comes naturally. A ‘Success in Life’? Don’t make me laugh! If you’re looking for me there, you’ll have to look elsewhere.”
- Peter Rosenthal
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2024
- Rosmer, Alfred - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Alfred Rosmer (1883-1969).
- Rossing Uranium Limited: Fact Sheet on Rio Tinto-Zinc, Rio Algom, Nuclear Power and Namibian Uranium
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1978
- Rote Fahne, Die
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
German socialist newspaper.
- Die rote Fahne - [Elektronische Ressource]
Online-Archiv
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1918
- Rothbury Riot
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An incident in which police shot into a crowd of locked-out miners in the New South Wales.
- Rough Crossings
Britain, the slaves and the American Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
- Rough Notes on Hegel's Science of Logic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1961
Completed by Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-1987) on Jan. 26, 1961, these Notes comprise one of the few studies by a Marxist covering the whole of Hegel's Logic.
- Rowbotham, Sheila
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
British socialist feminist theorist and writer. (Born 1943).
- Rowley, Robert Kent
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Trade unionist. (1917-1978).
- J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2020
I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode 'woman' as a political and biological class. I stand alongside the brave women and men, gay, straight and trans, who're standing up for freedom of speech and thought, and for the rights and safety of some of the most vulnerable in our society.
- Roy, Arundhati
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Indian writer (in English) and activist. (Born 1961).
- Arundhati Roy Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Roy, M N
Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
Resource Type: Article
Indian communist leader. (1887-1954).
- Roy, M.N. - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of M.N. Roy (1887-1954).
- Royal greed and oppression sold as culture in Swaziland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Swaziland’s King Mswati III passes suppression, unaccountability and royal opulent spending in the face of drought, starvation and poverty, as traditionally "Swazi" values. Sonkhe Dube, a young exiled activist, begs to differ.
- Royal Indian Navy Mutiny
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike and mutiny by Indian sailors of the Royal Indian Navy on board ship and shore establishments at Bombay (Mumbai) harbour in 1946.
- Royal Moments in Broadcasting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1939 Published: 2007
- RT's ban from media freedom conference shows British irony is alive and well
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
RT has been banned from a conference on media freedom for reportedly 'spreading disinformation.' They find this accusation and its source an ironic juxtoposition.
- A Rubber Worker's Guide to Occupational Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
- Rubel, Maximillien - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Maximillien Rubel (1905-1996).
- Rubin, Isaak Illich - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Isaak Illich Rubin (1886-1937).
- Rühle, Otto
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
German Marxist. (1874-1943).
- Rühle, Otto - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Otto Rühle (1874-1943).
- The Ruins of War, Then and Now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The editors provide an overview of the United States' involvement in WWI and how the country's imperialist dynamics have grown since then despite anti-war, labour, and socialist efforts.
- Rule change may hide executives' pay
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
An essay about the laws regarding the disclosure of wages made by executives that are paid by publicly traded companies.
- The Rule of Law Won't Save Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Donald Trump won't be stopped by the law -- in fact, his worse abuses are enabled by it.
- Rules for Radicals
A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Alinsky's Rules for Radicals provides perspectives, principles and lessons for realistic radical organizers.
- The Rules of the Game
A handbook for tenants and homeowners
Resource Type: Pamphlet
First Published: 1972
When citizen's groups fight redevelopment, they almost always focus their energies upon City Hall, making deputations to an endless of succession of committees and packing meetings to try to influence politicians to favour their cause. But it is developers who lobby and manipulate politicians into approving developments that will ensure profits. This Handbook argues that developers use City Hall to ensure that they can build where they want and build what they want.
- Ruling Canada
Corporate Cohesion and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
- Ruling Canada: Corporate Cohesion and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Ruling Canada critically examines Canada's "economic elite" -- a collection of the country's richest and most powerful individuals, many of whom preside over Canada's largest corporations. Brownlee argues that this corporate elite is increasingly unified and class conscious. As a direct result, a broad array of state policies and programs have been cut and/or implemented which serve the interests of this elite minority at the expense of most Canadian citizens.
- Ruling Class Democracy
Who Benefits, Who Pays, and Who Really Decides?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
- The Ruling Class's Hatred of Trump is Different Than Yours
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The master class's fear and loathing of Trump – one of their own, sort of – can be detected in the normally Republican-leaning corporate elite.
- Ruling the Void
The Hollowing of Western Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Analyzes democratic trends over the last few decades in Europe and America.
- Rumours of War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
- Rumsfeld
His Rise, Fall and Catastrophic Legacy
Resource Type: Book
In 1971 President Nixon was quoted as saying that "Rumsfeld was a ruthless little bastard". In this book which traces Rumsfeld carreer form 1962 to the present day Adrew Cockburn contines on to describe him as an arrogant disaster as secretary of defense: largely due to his mishandling of the war in Iraq, the fact that it drove the Republicans from power in Congress and split the county as has not been seen since Vietnam.
- The Run of the River
Portraits of Eleven British Columbia Rivers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Mark Hume celebrates eleven B.C. rivers, but also raises questions about the cost of development and the cost of wilderness. Is it possible to have industry -- forestry, smelting, fishing, and even tourism -- and still maintain the rivers and wildlife that support them?
- Runaway Industries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
Study of transnational corporation investments and its effect on international union solidarity.
- Running Government Like a Business is Bad for Citizens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Donald Trump and Jared Kushner say that the government should be run like a business, but that would mean eliminating regulations and expenses that benefit the people.
- Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997): Journalist, Communist, Intellectual
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
This thesis explores aspects of the life, times, and career of Australian journalist Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997). During the Cold War, Lockwood was one of the best known members of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA), variously journalist, commentator, author, editor, orator, pamphleteer, broadcaster.
- Rupert's Empire of Slime
Murdoch's Knife in the Heart of Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In the name of freedom of the press Rupert’s Fox News and commentators spew verbal venom on notions that smack of socialist, pink or liberal thought – like taxing billionaires and regulating their corporate and banking behavior. Indeed, the Foxers promote billionaires not paying taxes as an example of virtue and freedom. “You don’t want your government squandering taxpayers’ money.” Sure, imagine life without cops, firemen, schools, road repair service, etc.
- Rural Americans and the Language Too Many People Use to Talk About Them
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
With the rural-urban divide more pronounced now than it has been in generations, the author takes a closer look at the derogatory language too many people use, as well their meaning and contradictions.
- Rural Cleanings
Periodical profile published in 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1977
A small qurterly magazine that deals with land issues in rural Canada.
- Rural India - a living journal, a breathing archive
The everyday lives of everyday people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Project on rural India consisting of an archive which depicts its diverse and complex countryside.
- Rural Mental Health
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Rural Network Advocate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
- Rural social ecology
Organization profile published 1992
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1992
- Rural Women In Latin America
Experiences from Ecuador, Peru, and Chile
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
- The Rush to Development
Economic Change and Political Struggle in South Korea
Resource Type: Book
After thirty years of rapid economic growth, South Korea is widely promoted as demonstrating the superiority of free market capitalism. It is considered a great success story and model for third world development.
- The Rushdie Affair and Its Aftermath
Kenan Malik's "From Fatwa to Jihad"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The Rushdie affair is shrouded by myths—that the hostility to The Satanic Verses was driven by theology, that all Muslims were offended by the novel, that Islam is incompatible with Western democracy, that in a plural society speech must necessarily be less free.
- Rushdie rails against Islamic 'totalitarianism'
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.
- Russell, Bertrand
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Philosopher, logician, mathematician, pacifist, social critic. (1872-1970).
- Bertrand Russell Quotes
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Russell, Dora
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
British author, feminist and socialist campaigner. (1894-1986).
- Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1955
We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all parties?
- Marta Russell
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Marta Russell was an American writer and disability rights activist.
- Russell Means: Warrior for the People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The life of Russell Means, Lakota warrior for the people whose stance of never backing down inspired a generation of Native American rights, was celebrated on Wednesday, Oct. 24, in Kyle, South Dakota. Means' piercing words and clarity of style on American Indian rights, placed him at the forefront of the struggle of the American Indian Movement that spans four decades.
- The Russell Tribunal
Organization profile published 1981
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1981
The Russell Tribunal, operated by the Russell foundation, originates from Bertrand Russell's endeavours for the attainment of peace, human rights and social justice.
- Russia 1917-1921
Resource Type: Pamphlet
- Russia and the West: between sanctions and war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
On sanctions as economic war.
- Russia Bashing: Hatred, Hysteria and Humbug
A Tale of Three Aircraft Tragedies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
It’s OK for the US to shoot down an Iranian airliner and kill 290 people — there’s never been an apology to the Iranian people for that war crime — but when there’s an opportunity to claim, to shriek, to propagandise at cyclone-level, that a disaster has occurred in which there just might be the tiniest chance to blame Russia, then there is clamour for investigation.
- Russia, China and the West 1953-1966
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Essays on the history of the Soviet Union and its role in the world from the death of Stalin to Khrushchev's fall and the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
- Russia and the Democrats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The Democratic Party's insistence of Russian meddling in the election show how out of touch and unfit their leadership is.
- Russia has the historical right to invade Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
The simple question is: What was Russia to do?
- Russia – How the Revolution was Lost
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1967
- Russia in 1919
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1919
This book describes the economic, social and political situation Arthur Ransome saw during his visit to Russia in February and March of 1919. Underlining the description of these events is the wrenching famine in Russia caused by the Civil War. In this work Ransome interviews several prominent members of the Soviet government as well as ordinary citizens of Soviet Russia.
- Russia in Revolution 1900-1930
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
A portrait of thirty years of political and artistic upheaval.
- Russia Invades Ukraine: Again. And Again. And Yet Again
The Missing Burden of Proof
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
- Russia Twenty Years After
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1937 Published: 1996
Serge's impassioned account based on his eyewitness observations of everyday life and the detailed realities of Stalinist political repression.
- Russia, Ukraine & the Law of War: Crime of Aggression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
- Russia, Ukraine and the Law of War: War Crimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Scott Ritter lays out what the law says about war crimes and how it applies to the conflict in Ukraine.
- Russia-Ukraine Resources: History, context and analysis of the crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Articles and interviews examining the context and background of the 2022 crisis.
- Russia-Ukraine war: How the US paved the way to Moscow's invasion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2023
Nearly a year after Russia's invasion, the western narrative of an 'unprovoked' attack has become impossible to sustain.
- Russia-Ukraine: Western media are acting as cheerleaders for war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Journalists are cheering on the arming of militias and civilians making improvised explosives - acts they usually treat as terrorism
- Russia and the War Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A critical look at the book "Russian Roulette", by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, which examines alleged Russian interference in the 2017 U.S. election.
- Russiagate and the Democratic Party are for Chumps
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Now Trump and the nation's 34 Republican governors get to wield the ever-expanding powers of the police state in a nation whose populace has lost faith in nearly every major U.S. institution but two: the military and the police. It's a militarized police-state the Democrats helped create.
- Russiagate and the Dry Rot in American Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The idea that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election is used by both liberals and the right to maintain the status quo. Comparisons to Hunter S. Thompson show how staid mainstream news has become.
- Russiagate is Dead! Long Live Russiagate!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Looking at the fiasco of Russiagate, it's instigators, who profits from it and the issues that it distracts from.
- Russiagate media smears against Corbyn brought to you by US and UK military-intelligence apparatus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The popular socialist leader of Britain's Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, could be on the verge of becoming prime minister of the United Kingdom. And the mere possibility is terrifying British intelligence services and the US government.
- Russian aggression and the BBC's drums of nuclear war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The drums of war are beating on the BBC and other mass media, writes Oliver Tickell -- naked propaganda about fictitious 'Russian aggression' intended to soften us up for a war that could wipe out life on Earth. We must refuse to fall for the endlessly repeated lies, and tell our politicians that our highest priority of all is peace.
- A Russian Diary
Resource Type: Book
The late Anna Politkovskaya's diary is less a personal history than a chronicle of what was happening politically in Russia over a period of three years. Her story is the story of her country from Putin's 2004 re-election to the tragedy of Beslan: observations on televised debates, overheard conversations, talking to war widows. Filling the pages with the voices of the people. The distinctive feature of her reporting was her verbatim stating of facts from from her witnesses. For that reason her version of history is read in the West but virtually ignored in Russia.
- The Russian Dossier Reminds Me of the Row Over Saddam's WMDs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The conclusions reached in the Trump dossier claim to be based on multiple sources of information where, in the nature of things, they are unlikely to exist.
- The Russian Enigma: Lenin, Also...
Chapter 9 of Book 3 of The Russian Enigma, cut by the publisher of the original 1938 version
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1938 Published: 1979
Chapter 9 of Book 3 of Ante Ciliga's The Russian Enigma originally published as In The Land of The Great Lie. The book details Ciliga's time spent in Soviet Prisons and 'isolaters' following his arrest for belonging to the Trotskyist Opposition, and provides a wealth of important documentary information concerning the miserable conditions in which the working class were reduced to living in, the extent of the 'criminalisation' of large swathes of the population, and the various forms in which resistance appeared.
- The Russian-Georgian Clash
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Interview with Ronald Grigor Suny.
- The Russian Hack That Wasn't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept exposes the fake news put out by the US Department of Homeland Security (an euphemistic name for a Big Brother operation that spies on US citizens) that Russia hacked 21 US state elections, news that was instantly spread around the world by the presstitute media.
- The Russian Hacking Story Continues to Unravel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An examination of the text from a recent report by an IBM executive, which disproves the claim that Russia interfered in the US elections or hacked the servers at the DNC.
- Russian Literature
Ideals and Realities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Russian Oligarch Wanted to Turn My Joke Into Reality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
One of my core political beliefs is that there would still be a Soviet Union if they'd been smart enough to have two communist parties that agreed on everything except abortion.
Obviously that's a joke about the U.S., where we have two capitalist parties that largely agree on everything.
- The Russian Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918 Published: 1961
The basic lesson of every great revolution, the law of its being, decrees: either the revolution must advance at a rapid, stormy, resolute tempo, break down all barriers with an iron hand and place its goals ever farther ahead, or it is quite soon thrown backward behind its feeble point of departure and suppressed by counter-revolution. To stand still, to mark time on one spot, to be contented with the first goal it happens to reach, is never possible in revolution. And he who tries to apply the home-made wisdom derived from parliamentary battles between frogs and mice to the field of revolutionary tactics only shows thereby that the very psychology and laws of existence of revolution are alien to him.
- The Russian Revolution and the Emancipation of Women
Part Two
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
- The Russian Revolution and the Emancipation of Women
Part Three
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
- The Russian Revolution and Workers Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The Russian Revolution of February and October 1917 opened up a new historical epoch, and was greeted with enthusiasm by workers around the world.
- The Russian Revolution and the Emancipation of Women
Part One
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917 was the greatest victory for the world's working people and for all of the oppressed. The spark for the revolutionary upsurge was a mass outpouring of women in Petrograd on International Women’s Day (IWD), March 8 (February 23 by the old Julian calendar). While in recent years bourgeois feminists have usurped IWD, in fact it is a workers' celebration that originated in 1908 among female needle trades workers in Manhattan.
- The Russian Revolution in Retreat
Against The Current vol. 136
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The relationship between “Leninism” and Stalinism has been a highly controversial topic between the political left and right as well as within the left itself. The “totalitarian” school of thought, historically associated with the political right and with many liberals, has held that there are no qualitative differences between the two regimes and that the main source of Stalinism was the Bolshevik ideology and politics that existed before the October Revolution.
- The Russian Revolution Ninety Years After
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
The October Revolution of 1917 in Russia was the most influential political event of the 20th century. But since history is written by the victors, it is not well known that October was the opening shot of a vast and powerful challenge to capitalism that swept the industrial world and had strong echoes in colonial countries. Between 1918 and 1921 union membership and days lost in strikes everywhere reached new heights, while the ranks of the revolutionary wing of the socialist movement swelled.
- Russian Revolution of 1905
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A wave of mass political unrest through vast areas of the Russian Empire.
- Russian Revolution of October 1917
Resource Type: Website
Eye-Witness reports and analyses of the Revolution by its participants and links to historical documents.
- The Russian Revolution Revisited
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION is dead. The last of its veterans and contemporaries are gone, and the working class of today has little or no connection to the revolutionary movements of the inter-war generation that were inspired by the Russian Revolution. Revolutionary leftists may still debate the "Russian Question," but the workers and students of the present have little idea what the quarrels are about.
- The Russian Revolution Revisited - Review
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A review of 'The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History' by John Eric Marot.
- The Russian Revolution: Workers in Power
October 1917: Workers in Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Fred Leplat's and Alex de Jong's October 1917: Workers in Power.
- The Russian Social Democrats and the National Question
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1917
- The Russian tragedy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1918
There is only one solution to the tragedy in which Russia in caught up: an uprising at the rear of German imperialism, the German mass rising, which can signal the international revolution to put an end to this genocide.
- Russia's Chechnya Syndrome
Against The Current vol. 84
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
The near-genocidal war that Russia's Putin-Yeltsin government is waging in Chechnya is cynical on many counts. Some might compare it to U.S. efforts to end the “Vietnam syndrome” by engaging in small wars certain of victory without U.S. casualties.
- Russia's Crisis: Capitalism in Question
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
THE ECONOMIC CRISIS in Russia is a trigger for the world-wide decline in stock markets and currencies rather than its cause. Russia has been in a sharp economic crisis for a decade, since Gorbachev passed the Law on the State Enterprise, which first introduced market disciplines to the USSR. On the other side, the world is in a supply glut with too many products and not enough buyers. The Russian debt default looks like the first of a number to come.
- Russia's Fantasy "Stray Missiles," America's Real Ones
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Even to those who do not watch closely it has to be apparent that Washington's vast disinformation machine is finally out of control, seriously awry, or desperate.
- Russia's Intervention and Syria's Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
There's a lot of hypocrisy in the present complaint by the Obama administration that most Russian strikes are directed against the non-ISIS Syrian opposition. And yet, Washington's hope is that Putin will not only prevent the regime's collapse and consolidate it, but also help in reaching some kind of political settlement of the conflict. For the time being this is more wishful thinking than anything else.
- Russia's truckers protest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Russian government leniency towards protesting truckers indicates that the country's social crisis could overshadow its noisy diplomacy.
- Russkies at the Doorstep
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
In a year noted for crude political discourse, eagerly serialized in the mainstream media, the MSM are themselves bellowing anti-Russian rhetoric, conspiracy theory, and fear-mongering.
- Rust Belt Resistance
How a Small Community Took on Big Oil and Won
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Led by an unlikely cast of characters -- an uncommonly stubborn set of civic leaders, a conservative local newspaper publisher, and the city’s determined and progressive mayor—Lima refused to take its place quietly on the industrial scrap heap.
- Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against Apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Two leading activists of the fight against Apartheid, Ruth First and Joe Slovo, for the first time have received a comprehensive biography.
- "Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists"; Against the Current vol. 194
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
In October 1864, Marx drafted the inaugural rules for the International Working Men's Association (First International). Its opening lines were a hymn to freedom and self-activity: "the emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves."
- Ruthless Power and Deleterious Politics
From DDT to Roundup
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The mix of power and politics in the proliferation of pesticides from DDT to Roundup.
- RWB publishes 2014 round-up of violence against journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders is today publishing its round-up of abuses against journalists in 2014. According to RWB’s tally, 66 journalists were murdered this year, bringing to 720 the number of journalists killed in connection with their work in the past 10 years. A total of 119 journalists were kidnapped this year. Forty journalists are currently being held hostage.
- Ryerson Made a Mistake in Cancelling Panel Discussion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Not only are censorship and suppression fatal to the purpose of the university, they undermine the foundation of democratic society. When individual rights to freedom of expression are diminished or taken away for an allegedly good cause, they are necessarily invested in some higher authority that is given the right to determine what is acceptable. The result is censorship from above – ultimately the state – with the likelihood that the champions of that censorship today are its vulnerable targets tomorrow.
- Ryerson, Stanley Bréhaut
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Historian, Communist. (Born 1911).
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